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"Called by the Gospel" Tagged Sermons (Page 2)
We finish up the Christmas season and our “Christmas Calling” series talking about Simeon, waiting, and how the promise of the Resurrection changes our waiting. Sermon Scripture: Luke 2:22–40 And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as…
It’s Christmas Eve! But does it really “feel like” Christmas to us? We talk about the desperation and desolation that can happen, and how to identify a good place to say “this is Christmas.” Sermon Scripture: Luke 2:1–20 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This…
We talk about what it means for us to be honored by God in the sacrifice of His Son, and how His honor beats back our shame. Sermon Scripture: Luke 1:39–56 In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, and she entered the house of Zechariah…
Pink Candle Sunday, the third Sunday of Advent, also called Gaudete Sunday is a Sunday that is all about joy – so we talk about the joy that we are given by Christ, what gets in the way of our joy, and our Baptisms. Sermon Scripture: Luke 7:18–35 The disciples of John reported all these…
We move into the second sermon of our “Christmas Calling” series talking about vocation and how John the Baptist clarifies the vocations of the people around him, how our vocations are clarified, and how Jesus’ vocation was ultimately clear – saving us from sin. Sermon Scripture: Luke 3:1–20 In the fifteenth year of the reign…
We kick off both our Annual Focus (Called by the Gospel) and our Advent sermon series (Christmas Calling) with a sermon that really looks at a small line from Jeremiah 33 – “This is the name by which it shall be called, ‘The Lord is our Righteousness’” and how that relates to our vocations. Sermon…