The Lutheran Church of the Messiah Sermons

Acts 1:1-11 1  In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, 2  until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. 3  He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.  4  And while stayin...

Acts 16:9-15 9   During the night Paul had a vision: there stood a man of Macedonia pleading with him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”   10   When he had seen the vision, we immediately tried to cross over to Macedonia, being convinced that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them.   11 We set sail from Troas and took a straight course to Samothrace, the fol...

Acts 11:1-18 1   Now the apostles and the believers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also accepted the word of God.   2   So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him,   3   saying, “Why did you go to uncircumcised men and eat with them?”   4   Then Peter began to explain it to them, step by step, saying,   5   “I was in the city of Jo...

Acts 9:36-43 36   Now in Joppa there was a disciple whose name was Tabitha, which in Greek is Dorcas. She was devoted to good works and acts of charity.   37   At that time she became ill and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in a room upstairs.   38   Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, who heard that Peter was there, sent two men to him with the request, “Please come to...

Acts 9:1-20 1   Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest   2   and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.   3   As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed ar...

Acts 5:27-32 27   The apostles were brought in and made to appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by the high priest.   28   “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man’s blood.”   29   Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than human beings! 30   Th...

Acts 10:34-43 34   Then Peter began to speak to them: “I truly understand that God shows no partiality,   35   but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.   36   You know the message he sent to the people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all.   37   That message spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism t...

Exodus 12:1-14, 20-33 12 The  Lord  said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:  2  This month shall mark for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you.  3  Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for each household.  4  If a household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join its...

Isaiah 50:4-9a 4   The Sovereign LORD has given me a well-instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.   5   The Sovereign LORD has opened my ears; I have not been rebellious, I have not turned away.   6   I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not...

First Lesson:  Acts 27:1  –  28:1 27:1 And when it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort named Julius. 2  And embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to the ports along the coast of Asia, we put to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica. 3  The next day we put...

Isaiah 43:16-21 16   Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters,   17   who brings out chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:   18   Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old.   19   I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will ma...

Jonah 1:1 – 2:10 (not shown) Matthew 14:22-33 (ESV) 22 Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. 23 And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone, 24 but the boat by this time was a long wayfrom the land, beaten by the waves, for the wind...

Joshua 5:9-12 9   The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away from you the disgrace of Egypt.” And so that place is called Gilgal to this day.   10   While the Israelites were camped in Gilgal they kept the passover in the evening on the fourteenth day of the month in the plains of Jericho.   11   On the day after the passover, on that very day, they ate the produce of the land,...

Exodus 7:14-24 14 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go. 15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water. Stand on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that turned into a serpent. 16 And you shall say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, “Let my people go, that the...

Isaiah 55:1-9 1   Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.   2   Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.   3   Incline your ear, and come to me...

Genesis 6:1 – 9:17 (not shown) 1 Peter 3:18-22 18  For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit, 19  by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison, 20  who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being...

Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18 1   After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, “Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”   2   But Abram said, “O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”  3   And Abram said, “You have given me no offspring, and so a s...

Genesis 1:1-10, 20-23, 26-31  (ESV) In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.  The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.  And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the ligh...

Deuteronomy 26:1-11 1   When you have come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, and you possess it, and settle in it,   2   you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place that the Lord your God will choose as a dwel...

Isaiah 58:1-12 1   Shout out, do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Announce to my people their rebellion, to the house of Jacob their sins.   2   Yet day after day they seek me and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that practiced righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments, they delight to draw near to God.   3  ...

Exodus 34:29-35 34:29 Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God. 34:30 When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him. 34:31 But Moses called to them; and Aaron and a...

Genesis 45:3-11, 15 3   Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph. Is my father still alive?” But his brothers could not answer him, so dismayed were they at his presence.   4   Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come closer to me.” And they came closer. He said, “I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.   5   And now do not be distressed, or angry with yo...

Jeremiah 17:5-10 17:5 Thus says the LORD: Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals and make mere flesh their strength, whose hearts turn away from the LORD. 17:6 They shall be like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see when relief comes. They shall live in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. 17:7 Blessed are those who trust in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD....

Isaiah 6:1-13 6:1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty; and the hem of his robe filled the temple. 6:2 Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. 6:3 And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the who...

Malachi 3:1-4 1   “I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,” says the LORD Almighty.   2   But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire or a launderer’s soap.   3   He will sit as a refiner a...