Category: Sermons
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First Sunday in Advent
Readings: Isaiah 2:1-5 | Romans 13:(8-10) 11-14 | Matthew 21:1-11 Text: Matthew 21:1-11 This time of looking forward to Christmas is called Advent (from the Latin for arrival). It’s called that because it’s about Jesus’ coming. He came in lowliness in the manger at Bethlehem, just as was promised. “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and…
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Last Sunday of the Church Year
Readings: Isaiah 65:17-25 | 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 | Matthew 25:1-13 Text: 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 The Church Year is a teaching tool for Christians. Often it gets misunderstood as something one has to do, or that Christians who don’t know about seasons like Advent and Lent are inferior. Certainly, it gives Lutherans, Roman Catholics, and Orthodox…
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Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity
Readings: Micah 6:6-8 | Philippians 1:3-11 | Matthew 18:21-35 Text: Matthew 18:21-35 October 2, 2006 – Nineteen years ago, Charles Roberts took over a one room schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. Armed with a handgun, a shotgun, and a taser, he set about forcing the men, boys, and parents of infants to leave the classroom.…
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Twenty-First Sunday after Trinity
Readings: Genesis 1:1-2:3 | Ephesians 6:10-17 | John 4:46-54 Text: John 4:46-54 Being a Christian requires faith, and a right faith will make you a Christian. This was demonstrated by the Samaritans who encountered Jesus along with the woman who was at the well: 39Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the…
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All Saints Sunday
~ observed ~ Readings: Revelation 7:9-17 | 1 John 3:1-3 | Matthew 5:1-12 Text: Revelation 7:9-14 In our country, we have various holidays that call to remembrance various aspects about what it means to be an American. We celebrate the Fourth of July as Independence Day, in which we call to mind the momentous events…
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Reformation Day
(observed) Readings: Revelation 14:6-7 | Romans 3:19-28 | John 8:31-36 Text: Matthew 11:12-19 In the 1730’s, there began a movement in the Colonies that was later called The Great Awakening. It came with convincing preachers, stirred spirits, changed morals, and huge revival meetings. It transformed the religious and moral landscape of the soon-to-be American colonies.…
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Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity
Readings: Deuteronomy 10:12-21 | 1 Corinthians 1:1-9 | Matthew 22:34-46 Text: Matthew 22:34-36 In the Name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. The context of our Gospel places Jesus’ confrontation with the Pharisees in Holy Week. He had entered Jerusalem on the back of a donkey to…
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Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity
Readings: Proverbs 25:6-14 | Ephesians 4:1-6 | Luke 14:1-11 Text: Luke 14:1-11, Ephesians 4:1-3 Not everyone who gathered around Jesus was there to simply to hear Him and be healed by Him. Some were there to watch Him and wait for Him to stumble. At one such instance, Jesus is at the house of a…
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Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity
Readings: 1 Kings 17:17-24 | Ephesians 3:13-21 | Luke 7:11-17 Text: Luke 7:11-17 The Holy Scripture records incidents of women who weeping over their barrenness (1 Samuel 1:10), of the Lord weeping over impenitence (Luke 19:41-44), of God’s people weeping over those who reject salvation (Phil. 3:18), and even Christ Himself weeping at the death…
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Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity
Readings: 1 Kings 17:8-16 | Galatians 5:25-6:10 | Matthew 6:24-34 Text: Galatians 5:25–6:10 After hearing our Lord’s Word from Matthew 6:24-34, it probably hits all of us as very relevant. Who of us has not been worried at one time or another about the outcome of things? If you’ve been able to get by without…