Sermons from April 2025
2nd Sunday of Easter – 2025
“MY LORD AND MY GOD” Prayer: O risen Christ, You said, “Blessed are those who have not seen, and yet have believed.” Mercifully grant that this benediction may be ours; so that, walking by faith and not by sight, we may evermore rejoice in You, and confess You as our Savior, our Lord, and our God. Amen. (Parish Prayers, ed. Frank Colquhoun) Sermon Text: St. John 20:28-31. Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said…
Easter – 2025
Exordium “He is risen from the dead!” We know these words so well, they can lose their impact. So think of it in the negative. What if we didn’t hear this? What then? What would be true if He didn’t rise from the dead? What do we lack? The first thing is that if death could hold Him and He didn’t rise, then His claims to be the Son of God would be false. His teachings, and God’s Word itself,…
Good Friday – 2025
“But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.” Isaiah 53:5 A LAMB GOES UNCOMPLAINING FORTH, THE GUILT OF ALL MEN BEARING Sermon Text: St. John 19:15-18. But they cried out, “Away with Him, away with Him! Crucify Him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!” Then he…
Maundy Thursday -2025
THE LORD’S SUPPER Sermon Text: 1 Corinthians 11:23-32. For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the…
Palm Sunday /
Confirmation – 2025
YOU ARE AMONG HIS UNIVERSAL PRIESTHOOD OF BELIEVERS Sermon Text: 1 Peter 2:4-10. Coming to Him as to a living Stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. Therefore, it is also contained in the Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious, and he who believes on…
Lent 5 – 2025
LOVE TO THE LOVELESS SHOWN Sermon Text: St. John 8:46-59 (v. 52a, 53b). Then the Jews said to Him, “… Who do You make Yourself out to be?” Lord, this is Your Word and these are Your words. Dear Father, through Your Son You promised: “If anyone keeps My word, he will never see death.” We ask You: Send Your Holy Spirit into our hearts, that, as You have caused us to hear Your Word and to know Your Son,…
Midweek Lent 4 – 2025
“BEHOLD THE MAN!” Sermon Text: St. John 19:4-6. Pilate then went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I am bringing Him out to you, that You may know that I find no fault in Him.” Then Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them, “Behold the Man!” Therefore, when the chief priests and officers saw Him, they cried out, saying, “Crucify Him, crucify Him!” Pilate said to them, “You take…