Sermons on Luke (Page 2)
Thanksgiving – 2025
SEEING JESUS’ MERCY PRODUCES THANKSGIVING Prayer: Dear heavenly Father, You daily care for us and are an ever-present Help in every need: We pray that You awaken our hearts to be truly thankful for all Your benefits. Let us not grow apathetic about Your temporal and eternal blessings, but remember that Your mercy is new every morning, so that in perfect trust we may call upon You in every trouble and thank and praise You with a joyous heart. Amen.…
Trinity 17 – 2025
BEING AT REST IN THE PRESENCE OF JESUS WHO HEALS: THAT’S WHAT THE SABBATH IS ABOUT Prayer: Lord Jesus, at our dinner tables we ask You to be our Guest. But there’s a greater table: Your holy Supper, Your body with the bread and with the wine the blood You shed. You say this food is for souls who are distressed, for hearts that long for peace and rest. You make it so we will be Yourguest, at Your banquet…
Trinity 16 – 2025
JESUS DESTROYS DEATH’S POWER OVER US Prayer: Lord, teach us that because of You, we now can have no fear of death and that our sadness over death is not like those who have no hope. But let it not only be that You teach us, but through Your Word and Sacraments powerfully give and preserve this faith in us, so that You defeat the fear of death and give us certain hope in the midst of sorrows. Amen. Sermon…
Trinity 13 – 2025
JESUS WANTS HIS CHURCH TO BE THE HOME OF MERCY Prayer: Lord, let mercy make me ever willing to bear my lot and not to fret. While You my restless heart are stilling, may I Your mercy not forget! Whatever comes my heart to test, Your mercy is my only rest. Lord, help me stand on this foundation as long as I on earth remain; Your mercy guide my meditation while I the breath of life retain. And then, when…
Trinity 11 – 2025
RESIST THE PHARISEE’S FAITH, BUT HAVE THE TAX COLLECTOR’S FAITH Prayer: Almighty and merciful God, protect us from the false delusion that our worthiness in Your sight is something that our obedience and works contribute to; but give us the faith that truly makes us acceptable to You – faith in our Savior, Jesus, and the blood that He shed for us. Amen. St. Luke 18:9-14 (v. 14). “I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather…
Trinity 5 – 2025
ARE WE CALLED TO BE FISHERS OF MEN, OR HIS LITTLE FISHES? Prayer: O Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, You have given us Your Word and blessed us with every physical blessing: We confess ourselves unworthy of all these things and certainly deserve much worse, and we pray You to forgive us our sins, as You did Peter’s, and bestow success and health to our calling; that, being supported and defended by You both now and forever, we…
Trinity 4 – 2025
HOW DO WE THANK THE LORD? IN OUR GOOD WORKS Prayer: Merciful God and Father, You make Your sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and You are kind even to those who are unthankful: We pray You, teach us by Your Holy Spirit to have compassion on all people, cover our neighbor’s faults and frailties, be always ready to forgive, and show forth everywhere the fruits of faith. Amen. [Collect on the Gospel for Trinity 4]…
Trinity 3 – 2025
Luke 15:1-10: REPENTANCE IS BEING FOUND BY JESUS Prayer: Lord Jesus: O be my Counselor, my Pattern and my Guide; and through this desert land still keep me by Your side. Let my feet not run astray, nor rove, nor seek the crooked way. I love Your Shepherd’s voice, Your watchful eyes shall keep my wandering soul among Your many sheep. You feed Your flock, You call our names, be pleased to bear me as Your lamb. Amen! (Isaac Watts,…
Quinquaesima- 2025
FAITH CLINGS TO JESUS’ CROSS ALONE Sermon Text: Luke 18:31-43 (v. 31, 35). Then He took the twelve aside and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be accomplished.” … Then it happened, as He was coming near Jericho, that a certain blind man sat by the road begging. Lord, this is Your Word and these are Your words. Guide us by…
Festival of the Presentation of our Lord – 2025
“NOW LET ME DEPART IN PEACE” Today we hear about what happened on the 40th day after Jesus’ birth, since today is the 40th day after Christmas Day. Joseph and Mary came to the temple with their baby, Jesus. They came to give some required offerings. One offering was for purifying the mother after childbirth, for she was considered ritually unclean and had to stay at home for 40 days if it was a baby boy. They had to give…