Are you getting the most out of your family? Are you putting as much as you can into your family? You are free both to be blessed by and to be a blessing to your faith family.

It’s not only OK to fight; it’s absolutely necessary to fight in order to guard against losing the greatest gift we’ve been given. The best part? We fight not to win our freedom, but because we already have it.

Faith is more than mere knowledge. To think otherwise is to miss out on how richly our lives can be blessed through it. When Faith Learns, it puts that knowledge into practice, freeing us to live in Faith over Fear.

Not knowing what our temporal future holds can leave us living in fear. But it doesn’t have to be that way, because we know what our eternal future holds. That allows us to live in Faith over Fear, because faith anticipates our future in heaven.

The key to deeper friendships isn’t getting better at loving our friends, but rather loving the One who gave them to us. To know and be loved by him - and to love him best in return - enables us to love others rightly. When this happens, deep, rich, meaningful friendships with others will follow.

September 2, 2018 sermon (Pentecost 15) at The Way Ev. LC (WELS)