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Sermon Text: Mark 11:1-10, Isa 64:1,8 It was the start of advent. The start of the season of preparing the way. With the start of a new church year we also change the gospel that we are reading. We are now reading from Mark in worship. So this sermon in . . . → Read More: Preparing the Way Full Text of Sermon I don’t think there is a better day to preach than thanksgiving. It is still strange to me that a culture as lost as modern American has the best secular holiday. The day itself and everything said about it in the past and at its founding is a great text. . . . → Read More: Thanksgiving Gospel Text: Matt 25:32-46 I hate to say it, but this is an example of decent sermon prep that lacked editing and carry-through. At least 1 point two many. About a page and a half too long. And missing a story element. Although I do have to add that I’m amazed . . . → Read More: Last Judgements Text: Matthew 25:14-30 (Really Matthew 25:1-30) The title of the post is a hymn we sang (tune, lyrics). I meant to get that up as the “Hymns We Sing” selection, but it just didn’t work that way. That is the central theme of the sermon and I believe the sermon text. . . . → Read More: Let Us Ever Walk With Jesus Sermon Text: Matt 5:6, Rev 6:10, Rev 7:9, Lord’s Prayer, Apostles Creed, All Saints Day A Lutherans we are trained to think in terms of paradoxes in tension. Here is what I mean by that. The big tension paradox is law and gospel. The law kills, yet is necessary to show . . . → Read More: The Communion of Saints Scripture Text: John 8:31-36 Traditions tend to pile up. There is nothing inherently wrong with traditions. Most traditions are in fact healthy and good. But they tend to pile up. Just think about Christmas. How many things are there that you “have” to do? Does the holiday just . . . → Read More: The Puzzle of Reformation Day Sermon Text: Matthew 22:34-46 The text is the last in a sequence of questions that the various leaders of the Jews in Jerusalem were quizzing Jesus with. In the Synoptics (Matt, Mark and Luke) Jesus is only in Jerusalem once, and the leaders are testing him. Finding out where he falls. . . . → Read More: What do you think about the Christ? Sermon Texts: Isaiah 45:1-7 and Matthew 22:15-22 First, I love it when the Children’s Choir signs. You can hear them on the Podcast well directed and taught by Mrs. Kristin Bayer who is a wonderful sax player and teacher. (I hope she doesn’t mind the plug.) The simplicity of the songs . . . → Read More: Say you want a revolution… Full Text of Sermon Text: Matt 22:1-13, Philippians 4:4-13 In the human economy there can only be one Steve Jobs. If everyone took Steve Jobs’ advice the world would be a pretty miserable place pretty quickly. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t inspiring. It also points to the problem with how we look at the world . . . → Read More: Steve Jobs, iPod Touch, Wedding Clothes and St. Paul Full Text of Sermon The text is Matthew 21:33-46 which is the parable of the wicked tenants. I’ve pondered this parable for a long time – at least in American terms. It is filled with an urgency and a venom missing is the mustard seed and birds of the air. It has an easy . . . → Read More: Whose expectations get met? |
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