Sermons by Rev. Robert E. LeBlanc (Page 2)
Sermon for Third Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace from God, our Father, and His Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Have you ever heard someone say, “You can’t judge me”? That’s what the Bible says, right? You can’t judge me. It’s interesting that this response usually comes after it has been brought to someone’s attention…
Sermon for the Transfiguration of Our Lord
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace from God, our Father, and His Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear disciples of Christ Jesus, God loves you, each and every one of you, so much. It’s as the master teacher does the thing of engaging their students each and every day of the school year. Their desire is to enlighten, to enlighten them with…
Sermon for Christmas Day
[Machine transcription] But to all who did receive Him, who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God. In the name of Jesus, Amen. What a day. The wait is over. You made it. You’re here. In preparation for this day, I have pondered the readings that have been read before us, and I thought to myself, and I’ve lifted prayer to the Lord in…
Sermon for Second Sunday of Advent
[Machine transcription] Beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish and at peace. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, it would be so easy this morning to look at the gospel lesson as only a one-time event in the history so long ago in a country so far away, directed to a specific group of…
Sermon for Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace from God, our Father, and His Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear friends in Christ, one of the best-known verses in all the sacred scriptures that will get the hairs on the back of the necks of Lutherans to stand up is: faith apart…
Sermon for Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and His Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ’s Church, before us today in the Holy Gospel is this parable. The title of the parable is called The Laborers in the Vineyard. To truly understand what Jesus is trying to convey to His disciples in this text,…
Sermon for Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace from God, our Father, and His Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. It’s here. School is finally here. It’s upon us. And it’s interesting, when I talk to the children and to the young adults that are now in high school, I ask them, “Are you ready?” Some will say, “Yes, I’m…
Sermon for Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Jesus says, come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. In the name of Jesus, amen. In this morning’s Gospel reading, Jesus is walking from town to town in Galilee. He’s preaching and he’s teaching. And then all of a sudden, he stops. In the presence of everyone around him, he says a brief prayer.…
Sermon for Trinity Sunday
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear baptized believers in Christ’s Church, you have just confessed it. There is one God. There is one revelation of God in the world. And there is only one way of salvation. It’s that bond that has been communicated to us. As God has communicated how He lives and works in the Godhead, God has revealed…
Sermon for Third Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] Jesus is risen. Hallelujah. What did they see? What did they see? There they were, these two men walking on the road to the village of Emmaus, engulfed in a deep conversation about the things that had happened. Now, with each step, they were putting more distance between themselves and Jerusalem. While they were talking and discussing these things…