Sermons (Page 80)
He Rejoices Over 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 in Christ, the text for this morning comes from the Gospel reading. So, what really was the attraction? I mean, why draw near to hear someone speak who is decidedly different than you are? I mean, you know the old saying,…
Counting the Cost
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Count the cost first. That’s Jesus’ point in the Gospel lesson today. See whether or not you have what is needed to complete the task, to finish the mission. If you don’t, then don’t begin, lest someone ridicule you for falling short of your goal. And of…
Grant Me Humility
[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 about the gift of humility that we pray, Lord, to grant us all. As of late, we have been looking at the Gospel readings all from the Gospel according to St. Luke.…
One of the Many, or One of the Few?
Grace, mercy and peace be unto you from God, our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, amen.
The text for this morning comes from the Gospel reading about entering the narrow door.
On any given Sunday, there are more Lutherans worshipping in the country of Africa than there are in the United States and Europe…
Divided From the World, United With Christ
Grace, Mercy, and Peace be to us all from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Amen
These days, division is a dirty word. We need to get along. Avoid rocking the boat. Learn to compromise. We can’t insist that we have the market cornered on truth. The idea is, that the best way to achieve unity is to simply pretend that we’re united. Jesus is…
Seeking a Homeland as Exiles
[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. There is an old saying that goes like this: You can’t lose what you don’t have. You can’t lose what you don’t have. So…
The Right Kind of Foolishness
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Our text for this morning is the Gospel lesson, from Luke, Chapter 12. The concluding verses:
But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is required of you, and things you have prepared for yourself, whose will they be?’ So is the…
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…