Be joyful in HOPE,
patient in affliction,
faithful in prayer.
Share with the Lord’s
people who are in need.
Romans 12:12-13

Sermons on Matthew

Trinity 6 – 2025

THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL Prayer: O God, enlighten me that I may rightly understand Your Word. From Your Law let me learn to know my boundless spiritual ruin. But from Your Gospel let me learn to know Your grace, which is in Christ Jesus, my Savior, which saves me from my utter ruin and…

Trinity 2 – 2025

HE CHURCH’S ONE FOUNDATION IS NOT PETER, OR PAUL, BUT THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL Prayer: Dear Lord Jesus: Help us to hear Your promise that Your Church will never perish, believe it, and remain in Your Church by Your grace. Amen. St. Matthew 16:18-19. “And I also say to you that you are Peter,…

Lent 4 – 2025

SIMULTANEOUSLY RESTLESS AND AT REST The Text, St. John 6:1-15 (v. 14-15). Then those men, when they had seen the sign that Jesus did, said, “This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world.” Therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him…

Midweek Lent 3 – 2025

“HAIL, KING OF THE JEWS!” Sermon Text: St. Matthew 27:20-26. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole garrison around Him. And they stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him. When they had twisted a crown of thorns, they put it on His head and a…

Lent 1 – Midweek – 2025

“I HAVE SINNED BY BETRAYING INNOCENT BLOOD” Sermon Text: St. Matthew 27:1-5. When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put Him to death. And when they had bound Him, they led Him away and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate the governor. Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing…

Lent 1 – Invocavit- 2025

On faith and hope in the midst of temptations and struggles: But then the devil attacks this faith. This is the next wave of temptation: that he accuses you, and you listen, you get beaten down in your conscience. What has to happen is that faith – in which you learn what to believe –…

Pre-Lent 1 – 2025

DOES “GRACE ALONE” MEAN NO WORKING AT ANYTHING? Prayer: Lord God, heavenly Father, through Your holy Word You have called us into Your vineyard: We beseech You, send Your Holy Spirit into our hearts, that we may labor faithfully in Your vineyard and put our whole and only trust in Your grace, which You have…

Epiphany 3 – 2025

“NEITHER THE PREACHER NOR THE HEARER SHOULD DOUBT THE GRACE AND ACTIVITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT” Prayer: Gracious Lord, guard us from judging from what we see, feel or experience about the effect or effectiveness of Your Word among people in our lives. Help us to believe and trust that when the Word is preached…