Sermons (Page 97)
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…
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…