Sermons by Rev. Richard Mittwede (Page 6)
The End is Near
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, be looking at the Gospel reading for the text today. Please be seated. In public areas, sometimes people can be seen with signs and handing out brochures proclaiming, “The end is near,” warning about the coming end…
Saints Alive
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, be looking at the Revelation reading for the sermon text. Please be seated. This time of year is quite eventful in the Christian calendar. Of course, October 31st is Halloween, which does have a Christian connection because since…
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[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, you’re looking mostly at that epistle reading today from Romans as the text. Please be seated. In the 19th century, there were two events that greatly changed Europe. One was the bubonic plague, and the other was the…
A Rested Development
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, for the sermon today, looking at that letter to the Hebrews, please be seated. Rest. What a great word and a great concept. Rest is something we greatly enjoy, but probably too often something we don’t take enough advantage…
A Helper Suitable For Us
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Sermon text mostly from the Old Testament lesson, but also pulling from the other two readings. Please be seated. Adam was walking around in the Garden of Eden, feeling very lonely. So God asked him, “Adam, what’s wrong?” And Adam…
Moses’ Burden, Jesus’ Burden
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, we’ll be looking at the Old Testament reading for today for the sermon text. Please be seated. It was terrible, that burden that I had to carry. The burden of my people. The burden of their greedy, selfish complaining. Ah,…
The Servant Serving Servants
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, be looking at the gospel reading for today for this sermon text. Please be seated. You know, being a servant isn’t particularly popular. People prefer being served. And service-oriented jobs such as janitor, trash collector,…
The Power of What You Say
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Text today looking at that epistle lesson from the letter of James. Please be seated. And that passage from James may be somewhat familiar. Talking about the tongue and how it can be a very powerful thing. What people say can be very powerful, either…
Getting to The Heart of The Matter
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Using the gospel text for our sermon today, please be seated. Some background about that gospel reading today is what we heard last week, actually, that some Jewish religious leaders, Pharisees, approached Jesus and asked him about his disciples,…
That Dreaded Word…
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Sermon text today: we will be looking at that epistle reading, St. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. Please be seated. When I do premarital counseling with couples, I suggest to them common Bible verses about marriage that they can use in…
