Trinity 7 – 2025
GOD’S COMPASSION IS REVEALED IN WORD AND SACRAMENT Prayer: Lord, how great is Your compassion, and how great it is for us to be objects of Your compassion. As we live in this world, help us from Your Word and especially from Your Supper, to see ourselves as people who are continuously viewed with compassion by You. Amen. The Text, St. Mark 8:1-9 (v. 1). In those days, the multitude being very great and having nothing to eat, Jesus called…
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 5 – 2025
ARE WE CALLED TO BE FISHERS OF MEN, OR HIS LITTLE FISHES? Prayer: O Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, You have given us Your Word and blessed us with every physical blessing: We confess ourselves unworthy of all these things and certainly deserve much worse, and we pray You to forgive us our sins, as You did Peter’s, and bestow success and health to our calling; that, being supported and defended by You both now and forever, we…
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]…
Trinity 3 – 2025
Luke 15:1-10: REPENTANCE IS BEING FOUND BY JESUS Prayer: Lord Jesus: O be my Counselor, my Pattern and my Guide; and through this desert land still keep me by Your side. Let my feet not run astray, nor rove, nor seek the crooked way. I love Your Shepherd’s voice, Your watchful eyes shall keep my wandering soul among Your many sheep. You feed Your flock, You call our names, be pleased to bear me as Your lamb. Amen! (Isaac Watts,…
Trinity 2 – 2025
HE CHURCH’S ONE FOUNDATION IS NOT PETER, OR PAUL, BUT THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL Prayer: Dear Lord Jesus: Help us to hear Your promise that Your Church will never perish, believe it, and remain in Your Church by Your grace. Amen. St. Matthew 16:18-19. “And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades [hell] shall not prevail against it. And I will give you…
Trinity 1 – 2025
GOD GIVES BAPTISM SO WE KNOW HIM BY GRACE ALONE Prayer: Dear Lord, we poor sinners confess that in our flesh dwells no good thing, since that which is born of flesh is flesh and cannot see the kingdom of God. But we pray that You would grant us Your grace and mercy, and for the sake of Your Son, Jesus Christ, send Your Holy Spirit into our hearts, that being born again we may firmly believe the forgiveness of sins…
Pentecost Sunday – 2025
“The multitude came together, and were confused.” This was true at the foot of the wrecked Tower of Babel on the Plain of Shinar, and now it was true of the multitude assembled in the house in Jerusalem on the first Pentecost. At the Tower of Babel they were confused because they were unable to understand each other. Now they were confused because they could under-stand each other. O blessed confusion! At the Tower of Babel, the Triune God, Father,…
7th Sunday of 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…
6th Sunday of Easter – 2025
THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN … WHOSE KINGDOM SHALL HAVE NO END Prayer: Risen Lord, You have given us Your holy Word which records in the New Testament the eyewitness testimony that You rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. Help us to live – and pray – as if we believe that You are risen, living and ascended, that we live in a kingdom that never ends, and that we have access to Your glory, grace,…