Sermons from Lord of Lords Lutheran Church

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/submitting-to-gods-governing-authorities-as-they-submit-to-gods-authority/ Watch this sermon directly on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaurBV5Jac0 On July 4, 1776, John Hancock, the President of Congress, and Charles Thomson, the Secretary of Congress, signed the Declaration of Indep...

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/fight-the-good-fight-of-faith/ Watch this sermon directly on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFap-OcDgGg There was great religious division in Germany in the early 16th century between the Lutherans and the Catholics. The lands controlled by the Emperor were divided among Lutherans and...

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/stick-with-sound-doctrine/ Watch this sermon directly on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMjikAmZAAw Two Saturdays ago, was our last men's Bible study on Nehemiah. Ten minutes into the lesson, a stranger walked into the church with his Bible. I thought, "Fantastic!" I int...

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/funeral-sermon-for-doris-miller-faithful-unto-death/ Watch this sermon directly on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VdyEzsPZwI In Jesus Christ's Revelation to Saint John, Jesus is speaking in chapters 2 and 3 to the seven churches in Asia Minor. In verses 8 through 11 of chapter 2,...

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/compassion-is-love-in-motion/ We were blessed to have a team of 7 teen girls and 1 teen boy with Pastor Matt Hennig from Living Word Lutheran Church in Montrose, Colorado join us this week as a mission team. We kept them busy. In the morning, the team ran our soccer camp at Mike Seder Park. We...

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/ministry-is-based-on-mercy/ Moses was the newborn son of Hebrew slaves. After he was found floating in a reed basket in the Nile River by Pharaoh's daughter, she adopted him into the royal family. Moses received a noble Egyptian education. But he remained a Hebrew. When he was 40 years old,...

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/united-in-the-trinity/ The local youth are spending too much time in the billiard parlor. That's going to lead to bad habits of smoking cigarettes, chewing tobacco, and reading dime novels. It will lead to bad language like "swell" and "so's your old man." It will le...

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/resist-the-roaring-lion/ Watch this sermon directly on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbumt02M9pA Last weekend, I completed Hunter Safety Classes. It was me and about thirty 11 and 12-year-olds. On the last day, we were given instructions on what to do if you spot a bear while hiking...

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/i-will-not-leave-you-as-orphans/ Watch this sermon directly on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAI6y89fS_E An 11-year-old girl is living in a run-down orphanage. She carries with her a locket and a note from her biological parents -- hoping that someday they will return for her. She an...

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/do-not-let-your-heart-be-troubled/ Watch this sermon directly on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO2uhs5xX-o Sermon Overview : This sermon says that both pastors and church members carry many troubles, but Jesus speaks directly to those fears in John 14: “Do not let your hearts be trou...

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/hardy-wyoming-sheep-follow-their-shepherds-voice/ It's fairly easy to raise sheep in New Zealand. It's an island nation with no natural predators like wolves, coyotes, or bears. New Zealand has 7.7 sheep per human on the island. It was a little more difficult to raise sheep while I was...

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/but-we-were-hoping/ The two disciples find it difficult to walk the seven miles from Jerusalem to Emmaus. Not because of the elevation or distance. It's difficult for them to move with any kind of urgency. Every step is slow and plodding as they head home. The minds of these two disciples a...

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/the-incredulity-of-saint-thomas/ The Incredulity of Saint Thomas is a famous oil painting by Caravaggio in 1601-1602. "Incredulity" is a fancy term for doubt, skepticism, and disbelief. Incredulity is an inability or unwillingness to believe. I want you to closely examine the artwork...

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/a-better-resurrection/ This morning we took our annual trip to the tomb with the women. There at that Easter tomb we hear a refrain that resounds almost one hundred times in just the New Testament: "Do not be afraid." The women had come out to the grave of their (supposedly) dead Mast...

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/a-better-sympathizer/ Every morning, Alex passed the same old man sitting on a weathered bench in the park, feeding peanuts to the squirrels. The man always looked nice in a buttoned-down shirt and coat. But he also always had a lonely look in his eyes. Alex was too busy to slow down to say &qu...

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/a-better-access/ When my sister was the associate head coach at the University of Michigan years ago, we gained access to various parts of the campus that were off limits to regular fans. For example, regular fans are able to watch games in the Crisler Center, but we were able to walk on the co...

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/a-better-focus/ Carol was raised in a broken home. She still bears the mental scars to prove it. The emotional bruises --which cause constant pain -- led her into a string of failed relationships. Sex and partying were her hope -- but they failed her -- leaving her lonelier than ever before. Bu...

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/a-better-mediator/ A story is told of a soldier during the Civil War trying to see President Lincoln. The soldier's mother was dying, and the young man wanted to leave to visit her. But, despite his persistence, the guards would not let him through to the president. As the man stood crying...

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/even-now/ Of course, Jesus was going to save Lazarus! Martha had seen Jesus heal so many people before; why wouldn't he save her brother -- one of Jesus' best friends? So, when Lazarus became sick, Martha and her sister, Mary, send word to Jesus: "Lord, the one you love is sick&quo...

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/blind-and-deaf-polytheistic-believers/ Joseph was a farmer near Hebron in the hill country of Judea. He heard the prophet Isaiah was traveling through the Judean countryside sharing God's message of judgment and promise. When Isaiah stopped in Hebron, Joseph invited Isaiah to have dinner wi...

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/a-better-covenant/ Numerous centuries had passed since the rainbow was first set in the sky. After exiting the ark, God made a covenant with Noah that he would never again destroy the earth with a world-wide flood. The rainbow was the sign of that covenant. Next God made a covenant promising Ab...

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/give-us-water-to-drink/ Lured by the promise of fertile farmland and a chance to start anew, several hundred thousand men, women and children set out along the Oregon Trail between the 1840s and the 1880s. They rolled west in groups of oxen-pulled prairie schooners through grass prairies, arid...

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/a-better-sacrifice/ If you've ever attempted to read the Bible from cover to cover, chances are you made it through Genesis and maybe Exodus. Somewhere in Leviticus, I'm guessing, your head began to spin. You became bogged down with the deluge of details about sacrifices. In the liturgy...

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/a-journey-of-faith/ Frodo, the Hobbit, was tasked with destroying the ring of power in the fiery lava of Mount Doom. Frodo and his faithful friend, Sam, traveled approximately 1800 miles from Bag End in the Shire to Mount Doom in Mordor. They traveled through forests, caves, swamps, and mountai...

View this sermon (with video and/or audio recording) on our website: https://www.lordoflords.org/sermons/a-better-high-priest/ You can often tell how serious something is by how people react to it. A student might think his misbehavior in school isn't a big deal. But when the principal marches into the classroom to pull the kid into his office, he realizes he made a big mistake. When the autho...