Sermons on Matthew 14:13-21
Sermon for Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. The text for today’s sermon is the gospel lesson appointed to be read this Sunday, the ninth Sunday after the Pentecost. When I was growing up on the East Coast, I was around 12 or 13 years old at the time. We had a member of the church who…
The Compassion of Feeding Souls
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the text for this morning comes from the Gospel reading about the feeding of the 5,000. You’re very familiar with the feeding of the 5,000, I’m sure. But did you notice the very first few sentences of…
You Give Them Something to Eat
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. So, why does God give you the earthly things that He gives you? Is it because you were baptized in a Lutheran church? Is it because you went through confirmation? Is it because your parents were active church members? I mean, why is it that God…
True Satisfaction
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son (+), and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. “I can’t get no…satisfaction.” So sings Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones. For an Englishman, he uses awfully poor English, but such is the license of poetry and song lyrics, it seems. I don’t think anyone is going to confuse Jagger’s prose with William Shakespeare’s. In our Gospel lesson today,…