Sermons
Sermon for Fifth Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen, he is risen indeed, hallelujah. I am the true vine, says Jesus, and my father is the vinedresser. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, what comes to mind when I hear that phrase, I am the vine, I almost automatically fill in the second phrase. I don’t know if this happens in your imagination as well. I…
Sermon for Fourth Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. He has risen indeed. Hallelujah. In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Steve and all the baptized, the Lord Jesus has you as one of his sheep, which seems at first to be nice until we start to think more and more about what it means to be a sheep. I’m told by the people who know these kind of things that sheep don’t have a…
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 Second Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. I think the main temptation with today’s readings, especially the gospel lesson, is for us to really only talk about what’s going on with Thomas, because after all, let’s admit it, he’s kind of an easy target to focus on. And we will talk…
Sermon for Easter Sunday
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. He is risen indeed. Alleluia. In the name of the risen Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear saints, it is a wonder that God the Holy Spirit has gathered us into this room today in the conviction that something that happened 1,991 years ago in a small little corner of the world, in a garden, in a little cave, a little tomb, that something that…
Sermon for Good Friday Tenebrae
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints of God, I was recently visiting with someone who told me that they once heard a sermon in which the following line was spoken, there is no place in the house of God for those who have been divorced. They told me that when they heard that they didn’t stop coming to church, but every time that they came…
Sermon for Good Friday Tre Ore 7
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. Oh, for a faith that would not shrink, though pressed by many a woe, that would not tremble on the brink of poverty or woe. Lord, give me such a faith as this, and then whate’er may come, I’ll taste ye now the hallowed bliss of that eternal home. And why is life so…
Sermon for Good Friday Tre Ore 6
[Machine transcription] It is finished. That’s usually good to say or hear after completing a project, or paying off a debt, doing your taxes, or some other stressful chore. For my college students that I work with, it’s long papers, final exams, or just the end of a semester. but it is finished doesn’t seem good for Jesus to say he’s dying his…
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, why would Jesus say, I thirst upon the cross? Coming after, my God, my God, why hath Thou forsaken…
Sermon for Good Friday Tre Ore 4
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. Doesn’t it seem utterly shocking, surprising, and unexpected that the Son of God would be forsaken by the Father on the cross? Here, the sinless Son of God is abandoned, accursed, condemned. end. What could be more shocking than this? And yet it should not be surprising…
