Category: Sermons
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Twelfth Sunday after Trinity
Readings: Isaiah 29:17-24 | 2 Corinthians 3:4-11 | Mark 7:31-37 Text: Mark 7:31-37 “And they brought to [Jesus] a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and they begged him to lay his hand on him. And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after…
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Eleventh Sunday after Trinity
Readings: Genesis 4:1-15 | Ephesians 2:1-10 | Luke 18:9-14 Text: Luke 18:9-14 In the hearts and minds of the faithful, this parable stands second only to the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32). It is one of the most important because it contains the core message of our faith: that no man is holy…
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Tenth Sunday after Trinity
Readings: Jeremiah 7:1-11 | Romans 9:30-10:4 | Luke 19:41-48 Text: Jeremiah 7:1-11 Law in the Text The people were being duplicitous. It wasn’t their first time, either. Jeremiah was preaching to the Israelites about 150 years after the events of Elijah: 21And Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long will you…
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Ninth Sunday after Trinity
Readings: 2 Samuel 22:26-34 | 1 Corinthians 10:6-13 | Luke 16:1-13 Text: Luke 16:1-9 This parable has been making people squirm since it was first on the Lord’s lips. To some, it offends because it seems like the Lord is advocating that we break the Seventh Commandment, “You shall not steal.” The manager cooks the…
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Eighth Sunday after Trinity
Readings: Jeremiah 23:16-29 | Acts 20:27-38 | Matthew 7:15-23 Text: Matthew 7:15-23 You can tell a garden that is kept and tended from a garden that has been neglected. The tended garden shows careful attention, addresses weeds before they get out of hand and hurt the good plants preventing them from bearing fruit. The Lord…
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Seventh Sunday after Trinity
Readings: Genesis 2:7-17 | Romans 6:19-23 | Mark 8:1-9 Text: Romans 6:19-23 Martin Luther wrote in a 1523 sermon: “Unbelief is the cause of all sin and vice, which have now taken the upper hand in all stations of life. How does it come to pass that everywhere there are so many foolish women and…
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Sixth Sunday after Trinity
Readings: Exodus 20:1-17 | Romans 6:1-11 | Matthew 5:17-26 Text: Matthew 5:17-26 Rules are great…when they apply to other people. That’s the way it is for sinners. As soon as the Law of God lands on our door, we squirm and writhe. In the Old Testament lesson. the verses immediately following the Ten Commandments show…
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Fifth Sunday after Trinity
Readings: 1 Kings 19:11-21 | 1 Peter 3:8-17 | Luke 5:1-11 Text: Psalm 16 “I teach you how to shun and flee What harms your soul’s salvation,Your heart from ev’ry guile to free, From sin and its temptation.I am the refuge of the soulAnd lead you to your heav’nly goal.” (LSB 688:4) Psalm 16 is a wisdom…
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Fourth Sunday after Trinity
Readings: Genesis 50:15-21 | Romans 8:18-23 | Luke 6:36-42 Text: Luke 6:36-42 C.S. Lewis’ radio addresses during World War II, which eventually came to be the book, Mere Christianity, begins this way: Everyone has heard people quarrelling. Sometimes it sounds funny and sometimes it sounds merely unpleasant; but however it sounds, I believe we can…
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Third Sunday after Trinity
Readings: Micah 7:18-20 | 1 Timothy 1:12-17 | Luke 15:1-10 Text: Luke 15:1-10 Sometimes, Jesus is offensive. Not offensive in the click-bait type of “even bad press is good.” Jesus is offensive because He sheds His holy light on what is ungodly in us. When Jesus brings that light to men, one of two things…