Sermons from 2023 (Page 5)
Sermon for Second Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. He is risen indeed. Hallelujah. In the name of Jesus. Amen. The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground in the garden and then he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living being. That was the first gift of life. life, the gift that Adam and Eve squandered in the garden when they ate the…
Sermon for Easter Sunday
[Machine transcription] Jesus said to her, Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking? You may be seated. Christ is risen. He is risen indeed. Alleluia. God be praised that we are gathered here as we’ve been emphasizing all week on the 1,990th anniversary of our Lord’s death and resurrection from the dead. We want to hone in on those numbers because this…
Sermon for Good Friday
[Machine transcription] Jesus said, I am the light of the world, whoever follows me will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life. Dear children of the light, this Lenten season we have watched and reflected on the journey of our Lord Jesus Christ from Galilee where in Luke 9 it records when the days drew near for him to be taken up. He set his face to go to…
Sermon for Maundy Thursday
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints, we gather tonight on the anniversary of the institution of the Lord’s Supper, not just to remember what our Lord did those hundreds of years ago, but also to receive the same gift that he put in place, the body and the blood, for our life and salvation and the forgiveness of all of our sins. I want to…
Sermon for Palm Sunday
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear Saints, Jesus rides into Jerusalem, willfully, desiring your salvation. And he goes to accomplish and to finish what he began. As I have ministered to you and served as your pastor, here, one of the things that I’ve been trying to do is to set you all free from the fear of death, to be unafraid of the last…
Sermon for Fifth Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Jesus hears that Lazarus is ill, and so he waits two days to go and visit. But then when it’s time, he announces it to the disciples, and they’re hesitant, knowing that this is going to be a dangerous endeavor. But they go anyway. It’s a stunning and beautiful text. There’s a lot for us to…
Sermon for Fourth Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] Jesus says for judgment I came into this world that those who do not see may see and those who see May become blind you may be seated in the name of Jesus Amen Dear Saints was such a rich Long gospel reading. I don’t know quite what to do I told Jonathan this morning that I think there’s eight sermons here in this text and he said oh,…
Sermon for Third Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] Let us pray. May the words of my mouth and the meditations of our heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, our rock and our Redeemer. Amen. You may be seated. Over the years, I have engaged and challenged people with this thing that I call the dot and dash puzzle, and I challenge them to solve it. You probably we ask, but what is a dot and dash…
Sermon for Second Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, Some of the men of the congregation were gathered down for the men’s retreat at Camp Lone Star the last couple of days listening to Pastor Whedon teach on 1 Thessalonians and 2 Thessalonians too, where Paul reminds us, rejoice always. Like he does to every church, rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I…
Sermon for First Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] Then Jesus said to him, Be gone, Satan, for it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve. You may be seated. Dear Theodore and all the baptized, dear Shannon and all the confessors of Christ, grace, mercy, and peace be yours from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Jesus is in the wilderness being…
