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070526 Sermon Download Biblical Text: Matthew 11:25-30 National holidays – like July 4th – sit uneasily within the church. Why is that? The short answer is various authorities of the three estates. This sermon talks about those three – home, church and state – and their rightful authority. And how the authority of each is rightly derived from Christ who all authority in hea...

062826 sermon Download Biblical Text: Matthew 10:34-42 The hymn referenced at the start is I Walk in Danger All the Way – LSB 716 . The meditation is based largely on Jesus’ statement, “I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.” Which saying I think is one of the hardest for the current generation of Christians to absorb or think about. I am rarely simply happy after a s...

062126 Sermon Download Biblical Text: Matthew 10:21-33 (34-35) These lessons early in the “green season” are about discipleship expectations. And this one touches on something that effects many Christians today – the family is all over the place in regards to faith. Not long ago, within living memory of those who live in Christendom lands, being baptized and being a Christian wer...

061426 Sermon Download Biblical Text: Matthew 9:35-10:20 It is very rare you stumble across something in translation that I’d describe as uniquely terrible. Words don’t just mean one thing. They have a range of meaning from hyper-literal to extremely metaphorical. You could also label them formal to slang, and general to specific. Most translation issues are more like “I think th...

060726 Sermon Download Biblical Text: Matthew 9:9-13 We live in a world that attempts to start moral cascades or moral panics all the time. The sermon hopefully demonstrates that and how they have sped up with social media. What the text does is both expose that this mechanism of the world has always been with us. And then it shows us what stops them. Or maybe if not stops them, it shows us how th...

053126 sermon Download Sermon Texts: Athanasian Creed , Matthew 28:20, Genesis 1:1-2:4 The Sunday is Trinity Sunday, so the Athanasian Creed is a fixture. We say it responsively, and the congregational response isn’t clear enough, so I’m sorry it isn’t on the recording. Although we had a new reader this morning who did a very good job with a very long reading in that Old Testamen...

052426 Sermon Download Biblical Text: Numbers 11:24-30, Acts 2:1-21, Pentecost The Holy Day was Pentecost – hence the red and the Holy Spirit. Both Pentecost and the Holy Spirit are parts of more staid Protestantism that tend to get forgotten or played down. And I think they tend that way for what this sermon attempts to address. What we really want is God in a Box. Whether that is because w...

051726 Sermon Download Biblical Text: John 17:1-11 Glory is not something that we Lutherans talk about all that much. The Reformed talk about it much more while the world talks about it all the time. But that is the subject of Jesus’ prayer. Both in terms of the Father and Son glorifying each other, and in terms of the son glorifying his own and how they glorify him. So this sermon attempts...

051026 Sermon Download Biblical Text: Acts 17:16-31, 32-34 There are sermons that bubble up from things that take place during the week. Even the day before you commit them to paper. And then there are those that are the considered reflection of a long span of time. This one might have been sprung on me late in the week, but it is one of the second type. The text is Paul in Athens. And Paul in Ath...

050326 Sermon Download Biblical Text: John 14:1-14 The text ends with what I personally think is one of the toughest sayings in the bible. “You will do greater works than these” along with the promise to ask anything and it will be given. Any fair presentation has to establish what works are being talked about such that the promise could be true. The question about prayer is a little e...