Sermons (Page 88)
God Heals What the Passage of Time Cannot
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
You’ve heard it. You’ve probably said it once or twice, or lots of times. You may even believe it to a certain extent, and to our earthly way of thinking, it does have a certain calming, reassuring ring to it, I suppose. The phrase is oft repeated, almost to the…
O Come, Let Us Adore Him
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from the Savior incarnate and born for us, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Christ is born, and the angels sing. They blend their voices in heavenly harmony, resounding in joyful praise and exalting His glory. All creation wonders at such mercy. God is born of a woman for the sake of hateful and ungrateful men. Heaven…
All For Your Benefit
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you, from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. A blessed Merry Christmas to you all. Thank you, family choir members, for giving us the song and the words that put this season in perspective, the birth of God in the flesh. And for you, brothers and sisters in Christ, welcome home. This…
How Will This Be Since I Am a Sinner?
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. You know those times in your life when God seems the furthest away? Typically, it’s whenever you’re going through a difficult time, and we scamper around kind of like chickens with their heads cut off, like the proverbial type,…
Sometimes Better to Receive Than to Give
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen
Our sermon text for this morning is the Old Testament lesson, from Isaiah, chapter 61.
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me a partridge in a pear tree. On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me two turtle doves and a partridge in…
Prepare The Way for The Lord
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. That which the children sang to us is our prayer as well. Come, Lord Jesus. Come. But when Jesus came the very first time, when he began his ministry, he wasn’t received and still isn’t being received with open arms. But when you…
The Witness, The Martyr
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
For a little over a year now, there’s been a new emphasis on what our church body is all about. The phrase that has been chosen to communicate this emphasis is: Witness, Mercy, Life Together. As we begin our Advent midweek services in this new Church Year, Pastor…
For Those Who Wait for Him
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you, from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Haven’t we had the natural disasters as of late? Like in the last five years at least. Think about it. Just recently the tornado tore through east of here, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and destroyed so many homes and businesses, and changed…
Blessed to Be Thankful
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
So, which of the two miracles in tonight’s Gospel lesson from St. Luke do you consider the more amazing? The first one? Or the second? It’s not a trick question; there really are two—maybe even more. We just have to move our eyes and thoughts away from our obsession…
Whose Good Works?
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Fifty-two Sundays. That’s what we get each year. Advent and then Christmas; Epiphany and then Lent; Holy Week and Easter; Ascension and Pentecost and all those green Sundays which follow; a smattering of saints’ days and other observances mixed in, and it all…