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Sermons on Catechism Sermons

Trinity 18 – 2025

JESUS IS THE ANSWER TO THE LAW Prayer: Dear Lord, we know that Your Law is good; but since the Fall its holiness condemns us all, it dooms us for our sin to die, and has no power to justify. By Your Holy Spirit, help us to so use the Law that to Jesus we for refuge flee, who from the curse has set us free, and humbly worship at Your throne, saved by Your grace through faith alone. Amen!…

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 gives me eternal salvation. O merciful Lord, let me abide in true faith in Your Gospel, the secure place of refuge against every curse. Amen.…

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]…

7th Sunday after Easter – 2025

WHO IS THE HOLY SPIRIT? Prayer: Almighty God, You command us to pray for the gift of the Holy Spirit: We ask You, through Jesus Christ, our Advocate, to grant us Your Holy Spirit, that He may be the Giver of Life to us by the power of Your Word, and lead us into all truth, that He may guide, instruct, enlighten, govern, comfort, and sanctify us unto everlasting life. Amen. Sermon Text: St. John 15:26-27, 16:5-7. “But when the…

4th Sunday after Easter – 2025

HE CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN Prayer: Lord Jesus, thank You for coming down from heaven. You exist in the glory of the Father, yet You became a man. You became what You were not, so that we could become what we are not and share in Your glory. You did this for our salvation. Help us to be amazed by this each day, to be sure of Your love, and to live in the humility in which You came to…

3rd Sunday after Easter -2025

JESUS AND THE FATHER ARE ONE: THIS IS FOR BOTH DOCTRINE AND EVANGELISM Prayer: Lord, we love Your Shepherd’s voice, Your watchful eyes shall keep our wandering souls among the thousands of Your sheep. You feed Your flock, You call our names, You bear us as Your tender lambs. We will be safe as You display Your power and guardian grace. Amen. (Isaac Watts, “Join All the Glorious Names”) Sermon Text: St. John 10:17-19, 23-31. “Therefore My Father loves Me,…

2nd Sunday after Easter – 2025

“MY LORD AND MY GOD” Prayer: O risen Christ, You said, “Blessed are those who have not seen, and yet have believed.” Mercifully grant that this benediction may be ours; so that, walking by faith and not by sight, we may evermore rejoice in You, and confess You as our Savior, our Lord, and our God. Amen. (Parish Prayers, ed. Frank Colquhoun) Sermon Text: St. John 20:28-31. Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said…

Trinity 10
Catechism Series
9th-10th Commandment
2023

Sermon: Exodus 20:17; Joshua 7:20-26 THE 9TH & 10TH COMMANDMENTS: “ARE YOU HAPPY?” Prayer: O Lord, You have made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless unless they rest in You. All our desire is known unto You, therefore perfect what You have begun. We seek Your face; turn Your face toward us and show us Your glory. Then shall our longing be satisfied, and our peace shall be perfect. Amen. (St. Augustine, Confessions I.1; The Lord Will Answer, p. 301) Dear people loved…

Trinity 8
Catechism Series
8th Commandment
2023

HE IS NOT THE GOD OF TAKING, BUT OF GIVING Prayer: O God, You command me not to steal. Protect me from being concerned only for myself and my own needs. Help me to use my own property and goods so that I glorify You and serve my family and neighbors with my gifts.  Amen. Sermon Text, Exodus 20:15; 2 Kings 5:14-16, 20-27. Dear people loved and purchased by God to be His own special treasure: Grace to you and peace from…
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