Sermons from November 2024
Sermon for Thanksgiving Eve
[Machine transcription] Dear Soren Frederick, who tonight has received new birth by the washing of water and the word, and all the baptized here in Christ Jesus, grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. You know, I think in some ways the importance of Thanksgiving—when I say Thanksgiving, I mean the Thanksgiving with a…
Sermon for Last Sunday of the Church Year
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints of God, and especially you Comfort Mans, William and Sarah and George and Rick and Alex and Trevor, grace and peace from our Lord Jesus Christ be with you now and always. Amen. What does it mean to be confirmed? I wonder how we can think about this. There’s a lot of different ways to consider it. I…
Sermon for Twenty-sixth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, in these last two weeks of the church year, we are hearing our Lord’s promise that he will come again in glory to judge both the living and the dead. And especially in the context of the gospel, Mark chapter 13, Jesus is giving…
Sermon for Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters, there is, in some of our churches today, I think there’s this tendency, or maybe an inclination, to take this gospel lesson about the widow and her offering, and extract…
Sermon for All Saints Sunday
[Machine transcription] Behold what manner of love the Father has given unto us, that we should be called the children of God. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, I have three things on our agenda this morning for the sermon. First, I want to get straight what it means to be a saint. Second, I want us to all rejoice in the blessed death of all…
