Sermons (Page 99)
In Us, He Makes for Himself a Glorious Name
Each of us bears a family name and bearing that family name connotes a context into which you have been born. There are stories about your parents, stories about your aunts and uncles, stories about your grandparents and even your great-aunts and uncles that put a context into which you have been placed as their child. There are things about those stories that are very…
Our Life is in Christ
Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on this blessed day of His birth. Amen.
Do you remember your first Christmas? Well of course you don’t, but your parents, by golly…your parents sure do remember your first Christmas, for they saw in you the wonder of a child’s eye and that enthralled…
Christmas Trees
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior whose birth we celebrate this night, Jesus Christ. Amen.
They’re Christmas trees. Not Hanukah trees. Not Kwanzaa trees. Not Ramadan trees. And certainly not “holiday trees” or “winter festival trees”, as the politically-correct, dare-not-give-offense crowd seems determined to re-name…
You Shall Call His Name Jesus
Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen.
It can begin in two different ways. One of the ways is slow, steadily, almost like a nagging drip. With each passing day it creeps closer and closer, culminating in a feeling of overwhelmedness. That’s somewhat like Ahaz in this morning’s Old…
Blessed is the One Not Offended
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Over the past few decades, it’s become standard practice for Hollywood and the news media to portray Christians and Christian leaders for the most part as bumbling buffoons, crazed zealots, crooked con artists, or pathetic wimps. While there’s been no shortage…
New Beginnings
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
We’re in a new church year. I usually look forward to a new church year, because it’s always good evidence that God is sustaining His people in spite of all the challenges we continue to face in this life. We have His promises, of course, that we will have…
He Who Comes in the Name of the Lord
Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, amen.
Welcome to a new church year. Thank the ladies of the Altar Guild for the beautiful job they did in presenting such a glorious sight for the feast of our eyes to see. We are blessed also with the fact we are surrounded not only by this that have been put…
Give Thanks for All
Let’s face it: By and large, we American Christians can be rather arrogant sometimes. We come upon a national holiday like Thanksgiving, and in some ways we puff ourselves up all the more. After all, we’re still the dominant religion in the most dominant military, political, and economic power in history. We’re sitting on top of the world, and we like it there.
We…
Happily Ever After
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.
“Once upon a time…and they lived happily ever after. The End.” These are words many of us grew up on, the words of a teacher or a parent reading to us from a fairy tale, words which we enjoyed hearing because of the pleasant ending we knew they would bring…
Reading the Signs
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Fall has come, such as it is here in Texas. It’s not the sort of autumn I grew up with in the northern reaches of the country, where by now the leaves would mostly be well past their peak color and many would be brown and dry and already fallen. We might’ve…