Sermons from September 2024
St. Michael &
All Angels – 2024
“THE LORD HAS SENT HIS ANGEL” Acts 12:5-17. Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church. And when Herod was about to bring him out, that night Peter was sleeping, bound with two chains between two soldiers; and the guards before the door were keeping the prison. Now behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the prison; and he struck Peter on the…
Trinity 17 – 2024
JESUS HEALS A BLIND MAN, BUT NOT ALL AT ONCE When Israel was about to enter the Promised Land, the land of Canaan, God gave them a great promise that He Himself would drive out the nations for them. In many cases it was obvious that God was doing this, that it was His doing, such as when the walls of Jericho crumbled with just a shout. God could have wiped out the godless nations in an instant, but He…
Trinity 16 – 2024
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…
Trinity 15 – 2024
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…
Trinity 14 – 2024
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…