Sermons (Page 97)
You Do Know Him, Don’t You?
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. Hallelujah. We continue to celebrate the resurrection. Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The words, “let not your hearts be troubled,” unless you and I are going through a tribulation or trial, those words do not have the deep meaning as when we are going…
The Voice of the Shepherd
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen! Hallelujah! We continue to celebrate the glorious resurrection of our Lord Jesus. Today, on this fourth Sunday after Easter, or of Easter, typically always the Scripture readings center around a theme that is referred to often as the Good Shepherd Sunday. The Scripture readings, the hymns, all of it comes together. And what an…
Eyes Were Opened
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. He’s risen indeed. Hallelujah. We continue to celebrate the glorious season of Easter for the next several weeks before we celebrate His ascension into heaven. Eyes were open, weren’t they? Opened indeed to see something they had never seen before. Adam and Eve, that is. Recall that Adam and Eve’s eyes, prior to…
But it is From God
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
I beg your indulgence this morning, and perhaps your forgiveness. You see, in my own weakness, I just couldn’t face another sermon about “doubting Thomas” today. Please don’t get the wrong idea. I firmly believe that John’s account of the evening visits of Jesus to…
Christ’s Resurrection Makes Us Different
[Machine transcription] He is risen! Grace, mercy, and peace to you on this glorious day of our victory. Brothers and sisters, this is our day of victory. And this day of victory, of which we mark and celebrate as a feast, sets us apart from the rest of the world. But where we come into contact with it most is here in this country. It sets us apart from the people with…
Out of the Prison
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our crucified and risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Eight souls in all, brought through the water safely in the days of Noah. That’s not many, is it? We have a few more than eight souls here tonight, sitting safely and comfortably in the ark of this nave. We are closed off and protected, for a…
The Injustice of It All is What We Worship!
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. As human beings, as sinful creatures, we have a fascination with death. Why is it then that we slow down on an interstate to see the carnage of a wreck? Why is it that we tune in to the news to find out about the tragedy and the travesty of the…
Ready or Not?
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
The saying goes: There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots. Experienced aviators don’t leave much to chance. They prepare carefully, often using a “pre-flight” check list. Before taking off, or even starting the engines,…
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…