How do you picture Jesus? A gentle shepherd? A glorious king? Did you know that Scripture also pictures Jesus as a warrior against sin and death? In this message on Hebrews 4:15, we see the Son of God go into battle for us—not on a battlefield with armies clashing, but into skirmishes with the devil. Throughout Christ’s life, Satan attacked him with temptation after temptation, yet Jesus fended off every attack with the Word of God. Our Warrior-Savior lived his entire life without sin. Because Jesus endured and fought off every temptation, we can be confident that not only does he empathize with us, but he has opened the way between us and God.

Our guest preacher was Pr. Steve Blumer of Risen Savior Lutheran Church in Orlando, FL.

This message is Part 3 in our midweek Lenten series - The Son of God Goes Forth to War. This message was adapted from a 2020 Lenten sermon series published by Northwestern Publishing House.

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

People in Jesus’s time wanted the Messiah to be very different than who Jesus was. Still today, we often desire that the central figure of our faith isn’t like Jesus. We want a conquering hero arriving with his armies of angels. Instead, we find a willing, suffering servant. The Bible makes it clear that the Jesus we get is far greater than we could have ever designed. He meets all our greatest needs from forgiveness to peace in times of trouble to eternal life with him in heaven.

In John 3, we see Jesus meet with a religious leader named Nicodemus—a man full of questions and doubts, a man who needed Jesus much like us—and Jesus demonstrates why in a world of doubt, we can trust him with our lives and our eternities.

Note: The following sermon was preached on March 8. Within a week of this sermon being preached, the COVID-19 outbreak became a significant crisis across North America. Please keep the context of the timing of this sermon in mind as you listen to it. We pray that it will still provide strength for your faith.

This message is Part 2 in our Sunday Lenten series - The Jesus We Need.

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A Lenten message on Matthew 4:1-11 preached at King of Kings Lutheran Church in Maitland, FL on March 1, 2020.

How do you picture Jesus? A gentle shepherd? A glorious king? Did you know that Scripture also pictures Jesus as a warrior against sin and death? During our midweek Lenten services, we focus on the courage, humility, and power of our Savior Jesus. On Ash Wednesday, we saw how from the very beginning God planned to send his promised Warrior--our Savior Jesus Christ--to win the battle for our souls.

This message is Part 1 in our midweek Lenten series - The Son of God Goes Forth to War. This message is adapted from a 2020 Lenten sermon series published by Northwestern Publishing House.

The text for this message can be found here.

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Why are we here? Why does King of Kings exist? Who are we and where are we going? Over the past seven weeks, we have seen why Jesus came—to reconnect us with God. We have seen that we are here to connect to God, his Word, his world, his people, and his work. So where do we go from here? We would love for everything to be all glory and success unending, but Jesus teaches us today that the path to true, eternal glory leads down the mountain to the cross. Where do we go from here? We go with Jesus.

This message is Part 7 in our Epiphany worship series - Why Are We Here?

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Christ came to reconnect us with God. Through him, we now make connections with an eternal impact. So why are we here? We are here to connect to God’s work. That means involving every member in the body of Christ mission and ministry of our congregation and our church body—the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS). That means involving every member of our congregation in service to others through the unique life callings that our God gives to us at home, church, and society. 

This message is Part 6 in our Epiphany worship series - Why Are We Here?

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Christ came to reconnect us with God. Through him, we now make connections with an eternal impact. So why are we here? We are here to connect to God’s people by providing opportunities to grow together and gather together in Christian fellowship.

This message is Part 5 in our Epiphany worship series - Why Are We Here?

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Christ came to reconnect us with God. Through him, we now make connections with an eternal impact. So why are we here? We are here to connect to God’s world by taking every opportunity to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with the lost, the hurting, the wandering, the wondering in our lives, our neighborhoods, our communities, and our world.

This message is Part 4 in our Epiphany worship series - Why Are We Here?

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

Christ came to reconnect us with God. Through him, we now make connections with an eternal impact. So why are we here? We are here to connect people to God’s Word. How do we do that? We provide opportunities for young and old to spend time at Jesus’s feet like believers of old. We provide opportunities through personal and group study of God’s Word. Then, in turn, God’s people will grow and mature in their trust in Christ.

This message is Part 3 in our Epiphany worship series - Why Are We Here?

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

Christ came to reconnect us with God. Through him, we now make connections with an eternal impact. So why are we here? We are here to connect people to God their Savior. How do we do that? Through the faithful use of the Gospel in Word and Sacraments. The place where we primarily do that is when we gather together in worship. Yet those means by which God gives us his undeserved love are more than connection makers. They also enable us to bring glory to God our Savior in all we do.

This message is Part 2 in our Epiphany worship series - Why Are We Here?

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