Sermons by Rev. Bryan Wolfmueller (Page 15)
Sermon for First Sunday of Advent
[Machine transcription] As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. You may be seated. Dear Novak, the baptized, and to all the Lord’s baptized children, we rejoice that our Lord Jesus Christ tells us that he is coming in glory to judge the living and the dead. But why do we have that text today? The first Sunday of the church year, the first…
Sermon for Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, one time I saw a bumper sticker that said, “Jesus is coming, look busy.” That is the wrong idea. Why does Jesus let us know that He’s coming again in glory? To frighten us? To make us live our days in terror and…
Sermon for All Saints Sunday
[Machine transcription] See what kind of love the Father has given to us that we should be called the children of God. You may be seated. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, dear Saints of God, when we hear that word, when you hear that word, what do you think of? Saint. There’s a lot of things that we could think of, a lot of…
Sermon for Reformation Sunday
[Machine transcription] Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Harrison, and all the baptized, I want to begin today by meditating and thinking carefully about the law of God, and what the law…
Sermon for Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Jesus told the parable to some who trusted themselves that they were righteous and treated others with contempt. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, we should not live like beasts and act like animals. We should endeavor to be good people. But everybody knows that. Every religion and every philosophy in the world says that…
Sermon for Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] So Jacob called the name of the place Piniel, saying, “I have seen God face to face, and my life has been spared. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints of God, Jacob is 91 years old in the text, 91. That makes his brother Esau also 91; they were twins, remember? And they had been at it for 91 years. Here’s the back…
Sermon for Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, we’ve heard the voice of the prophets, especially today the prophet Habakkuk. We’ve heard the voice of the apostles, especially today the voice of Saint Paul writing to Timothy. We’ve heard the voice of Jesus in the gospel commanding us to forgive, and even after we’ve forgiven, to…
Sermon for Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints, it is appointed for man once to die and then to be judged. That is a fearful proposition, especially as we consider that we are sinners and that we have deserved the Lord’s judgment, that we’ve earned it, that we have by our breaking of God’s commandments made ourselves worthy of hell and…
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 Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. It’s the Sabbath day and Jesus is invited out to dinner by some Pharisees, and they were watching him very closely because to this dinner they had also conveniently invited a man who was sick. They sat him there right next to Jesus as if this was going to be a temptation. Now here’s what the Pharisees knew.…