Sermons (Page 37)
Sermon for Lent Midweek 3
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. I can’t even imagine the pain of a mother who loses a son, especially Mary, the mother of Jesus. How can this happen to her? She had heard an angel tell her that she was favored by God and was blessed among women and that her son’s kingdom…
Speaking the Truth in Love
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, looking at the Old Testament reading, the first reading from Jeremiah. Please be seated. The Old Testament is full of prophets of God. In fact, 23 of the 39 books of the Old Testament are written by prophets. And four other books…
Anointed for Death
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, looking at the gospel lesson today, those last words of Jesus, truly you will be with me today in paradise. Please be seated. Again, last week’s service, Ash Wednesday, we focused on the first word of Jesus from the cross,…
The Opening Battle
[Machine transcription] May the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, our rock and our redeemer. Amen. Our text for this morning’s sermon comes from the gospel lesson, Luke chapter 4. You may be seated. The old evil foe now means deadly woe. Deep guile and great might are his dread arms in fight. But for us fights…
Seeing Jesus in a Different Light
[Machine transcription] Sisters in Christ, using the gospel reading for the text today, please be seated. As a wedding gift, a young couple received a set of rather hideous looking drinking glasses. The couple thought they were junk, but they kept them for everyday use as they didn’t mind that the glasses would get chipped, cracked, broken, or even thrown away. And…
Loving the Enemy
[Machine transcription] God’s grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, looking at the gospel reading today for the text, please be seated. And in that gospel reading, Jesus says some some pretty hard stuff. Love your enemy. It’s not an easy thing to do, is it? It’s not an easy…
A Pre-Lent Easter
[Machine transcription] Grace mercy and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Brothers and sisters in Christ, looking at the second lesson, St. Paul’s letter to the Corinthians for the text, please be seated. He is risen. He is risen indeed. I know Lutherans have kind of wrote that we do that and we don’t…
Welcome to the boat
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God, our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Our text for this morning comes from our gospel lesson from Luke chapter five. You may be seated. Do you like to fish? I like to fish, although I wouldn’t say I really have any idea what I’m doing. I don’t fish often. I…
What is this Word?
[Machine transcription] May the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, our Rock and our Redeemer. Amen. Brothers and sisters, our text for this morning comes from the Gospel lesson, especially these words. And they were all amazed and said to one another, What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the…
All or Nothin'
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, looking at the epistle reading today, the second lesson from Saint Paul’s letter to the Corinthians. Please be seated. Now, even though it’s probably the least favorite musical of Texas Longhorn fans, I have to quote…
