Sermons (Page 87)
Gaining Everything
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Palm Sunday is pretty cool, isn’t it? Waving branches, shouting crowds, royal arrivals. The spreading news of miracles, the latest of which was fantastic, indeed. Lazarus, a dead man, had been brought back from the dead. Walking out of the tomb after four days! The…
From Death to Life
Light For Our Blindness
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
“I will lead the blind by ways they have not known … I will turn the darkness into light before them,” 2 Isaiah writes that in the Old Testament lesson for today. Those words remind us a lot of today’s Gospel reading from the book of John, too. There Jesus heals the…
An Open Door
Born of the Flesh and Born of the Spirit
Lead Us Not Into Temptation, But Deliver Us From Evil
Seeing Clearly
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our transfigured Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen.
What a difference a week can make. It was only six days earlier, at Caesarea Philippi, that St. Peter had made his great confession, and had also given and received great rebukes. And now Jesus leads His closest disciples up the slopes of a high…
Seeking First
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
I know they’re well-intentioned. I’m sure they’re just trying to be helpful. I’m confident that their purpose is nothing more than to clarify God’s Word and help us find things easily.
Yet, more and more there are days on which I find myself wanting to take a…
