Sermons on John (Page 2)
7th Sunday of Easter – 2025
WHO IS THE HOLY SPIRIT? Prayer: Almighty God, You command us to pray for the gift of the Holy Spirit: We ask You, through Jesus Christ, our Advocate, to grant us Your Holy Spirit, that He may be the Giver of Life to us by the power of Your Word, and lead us into all truth, that He may guide, instruct, enlighten, govern, comfort, and sanctify us unto everlasting life. Amen. Sermon Text: St. John 15:26-27, 16:5-7. “But when the…
3rd Sunday of Easter “Good Shepherd”-2025
JESUS AND THE FATHER ARE ONE: THIS IS FOR BOTH DOCTRINE AND EVANGELISM Prayer: Lord, we love Your Shepherd’s voice, Your watchful eyes shall keep our wandering souls among the thousands of Your sheep. You feed Your flock, You call our names, You bear us as Your tender lambs. We will be safe as You display Your power and guardian grace. Amen. (Isaac Watts, “Join All the Glorious Names”) Sermon Text: St. John 10:17-19, 23-31. “Therefore My Father loves Me,…
2nd Sunday of Easter – 2025
“MY LORD AND MY GOD” Prayer: O risen Christ, You said, “Blessed are those who have not seen, and yet have believed.” Mercifully grant that this benediction may be ours; so that, walking by faith and not by sight, we may evermore rejoice in You, and confess You as our Savior, our Lord, and our God. Amen. (Parish Prayers, ed. Frank Colquhoun) Sermon Text: St. John 20:28-31. Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said…
Good Friday – 2025
“But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.” Isaiah 53:5 A LAMB GOES UNCOMPLAINING FORTH, THE GUILT OF ALL MEN BEARING Sermon Text: St. John 19:15-18. But they cried out, “Away with Him, away with Him! Crucify Him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!” Then he…
Lent 5 – 2025
LOVE TO THE LOVELESS SHOWN Sermon Text: St. John 8:46-59 (v. 52a, 53b). Then the Jews said to Him, “… Who do You make Yourself out to be?” Lord, this is Your Word and these are Your words. Dear Father, through Your Son You promised: “If anyone keeps My word, he will never see death.” We ask You: Send Your Holy Spirit into our hearts, that, as You have caused us to hear Your Word and to know Your Son,…
Midweek Lent 4 – 2025
“BEHOLD THE MAN!” Sermon Text: St. John 19:4-6. Pilate then went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I am bringing Him out to you, that You may know that I find no fault in Him.” Then Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them, “Behold the Man!” Therefore, when the chief priests and officers saw Him, they cried out, saying, “Crucify Him, crucify Him!” Pilate said to them, “You take…
Ash Wednesday-2025
Sermons Preached By Jesus’ Enemies “IT IS EXPEDIENT THAT ONE MAN SHOULD DIE FOR THE PEOPLE” Sermon Text: John 11:45-53. Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in Him. But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things Jesus did. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, “What shall we do? For this Man works many signs. If we…
Epiphany 2 – 2025
THE GREATNESS OF A CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE AND HOME At the very end of John 1, Jesus calls His 5th disciple, Philip, who then goes to find his friend Nathanael sitting under a fig tree. Where Nathanael’s sitting shows that he was waiting for the Messiah, because it was written in the prophets that when the Messiah came, he would inaugurate a kingdom of peace in which every man would “sit under his fig tree” (Mic 4:4). Nathanael was waiting for…
Advent 4 – 2024
WE CONFESS JESUS CHRIST The Text, John 1:6-8, 19-28 (v. 20, 23). He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.” … They said to him, “Who are you, that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?” He said: “I am ‘the voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.” Lord, this is Your Word and…
Christmas Day -2023
There was no livestream for this service. (Preaching on a Mark series that parallels the Historic Lectionary texts, the Christmas sermons utilize 1 Peter, since there is no Christmas story in Mark and Mark’s gospel was telling what Peter was remembering as eyewitness.) THE WORD MADE FLESH TO REDEEM US Sermon Text, St. John 1:12-14; 1 Peter 1:18-23. Dear people loved by God in Christ: St. John tells us that Jesus Christ is the “Word.” He tells us that this…