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Full Text Text: Luke 14:1-14 “…The human economy runs on quid pro quo. We buy things to signal status. We look at each other for affirmation of our status. We give and get expecting repayment. Those who can’t repay or can’t help are either in our debt or never considered. But Jesus . . . → Read More: Status Games 
Text: Luke 13:22-30 Full Text I like the word cloud. Grace makes things topsy-turvy. It scrambles our hard won pieties. But thankfully, the narrow door is one opened by grace. A door made of anything else and nobody would be thin enough. The text is interesting to me because of who it appears to . . . → Read More: The Narrow Door…Big Enough for Everyone 
Full Text of Sermon Text: Luke 12:49-53 One of the VBS kids said something profound in the way only children can. The second day’s bible point was: God’s Word is Comforting. In quizzing the kids the next day what that main point was, one stood up, emphatically waving his hand in the air saying I . . . → Read More: God’s Word is ______ – the VBS Litergy
Full Text Our time and culture is one of the customized material goods and a generalized God. What I mean by that is we can have our burger our way and get 300 formulas of shampoo, but there are no limits or descriptions that apply universally for God. The culture believes God is love . . . → Read More: Palm Sunday – Hidden and Revealed
Full Text There are a number of points I review and judge a sermon on. Being cut and thrust personality, I like criteria for evaluation that are as crunchy (vs. squishy) as possible. Coming out of a number of sources (CFW Walther’s Law & Gospel, Dr. Schmitt my Homiletics Prof at Concordia, Robert Dabney . . . → Read More: Specific Grace – Relooking at the Prodigal Son – Lk 15:11-32
Full Text I’ll just say I hated the text this week. It was harsh and rough, and I couldn’t escape it. Everything I read to prepare for preaching just lead deeper into the heart of repentance. Everything lead to heart rending stories. A better preacher would have been more winsome. . . . → Read More: Deep Lent  One comment - (Comments are closed)  Lent, Luke, Repentance, Sermons  China, Ezekiel, Haiti, Lent, Repentance
Full Text …The father desires for all His children to be under that protecting wing. That protecting wing that has taken care of and planned out all the necessities. All the ultimate necessities – our sin which separated us from the Father that prevented us from being gathered, the death that results from that . . . → Read More: Jerusalem, Jerusalem…
Full Text …That lostness in our culture. The fragmentation and the pain caused by it. The anxiousness and distrust and conflict. Understandable – we’ve misplaced God’s story. But today, and this season of Lent, are your chance to reclaim it. Find who you are in God’s story. You are a chosen person. . . . → Read More: True Story
Full Text …But, isn’t Peter’s experience a little like our prayer life most of the time. We’ve been sleeping. Not paying too much attention to the wonders and sorrows around us. More concerned about filling our bellies, amusing away the time and getting a good night’s sleep. But then something changes…really quick. . . . → Read More: Staying Awake – the role of Prayer and Transfiguration
Full Text …The real epiphany is not that God is the creator or that his Word is active and has power, but that He is right here with us. That God comes to be with us. And he says stop being afraid. Even if we didn’t get confused about God having authority or . . . → Read More: Who’s standing next to you? |
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