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Sermons on Church
What is Jesus’ nickname for you? Simon’s nickname was the Rock. Saul’s was something like “little guy”. What’s Jesus’ nickname for you? Isaiah 51: 1-6 | Psalm 138 | Romans 11: 33 – 12: 8 | Matthew 16: 13-20
We celebrate Reformation Day and 40 years of University Lutheran’s building talking about audacious belief in God’s promises, where that belief led Peter and where it leads us. Sermon Scripture: Matthew 16:13–20 Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man…
We continue our Call and Response series by looking at the call to discipleship and how we respond to God’s call by becoming little Matthiases ourselves. Sermon Scripture: Acts 1:12–26 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away. And when they had entered, they…
We talk about ownership and how we own the forgiveness of our sin, our vocations, and our place in the Kingdom of God. Sermon Scripture: Luke 5:1–11 On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and he saw…
We finish up not only our “Communion of Saints” series but the entire “We are the Body” annual focus with a repeated Gospel reading from Mark where we talk about being God’s household, and how being in the house is good news. Sermon Scripture: Mark 13:24–37 “But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will…
In the second sermon in our “Communion of Saints” series about the 3rd article of the Creed and the Holy Spirit’s work in the Church – we talk about All Saints Day and comforting and our mourning with our experience of the beatitudes. Sermon Scripture: Matthew 5:1–12 Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain,…
We end our “In One Body” series by talking about the armor of God in Ephesians 6, and end talking about something that most people seem to miss in the reading. Sermon Scripture: Ephesians 6:10–20 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that…
We talk about “reproduction” and how it matters to us as the Body of Christ.
We start off the season of Advent and a new Annual Focus year (“We are the Body”) with a talk about what it means for us to “swap bodies” with Jesus and become the Body of Christ, the Church. Sermon Text: Isaiah 64:1–9 [1] Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down, that…
We celebrate(?) the 500th anniversary of the Reformation by talking about our freedom in Christ, and what it means to be people whose hearts are shaped by that freedom. Sermon Scripture: John 8:31-38 The Truth Will Set You Free [31] So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word,…