Sermons (Page 7)
Sermon for Last Sunday of the Church Year
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints of God, and especially you Comfort Mans, William and Sarah and George and Rick and Alex and Trevor, grace and peace from our Lord Jesus Christ be with you now and always. Amen. What does it mean to be confirmed? I wonder how we can think about this. There’s a lot of different ways to consider it. I…
Sermon for Twenty-sixth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, in these last two weeks of the church year, we are hearing our Lord’s promise that he will come again in glory to judge both the living and the dead. And especially in the context of the gospel, Mark chapter 13, Jesus is giving…
Sermon for Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters, there is, in some of our churches today, I think there’s this tendency, or maybe an inclination, to take this gospel lesson about the widow and her offering, and extract…
Sermon for All Saints Sunday
[Machine transcription] Behold what manner of love the Father has given unto us, that we should be called the children of God. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, I have three things on our agenda this morning for the sermon. First, I want to get straight what it means to be a saint. Second, I want us to all rejoice in the blessed death of all…
Sermon for Reformation Sunday
[Machine transcription] For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, it is good that we have this celebration of the Reformation today because it’s an occasion for us to think back on the history of the Church and to recognize the gifts that the Lord gives throughout the…
Sermon for Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] The disciples were exceedingly astonished and said to Jesus, “Then who can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.” You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, amen.…
Sermon for Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] And Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said to him, “You lack one thing.” You may be seated. Dear Hosanna Bell and all the baptized, we hope to leave this place today rejoicing in all the gifts that the Lord Jesus gives to us. And that will be a stark contrast to the young…
Sermon for Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. When at the first wedding ceremony in this world’s history, the Lord God himself led the bride to the altar and gave her to her bridegroom, there was nothing but joy. This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh, Adam exclaimed. There was his newly wedded wife,…
Sermon for St Michael and All Angels
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, you who are given by Jesus the authority to trample over scorpions, snakes, in other words, over the demons, and yet are not to rejoice in this because your names are written in the book of heaven, for you, for us, is given this morning this glorious vision of the throne room of heaven and St.…
Sermon for Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. They’re baptized believers in Christ’s church. For the freshman team, a new chapter in their lives was now drawing near. There in the past were all those times of instruction given during the team meetings, the plays drawn on the whiteboard, sewn up upon the screens. The hours practicing the techniques as…