Sermons from September 2022
Sermon for Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints, it is appointed for man once to die and then to be judged. That is a fearful proposition, especially as we consider that we are sinners and that we have deserved the Lord’s judgment, that we’ve earned it, that we have by our breaking of God’s commandments made ourselves worthy of hell and…
Sermon for Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace from God, our Father, and His Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen. Dear baptized believers in Christ’s Church, after hearing the gospel lesson this morning with the Master and the Manager, is God giving to His disciples and giving to you and me permission to be dishonest in the management of the things that He…
Sermon for Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Did you hear in today’s Old Testament reading how much God talks about himself? I am the Lord. Behold, I, I myself, and I myself, and I myself am going to do all these things. I’ll do it. It’s all a little much, isn’t it? It’s as if…
Sermon for Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear James and Noriko, dear Harrison, dear Blair and Tina, dear Andrea and Suzanne, dear saints of God, Jesus has a hard word for us today. He says, unless you hate, hate your father and your mother, your wife and your children, your brothers and sisters, your own life, you cannot be my disciple. What about love?…
