Sermons (Page 74)
Worshiping the Lord Your God
[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. So last Wednesday we began the season of Lent. Forty days until Easter, of course not counting Sundays. There’s Sundays in Lent, not of Lent.…
Commending Yourself to God
[Machine transcription] This has been around for a while, this quip. It goes like this: One’s treasures tell the tale of one’s heart. One’s treasures tell the tale of one’s heart. In other words, your external choices in this world reveal a great deal about what’s on the inside of your bosom. The choices that you make, the things that you…
The Hidden Light Still Shines
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
And [Jesus] was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his garments became white as light.
The Transfiguration of Our Lord gives us a preview of the reality about Jesus. In it, we see that He possesses a unique light that…
Loving the Unloveable
[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. Be seated. In the document that made the great separation between the British Empire and the country we call the United States of America, the Declaration…
Turned Away From Sin; Turned To Christ
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
In our politically-correct, fearful-to-offend culture, “sin” is a word that is not to be used very often. At times in our so-called “enlightened society,” sin is ignored, dismissed, overlooked, excused, denied, and—in many segments—even celebrated as good and…
Jesus Defines You
[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, our text for this morning comes from the Gospel reading. Having been baptized into Christ Jesus, having been called to a faith relationship with your Lord Jesus, you have been placed in a vocation. Not a vacation. A…
The Presentation
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
As has become our pattern in recent years, we celebrate the feasts and festivals of the church year when they fall on Sundays. In spite of the much-appreciated extra work for our beloved Altar Guild in changing the paraments a few more times, it is right and…
Faithful and True
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
He didn’t write a book in the Bible. Nothing a single word he spoke is recorded, either. The only thing we know physically about him is that he wasn’t circumcised, for to do that would’ve been to surrender to the pressures and false teachings of those who were…
Behold, the Sacrifice
[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, the text for this morning’s sermon comes from the Gospel reading. You may be seated. I received kind of an unsettling email yesterday afternoon. It was a cry for help. A cry for help for a young man who I…
The King’s Coronation
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you. From God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen. Happy Epiphany to you all. The text for this morning, or this evening, comes from the Gospel reading. You may be seated. With all of the pomp and circumstance that the choir and the brass choir bring to the service, it is the coronation song of…