... you are a corpse. Romans 4. Sermon for Second Sunday in Lent. 

It's called "The Temptation of Jesus". But maybe we should call it "The Testing of Jesus". Here is Pastor Alms' sermon for the first Sunday in Lent. 

In Matthew chapter five, Jesus comments on the Old Testament law: murder, adultery, divorce. What he says might surprise you. 

Somethings don't matter. Worship does. It ought to change us. We are salted and enlightened. Now we are salty and we shine. Isaiah 58: 3-9 and Matthew 5: 13-16. 

Simeon teaches us how to wait, how to trust in the promises of God. Wait like Simeon. 

A great light shines in Capernaum. Why? Jesus moves there. Where Christ is, there is light. Sermon on Matthew 4:12-25.

John points at the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. That's a real Christ for real sinners. 

God is happy with you. That is what he says to His son, Jesus, and to you in your baptism. 

Caesar Augustus seemed the most powerful most important person of all the world. But he wasn't. There was a small unknown baby born in the middle of nowhere. He turned out to be the most important of all. 

What God wants at Christmas is for us to have joy: real and lasting joy.

A Sermon for Christmas Eve service at 5 p.m.