Sermons on Romans

Sermons on Romans

Trinity 7 – 2026

HE (CHRIST) IS MY LORD Sermon Text, Romans 6:19-23 (NIV84). I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you…

Trinity 6 – 2026

BAPTISM GIVES POWER TO FORSAKE SIN AND LIVE TO GOD The Sermon Text, Romans 6:3-11 (v. 3-4, 10-11). Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. … For the death that He…

Advent 2 – 2025

HOPE Romans 15:4-13 (Epistle for Advent 2) Prayer: Lord, be Thou our Hope. Lead us into Your Word, where we receive patient endurance, encouragement, and hope from You. Empower us to welcome others, especially those weak in faith, and to give them this same encouragement and hope. Amen. (The Lutheran Study Bible p. 1939; also ELH 372:5) Dear fellow redeemed in Christ: Grace and peace be unto you from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen. Paul begins…

Funeral- Richard Getz

Christian Obituary for Richard Getz Richard Edward Getz was born on October 3, 1931, to Edward Adolf and Edna Getz in Teaneck, New Jersey. The Triune God who gave him life also gave him the new birth and saving faith; he was baptized in the name of the Triune God as a child. Having suffered the death of his mother before age 10, his paternal grandparents, Gottlieb and Anna Getz, raised him in this faith, and he was led to…

Lent 2 – Reminiscere -2025

We had the privilege of hearing our guest pastor, Pastor Siirila, preach  “the cross before the crown”. In the sermon, he shared the beautiful lesson of what life as a follower of Christ looks like and why the cross is so important. Life as a follower of Christ is not always easy. God instructs us to take up our crosses, or difficulties, and follow him. But why should we follow him? Pastor Siirila offered these beautiful words, “The cross is…