Third Sunday in Lent
Sermon for Third Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace from God, our Father, and His Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Have you ever heard someone say, “You can’t judge me”? That’s what the Bible says, right? You can’t judge me. It’s interesting that this response usually comes after it has been brought to someone’s attention…
Sermon for Third Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] Let us pray. May the words of my mouth and the meditations of our heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, our rock and our Redeemer. Amen. You may be seated. Over the years, I have engaged and challenged people with this thing that I call the dot and dash puzzle, and I challenge them to solve it. You probably ask, but what is a dot and dash…
Sermon for Third Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] And he said to the vine dresser, “Look, for three years now, I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground?” And he answered him, “Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure. Then if it should bear fruit next year, well and good. But if not,…
Sermon for Third Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] And Jesus made a whip of cords and drove them out of the temple. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Whenever we speak of the sinlessness of Jesus, there’s always a couple of incidences that are brought up to question the point. If Jesus was truly sinless, then why did he run away from his parents when he was 12 years old in the…
The Bride of Christ
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. You may be seated. In our gospel reading for this morning, Jesus sits down beside a well in Samaria, tired and thirsty. It’s about the sixth hour, noon, and a woman of Samaria comes to draw water. Now, this isn’t the first time in the scriptures that a man has met a woman at a well. In the Old Testament book…
Make a You Turn
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, looking at the gospel reading today for the text of the sermon, please be seated. A church custodian was painting the pastor’s office, and to avoid opening an additional gallon of paint, he mixed a gallon of paint with some…
I Am the Temple
[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. This morning’s Gospel reading is one of those texts that on first glance it’s hard to understand it. And for that matter, at second and third and…
Drink Living Water
[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 comes from the Gospel reading about the woman at the well with Jesus. You may be seated. I hope that the text gave you a revelation that this woman was a sassy woman. But even more so, the Lord loves…
The Signs for Repentance Are Not Obvious
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The text is from the gospel reading you’ve heard read. You may be seated. Did you hear about what happened when… yeah, isn’t that how we are? Sucked in by that initial statement and we’re going, what? Tell me. And…