Sermons on Mark 13:24-37
Sermon for Last Sunday of the Church Year
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints of God, and especially you Comfort Mans, William and Sarah and George and Rick and Alex and Trevor, grace and peace from our Lord Jesus Christ be with you now and always. Amen. What does it mean to be confirmed? I wonder how we can think about this. There’s a lot of different ways to consider it. I…
Sermon for First Sunday of Advent
[Machine transcription] Jesus says it is like a man going on a journey when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake. Therefore, stay awake. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, what does Jesus mean by this command to stay awake? He surely doesn’t mean that the Christian…
Sermon for Last Sunday of the Church Year
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints of God, we believe that Jesus will come again in glory to judge both the quick and the dead. And we believe this because Jesus, together with his apostles and prophets, have promised it time and again in the Scriptures. Now what do we make of it? What do we say about it? Or maybe better, how does that strike…
Sermon for First Sunday of Advent
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints, the pressure’s on for you guys when the sermon is about staying awake. Jesus wants us to be ready for the last day. His business of staying awake is not a matter of not sleeping; that’s not the point. But being alert, being ready, and in a particular way, the Lord is calling us to a particular…
Stay Awake
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be upon you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the text for this morning’s sermon comes from the Gospel reading. You may be seated. Everyone in every generation has had the lesson of the fig tree portrayed to them. If you heard in the Gospel…
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…