Sermons (Page 21)
Sermon for Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, He has done all things well. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints of God, when I was asking the vicar this morning for sermon help, he said that I should unravel the James 2 passage. I wanted to preach on the gospel, so I figure we’ll do a little bit of both, if we can.…
Sermon for Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you, from God the Father and the Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. In the church where I grew up, there would be an assembly every Sunday morning before children were dismissed to their Sunday school classes. The Sunday school superintendent would conduct a short devotion consisting of scripture and prayer. The whole…
Sermon for Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints of God, wives, submit to your husbands. Husbands, love your wives. This is the wisdom from St. Paul, and we want to consider it this morning. Paul begins his table of duties, how we are to live as Christians in this fallen world. But let’s take a couple of steps back, and then we’ll get a bit of a…
Sermon for Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Our text for this morning’s sermon is the Gospel reading from the book of John, Gospel of John, which was just read. In the name of Jesus, amen. The people listening to Jesus are confused, and they ask, how can this man give us his flesh to…
Sermon for Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen. Our text for this morning’s sermon is the gospel reading from the book of John that was just read. In the name of Jesus, amen. During World War II, the Nazis forced many 12- and 13-year-old boys to join the junior Gestapo. They were treated…
Sermon for Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Vera, in baptism you have put on Christ. You have put off the old self, the sinful nature, and you are now clothed in the glorious beauty and righteousness of Christ. So that all the victory of Jesus, all his work, all his labor, all his suffering, all his death now belongs to you, and you belong to him. God be…
Sermon for Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints of God, we give thanks to God the Father through our Lord Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit that he has given us his word and most especially we thank him for this most blessed letter of St. Paul to the saints of God in Ephesus. We’ve been studying it. The last couple of weeks we did chapter 2, the end of…
Sermon for Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Catherine, God be praised that though you are dead, that’s how Paul talks about us today in the text, we are dead in trespasses and sins, and yet the Lord has made us alive in Christ for you and for all the baptized, be raised from the dead through the waters of holy baptism. Paul says, don’t you know…
Sermon for Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Everly and all the baptized, Paul in this epistle lesson has a list of seven blessings, and the last one refers to you today. In him also you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit. That means that the Lord Jesus has marked you as one redeemed by his death and resurrection, has covered you with his blood, has…
Sermon for Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints, Saint Peter warns us about scoffers coming in the last day. He says this, he says, know this first, I’m in 2 Peter chapter 3 verse 3, know this first, that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts. Now, how will you recognize a scoffer? How will you know if you’ve…
