Sermons from July 2026
Trinity 8 – 2026
GOD SAYS TO THE PREACHER, “YOU SHALL BE AS MY MOUTH” In today’s gospel lesson, Jesus says, “Beware of false prophets.” He had not yet sent out men to preach in His name, whether apostles, evangelists, or pastors. He uses the word prophets since that had been the office of those who publicly spoke what God commanded them to speak. But now in the New Testament era it’s the office of pastor. When Jesus says “prophets,” He’s speaking about those…
Trinity 7 – 2026
HE (CHRIST) IS MY LORD Sermon Text, Romans 6:19-23 (NIV84). I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you…
Trinity 6 – 2026
BAPTISM GIVES POWER TO FORSAKE SIN AND LIVE TO GOD The Sermon Text, Romans 6:3-11 (v. 3-4, 10-11). Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. … For the death that He…
Trinity 5 – 2026
ONENESS Two hundred fifty years ago was the birth of our nation. It was July 2, 1776, that the Resolution for Independence was approved by the colonies in a unanimous vote, and July 4, 1776 – 250 years ago yesterday – that the Declaration of Independence was approved in another unanimous vote. The unity expressed in the voting for independence was a miracle. Delaware only voted in favor because Caesar Rodney rode 70 miles through the night in a thunderstorm…