Sermons from 2025

Sermon for New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2025 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  Amen. Luke 2:21  After eight days passed, when the child was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. (EHV) Jesus took the cut of the law to save you. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, There is likely not a man out there anywhere that does not…

Sermon for Christmas 1, December 28, 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. Matthew 2:1-12  After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, when Herod was king, Wise Men from the east came to Jerusalem.  2They asked, “Where is he who has been born King of the Jews?  We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship…

Sermon for Christmas Day, December 25, 2025 The grace of Almighty God, the reconciliation of His Son, and the Word of the Holy Spirit be with you all.  Amen. Isaiah 9:6-7  6For to us a child is born.  To us a son is given.  The authority to rule will rest on his shoulders.  He will be named: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.  7There will be no limit to his authority and no end to the peace…

Sermon for Christmas Eve, December 24, 2025 “Do not be afraid.  For behold, I bring you good news of great joy, which will be for all people: … in the town of David, a Savior was born for you.  He is Christ the Lord.”  Amen. John 1:1-14  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  2He was with God in the beginning.  3Through him everything was made, and without him not…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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? …

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…

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…