Sermons (Page 95)
Gaining Everything
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Palm Sunday is pretty cool, isn’t it? Waving branches, shouting crowds, royal arrivals. The spreading news of miracles, the latest of which was fantastic, indeed. Lazarus, a dead man, had been brought back from the dead. Walking out of the tomb after four days! The…
From Death to Life
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The great prophet Solomon wrote an interesting sentence in the 14th chapter of his book of wisdom known as Proverbs. It goes like this: “There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.” The application of…
Light For Our Blindness
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
“I will lead the blind by ways they have not known … I will turn the darkness into light before them,” 2 Isaiah writes that in the Old Testament lesson for today. Those words remind us a lot of today’s Gospel reading from the book of John, too. There Jesus heals the…
An Open Door
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied unto you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The Word of God that we’re going to meditate upon this morning is located in two locations in our scripture. Each one of these speaks about an open door. First of all, we read in 1 Corinthians chapter 16, verses 8 and 9, where…
Born of the Flesh and Born of the Spirit
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. You may be seated. A young man came to me on my second tour of duty in Iraq, struggling with a spiritual matter. He wasn’t a part of the Lutheran congregation; he was just some kid in the unit. But he was tripped up by a two-word phrase…
Lead Us Not Into Temptation, But Deliver Us From Evil
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Think about it; Lent really is kind of a microcosm of our baptized life in Christ. The collect that Pastor prayed, that we all prayed together, said, “Guide the people of…
Seeing Clearly
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our transfigured Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen.
What a difference a week can make. It was only six days earlier, at Caesarea Philippi, that St. Peter had made his great confession, and had also given and received great rebukes. And now Jesus leads His closest disciples up the slopes of a high…
Seeking First
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
I know they’re well-intentioned. I’m sure they’re just trying to be helpful. I’m confident that their purpose is nothing more than to clarify God’s Word and help us find things easily.
Yet, more and more there are days on which I find myself wanting to take a…
He Who Bore Our Scorn
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you, from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Now that was a crazy thing going on in the state of Wisconsin right now. It’s a crazy thing. Yet every system of care that man can invent, whether it’s government, or for that matter, even godly, it can be abused, can’t it?…
The Necessity of Reconciliation
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The last couple of Sundays, the sermons have been based upon the Sermon on the Mount from our Lord Jesus. It is the longest recorded dialogue of our Lord. It is in the 5th, the 6th, and the 7th chapter of the Gospel of St. Matthew. In it, Jesus…