2025-09-28 – The Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity – Sermon
✠ Psalmody: Psalm 86:1a, 2b–3; 4; Psalm 92:1-2; Psalm 108:1; Psalm 40:1, 3a; John 6:56 ✠ Lection: 1 Kings 17:8–16; Galatians 5:25—6:10; Matthew 6:24–34 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. In the second petition of the Lord’s Prayer, we pray Thy kingdom come. The lust of the flesh desires to keep this truth at a distance; to keep the kingdom of God as some abstract truth confined to motions of habit constrained to Sunday morning, or else a far-off reality about which only the true religious nuts among us really take seriously. But to be ChristianRead More →
2025-09-21 – The Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity – Sermon
✠ Psalmody: Psalm 84:9–10ab; 1-2a; Psalm 118:8-9; Psalm 95:3a, 4b; Psalm 34:7–8a; John 6:51b ✠ Lection: Proverbs 4:10–23; Galatians 5:16–24; Luke 17:11–19 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. As Jesus went to Jerusalem He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. On the way to the place where all the Lord’s work would come to a glorious climax on the cross, on the way to the great city of God that would reject Yahweh in the flesh Himself, the Savior was passing along between two divided areas: Samaria, the land the true Jews saw asRead More →
2025-09-14 – The Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity – Sermon
✠ Psalmody: Psalm 74:20a, 19b, 22a, 23a; 1; Psalm 74:20a, 19b, 22a; 89:50; Psalm 95:1-2; Psalm 31:14–15a; Wisdom 16:20 ✠ Lection: Leviticus 19:9–18; Galatians 3:16–22; Luke 10:23–37 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Dear saints in the Lord, blessed are the eyes which see the things you see, if you truly see them. Consider what Jesus is saying to His disciples, both then and now. There are many sets of eyes among us this morning, all functioning, all doing their duty as we look upon one another, upon our bulletins and hymnals, upon the holy thingsRead More →