Sermons (Page 12)

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…

HE SPEAKS HIS “EPHPHATHA” – BE OPENED! – TO YOU The book of the prophet Isaiah is a guide to seeing how it’s true that Jesus is the Christ, the promised Messiah. When people questioned whether Jesus was who He claimed to be, often He pointed them to something Isaiah said as a prophecy, a promise from God, about what the Christ would do. Jesus would say: “Look at my works. See if they are the works that Isaiah said…

WHAT’S INSIDE In Genesis 6, it says that “the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Gen 6:5). This is right before God declared that He would send a flood to destroy life on the earth (with the exception of Noah and family). In case we think that this universal evil in people only applied to that generation destroyed by the…

FALSE DOCTRINE PRODUCES EMPTY WORSHIP Sermon Text, St. Mark 7:1-13. 1 Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes came together to Him, having come from Jerusalem. 2 Now when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault. 3 For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands in a special way, holding the tradition of the elders. 4 When they come from the…

FALSE DOCTRINE PRODUCES EMPTY WORSHIP Sermon Text, St. Mark 7:1-13. 1 Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes came together to Him, having come from Jerusalem. 2 Now when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault. 3 For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands in a special way, holding the tradition of the elders. 4 When they come from the…

JESUS TAKES AWAY FALSE CONFIDENCE Here at the end of Mark 6, first I should tell you what we’re skipping over: the feeding of the 5,000. We heard that sermon back in Lent. It’s followed in Mark 6 by these verses. How impressive it was to make five loaves of bread and two fish into enough to feed such a huge crowd! Now we see what Jesus did next. Sermon Text, St. Mark 6:45-56. 45 Immediately, He made His disciples…

Mark 5:25-34.   JESUS’ POWER TO CLEANSE We’ll hear now about a woman whose problem had to do with one of the laws in the Old Testament book of Leviticus, in this case, it’s Leviticus 15. The laws in Leviticus are sometimes called the “holiness code.” A better way to say it rather than being holy/unholy is that it’s about being clean. or unclean, before God. Sermon Text, St. Mark 5:25-34. 25 Now a certain woman had a flow of…

A FUNERAL THAT ISN’T When John the Baptist was in prison, he sent some of his disciples to ask Jesus, “Are you the Coming One, or do we look for another?” Jesus’ reply pointed to the miracles that the Messiah would do, which were spoken of in Isaiah: “the blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear.” Then Jesus added one more: “the dead are raised up.” This is a sign that Jesus is the Christ, the promised Messiah,…