Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Archives

Sermon for Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost

[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, in the wilderness, when the Lord Jesus is feeding the 5,000 people, He is doing much more than just providing for them the food that they need. He is, in that miracle, and in His life, and in His teaching, and in His death, and in His resurrection, He is undoing the original sin of Adam and Eve, fighting…

Sermon for Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost

[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Blessed are you, says Jesus to Peter, blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood have not revealed this to you, but my Father, who is in heaven, and I tell you, you’re Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. Amen. Dear saints of God, we have this…

Sermon for Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost

[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear James and Noriko, dear Harrison, dear Blair and Tina, dear Andrea and Suzanne, dear saints of God, Jesus has a hard word for us today. He says, unless you hate, hate your father and your mother, your wife and your children, your brothers and sisters, your own life, you cannot be my disciple. What about love?…

Sermon for Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost

[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints of God, wives, submit to your husbands. Husbands, love your wives. This is the wisdom from St. Paul, and we want to consider it this morning. Paul begins his table of duties, how we are to live as Christians in this fallen world. But let’s take a couple of steps back, and then we’ll get a bit of a…

Sermon for Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost

[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints of God, built as Christ’s body the Church, we continue to hear this morning from the Gospel lesson begun last week from Matthew chapter 16, where Jesus was confessed as the Christ, the Son of the living God, by Saint Peter, who was then blessed by Jesus. Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jorah! You are…

Salt Is Good

[Machine transcription] Jesus says, “Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.” You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, Jesus has put a difficult text before us again today. He says, “Unless you hate your father and your mother, your wife and your children, your brothers and your sisters, you cannot…

Where Ya Gonna Go?

[Machine transcription] May God’s grace be with you this day in the hearing of His Word, words of eternal life. Amen. The sermon will be looking at the part of the Gospel reading for today. Please be seated. We can see or hear a lot of words on signs, TV, radio, the Internet, all trying to persuade us to go to certain places or do certain things. For example, sale.…

To Die For

[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Text today for the sermon is taken from the gospel lesson. Please be seated. The old saying goes that there are two things in life that are inevitable: death and taxes. There we go. And they’re probably both equally disliked and avoided, but there…

Being Different

[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. For the sermon today, we’re going to be using parts of the Old Testament reading from Jeremiah and also from the Gospel reading. Please be seated. This Gospel reading today, in case you didn’t know, the word Gospel comes from a word that…

Jesus and Your Heart: Part 1

[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father, and from our dear Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters in Christ, the text for this morning comes from the Gospel reading. You may be seated. A quiz that your pastor probably gave you when you were in confirmation class: Jesus said the Ten Commandments could be summed up in two…