Sermons from 2025 (Page 4)
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,…
4th Sunday of Easter – 2025
HE CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN Prayer: Lord Jesus, thank You for coming down from heaven. You exist in the glory of the Father, yet You became a man. You became what You were not, so that we could become what we are not and share in Your glory. You did this for our salvation. Help us to be amazed by this each day, to be sure of Your love, and to live in the humility in which You came to…
3rd Sunday of Easter “Good Shepherd”-2025
JESUS AND THE FATHER ARE ONE: THIS IS FOR BOTH DOCTRINE AND EVANGELISM Prayer: Lord, we love Your Shepherd’s voice, Your watchful eyes shall keep our wandering souls among the thousands of Your sheep. You feed Your flock, You call our names, You bear us as Your tender lambs. We will be safe as You display Your power and guardian grace. Amen. (Isaac Watts, “Join All the Glorious Names”) Sermon Text: St. John 10:17-19, 23-31. “Therefore My Father loves Me,…
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,…
