About this Sunday: We cheer together when we are filled with the expectation and hope of something good. We do not even need to see it – we can cheer in expectation. That is what this Sunday of Advent is all about, about the cheer of faith that waits but still rejoices. It is about…
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Sermons from December 2015
Every year University Lutheran puts on a German language Christmas service. The liturgy, readings, and hymns are in German, but the sermon is in English. This year, the sermon’s major illustration was the original story of the Nutcracker – a German story by a man named Hoffman. The sermon is based on Hebrews, Chapter 1.…
About this Sunday: Our Baptisms were the first steps of our journeys to heaven, but we experience the length of the journey as we go through life. This Sunday of Advent, we look at the wisdom of knowing that the journey is not instantaneous, but that we are called to journey well as we go…
About this Sunday: The season of Advent is a season of waiting – its discipline and wisdom. The discipline and wisdom of waiting begins with the feeling of the VOID, the feeling of emptiness that we try to fill up with all sorts of short term solutions. This Sunday we will talk about what we…