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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?
Full Text The gospels present everyone as recognizing the authority of Jesus. They all knew he was different. What they didn’t all do is react the same way. Luke portrays a difference in the Synagogue resposne and the response of people gathered in the house. Our society places a high worth on work and . . . → Read More: Synagogue and House – Responses to the authority of Jesus
Full Text This Sunday there were two things going on. In our community, we had a baptism. In the larger world – the disaster in Haiti. We might not link such things, but the biblical answer is actually very close. The Bible talks about Baptism as being a dying and a rising. . . . → Read More: Two things you might not associate…
Full Text The text is pure gospel – the wedding at Cana in John 2:1-12. The wine, the joy in the days of the messiah, has some amazing qualities. Overflowing, deep, given before we knew we were out and free. The first of the signs Jesus did at Cana in Galilee. We . . . → Read More: Quantity, Quality, Timely and Free
Full Text The text was Luke 3:15-22 which is Luke account of Jesus’ Baptism. I had three questions in this sermon. Why the silence? Why does Luke (or the other gospels for that matter) go from a 12 year old in the temple to this adult standing in the Jordan. This account . . . → Read More: Sanctifying the Waters – Lk 3:15-22
Full Text That is the question that Jesus, in his first words in the gospel, puts on Mary and Joseph. And it is rhetorical. It is posed not to get an answer, but to force us to answer it for ourselves. Why do we seek Jesus? That is a sticky question theologically. This . . . → Read More: Why is it that you were seeking me? – Luke 2:40-52
Text: Luke 2: 22-40 Full Text I don’t know what to say about this one. Just looking at the word picture above in comparison to almost any of the other sermons shows something is different. And that something different could be a very bad thing. The job from that pulpit is point at Christ . . . → Read More: Sermon – Christmas changes things…
Full Text Christmas. One of the two days of the year that you have to have a good message. (The other is mother’s day by the way. On Easter you are preaching to the congregation anymore. On Christmas and mother’s day you still get a chance to preach to the unconverted.) On . . . → Read More: Christmas – We know incarnations when we see them…
Full Text In defining ourselves, there are some things that we choose poorly on. The magnificat or Mary’s song is one of those things that gets overlooked by Protestants because we have a problem with Mary. Not specifically with Mary, but with where certain groups in the Roman church have taken her. Going . . . → Read More: Sermon – A Lutheran Looks at Mary – Advent 4 (12/20/09)
Full Text Text: Luke 7:18-28 The middle two weeks of advent are the weeks of John the Baptist. He’s a forgotten figure in modern Christianity. He doesn’t seem to have much meaning or purpose. We continue to read the stories of the patriarchs. We will talk about the OT prophets. We will . . . → Read More: What did you come to see? – Luke 7:18-28 – Advent 3 |
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