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Sermon for Third Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen, he is risen indeed. Hallelujah. And dear saints, I promise you that with a good shepherd like our Lord Jesus, we need fear nothing at all. But rejoice in his care and his provision in this life, which brings us at last to the life to come. And that’s what we want to talk about this morning, especially this almost unbelievably…
Sermon for Second Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. It is risen indeed. Dear brothers and sisters in our risen Christ, today is Quasimodo Geniti Sunday and that translation means something like as newborns and it is a reference to what is often used as the introit text for this Sunday and that comes from 1st Peter 2 verse 2 and there Peter writes Like newborn infants, long for the…
Sermon for Easter Sunday
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen! He is risen indeed. Dear saints, we rejoice in that fact this morning and I’d like to… I’d like to meditate on it, the resurrection of our Lord Jesus really in two ways. And if you’re just thinking “oh wow, only two things,” well, the second point has three points, so really four ways. But we’re going to divide it this way: the…
Sermon for Palm Sunday
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, we celebrate today rightly on Palm Sunday as the triumphal entry of our Lord Jesus. But I think that if we understood it right in its historical context, and even as it’s presented to us in the scriptures, we might, instead of calling it the triumphal entry of Jesus, call it the triumphal entry of…
Sermon for Fourth Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Nicole, and all of you who bear the Lord’s name and the light of his countenance into the world, and to our confirmands, Kara and Christian, and to all those who have made the martyrs’ promise. Grace to you in peace from our Lord Jesus Christ. The scripture texts take us to a bunch of exotic places…
Sermon for Third Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, our Lord Jesus wants us to know about the unseen reality that surrounds us, and that is the realm of the angels and the fallen angels. the realm of the devil and the demons. Now, he doesn’t want us to know a lot about it. It’s not as if the scriptures is simply a handbook in the geography and…
Sermon for Second Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, this Canaanite woman from our gospel reading today is one of the best examples of faith we can have. Now, this is a rather astonishing thing to say, given that her descendants were those Canaanite pagans who God had commanded Moses and Joshua to destroy in the conquest all those centuries ago. And so…
Sermon for First Sunday in Lent
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Morgan and all the baptized, it is not by accident that immediately after his baptism, the Lord Jesus is driven into the wilderness by the devil. He fasts for 40 days. He’s tempted by the devil in every way, it says in the Gospel of Mark. And this is true for all of us. We are not baptized into paradise. We…
Sermon for Quinquagesima
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Christ our Lord took his twelve apostles to himself, and he talked to them about his impending passion. See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished. For he will be delivered over to the Gentiles, and he…
Sermon for Sexagesima
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, the Lord Jesus would have us know and understand His kingdom, and especially because His kingdom is so different than all of the other kingdoms of the world. It’s not a kingdom that advances by sword or by might or by power. His kingdom is not a kingdom of armies or battles. His kingdom, he says, is…