Worship Podcast– March 29, 2020
The Fifth Sunday in Lent Service of the Word M: We worship today in the Name of our Triune God: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. C: Amen. Confession of Sins M: We have come into the presence of God, who created us to love and serve Him as His dear children. But we have disobeyed Him and deserve only His wrath and punishment. Therefore, let us confess our sins to Him and…
The Fourth Sunday in Lent Podcast
The Fourth Sunday in Lent Service of the Word M: We worship today in the Name of our Triune God: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. C: Amen. Confession of Sins M: We have come into the presence of God, who created us to love and serve Him as His dear children. But we have disobeyed Him and deserve only His wrath and punishment. Therefore, let us confess our sins to…
The Son of God Is– The Warrior Rejected by Many Followers!
Midweek Lent #2 John 6:66-68 The Son of God Is— The Warrior Rejected by Many Followers! Dear fellow Lenten worshipers, It doesn’t happen very often, but I know people who have friends that go all the way back to when they were in grade school, friends that they still hang out with right down to this very day. For example, both of my younger brothers attended my home congregation’s Lutheran elementary school as well as our area Lutheran…
The Amazing Season of Lent– God’s Amazing Actions!
The Third Sunday in Lent March 15, 2020 Isaiah 42:14-21 The Amazing Season of Lent: God’s Amazing Actions! “For a long time I have kept silent, I have been quiet and held myself back. But now, like a woman in childbirth, I cry out, I gasp and pant. I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation; I will turn rivers into islands and dry up the pools. I will lead the blind by…
The Amazing Season of Lent– God’s Amazing Blessings!
The Second Sunday in Lent March 8, 2020 Genesis 12:1-8 The Amazing Season of Lent— God’s Amazing Blessings! The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I…
The Amazing Season of Lent: God’s Amazing Grace!
The First Sunday in Lent March 1, 2020 Genesis 2:7-9, 15-17; 3:1-7 The Amazing Season of Lent: God’s Amazing Grace! The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. And the LORD God made all kinds of trees…
Eyewitnesses of His Majesty!
Transfiguration Sunday February 23, 2020 2 Peter 1:16-21 Eyewitnesses of His Majesty! We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory saying, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” We ourselves heard this voice…
Choose Life!
The Sixth Sunday after Epiphany February 16, 2020 Deuteronomy 30:15-20 Choose Life! See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess. But if your heart turns away and you…
The Word Works!
The Fifth Sunday after Epiphany February 9, 2020 I Corinthians 2:1-5 The Word Works! When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words,…
Now That’s a Reason to Boast!
The Fourth Sunday after Epiphany February 2, 2020 I Corinthians 1:26-31 Now That’s a Reason to Boast! Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world…