Sermons on All Saints

Sermons on All Saints

St. Thomas Day – Advent 4 – 2025

John 20:24 St. Thomas’ Day, Apostle & Martyr/Advent 4, Hope-Leander TX “MY LORD AND MY GOD” Prayer: Dear Lord Jesus: We thank You for calling us so that we may be Your own. We also thank You for calling Thomas. If You brought him, despite his doubts, to confess You as his God and Lord, and to be a great missionary filled with deathless courage, You can also keep us in faith to the end, so that we bravely confess…

All Saints – 2025

YOU ARE A SAINT. BLESSED ARE YOU!   Prayer: Lord, help us to believe that in You, for Jesus’ sake, we are blesséd. And strengthen our faith so that we believe that although here we are sinners, because our sins are taken away, we are saints, citizens of heaven. Amen. Dear Saints, Blessed are you in the name of Jesus. Amen. There are two words here that we need to learn. First, saint. People confuse that word. They see a…

St. Matthew’s Day, Apostle and Evangelist – 2025

MATTHEW’S GOSPEL Prayer: Dear Lord God: We thank You today that You not only changed the life of Matthew, from being a tax collector and an outcast sinner to being Your disciple and apostle, but also You used him to write the first gospel. We thank You for the Gospel, by which we learn to know You, our Lord Jesus, and through which Your Word powerfully creates and preserves in us true saving faith. By Your Word, give us faith…

All Saints – 2024

CHRIST HAS CALLED YOU TO BE HIS MARTYR Perpetua was a young wife and mother, with a nursing child, in 203 A.D. Although the Roman emperor forbade conversion to Christianity, she believed in Jesus – with her servant Felicitas. They were arrested leaving church. She and Felicitas were thrown into prison. Her father (an unbeliever) begged her to renounce her faith. He said, “Have pity on us (your parents and brother).” She said, “Do you see that pitcher of water?…

Festival of All Saints

MEET THE CHURCH TRIUMPHANT Prayer: God, let our heart be in heaven. Amen. [Laache, p. 690] Sermon Text, Revelation 7:9-17. Dear saints: Do you know this name for heaven? – “The church triumphant.” You don’t find this name in a Bible verse. But what do we see in Revelation 7? – We see the church in heaven – not a building, but the people who make up the church – and the only way to describe them is: triumphant –…