6th Sunday after Pentecost
Boasting in Weakness
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Text today, looking at St. Paul’s letter to the Corinthians that was the epistle lesson today. I don’t think anybody likes to be weak. Nobody boasts about their weaknesses. Nobody goes around saying, “I’m the weakest player on…
Growing Together by God’s Will
[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 is from the Gospel reading, the continuation of the parables in Matthew’s Gospel. You may be seated. Truly, one of the most difficult things that you or I learned—well, I guess…
Who Will Follow?
Grace, mercy, and peace
to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen.
In today’s Gospel
account, we hear the account of Jesus at a pivotal moment in His earthly
ministry. Here He begins His journey toward Jerusalem where He will suffer and die. He
knows, even now, what will happen to Him there. Jesus is not a…
What is This Wisdom?
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
How do you like being embarrassed? Not many people do, I suspect. It can hurt deeply to get criticized in front of a group. The old advice, “Give praise in public and criticism in private” is really just a secular conversion of the 8th Commandment and the biblical…