Sermons (Page 78)
The Impudence of Prayer
[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 comes from the Gospel reading. You may be seated. Last Sunday, the Gospel lesson was about Mary and Martha, and was really teaching us about what worship is. Worship is not in the doing that we all…
A Marvelous Mystery
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Everyone loves a mystery, it seems, under the right conditions. It can be rather thrilling to be intrigued, left to figure things out, to wrestle with tidbits of evidence and attempt to form logical, well-reasoned conclusions.
We often don’t…
Found and Saved
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
The story of the Good Samaritan. Many of you have heard it dozens of times, if not hundreds. On the surface, it seems that Jesus is telling His hearers how to love the unlovable, or how even outcasts can find acceptability to God. That is, there’s a tendency to read…
Woe and Rejoicing
Grace, mercy, and peace
to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Woe to you, Austin! Woe
to you Round Rock! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in New York and Washington,
D.C., they would have repented
long ago. But it will be more bearable in the judgment for New
York and Washington
…
Who Will Follow?
Grace, mercy, and peace
to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen.
In today’s Gospel
account, we hear the account of Jesus at a pivotal moment in His earthly
ministry. Here He begins His journey toward Jerusalem where He will suffer and die. He
knows, even now, what will happen to Him there. Jesus is not a…
Proclaim What He Has Done
[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 this morning comes from that gospel reading, the very interesting story about the demonic healed on the shores of Galilee. Be seated. So now, every Sunday, you confess these words: “I believe in one God, the…
Understandably Upset
Grace, mercy, and peace to
you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Simon the Pharisee was understandably
upset. No doubt you’d be upset, too, if what happened to him happened to
you. He was trying to hold a proper gathering of the right sort of people. He
didn’t want this party-crashing woman bursting in and…
Jesus Speaks Life into Being
[Machine transcription] Please pray with me. Restrain, O Lord, the human pride that seeks to thrust your truth aside, or with some man-made thoughts or things would dim the words your Spirit sings. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.…
Say the Word
[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 is about the centurion and the healing of the servant of the centurion by our Lord Jesus. Here again, the very words you just finished singing, especially this verse that I’m reading to you:…
The Trinity is to be Worshipped!
In the name of the Holy
Trinity: Father, Son ( X ), and Holy Spirit. Amen.
The words sting, and if
we are honest, when we first hear them, these ancient words set off warning
bells in our minds. They seem too critical, too judgmental, and—in this
age of “anything and everything goes” in our culture—too intolerant.
We would like to find…