Sermons (Page 73)
Sermon on Matthew 22:15-22
[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 heard earlier, Matthew chapter 22. Please be seated. What an honor and a privilege it is to get to preach here at St. Paul’s. Thank you for inviting me. I remember when I was just a young child. I came…
Called, Gathered & Enlightened
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the texts for this morning come from the Gospel reading and the Old Testament reading. You may be seated. Nearly 3,000 years have come and gone since this invitation by Isaiah to the royal wedding feast was…
Stewards of the Vineyard
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto 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 about the parable of the Lord’s vineyard. Be seated. There was an old saying: fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. The intent…
Temptation Necessary?
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto 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 St. John’s Revelation. You may be seated. What an amazing scene. And only two men in all the world were given such details of that scene firsthand. Amen. The prophet…
He Takes Us Where We Are
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto 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 and the calling of St. Matthew as an apostle and evangelist. You may be seated. With each successive generation, in fact, if you can look at it almost…
Crucifixion, Then Glory
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto 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 where crucifixion comes before glory. Throughout the months of summer up until last Sunday, we were using Divine Service setting four. And one of the repeated phrases that was…
The Goal Is Reconciliation
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters in Christ, the text for this morning comes from the Gospel reading where the goal is reconciliation, how we love one another. Our parish family is of such a size that it’s easy for us to recognize faces that we’ve seen here…
The Price of the Soul
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters in Christ, the text comes from the Gospel reading about the price of the soul. You may be seated. Some of you have already faced in your life some very difficult revelations given to you or very painful revelations by a…
Judge by the Word of God
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace of God our Father and of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Brothers and sisters in Christ, the texts are from both of the gospel readings, first from John, then from Luke, regarding Bartholomew. So yes, contrary to what you may have thought, Bartholomew is the same as Nathanael. Nathanael, of course, is what John used, but…
Sermon on 10th Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] May the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, our Rock and our Redeemer. Amen. Our text for this morning is the Gospel lesson taken from the 15th chapter of the Gospel of Matthew. Faith and repentance. These are two words that are very common to us in the church, but I wonder if we often really…