Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

Sermon for Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear Saints, we today hear the end of Matthew chapter 10. We’ve been hearing from Matthew chapter 10 for the last three or four weeks this preaching of Jesus where he was sending his disciples out to preach the kingdom. He was sending them ahead of him so that they would prepare the way that he was going and he was…

Sermon for Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. It’s my habit to get up early every day and go for a run. And it’s my habit to pray Lamentations chapter 3, verses 22 and 23 on my run. I’m going to read it for you again, it’s the Old Testament reading. The steadfast love of…

Sermon for Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. In the Gospel reading today are the beautiful and perhaps familiar words of Jesus about the easy yoke that he gives. But the reading starts as a prayer of Jesus. And then he turns back to the crowd he’s speaking to and kind of shifts gears into…

Self Justification Always Fails

[Machine transcription] And the lawyer said to Jesus, desiring to justify himself, who is my neighbor? You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, the Holy Spirit has before us today this text, this parable of Jesus, the Good Samaritan. But we don’t want to miss the context. I mean, Jesus is not just preaching this to the crowd. Jesus is telling this…