Sermons from June 2025
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 after 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…