Sermons on Trinity Season (Page 2)
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,…
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, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades [hell] shall not prevail against it. And I will give you…
Trinity 26- 2024
Mark 13:24-37 KNOWING THE TIME As Jesus concludes his sermon to His disciples about “what will be the sign of His coming and of the end of the age” (Mt 24:3.Mk 13:4), He gets into His actual coming, the moment when He appears in “great power and glory.” He speaks about things happening to the sun, moon, and stars that we’ve never seen or heard of. But it wasn’t the first time this was spoken. Through the prophet Isaiah – 700 years previously – God…
Trinity 25 – 2024
GOOD NEWS, WE’RE LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS Mark 13 is one long answer to a question. This is also true of Matthew 24. Same event. This was on Tuesday of the week that Jesus died on the cross. He had just left the temple for the last time. While He thought about these things, Jesus spoke of how the temple would be utterly destroyed one day. This made the disciples think of the end of the world. They asked…
Trinity 21 – 2024
WHAT WE DO AFFECTS OTHERS, AND IT’S ABOUT ETERNITY Sermon Text, St. Mark 9:42-50 (ESV). “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the…
Trinity 20 – 2024
Mark 9:33-41 THE WAY OF TRUTH IS ALSO THE WAY OF LOVE The way to eternal life is the way of truth. Jesus said not only “I Am the Way” but also “I Am the Truth,” and: “No one comes to the Father except through Me” (Jn 14:6). The way to come to the Father, to eternal life, is only through Jesus. The truth is the narrow path to eternal life. Believing the truth gets you to heaven. We’re laser-focused…
Trinity 19 – 2024
WHAT ABOUT WHEN MY FAITH FEELS WEAK? Sermon Text, St. Mark 9:14-29 (ESV). 14 And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them. 15 And immediately all the crowd, when they saw him, were greatly amazed and ran up to Him and greeted Him. 16 And He asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?” 17 And someone from the crowd answered Him, “Teacher, I brought my son to You, for he has a spirit that makes him mute. 18 And whenever…
Trinity 16 – 2024
THE LORD TAKES CARE OF YOU, EVEN WHEN YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND Sermon Text, St. Mark 8:1-21. 1 In those days, the multitude being very great and having nothing to eat, Jesus called His disciples to Him and said to them, 2 “I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now continued with Me three days and have nothing to eat. 3 And if I send them away hungry to their own houses, they will faint on the way; for…