2023-09-24 – The Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity – Sermon
The Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity – Sunday 24 September A✠D 2023 ✠ Psalmody: Psalm 86:3, 5;86:1, 7, 12–13;102:15-16;114:1-2 ✠ Lection: 1 Kings 17:17-24;Ephesians 3:13–21;St. Luke 7:11-16 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. He has created each person with his and her own unique stations in life, capable to be fulfilled at times only by, and at other times definitely better by, each of the individual two sexes. The grunt work, the physical labor, the headshipRead More →
2023-09-17 – The Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity – Sermon
The Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity – Sunday 17 September A✠D 2023 ✠ Psalmody: Psalm 86:1a, 2b, 3;86:4, 6, 15a, 16;118:8-9;57:7 ✠ Lection: 1 Kings 17:8–16;Galatians 5:25—6:10;Matt. 6:24–34 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other.” The Lord Jesus makes it explicitly clear what two masters we sinners commonly try to have and serve simultaneously: God and mammon, that is, money. What does it mean to serve mammon? NoneRead More →
2023-09-10 – The Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity – Sermon
The Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity – Sunday 10 September A✠D 2023 ✠ Psalmody: Psalm 84:9-10a;84:1-2a, 4, 10-11b;92:1-2;65:1 ✠ Lection: Proverbs 4:10-23;Galatians 5:16-24;St. Luke 17:11-19 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. None of us enjoys mundane or lackluster worship, hymns, or sermons. Neither do or should any of us desire a hum-drum, boring God. Who among us is actually okay or content with the feeling of not being excited to go to church or content with valuing it so little to think that it doesn’t really matter whether we gather regularly or not? Who actually wants suchRead More →
2023-09-03 – The Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity – Sermon
The Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity – Sunday 27 August A✠D 2023 ✠ Psalmody: Psalm 74:20a, 21a, 22a, 23a;88:1 ✠ Lection: Leviticus 19:9-18;Galatians 3:16–22;St. Luke 10:23–37 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Consider Moses, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Elijah, and Elisha; big names, maybe lofty names in your minds, renowned prophets of old that received word from the LORD and faithfully delivered it to the people often causing the prophets honorable suffering of harm, ridicule, and persecution. Consider David, Solomon, Hezekiah, and Josiah: more great and lofty names; magnificent kings among the other wretches of the Old Testament,Read More →