Sermons from March 2025
Sermon for Fourth Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] Now the tax collectors and sinners were drawing near to hear Jesus, and the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” So he told them this parable. You may be seated. Dear Stephen and Tray, dear conframands, dear baptized believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, this parable is one of the…
Sermon for Lent Midweek 3
[Machine transcription] Let us pray. May the words in my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, our rock and our Redeemer. Amen. To brothers and sisters in Christ, we have all seen those trials in the setting of a classroom where the defendant is fighting for his life, be it from spending time in prison or even from the punishment of…
How to Watch the News with a Good Conscience
[Machine transcription] those 18 on whom the tower in Saloam fell and killed them. Do you think that they were worse offenders than all others who lived in Jerusalem? No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, I titled the sermon this morning. It’s called How to Watch the News with…
Sermon for Lent Midweek 2
[Machine transcription] God grant us his grace and peace. Throughout all of Holy Week, our Lord Jesus had been going back and forth between Jerusalem and Bethany, where he lodged in the house of his friend Lazarus and his sisters, Mary and Martha. So in like manner, after that last supper, which became the first Lord’s Supper, he was on his way back from Jerusalem.…
Sermon for Second Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear saints, our Lord Jesus has set his face to Jerusalem, and he’s headed that way. He starts in Galilee, and he’s gone down south. But the text in Luke 13, we find him in Perea. That’s the area where John the Baptist was baptizing; that’s on the east side of the Jordan. It’s the area where…
Sermon for Lent Midweek 1
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. It was to be Passover like no other. This remembrance and celebration of the Lord delivering the children of Israel from the bondage in Egypt. This remembrance and celebration of truly becoming God’s people, of receiving His grace and fellowship. This remembrance and…
Sermon for First Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for 40 days to be tempted by the devil. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints, we have this most important text today, and especially you children. I want to make sure all the children can see me because we’ve got to think…
Sermon for Ash Wednesday
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, tonight we enter into the holy season of fasting that we call Lent. And I want us to consider this tonight: what Lent is not. Lent is not pretending like Jesus hasn’t yet died on the cross and risen from the dead. I think there’s a danger that sometimes we think of Lent in this way and even Holy…
Sermon for The Transfiguration of Our Lord
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus. Amen. There he was. Standing on that high place with many of the people that he had been sent to serve, gathered below him. The end was drawing near, even though it felt like the next step would be in loneliness. God promised him that he would always be with him. Then there were those moments of encouragement as he was…