Repentance Part 2 - Sermon for Advent 2 Midweek Service - Apology of the Augsburg Confession Article XIIA Matthew 4:12-17 December 10th, 2025 Tonight we continue our march through the penitential season of Advent. Once again our focus will be on repentance. Advent, like Lent is a season of repentance. It’s a time to consider our sin more deeply and the necessity of repenting in order to receive Jesus. If there is no repentance there is no Jesus. True repentance involves heari

Sermon for the Second Sunday in Advent Luke 21:25-36 December 7th, 2025 In so many ways we have become desensitized to the signs and the warnings of the End in the world around us. We tell ourselves Jesus probably isn’t going to come back anytime soon, or at least not today. Maybe true. Maybe not. Maybe you will depart this life through death first and then awaken from your grave at the resurrection of the dead instead. Or maybe you will be one of those still going about your

Sermon for the First Sunday in Advent Matthew 21:1-9 November 30th, 2025 Today is the first Sunday in Advent and all around us is the feel and anticipation of Christmas. It would be easy to think that the season of Advent was all about Christmas as we prepare and anticipate December 25 th . But the season of Advent is not mostly about Christmas. If we actually lived according to the Church liturgical calendar we wouldn’t put our Christmas trees up until the Christmas season a

Sermon for Thanksgiving Eve November 26th, 2025 And so it begins. The great holiday push into the new year. Excitement, anticipation. A bit of anxiety and dread. Some sadness as you reminisce the good ole days and what used to be. Faces no longer at the table. But also unexpected surprises with new faces as the family grows. Exciting things on the horizon. The emotions are all over the place as you begin the holiday season. The buildup is greater and the expectations higher t

Sermon for the Last Sunday of the Church Year 2025 Matthew 25:1-13 November 23, 2025 “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps.” The End of the World is coming. It will come when we least expect it; like a thief in the night. When the world says peace

Sermon for Trinity 22 - Matthew 18:21-35 November 16th, 2025 “Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.” Forgiveness is a hard thing. We are not good at it. Someone sins against us and we automatically build walls of defense against that person. Forgiving someone involves strong emotions. Anger and pride. Shame an

Sermon for Trinity 21 - John 4:46-54 November 9th, 2025 “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.” The miracles of Jesus during His earthly ministry show visibly what His Words declare. He heals the sick. He brings the dead to life. Where there is unbelief He creates faith. Jesus is the Word of God made flesh. He is the Word that God spoke in the beginning to create all things. He is the Word that calls into existence the things that do not exist. What Jesus spe

Matthew 5:1-12 November 2nd, 2025 There is a bittersweetness to All Saints Day. The bitterness is death. Death always hurts no matter how many years have passed. It’s the bitterness of loss. Of wanting to go back in time to that one day, that one moment. To see that face; hear that voice, the laugh. The pain and tears never fully go away on this side of heaven. A part of us doesn’t want the hurt to go away. It’s because we still love them. It’s good and right to feel sadness

Luke 14:1-11 Remember the Sabbath Day By Keeping it Holy October 12th, 2025 Remember the Sabbath Day by keeping it holy. What does this mean? We should fear and love God so that we do not despise preaching and His Word, but hold it sacred and gladly hear and learn it. What is it with the Pharisees and Jesus and the Sabbath day? Seven times in the Gospels Jesus has healed someone on the Sabbath day and six of those are a direct challenge to the Pharisees teaching of the Sabbat

Luke 7:11-17 October 5th, 2025 Jesus hates death. You hate death. Death is never good. Death is not a blessing. Even when the person is...

Matthew 6:24-34 - Seek First the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness September 28th, 2025 There is a place where life isn’t broken. A...

1 Corinthians 1:18-15 September 14th, 2025 "For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved...

Luke 19:41-48 - Jesus Weeps Over Jerusalem August 24th, 2025 The end of summer is upon us. The swimming pools are empty. Vacations have...

Mark 8:1-9 - Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand August 3rd, 2025 “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three...

Romans 6:1-22 - You Are Baptized into Jesus July 27th, 2025 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were...