Fourth Sunday in Lent
Sermon for Fourth Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] Jesus says, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. You may be seated. Dear Henry the Baptized, and all the Lord’s baptized people, the Lord was trying to explain to Nicodemus on this night how baptism could do such great works, how baptism…
Sermon for Fourth Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] Jesus says, “For judgment I came into this world that those who do not see may see and those who see may become blind.” You may be seated in the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear Saints, it was such a rich, long gospel reading. I don’t know quite what to do. I told Jonathan this morning that I think there’s eight sermons here in…
Sermon for Fourth Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] Galatians 3:26, “For you are all sons of God through faith in Jesus Christ,” and Galatians 4:6, “Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts crying out, ‘Abba, Father.’ Therefore, you are no longer a slave but a son, and of a son, then an heir through God.” You may be seated.…
Sermon for Fourth Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have life eternal. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, those words from the Gospel are so familiar to us that what I’d like to do is just take a look first at the Gospel and try to notice a few things that we…
Sermon for 4th Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] Jesus says, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt. But now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.” Amen. In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints, what an absolutely stunning text, John chapter 9, that’s set before us today. I want to point out how this text both begins and ends with questions to Jesus and…
Who’s the Prodigal?
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, looking at the gospel reading for the text today, please be seated. That gospel reading is the probably familiar parable of the prodigal son. And there’s several angles to take in looking at this parable, and my approach…
Lifted Up on a Tree
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the texts for this morning are both the Old Testament and the Gospel reading. You may be seated. Now, even though I may fancy myself to be a theologian, I would have never made this connection. Because this…
And What Do You See?
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the text is the Gospel reading. You may be seated. I hope your ears picked up the theme or the motif of the three readings this morning. The choir, of course, supported that and the hymns as well. But in each…
The Message Entrusted to Us
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to 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 comes from the prodigal son, the parable that Jesus spoke to his people and to you. You may be seated. You know, for the father, it wasn’t about all that money that the younger…