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Sermons on Resurrection
We celebrate our first reopening Sunday with an appropriate talk about the Parable of the Weeds of the Field. You may also watch this as a video at: https://youtu.be/0L0VnHxKbIg?t=1148 Sermon Scripture: Matthew 13:24–43 The Parable of the Weeds [24] He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a…
We talk about what fears we’re responding to and how they help us to understand responding to God. Sermon Scripture: 1 Peter 1:13–25 Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do…
We continue our series about who we are in relation to certain Biblical characters, in relation to our fellow disciples, and in relation to Jesus. Today we talk about Lazarus and how his entombment shows us our own (during quarantine and out), and how Jesus calls us out into true life. Sermon Scripture: John 11:1–45…
We celebrate Easter Sunday today talking about Jesus’ vocation of Prophet and how Christianity is a future oriented faith. Sermon Scripture: Luke 24:1–12 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb,…
We talk about our expectations and God’s expectations and how those things come together in our readings, especially the reading that we have from the Gospel of John where Jesus turns water into wine. Sermon Scripture: John 2:1–12 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus…
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…
We count down to the 2nd to last Sunday of the Church year and start looking beyond our own lives to heaven and the Resurrection by asking ourselves some tough questions about our expectations for the afterlife and what God promises us. Sermon Text: Mark 13:1–13 And as he came out of the temple, one of…
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 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…
We talk about how God rescues our hearts from the salt and brine of the sinful world, and what the “heart” in Luther’s Seal is all about. Sermon Text: Matthew 13:44-52 The Parable of the Hidden Treasure [44] “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up.…