The testimony of Scripture is Christ.
Sermon for Advent 4, December 21, 2025 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, in truth and love. Amen. John 1:19-28 19This is the testimony John gave when the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, “Who are you?” 20He confessed and did not deny. He confessed, “I am not the Christ.” 21And they asked him, “Who are you then? Are you Elijah?” He said,…
God’s grace comes through Jesus Christ.
Sermon for Advent 3, December 14, 2025 Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen. John 1:15-18 15John testified about him. He cried out, “This was the one I spoke about when I said, ‘The one coming after me outranks me because he existed before me.’” 16For out of his fullness we have all received grace upon grace. 17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18No one…
Overflow with hope for Christ accepted you.
Sermon for Advent 2, December 7, 2025 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. Romans 15:4-13 4Indeed, whatever was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that, through patient endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we would have hope. 5And may God, the source of patient endurance and…
Hosanna to the Son of David!
Sermon for Advent 1, November 30, 2025 Grace, mercy, and peace be yours, forever, from God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. Matthew 21:14-17 14The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15But when the chief priests and the experts in the law saw the wonders he performed and heard the children calling out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant. 16They said to him, “Do you…
God gives perfect gifts to give us eternal life.
Sermon for Thanksgiving Eve, November 26, 2025 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and excellence. Amen. James 1:16-18 16Do not be deceived, my dear brothers. 17Every good act of giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the…
Wait for the Lord, for the righteous live by faith.
Sermon for the Last Sunday of the Church Year, November 23, 2025 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. Habakkuk 1:1-3 & 2:1-4 The threatening oracle which the prophet Habakkuk saw. 2How long, Lord, must I cry for help, but you do not listen? I call out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save! 3Why do you cause me to see injustice? …
Patient endurance in faith gains eternal life.
Sermon for Pentecost 23, November 16, 2025 Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you in Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen. Luke 21:5-19 5As some were talking about the temple, how it was decorated with beautiful stones and offerings, Jesus said, 6“These things that you see here—the days will come when there will not be one stone left on another—every one will be thrown down.” 7They asked him, “Teacher, when will these things happen? And what is the sign that…
The faithful dwell with God forever in peace.
Sermon for Pentecost 22, November 9, 2025 Now may the God of hope fill you with complete joy and peace as you continue to believe, so that you overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Revelation 22:1-5 The angel showed me the river of the water of life, which was as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and the Lamb. 2In the middle of the city’s street and on each side of the…
Behold the salvation, trustworthy and true.
Sermon for All Saints’, November 2, 2025 Grace to you and peace from Him who is, who was, and who is coming. Amen. Revelation 21:1-6 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, because the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. And the sea no longer existed. 2And I saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3And from the throne…
Christ’s Word believed will set you free!
Reformation Sunday, October 26, 2025 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. John 8:31-36 31So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, you are really my disciples. 32You will also know the…
Be confident in God who gives eternal life.
Sermon for Pentecost 19, October 19, 2025 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. Amen. 1 John 5:13-15 13I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. 14This is the confidence that we have before him: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15And if we know…
Give thanks for God’s faithfulness.
Sermon for Pentecost 18, October 12, 2025 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. Amen. Genesis 8:15-22 15God spoke to Noah. He said, 16“Go out of the ark—you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you. 17Bring out with you every living thing of every sort that is with you, all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that…