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"Pentecost Season" Tagged Sermons (Page 2)
Today we start a new series based on the book of Ephesians called “In One Body” by looking at the pronouns and the communal nature of the Body of Christ that Paul is pointing churches to, both in early and later history. Sermon Scripture: Ephesians 1:3–14 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord…
“We pay a lot of attention to our failure,” but do we pay attention to sin and righteousness? We talk about Jesus’ “failure” to do a great work in His hometown and how winning and losing, succeeding and failing, is not the same as righteousness and sin. Sermon Scripture: Mark 6:1–13 He went away from there…
We talk about faithfulness and how God shows His faithfulness to us. Sermon Scripture: Mark 5:21–43 And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea. Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing…
We talk transcendence vs immanence and how God brings us a world that is both transcendent and immanent through the gift of Holy Baptism. Sermon Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:13–18 Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also…
This Sunday the readings are about the Sabbath, but Sabbath is really just resting in God’s Word. We talk about how we find our rest in God’s Word, a part of that Word being our Baptisms, and PJ explains what he used to do with pastors that went a little long. Sermon Scripture: Deuteronomy 5:12–15 “‘Observe…