Biblical Text: Matthew 5:13-20 Full Sermon Draft The lectionary continues reading through the sermon on the mount. For me the best way to read it is as what it was to the early church, a catechism on the Christian life. … Continue reading →

Text: Matthew 5:1-12 Full Sermon Draft The Beatitudes (Blessed are the poor in spirit, etc.) are the poetic introduction to the Sermon on the Mount. In Epiphany, the liturgical season given to coming to know who Jesus is, that sermon … Continue reading →

Biblical Text: Matthew 4:12-25 (Psalm 27) Full Sermon Draft The text is Jesus calling Andrew and Peter and James and John. I probably owe a few former pastors an apology as I use them as a straw man. Those sermons … Continue reading →

Biblical Text: John 1:29-42 Full Sermon Text With the change of the church year and getting out of the festival season we will start to notice the new Gospel reading. Luke is left behind and Matthew and John have the … Continue reading →

Biblical Text: Matthew 3:13-17, Romans 6:1-11 Full Sermon Draft I think I mentioned that because Christmas was a Sunday there are a bunch of small feast days that end up on the calendar. Today was another, the Baptism of Jesus. … Continue reading →

Biblical Text: Luke 2:21 Full Sermon Draft Whenever Christmas is on a Sunday there are a bunch of minor holidays of the the life of Christ that are also observed because they fall on a Sunday. A couple of them … Continue reading →

Biblical Text: John 1:1-14 Key Hymn: A Great and Mighty Wonder, LSB 383 Full Sermon Text Maybe it is just getting older, but two things I experience daily that a younger man wouldn’t think could happen together. It could just … Continue reading →

The recording is our Children’s Christmas Pageant. There is a short homily by me at the start and then the kids you see in the photos take over and renew the story of the Son given to us. Their bother, … Continue reading →

Biblical Text: Matthew 1:18-25 Full Sermon Draft Luke’s nativity accounts are Mary focused. Matthew’s are really involved Joseph more, including the decision about what to do with a pregnant girl when you know the child isn’t yours. The Bible is … Continue reading →

Biblical Text: Matthew 3:1-12 Full Sermon Draft The season, Advent to be specific but you could say the extended Christmas season, begins for me when I hear “On Jordan’s Bank”. That was our opening hymn – LSB 344. The funny … Continue reading →