Sermons from January 2024
Sermon for Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, who is your enemy? I want to lean into that today. In fact, I want to take a couple steps back and we’re working around this gospel text of Mark chapter 1 where, and really the whole of the chapter 1 where the Lord is laying out what Jesus is coming to do, the wrongs he’s making right, the ills…
Sermon for Third Sunday after Epiphany
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, we have today in the Old Testament lesson Jonah chapter 3, the middle of the book of Jonah, and in fact what I think is the â it’s important, it’s an important part, but maybe the most normal part of the book of Jonah. What I’d like to do is think about the entirety of Jonah this morning…
Sermon for Second Sunday after Epiphany
[Machine transcription] You were bought with a price. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, I have all week been trying to get away from the Epistle lesson. I wanted to preach about the Gospel. I just couldn’t. There’s so much wisdom for us, especially in our own day, in this passage from 1 Corinthians 6. So this morning, in the early…
Sermon for The Baptism of Our Lord
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Well, this morning we hear this account from St. Mark of the baptism of Jesus, and maybe it’s just me, maybe I’m the only one that does this, but I think sometimes we might be tempted, often tempted to overlook the importance of it. I mean, we came out of Advent…