Sermons (Page 59)
Living and Believing in Jesus
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be upon you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Let us pray. Death’s power holds us still in thrall and bears us toward the tomb. Death’s darkening cloud hangs like a pall that threatens earth with doom. But you have broken death’s embrace and torn away its sting. Restore…
Sermon for Lent Midweek 4
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. You’ve heard of the word eccentric, and you think about those kind of people that you reserve that word to describe. Eccentric usually means someone who is different, odd, full of desires or tastes that are markedly different than the norm.…
And What Do You See?
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the text is the Gospel reading. You may be seated. I hope your ears picked up the theme or the motif of the three readings this morning. The choir, of course, supported that and the hymns as well. But in each…
Sermon for Lent Midweek 3
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The Gospel readings are the text for this evening. Be seated. Every one of you have the innate ability to sniff out false religion. And all false religion really is, is a disconnect between what we say and what we do and who we are. Amen. It was…
Drink Living Water
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the text comes from the Gospel reading about the woman at the well with Jesus. You may be seated. I hope that the text gave you a revelation that this woman was a sassy woman. But even more so, the Lord loves…
Sermon for Lent Midweek 2
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. You may be seated. If this sound had not been heard, everyone would have noticed. But when this sound was heard, only one man heard it. And he heard it with shame and with guilt. And that was Peter and the cock crowing. For everyone else, it was a…
Born of the Spirit
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters in Christ, the text is the Gospel reading where Jesus proclaims He is the serpent on the pole. You may be seated. One of the first Bible passages that I was taught to memorize, as you, was John 3:16. But John 3:16 is not the…
Sermon for Lent Midweek 1
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. It was said of Jesus in the book of Hebrews, “who for the joy, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross and scorning its shame.” And yet, in this evening’s text, we see not so much joy at all. Can the two coexist inside…
Him Only Shall You Serve
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The text is the reading about the temptation of our Lord Jesus Christ for you. You may be seated. In the Old Testament reading, enter the serpent, or really rather the evil one. The one who seeks someone to devour and the only people for him to…
Sermon for Ash Wednesday
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. You may be seated. Whenever we do think of repentance, we tend to associate it always with when we have been caught doing wrong. And that is a very true thing. Having come out of a tragedy or a difficult experience, it drives us to our knees to…