Sermons (Page 27)
Sermon for Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Dear Saints of God, dear Christians, Jesus has been traveling around with the disciples now up north in the region of Tyre and Sidon, over to the Decapolis, the Ten Cities, and now all the way up to the foothills of Mount Hermon, to Caesarea Philippi, to the pagan city that…
Sermon for Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. Dear Saints, dear friends of God, we arrive in Matthew chapter 15 with Jesus and the disciples on the border region of Tyre and Sidon. It’s about as far north and as far west as Jesus would ever travel. And as he has retreated into that region, he’s found by this…
Sermon for Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Before the sermon, a quick word of thanks, both to God and to you for your prayers. I give thanks to God that he has stood me back up here in this pulpit and given his word to us today with such great comfort and peace. Thank you also for your prayers for me and for your family. The Lord has heard your prayers and he’s answered them. And I…
Sermon for Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. The text for today’s sermon is the gospel lesson appointed to be read this Sunday, the ninth Sunday after the Pentecost. When I was growing up on the East Coast, I was around 12 or 13 years old at the time. We had a member of the church who…
The Value of You
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. I think it’s safe to say that people like high-value items. For example, the TV show Antiques Roadshow. People have old items, antiques even, and they bring them to somebody to be appraised, first, hoping that they have value or maybe are even…
Joy in Suffering
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God, our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, amen. Suffering happens, right? We’re no strangers to suffering, especially in our current times, it seems. And suffering happens in several different ways, okay? It happens by natural problems, like hurricanes, fires, floods, earthquakes,…
What Kind of Soil Are You?
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. It was a doctoral student in agriculture who taught me the difference between soil and dirt. She said that soil is what you grow things in. Dirt is what you clean out from underneath your fingernails. I really don’t know much about growing things…
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. In the Gospel reading today are the beautiful and perhaps familiar words of Jesus about the easy yoke that he gives. But the reading starts as a prayer of Jesus. And then he turns back to the crowd he’s speaking to and kind of shifts gears into…
Sermon for Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints of God, we continue to hear Jesus’ instructions from Matthew chapter 10, as we have the last few weeks, where he’s sending out his disciples to bear his name before the world and telling them how it’s gonna go, and it’s not really gonna go well. It’s gonna be difficult. Jesus…
Sermon for Third Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, when I was in high school, I worked at a pizza place, Dion’s Pizza in Albuquerque, New Mexico. And I remember every once in a while, someone would come in and order a pizza with everything on it. I mean, everything. Pineapple and anchovy and sausage and bacon and ham and pepperoni, just the works.…
