Sermons (Page 61)
Finishing the Faith
[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. You may be seated. In the Old Testament reading, it started out with some pretty black and white, yes or no, for or against kind of proclamation. Here is kind of the…
The Hiddenness of God
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Will you pray with me? You see my sin, yet seat me at your table. Lord, as a guest, I surely am the least, unclean, unfit of worthy deeds unable. My heart, prepare for this most holy feast. My heart, prepare for this most holy feast. Amen. O Lamb…
Our Gathering God
[Machine transcription] Will you pray with me? O God, let us hear when our shepherd shall call in accents persuasive and tender, that while there is time we may cast one and all and find him our mighty defender. Have mercy upon us, O Jesus. Amen. Grace, mercy, and peace be upon you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters,…
Being Different
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. For the sermon today, we’re going to be using parts of the Old Testament reading from Jeremiah and also from the Gospel reading. Please be seated. This Gospel reading today, in case you didn’t know, the word Gospel comes from a word that…
Is Faith a Crutch?
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The text today is that letter to the Hebrews, chapter 11. Please be seated. And in that chapter 11, it talks a lot about faith. And there’s a lot that can be said about faith. Faith is blind. Faith is knowing and not seeing. Amen. In the…
What Life Consists Of
[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 for this morning comes from the Gospel reading. You may be seated. It’s pretty easy to tell from the Scripture readings kind of the theme for this morning. The theme about earthly goods and…
The Privilege of Prayer
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be upon you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the text is from the Gospel reading regarding the prayer and especially the Lord’s Prayer. You may be seated. Here’s something for you to think about, and that is the reality that you have all,…
Is Anything Too Hard?
[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 for this morning comes from the Old Testament reading regarding Abraham and Sarah and the promise of Isaac. You may be seated. It has been a very sobering week, has it not? Watching the funeral…
You Are the Man
[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 regarding the parable of the Good Samaritan. You may be seated. This is probably one of Jesus’ most well-known parables, but I want to ask you a question to…
There Is Plenty of Room for You!
[Machine transcription] Grace, peace, and mercy be to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Today’s sermon text is the gospel read earlier. Please be seated. A trinity of twelves. Moses called seventy elders to assist him, but in Luke’s gospel, Jesus, the second Moses, calls seventy-two. After this, the Lord appointed 72 others…