Sermons on Pentecost

Sermons on Pentecost

Pentecost Sunday – 2025

“The multitude came together, and were confused.” This was true at the foot of the wrecked Tower of Babel on the Plain of Shinar, and now it was true of the multitude assembled in the house in Jerusalem on the first Pentecost. At the Tower of Babel they were confused because they were unable to understand each other. Now they were confused because they could under-stand each other. O blessed confusion! At the Tower of Babel, the Triune God, Father,…

Pentecost – 2024

Sermon: St. Mark 10:13-16 THE HOLY SPIRIT, BAPTISM, AND JESUS’ BLESSING Dear people loved by God in Christ: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. In Isaiah 32, God’s prophet addresses the women of Israel with a warning, out of love. This shows how important women are to God, how essential in His kingdom and for God’s plan. Three times in Isaiah 32, verses…

Festival of Pentecost – 2023

Sermon text- Acts 2:1-13 Note: Reading of Joel 2:28-32 in 5 languages (1 per verse) THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES TO SAVE US BY GRACE Prayer: Come, Holy Spirit! We trust in You to save us. Amen! Dear fellow redeemed in Christ, who keeps His promise to send the Holy Spirit to us: Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, through the Holy Spirit. Amen. Pentecost did not begin in the New Testament. The…

21st Sunday After Pentecost-2022

Sermon Text: Matthew 22:11-12 Remember how Adam and Eve tried to dress themselves when their sin filled them with shame and awareness of being unacceptable to God? And how it didn’t work, and God Himself clothed them and covered up their sin with a sacrifice? God does this for you. He covers and dresses you with Jesus” righteousness. He covers up your sin and shame and makes you acceptable for Jesus’ sake.

14th Sunday after Pentecost-22

Sermon Text: Luke 10:25-37 Everyone knows the parable of the Good Samaritan. But not everyone notices that right before it the Lord gives us the key to understanding it. A man comes to Jesus with a question: “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” But the Holy Spirit informed and inspired Luke to say that with this question the man was trying to “justify himself.” So this story is not about learning to do our works of mercy better;…

12th Sunday after Pentecost-22

Sermon Text: Luke 18:14 “I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” This was the Prayer of the Day for this Sunday in the church year. It’s a BEAUTIFUL prayer, one of the very best of the old prayers (collects) for each Sunday. Almighty and everlasting God, always more ready to hear than we to pray…