Sermons by Rev. Richard Mittwede (Page 7)
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.…
Peace Be With You
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Sermon today will be looking at the gospel reading. Please be seated. And I love this gospel reading because it has so many options for preaching in it. And I don’t like this reading because it has so many options for preaching in it. So…
Sermon for Thanksgiving
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The text I’m looking at tonight for the sermon is the second lesson from 1 Timothy. Please be seated. And I’ll admit right away that I first gave this sermon back in 2012. That was an election year. I also gave this sermon last year at…
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…
Yeah. We’re Different
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The text today is from the gospel reading commonly called the Confession of St. Peter. Please be seated. I’m a distance runner by hobby and, well, admittedly by habit, maybe even addiction. And runners, runners are different. In the early 90s, the…
Revenge Feels So Good
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters in Christ, a text today looking at the Gospel reading of Jesus. Please be seated. During the conflict in Vietnam, some American soldiers who were stationed there hired a local boy to do their cooking and cleaning. These guys were…
Your King is Coming!
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Please be seated. After that Gospel reading, you may be thinking to yourself, Is this Palm Sunday? Did I go into some sort of time warp and completely miss Lent? Which would sadden most Lutherans, I think, to miss Lent. No, it’s not Palm…
Praying For People You’d Rather Not Pray For
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, I’m using the epistle reading today, Paul’s letter to Timothy, as the text. Please be seated. At the beginning of that text, Paul encourages…
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…
Is Faith a Crutch?
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The text today is that letter to the Hebrews, chapter 11. Please be seated. And in that chapter 11, it talks a lot about faith. And there’s a lot that can be said about faith. Faith is blind. Faith is knowing and not seeing. Amen. In the…
