The Lutheran Church of the Messiah Sermons

Jeremiah 18:1-11 1   The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:   2   “Come, go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.”   3   So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel.   4   The vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as seemed good to him....

Jeremiah 2:4-13 4   Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.   5   Thus says the Lord: What wrong did your ancestors find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthless things, and became worthless themselves?   6   They did not say, “Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a lan...

Jeremiah 1:4-10 4 Now the word of the Lord came to me saying, 5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” 6 Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Truly I do not know how to speak, for I am only a boy.” 7 But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, “I am only a boy’; for you shall go...

Isaiah 5:1-7 1   Let me sing for my beloved my love-song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.   2   He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; he expected it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. 3   And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah,...

Isaiah 1:1, 10-20 1   The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 10   Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!   11   What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and th...

Hosea 1:2-10 2   When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.”   3   So he went and took Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.   4   And the Lord said to him, “Name him Jezreel; for in a little while I w...

Amos 8:1-12 1   This is what the Lord God showed me—a basket of summer fruit.  2   He said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me, “The end has come upon my people Israel; I will never again pass them by.   3   The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day,” says the Lord God; “the dead bodies...

Amos 7:7-17 7   This is what he showed me: the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.   8   And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “See, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass them by; 9   the high places of Isaac sha...

2 Kings 5:1-14 1   Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man and in high favor with his master, because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man, though a mighty warrior, suffered from leprosy.  2   Now the Arameans on one of their raids had taken a young girl captive from the land of Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife.   3   She said to her mistress, &#8...

2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14 1 Now when the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal. 2 Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here; for the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel. … 6 Then Elijah said to him, &#...

Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31 1   Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise her voice?   2   On the heights, beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand;   3   beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries out:   4   “To you, O people, I call, and my cry is to all that live. 22   The Lord created me at the beginning of his work, the first of h...

Acts 2:1-21 1   When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.   2   And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.   3   Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them.   4   All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other...

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,...