Sermons from February 2024

Sermons from February 2024

Lent 2 – 2024

KEEP PRAYING Sermon Text, St. Mark 7:24-30. From there [Jesus] arose and went to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And He entered a house and wanted no one to know it, but He could not be hidden. For a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit heard about Him, and she came and fell at His feet. The woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter. But Jesus said to her,…

Lent 1 – 2024

YOU ARE THE CHRIST”: THE BEGINNING OF TAKING UP THE CROSS Sermon Text, St. Mark 8:27-38. Now Jesus and His disciples went out to the towns of Caesarea Philippi; and on the road He asked His disciples, saying to them, “Who do men say that I am?” So they answered, “John the Baptist; but some say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered and said to Him, “You are the Christ.” Then…

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…