Sermons by Rev. Robert E. LeBlanc
Sermon for Lent Midweek 3
[Machine transcription] Let us pray. May the words in my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, our rock and our Redeemer. Amen. To brothers and sisters in Christ, we have all seen those trials in the setting of a classroom where the defendant is fighting for his life, be it from spending time in prison or even from the punishment of…
Sermon for The Transfiguration of Our Lord
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus. Amen. There he was. Standing on that high place with many of the people that he had been sent to serve, gathered below him. The end was drawing near, even though it felt like the next step would be in loneliness. God promised him that he would always be with him. Then there were those moments of encouragement as he was…
Sermon for First Sunday of Christmas
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Dear baptized believers in Christ’s church, the Holy Spirit has called you by the gospel, enlightened you with His gifts, sanctified and kept you in the true faith. God’s Word, connected with water, worked in you through holy baptism. Because of God’s…
Sermon for First Sunday in Advent
[Machine transcription] Dear baptized believers in Christ’s church, last Sunday, on the last Sunday of the church year, Pastor Wolf Mueller preached about the end times, when the present heaven and earth will all pass away. On that day, the Lord Jesus will come again, as he promised it from his throne on high, and he will appear in the sky with his entourage of all…
Sermon for Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. They’re baptized believers in Christ’s church. For the freshman team, a new chapter in their lives was now drawing near. There in the past were all those times of instruction given during the team meetings, the plays drawn on the whiteboard, sewn up upon the screens. The hours practicing the techniques as…
Sermon for Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear baptized believers in Christ’s Church, we all have needs. There are voids that are dark. There are things that are missing. There are troubles that go unresolved. Since the fall of man in the garden, this is the reality that every person experiences that has ever been born here on the earth. They have needs…
Sermon for Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. To brothers and sisters in Christ, with Jesus of Nazareth standing right before him, I can see Pontius Pilate immediately snapping back with the words, “What is truth? What is truth?” Our Lord Jesus had just answered the previous question where he was asked, “So, you are a king?” For Jesus had said, “You say that…
Sermon for Second Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] He looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored in the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear baptized believers in Christ’s church, there was a religious establishment in place when our Lord Jesus came onto the scene when he…
Sermon for Third Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] See my hands and feet in the name of Jesus, amen. Brothers and sisters in Christ, as you bask in the Easter light, the grace and mercy and peace of he who has risen be with each and every one of you. Jesus is risen. That’s easy for us to say. You and I have had centuries where the revelation of Jesus standing before his disciples alive has…
Sermon for Good Friday Tre Ore 5
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the fifth words on the cross that Jesus spoke were two: “I thirst.” You may be asking yourself, why, with all the other phrases, all the words that have just evidence of why they were said, would Jesus say, “I thirst” upon the cross? Coming after, “My…