Surely God is your salvation.
Sermon for Easter 5 & Confirmation, May 15, 2022 Surely God is your salvation. Dear recipients of God’s grace in Christ Jesus, and especially you confirmands, Anah and Gideon, Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen. Isaiah 12:1-6 In that day you will say: I will give thanks to you, Lord, for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away, and you comfort me. 2 Surely God is my…
Pilgrims here, we live as citizens of heaven.
Sermon for Easter 4, May 8, 2022 Almighty and everlasting God, You bid us to walk in this passing world as pilgrims and strangers, ever looking forward to that eternal home which You have prepared for us in heaven. We pray that You would so govern and guide our hearts by Your Holy Spirit that we, avoiding all the fleshly lusts that wage war against our souls and being quietly obedient to the rule You have placed over us, may…
Follow Jesus wherever He takes you.
Sermon for Easter 3, Misericordias Domini, May 1, 2022 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He gave us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Amen. John 21:15-25 15When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” “Yes, Lord,” he said, “you know that I care about you.” Jesus told him,…
Christ is arisen means you are acquitted.
Sermon for Easter, April 17, 2022 This is the day the LORD has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Yes, his mercy endures forever. Amen. Romans 4:25 25He was handed over to death because of our trespasses and was raised to life because of our justification. (EHV) Christ is arisen means you are acquitted. Dear fellow redeemed, There are many in our day who don’t believe Jesus rose from the dead. Every year around Easter, the deceived…
Seven Words from the cross that give us hope.
Sermon for Good Friday, April 15, 2022 Seven Words from the cross that give us hope. From the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John First Word: A Word of forgiveness Many people are fascinated about the last words spoken by famous people, whether the thing said might be of any consequence or not. Likewise, we might well treasure the last words spoken by someone we love, especially if those words remind us how that person loved us in life,…
The Three Unions in Holy Communion.
Sermon for Maundy Thursday, April 14, 2022 To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His own blood and made us a kingdom and priests to God His Father—to Him be the glory and the power forever. Amen. 1 Corinthians 10:15-17 15I speak to you as to sensible people. Judge for yourselves what I am saying. 16The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a communion of the blood of Christ? The bread…
God exalted the Son who humbled Himself to save.
Sermon for Palm Sunday, April 10, 2022 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. Amen. Philippians 2:5-11 5Indeed, let this attitude be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. 6Though he was by nature God, he did not consider equality with God as a prize to be displayed, 7but he emptied himself by taking the nature of a servant. When he was born in human likeness, and his appearance…
A Part for the Whole?
Sermon for 6th midweek Lent, April 6, 2022 To all those loved by God…called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Luke 23:13-16 13Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people, 14and said to them, “You brought this man to me as one who is misleading the people. Look, I have examined him in your presence. I have found in this man no basis for the…
Believe the One Who is Truth.
Sermon for Lent 5, Judica, April 3, 2022 Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen. John 8:46-59 46Who of you can convict me of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? 47Whoever belongs to God listens to what God says. The reason you do not listen is that you do not belong to God.” 48The Jews responded, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan…
What to remember when you are seized with remorse.
Sermon for 5th midweek Lent, March 30, 2022 Grace to you and peace from Him who is, who was, and who is coming. Amen. Matthew 27:3-5 3Then when Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he felt remorse. He brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders 4and said, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? That’s your problem.” 5He threw the pieces of…
Work for the Bread Who gives life everlasting.
Sermon for Lent 4, Laetare, March 27, 2022 Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen. John 6:24-36 24When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus. 25When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?” 26Jesus answered them, “Amen, Amen, I tell you: You are not looking…
The semblance of legality.
Sermon for 4th midweek Lent, March 23, 2022 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. All who do his precepts have good understanding. Amen. Luke 22:66-67 66As soon as it was day, the council of the elders of the people met together, both the chief priests and experts in the law. They brought him into their Sanhedrin and said, 67“If you are the Christ, tell us.” (EHV) The semblance of legality. Dear friends in Christ, The plan…