Third-Last Sunday – 2026
CHRISTIAN CALM Sermon Text: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 (v. 13, 14, 18). But I do not want you to be ignorant … lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again … Therefore comfort one another with these words. Lord, this is Your Word, and these are Your words. Sanctify us by the truth. Your Word is truth. Lord, You are our Dwelling Place in all generations. As our Captain of salvation,…
All Saints Day – 2026
BEFORE THE THRONE AND BEFORE THE LAMB Sermon Text, Revelation 7:2-12 (v. 4, 9-10). And I heard the number of those servants of God who were sealed on their foreheads. … After these things I looked and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation…
Reformation – 2026
Reformation Sunday – The Pure Gospel Sermon Text, Romans 8:31-39. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore…
St. Luke’s Day – 2026
God’s Word is our Shield of Faith in Battle In our church we observe the saints’ days not to worship the saints in heaven, or pray to them, but only “so that we may follow the example of their faith and good works” (Augsburg Confession, Article 21). We hear from Scripture about them. The point is that they made it to heaven; they were sinners like us, and we’ll make it too. This is about being exhorted from God’s Word…
Trinity 20 – 2026
CHRISTIANS ARE IN THE WORLD; NOW WHAT? Dear Saints: Just in the last week, we had reports that almost 30 young people were rescued from child sex traffickers in a city in Colorado; that rival gangs of Somali youth were involved in shootings at a high school homecoming game in Minnesota; and two different planned terrorist attacks at our state capital and at a popular mall in another state, one involving guns and one involving bombs, but both premeditated plans…
Trinity 19 – 2026
PUT OFF THE OLD MAN, PUT ON THE NEW MAN Sermon Text, Ephesians 4:22-28 (v. 22-24). That you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in righteousness and true holiness. Lord, this is Your Word and these are Your words. Sanctify us by the truth; Your Word is…
St. Michael and All Angel’s Day – 2026
WE WORSHIP WITH THE ANGELS Sermon Text: Isaiah 6:1-8 (v. 6). Then one of the seraphim flew to me. Lord, this is Your Word, and these are Your words. Sanctify us by the truth. Your Word is truth. Lord, preserve us in faith so we continue to be served by the holy angels; and let us share with them the joys of the life that never ends. Amen! In the name of Jesus, dear fellow redeemed: Grace and peace to…
Trinity 16 – 2026
CHRISTIAN COURAGE AND OPTIMISM Sermon Text: Ephesians 3:13-21 (EHV). So I ask you not to lose heart because of what I am suffering for you, because it is your glory. For this reason I kneel before the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the entire family in heaven and on earth receives its name. I pray that, according to the riches of His glory, He would strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner self, so…
Trinity 15 – 2026
WORRY VS. TRUST Sermon Text, St. Matthew 6:24-34 (v. 25-26, 28-31). “Therefore do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? So…
Trinity 14 – 2026
THE HOLY SPIRIT FIGHTS FOR YOU AGAINST THE SINFUL FLESH Luther’s Small Catechism includes questions to help a person prepare for receiving the Sacrament. The final question deals with why we should receive it often: “But what if a person is not aware of such trouble that lies heavy on him and feels no hunger and thirst for the Sacrament?” The answer begins: “To such a person no better advice can be given than to put his hand into his…