Sermons from 2023
Sermon for First Sunday after Christmas
[Machine transcription] Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace according to your word, for my eyes have seen your salvation. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, we are going to meditate today on this Gospel lesson from Luke chapter 2, but I just, I can’t skip those verses about the bride and the bridegroom in Isaiah chapter…
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 Christmas Eve
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, Merry Christmas, and may God bless us as we meditate on the words and the deeds that our Lord has given and the things that he has done. Most especially, his birth in Bethlehem for us. I think one of my favorite passages of the Christmas story is the one we just heard from Luke chapter two, where the angels…
Sermon for Fourth Sunday of Advent
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Today we have something maybe out of the ordinary, somewhat of an anomaly, whatever you want to call it, as this is the fourth Sunday in Advent, but it’s also Christmas Eve, and my math tells me this happens about seven years, every seven years or…
Sermon for Third Sunday of Advent
[Machine transcription] There was a man sent from God whose name was John. He came as a witness to bear witness about the light that all might believe through him. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Zach and Laura, about to confess your faith here before the Lord’s Altar. To all of you who are confirmed confessors of the Christian faith, to the…
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 First Sunday of Advent
[Machine transcription] Jesus says it is like a man going on a journey when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake. Therefore, stay awake. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, what does Jesus mean by this command to stay awake? He surely doesn’t mean that the Christian…
Sermon for Last Sunday of the Church Year
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, I’m excited because I just noticed something for the first time that I have, I don’t know how many years I’ve been alive, and I’ve never seen it before in the Nicene Creed, that we say I believe in the Holy Spirit, I believe in one holy Christian, an apostolic church, I acknowledge…
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 Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, we rejoice that our Lord Jesus is returning in glory soon for us. And this for us, for the Christian, is not a frightful thing or something to worry about. It’s in fact something joyful and something that we’re looking…
