Sermons on Luke (Page 3)
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…
Epiphany 1 – 2025
THE CHILD, JESUS Like all Jewish parents, Mary and Joseph knew their chief responsibility was to teach the faith to their children. They diligently taught Jesus. He went with them to synagogue every Sabbath. Like all Jewish mothers, Mary began teaching Him from the cradle. As soon as He could talk, Joseph had to begin His instruction. He surely did so, for if he failed to impart knowledge of the Law to his son – even to Jesus — he…
Christmas Day- 2024
HOW DID THE SHEPHERDS’ GLORIFYING AND PRAISE OF GOD CHANGE? St. Luke 2:15-20 (v. 20). And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them. Lord, this is Your Word and these are Your words. Sanctify us by the truth. Your Word is truth. Amen. In the name of Jesus, who was born for you, dear fellow redeemed: On Christmas Eve the story ends abruptly, with…
Christmas Eve – 2024
CAESAR, JOSEPH, MARY, AND JESUS St. Luke 2:1-14 (v. 1-5). And it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria. So all went to be taxed, everyone unto his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, unto the city of David, which is called…
Advent 2 – 2024
Here is a portion of the pastor’s sermon from Luke 21:25-36, about false confidence vs. true confidence. The Coming of the Son of Man “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be…
Trinity 5 -2024 Mission Festival
Mission Festival, with special guest Pastor Simeon Mamidi, a Lutheran pastor in Hyderabad, India. Trinity 5 2024 Bulletin to download More about Lutheran Mission of Salvation-India (LMSI)
Sexagesima
2nd Sunday
in Pre-Lent- 2024
JESUS, THE SOWER, SOWS HIS WORD IN YOUR HEART Sermon Text, St. Mark 4:1-20. And again He [Jesus] began to teach by the sea. And a great multitude was gathered to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat in it on the sea; and the whole multitude was on the land facing the sea. Then He taught them many things by parables, and said to them in His teaching: “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow. And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell…
1st Sunday after Christmas
Dear people loved by God in Christ: Grace and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Circumcision and Name of Jesus Often we skip from the shepherds to the wise men in the Christmas story. But that skips over some important things. This reading tells about what Joseph and Mary were very careful to do for Jesus when He was 8 days old. These were laws Joseph and Mary…