Sermons (Page 22)
Sermon for Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. It’s my habit to get up early every day and go for a run. And it’s my habit to pray Lamentations chapter 3, verses 22 and 23 on my run. I’m going to read it for you again, it’s the Old Testament reading. The steadfast love of…
Sermon for Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, you should have no other gods. This means that you should fear, love, and trust in God above all things. Now, whenever I think about that, the emphasis in my mind always goes to the fearing and loving and trusting. It’s like, I used to wait tables at the seminary and this is how I think of it, like,…
Sermon for Third Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. He sleeps at night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows. He knows not how. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints of God, Jesus in this parable wants us to not know something. This is different than most parables. In most parables, Jesus is teaching us…
Sermon for Second Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints of God, we constantly face judgment, and I want to put these two things in contrast with one another, the judgment of the world and the judgment of the Lord. Now, Paul, if you could â I’d like you guys to maybe look at the Scriptures that we’re looking at, so I’m on page 5 for the Epistle…
Sermon for Trinity
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. Dear Saints of God, in just a few minutes we will confess together our faith in the words of the Athanasian Creed. Every year when we confess the Creed on Trinity Sunday, there’s always questions about it afterwards and I want to just address those questions now before…
Sermon for Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Abby and Porter, dear Levi, and Tino, where are you Tino? There you are. William, Grace, where’s Grace? Charlie, Taya, where did Taya go? Ah, there’s Taya. Dear Peyton, dear family and friends of the Comfirmands, and dear friends of Jesus. God be praised for the gift of His Word and the body and blood of…
Sermon for Seventh Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] Jesus says, the world has hated them. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints of God, when we study the scriptures, one of the things that we always want to be looking for is those places where we see God talking to God. The Father talking to the Son, the Son talking to the Father, the Father talking to the Spirit and so forth.…
Sermon 2 for Sixth Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. He has risen indeed. Hallelujah. In the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear Saints of God, this is a â what is the Old Testament about? That is a question that is important for us to be able to answer. What is the Old Testament concern itself with? Jesus says in John chapter 5 to the Pharisees, you search the Scriptures, thinking that in…
Sermon 1 for Sixth Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. He has risen indeed. Hallelujah. In the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear saints, I do not know if you have found yourself before listening or overhearing a conversation that you knew that you were not supposed to. Now, not in a bad way, like not hearing people plot something nefarious or something like this, but just a conversation that…
Sermon for Fifth Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. He is risen indeed. Amen. In this is love, not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus. Amen. Dear Saints of God, it is important when we approach the Scriptures for us to understand And first of all, this distinction between the law and…
