Ash Wednesday – 2024
LIKE MARY AND LIKE JUDAS Sermon Text, St. Mark 14:1-11. After two days it was the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take Him by trickery and put Him to death. But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar of the people.” And being in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, as [Jesus] sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster flask of very costly oil of…
Quinouagesima
3rd Sunday in
Pre-Lent-2024
JESUS OPENS THE EYES OF THE BLIND ON THE WAY TO THE CROSS Sermon Text, St. Mark 10:46-52. Now they came to Jericho. As He [Jesus] went out of Jericho with His disciples and a great multitude, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the road begging. And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” Then many warned him to be quiet; but he cried…
Sexagesima
2nd Sunday
in Pre-Lent- 2024
JESUS, THE SOWER, SOWS HIS WORD IN YOUR HEART Sermon Text, St. Mark 4:1-20. And again He [Jesus] began to teach by the sea. And a great multitude was gathered to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat in it on the sea; and the whole multitude was on the land facing the sea. Then He taught them many things by parables, and said to them in His teaching: “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow. And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell…
Septuagesima
1st Sunday in
pre-Lent
Sermon Text: Mark 22:31 We apologize, but due to technical difficulties, today’s service is in 3 parts. Part 1-First part of the Service Part 2-Gospel Reading Part 3-Sermon
Transfiguration – 2024
SHINING, EXCEEDINGLY WHITE Sermon Text, St. Mark 9:1-9. And He said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you that there are some standing here who will not taste death till they see the kingdom of God present with power.” Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John, and led them up on a high mountain apart by themselves; and He was transfigured before them. His clothes became shining, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them. And…
Epiphany 2 – 2024
THE BLESSING OF CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE Sermon Text, St. Mark 1:29-31, 10:1-12. Now as soon as they had come out of the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. But Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick with a fever, and they told Him about her at once. So He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and immediately the fever left her. And she served them. Then He arose from there and came to the…
Epiphany 1 -2024
BY HIS BAPTISM AND TEMPTATION OUR GOOD LORD DELIVERS US Prayer: By Your baptism, fasting, and temptation: Help us, good Lord. Amen. Sermon Text, St. Mark 1:9-13. 9 It came to pass in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 10 And immediately, coming up from the water, He saw the heavens parting and the Spirit descending upon Him like a dove. 11 Then a voice came from heaven, “You are My beloved Son, in whom I am well…
1st Sunday after Christmas
Dear people loved by God in Christ: Grace and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Circumcision and Name of Jesus Often we skip from the shepherds to the wise men in the Christmas story. But that skips over some important things. This reading tells about what Joseph and Mary were very careful to do for Jesus when He was 8 days old. These were laws Joseph and Mary…
Christmas Day -2023
There was no livestream for this service. (Preaching on a Mark series that parallels the Historic Lectionary texts, the Christmas sermons utilize 1 Peter, since there is no Christmas story in Mark and Mark’s gospel was telling what Peter was remembering as eyewitness.) THE WORD MADE FLESH TO REDEEM US Sermon Text, St. John 1:12-14; 1 Peter 1:18-23. Dear people loved by God in Christ: St. John tells us that Jesus Christ is the “Word.” He tells us that this…
Christmas Eve 2023
JOY INEXPRESSIBLE AND FULL OF GLORY Sermon Text, St. Luke 2:8-20; 1 Peter 1:8-12. 10 And the angel said unto them, “Fear not! For behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” 8 Whom, having not seen, you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible…