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 hearing, confessing,...

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 business working...

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 actually begins on...