Category Archives: Sermons
Ash Wednesday, the First Day of Lent
“Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Jesus’ words invite us to ask ourselves, “What is my treasure?” What do you value above all else? From what do you expect all good? Of what do you say, “If I didn’t have that, I’d have nothing left?” The answer is where your heart is. That’s your treasure. Continue reading
Quinquagesima Sunday
1 Corinthians 13.1–13 & Luke 18.31–43 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. When Jesus originally called His disciples He called them with the words, “Follow Me.” It was an invitation to … Continue reading
Sexagesima Sunday
2 Corinthians 11.19–12.9 & Luke 8.4–15 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Pay attention to how you hear. That’s the point of the parable of the sower. A sower sows seed … Continue reading
Septuagesima Sunday
1 Corinthians 9.24–10:5 & Matthew 20.1-16 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. A landowner goes to the marketplace at the beginning of the workday, 6am. He invites the men standing there … Continue reading
The Transfiguration of Our Lord
2 Peter 1:16–21 & Matthew 17:1-9 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. “Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain … Continue reading
2nd Sunday after Epiphany
John 2:1-11 Grace to you and peace God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. On this second Sunday after Epiphany Jesus once against manifested his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of … Continue reading
1st Sunday after Epiphany
Luke 2:41-52 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. During the Christmas season we heard great things about the child who was born to Mary. The angel Gabriel appears to Mary and … Continue reading
Sunday after Christmas
Galatians 4:1-7 & Luke 2:33–40 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Even though today is the seventh day of Christmas, this Sunday’s gospel lesson takes us to the fortieth day of … Continue reading
Christmas Day
John 1:1-14 Grace to you and peace from God theFather and our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. In yesterday’s epistle, St. Paul exhorted us to , “Rejoice in the Lord always” (Phil 4:4). While that is the will of God for … Continue reading
Eve of the Nativity of Our Lord
Luke 2.1-20 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. In the second year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, nearly five-hundred years before Christ’s birth, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed a dream. In his dream he saw an … Continue reading