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Sermon for Second Sunday of Easter
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. I think the main temptation with today’s readings, especially the gospel lesson, is for us to really only talk about what’s going on with Thomas because, after all, let’s admit it, he’s kind of an easy target to focus on. And we will talk…
Sermon for Easter Sunday
[Machine transcription] Christ is risen. He is risen indeed. Alleluia. In the name of the risen Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear saints, it is a wonder that God the Holy Spirit has gathered us into this room today in the conviction that something that happened 1,991 years ago in a small little corner of the world, in a garden, in a little cave, a little tomb, that something that…
Sermon for Good Friday Tenebrae
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear Saints of God, I was recently visiting with someone who told me that they once heard a sermon in which the following line was spoken: there is no place in the house of God for those who have been divorced. They told me that when they heard that, they didn’t stop coming to church, but every time that they came…
Sermon for Good Friday Tre Ore 7
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. Oh, for a faith that would not shrink, though pressed by many a woe, that would not tremble on the brink of poverty or woe. Lord, give me such a faith as this, and then whate’er may come, I’ll taste ye now the hallowed bliss of that eternal home. And why is life so…
Sermon for Good Friday Tre Ore 6
[Machine transcription] It is finished. That’s usually good to say or hear after completing a project, or paying off a debt, doing your taxes, or some other stressful chore. For my college students that I work with, it’s long papers, final exams, or just the end of a semester. But “it is finished” doesn’t seem good for Jesus to say;…
Sermon for Good Friday Tre Ore 5
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the fifth words on the cross that Jesus spoke were two: “I thirst.” You may be asking yourself, why, with all the other phrases, all the words that have just evidence of why they were said, would Jesus say, “I thirst” upon the cross? Coming after, “My…
Sermon for Good Friday Tre Ore 4
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. Doesn’t it seem utterly shocking, surprising, and unexpected that the Son of God would be forsaken by the Father on the cross? Here, the sinless Son of God is abandoned, accursed, condemned. What could be more shocking than this? And yet it should not be surprising for…
Sermon for Good Friday Tre Ore 3
[Machine transcription] I invite you to stand for prayer. Lamb of God, pure and holy, who on the cross didst suffer, ever patient and lowly, thyself to scorn didst offer, all sins thou borest for us, else had despair reigned o’er us. Have mercy on us, O Jesus, O Jesus, Amen. And listen one more time, please, to the third word of Christ from the cross. John chapter…
Sermon for Good Friday Tre Ore 2
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom. And he said to him, Truly I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise. There’s an anonymous poem from the ancient church, popular among Aramaic-speaking Christians in the Middle East, that tries to tease out the…
Sermon for Good Friday Tre Ore 1
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, amen. Jesus’ first words from the cross are an inaccessory prayer given up to his Father, but who were these words meant for? Was Jesus crying out on behalf of the Roman soldiers, the ones who flogged him mercilessly, who mocked and ridiculed him and then drove the nails into…
