On Easter Sunday, we celebrated Christ’s resurrection victory from the dead. We rejoiced in the certain hope we have in the living Savior, but is your hope still certain weeks later? Is your hope still confident that not only Jesus lives, but that you will live too? Yet as the Easter season comes to a close, we see Jesus visibly returning to heaven. Will our hope disappear with him too? Praise God that as Christ ascends into heaven, we can still have the same certain hope that we had on Easter morning! This is a hope without doubt, a hope that waits for the return of the living Christ and remains confident in the King of Kings, who rules all things for us!

The Bible reading for this message is Acts 1:1-11.

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This message is Part 6 in our Easter worship  series: By Faith.

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Remember your Savior Jesus loves you! May he bless you with his grace!

Why do we do what we do? The Christian life is a life of self-sacrificing love, a love that looks very different from the “love” found in our world today. Why? The love of a Christian reflects and flows from the love of the living Christ, who is not just our Savior, Redeemer, Lord, King, Shepherd, etc. No, he is also our friend in the truest, purest form of the word. Christ’s love moved him to give up his life for us. With the same self-sacrificing love, therefore, we love one another.

The Bible reading for this message is John 15:9-17.

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This message is Part 5 in our Easter worship  series: By Faith.

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Remember your Savior Jesus loves you! May he bless you with his grace!

There are few images that more clearly display the intimate connection Christ has with his people than that of a grapevine and its branches. Through faith in our risen Savior, we are intimately connected to Christ. Through him, life flows to us. Yet apart from him, we wilt as life ebbs from us. Only if we remain in Christ through faith and he in us through his Word can we possibly bear good fruit in our daily lives. The fruit of a Christian, therefore, is a life of thanks for God’s love given us in Jesus, the true, living Vine!

The Bible reading for this message is John 15:1-8.

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This message is Part 4 in our Easter worship  series: By Faith.

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This message was preached for the wedding of Destiny Miller and Joshua Hilgen at King of Kings Lutheran Church in Maitland, FL

The Bible reading for this message is 1 John 4:19.

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Remember your Savior Jesus loves you! May he bless you with his grace!

“I am the Good Shepherd.” The image of Jesus as the Good Shepherd is one of the most familiar and most comforting in all of Scripture, an image beloved by Christians for centuries. Why is that image so comforting? How is Jesus our “Good Shepherd”? Today, we see why. Jesus demonstrates why he is both capable and committed as our shepherd. He is no hired hand, only taking care of us because he has to do so or because he will get something out of it. Instead, Jesus lays down his life and takes it up again for our sake as his flock. He is the faithful shepherd whose voice we follow and whose voice we urge others to follow.

The Bible reading for this message is John 10:11-18.

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This message is Part 3 in our Easter worship  series: By Faith.

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Remember your Savior Jesus loves you! May he bless you with his grace!

While this Gospel account sounds similar to last week's, the focus is different. Luke emphasizes the physical reality of Christ's resurrection, which Jesus demonstrates with word and action. Since the disciples were witnesses of this, the good news of the living Savior went out, bringing the reality of what they had seen and heard down to us today. The physical resurrection gives us hope that someday we will physically rise. We are witnesses of this reality and what this means for our lives. We joyfully proclaim it and boldly live it.

The Bible reading for this message is Luke 24:36-49.

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This message is Part 2 in our Easter worship  series: By Faith.

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“Unless I see…I will never believe!” We hear these words of Thomas and shake our heads at his doubt and denial. “How could he be so foolish?” Yet is it not true that such words, or at least thoughts, come from us as well? So often we are tempted to trust only what we see and deny what Christ calls us to believe. Yet our risen Lord calls us to walk by faith and not by sight—to trust him and his Word as we follow Jesus. Why? He has kept every promise and conquered our greatest enemy-death. By faith, we see our Lord and God!

The Bible reading for this message is John 20:19-31.

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This message is Part 1 in our Easter worship  series: By Faith.

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Remember your Savior Jesus loves you! May he bless you with his grace!

Uncertainty is the worst. It causes stress. It leaves our minds spinning and burdened. Yet uncertainty gets even worse when nothing around us seems certain. Have you felt that way at all since last spring? We all have experienced it in some way, shape, or form in the past year or more. In such uncertain times, we need hope. We need answers—solutions to what we are experiencing whether that is with the pandemic, our job situation, our family situation, our health, even our nation. So where can we find hope? How about looking inside Christ’s empty tomb? A tomb probably is not the first place you would look for hope, but you will find it in the emptiness of Christ’s tomb. Why? Jesus lives! Because he is risen, we have certainty. We have hope even in the most uncertain of times. So rejoice! Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia!

The Bible reading for this message is 1 Corinthians 15:19-20.

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Remember your Savior Jesus loves you! May he bless you with his grace!

On Palm Sunday, the writer to the Hebrews encouraged us to “keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, who is the author of our faith and the one who brings it to its goal.”  During the holy days between Holy Thursday and Easter Sunday, we have a clear opportunity to do just that—to fix our eyes on Jesus as he makes his way from an upper room to the halls of justice to a cross and finally from an empty tomb—all for us. In spite of the shame, Jesus endures all that to win our salvation that we may not grow weary and lose heart.

The Bible reading for this message is John 10:1-18.

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This message is Part 3 in our Triduum worship  series: See Your Savior!

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Remember your Savior Jesus loves you! May he bless you with his grace!

On Palm Sunday, the writer to the Hebrews encouraged us to “keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, who is the author of our faith and the one who brings it to its goal.”  During the holy days between Holy Thursday and Easter Sunday, we have a clear opportunity to do just that—to fix our eyes on Jesus as he makes his way from an upper room to the halls of justice to a cross and finally from an empty tomb—all for us. In spite of the shame, Jesus endures all that to win our salvation that we may not grow weary and lose heart.

The Bible reading for this message is John 1:29.

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This message is Part 2 in our Triduum worship  series: See Your Savior!

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