My Lord and My God Podcast—St. Thomas Evangelical Lutheran Church (UAC), Magnolia, Texas

Explore the meaning of Rogate Sunday and the power of prayer in Jesus’ name. This sermon, preached at St. Thomas Evangelical Lutheran Church (UAC) in Magnolia, Texas, explains why some prayers seem unanswered, what it means to pray as a Christian, and how God’s will works for our salvation. Be encouraged in persistence, trust, and the assurance that God hears and answers every prayer for your good. Serving The Woodlands, Magnolia, Conroe, and Montgomery County.

Join us every Sunday at 14711 FM 1488 in Magnolia, Texas.

Divine Service at 9 AM & Family Catechesis at 10:30 AM.

Visit www.stthomastx.church for more information.

A confessional Lutheran sermon on John 16 exploring the Holy Spirit as a divine person who convicts the world concerning sin, righteousness, and judgment. Hear the comfort of Christ’s victory over sin, death, and the devil through His cross, resurrection, and intercession.

Join us at St. Thomas Evangelical Lutheran Church every Sunday for Divine Service at 9 AM and Family Catechesis at 10:30 AM.

Worship Location: 14711 FM 1488, Magnolia, Texas 77354

Serving Magnolia, The Woodlands, Montgomery County, and surrounding Texas communities with faithful biblical preaching.

Visit www.sttthomastx.church for more information.

In this sermon from St. Thomas Evangelical Lutheran Church in Magnolia, Texas, serving listeners across The Woodlands, Texas; Montgomery County, Texas; Tomball, Texas; and Conroe, Texas, the sermon explores Jesus’ words in John 20 and the biblical doctrine of the Office of the Keys.

Learn how Christ gave His Church the authority to forgive sins, call sinners to repentance, and faithfully administer His Sacraments. This sermon also addresses confession, absolution, communion practice, and the comfort believers receive through Christ’s death and resurrection.

Listen for faithful Christian preaching rooted in Scripture and centered on Christ crucified for sinners.

If you’re searching for a Christian church near Magnolia, The Woodlands, Montgomery, Tomball, or Conroe, visit St. Thomas Evangelical Lutheran Church.

For more information, visit www.stthomastx.church.

What difference does it make that Jesus rose from the dead?

In this Easter sermon based on 1 Corinthians 15, we confront the stark reality: if Christ has not been raised, then everything—faith, preaching, church, and life itself—is meaningless. But if He is risen, then everything changes.

Through a striking illustration from Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man Is Hard to Find, this sermon exposes the logic of unbelief and contrasts it with the certainty of Christ’s resurrection. Jesus is not a myth or a moral teacher—He is the crucified and risen Lord who will judge the living and the dead.

Because Christ is risen, there is no reason to fear death, loss, or judgment. His resurrection reorders every priority in your life. Hearing Him, receiving Him in His Word and Sacraments, and abiding in Him are not optional—they are everything.

Hallelujah. Christ is risen.

St. Thomas Evangelical Lutheran Church (UAC)
Magnolia, Texas — Serving Magnolia, The Woodlands, and Montgomery County

Join us for Divine Service: Sundays at 9:00 AM
Learn more: www.stthomastx.church

What does the burial of Jesus teach us about our own death?

In this Good Friday sermon, we confront the fear, horror, and mystery of death—and the deeper reality revealed in Christ. The world sees death as tragedy, but Jesus enters death willingly, bearing sin and the wrath of God, and is laid in the tomb to sanctify the graves of His people.

By His death and burial, Christ has taken away the eternal sting of death, opened the gates of heaven, and secured peace with God through His blood. Though death may still bring pain and uncertainty, it is no longer the end. For those in Christ, death becomes a temporary rest, joined to His own, awaiting the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting.

In Him, your death is no longer defeat—it is the passage into life.

St. Thomas Evangelical Lutheran Church (UAC)
Magnolia, Texas — Serving Magnolia, The Woodlands, and Montgomery County

🔔 Visit us: www.stthomastx.church
📅 Join us for Divine Service Sundays at 9:00 AM

Klein Funeral Home
Magnolia-The Woodlands
14711 FM 1488
Magnolia, Texas 77354

What does it mean that Jesus washes the disciples’ feet—and gives them His Body and Blood—on the night He is betrayed?

In this Maundy Thursday sermon, we see the deepest condescension of Christ. Knowing that He would soon suffer, be forsaken, and die under the Father’s wrath, Jesus does not withdraw. He stoops. He serves. He feeds His people with His own Body and Blood for the forgiveness of sins.

This is not simply an example of humility—it is the Gospel. The eternal Son of God comes not to be served, but to serve and to give His life as a ransom for many.

📍 St. Thomas Evangelical Lutheran Church (UAC)
Magnolia, Texas — Serving Magnolia, The Woodlands, and Montgomery County

🔔 Visit us: www.stthomastx.church
📅 Join us for Divine Service Sundays at 9:00 AM

Klein Funeral Home
Magnolia-The Woodlands
14711 FM 1488
Magnolia, Texas 77354

Christians are not promised comfort in this life—they are promised the cross. Yet in Christ, the cross is not the end. In this sermon, we hear that all who are joined to Jesus in Holy Baptism are united not only to His death, but also to His life. What happened to Christ in His physical body—His suffering, rejection, death, and resurrection—will and must also happen to His mystical body, the Church.

To follow Christ is to take up the cross. This means real, concrete suffering: loss, sacrifice, missed opportunities, strained relationships, and the daily struggle against sin, the world, and the devil. Those who confess Christ, prioritize His Word and Sacraments, and live according to His truth will not escape hardship. Scripture makes this clear: all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

But this suffering is not without purpose or end. Christ has already endured the full weight of sin and death. He has been crucified, and He is risen. He reigns even now at the right hand of the Father. And because you belong to Him—because you have been baptized into His death—you will also share in His resurrection, His glory, and His eternal kingdom.

The Christian life, then, is not aimless suffering, but a participation in Christ Himself. As you bear the cross, you do so with Him, and He with you. And just as surely as He was raised from the dead, so you will be raised. The promise is certain. The victory is already won.

Take up your cross, whatever that cross may be, knowing this: if you suffer with Christ, you will be glorified with Him. He who has washed you in His blood will raise you up. He will give you life everlasting. He will do it.

📍 St. Thomas Evangelical Lutheran Church (UAC)
Serving Magnolia, The Woodlands, and all of Montgomery County, Texas
⛪ Divine Service: Sundays at 9:00 AM
📖 Family Catechesis: Sundays at 10:30 AM

Come and receive Christ in His Word and Sacrament.

www.stthomastx.church

In this sermon on John 8:47–58, Jesus declares, “Before Abraham was, I AM,” revealing Himself as the eternal God in the flesh. This text confronts us with a stark division: those who are of God hear His Word, and those who are not reject it. Though the descendants of Abraham had received the covenants, the Law, and the promises, many rejected the very Messiah to whom all of Scripture pointed.

This sermon traces the promises given to Abraham, fulfilled in Christ, and shows how the rejection of Jesus is ultimately the rejection of God Himself. Drawing on the Law, the Prophets, and the writings of the apostles, it exposes the danger of hardening the heart against God’s Word and warns against reshaping Scripture to fit our desires.

At the same time, this is a sermon filled with promise. Christ’s Word is not merely instruction—it is life. “If anyone keeps My word he shall never see death.” The same Word that exposes sin also proclaims forgiveness through the blood of Christ, who entered the true tabernacle not made with hands and obtained eternal redemption for His people.

Hear this sermon and be called to repentance, to faith, and to steadfast trust in every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Those who hear and keep His Word are truly of God and will never see eternal death.

St. Thomas Evangelical Lutheran Church (UAC) gathers each Sunday for the Divine Service at 9:00 AM at Klein Memorial Funeral Home on FM 1488, serving Magnolia, The Woodlands, and all of Montgomery County, Texas.

For more information, visit www.stthomastx.church.

What is the kingdom of God—and how does it come?

In this sermon, we examine Christ’s teaching in John 6 alongside Galatians and Romans to clarify a widespread modern confusion: the nature of Christ’s kingdom and its relationship to Israel, the Church, and earthly power.

Rather than being established through political movements, military conflict, or prophetic speculation, Christ’s kingdom comes through the Means of Grace—through the Word, Baptism, Absolution, and the Lord’s Supper. Here, Christ rules by giving faith, forgiving sins, and granting eternal life.

This sermon also addresses contemporary misunderstandings shaped by premillennial dispensationalism and calls Christians to reject both political reductionism and theological arrogance, holding instead to the clear teaching of Scripture: all who believe in Christ are the true Israel of God.

From St. Thomas Evangelical Lutheran Church in Magnolia, Texas—serving Magnolia, The Woodlands, and Montgomery County.

For more information, visit www.stthomastx.church.

This sermon on Luke 11:14–28 was preached at St. Thomas Evangelical Lutheran Church in Magnolia, Texas, serving the communities of Magnolia, The Woodlands, and Montgomery County.

In this passage Jesus casts out a demon and is accused of doing so by the power of Beelzebub. His response exposes not only the blindness of His enemies but also the deeper corruption of the human heart and tongue.

This sermon examines Christ’s warning against contempt for the neighbor, especially the kind that hides beneath diagnosis, analysis, and fashionable labels. Scripture teaches that the tongue is “an unruly evil, full of deadly poison” (James 3:8), and that even calling one’s brother “You fool” brings divine judgment (Matthew 5:22). What often passes for discernment or honesty may in fact be hatred, slander, and pride.

But the sermon does not stop with the Law. Jesus is the Stronger Man who has come to bind Satan, plunder his house, and rescue sinners from the kingdom of darkness (Luke 11:21–22; Colossians 1:13–14). By His suffering, death, and resurrection, Christ forgives sinners and transfers them into His kingdom of light.

This sermon calls hearers in Magnolia, The Woodlands, and across Montgomery County, Texas to repentance, faith in Christ, and a renewed use of the tongue—words that forgive, reconcile, and build up those made in the image of God.

For more information about St. Thomas, check out www.stthomastx.church!