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The Second Sunday in Advent December 10, 2017 Isaiah 40:1-11 Come, Lord Jesus…to Comfort Us     Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.  A voice of one calling:  “In the desert prepare the way for the LORD, make straight in the wilderness a highway…

Funeral Devotion Juanita Campbell December 3, 2017 Revelation 7:9-17   Dear brothers and sisters in Christ— especially you, Juanita’s family:   Since I had the pleasure of knowing Juanita for just a little over two years, I asked her family if there was anything they would want us to remember about her.  They gave me a list of what they call “Juanita-isms.”  Let me share a few of them with you today.    Best soup maker— ever Knowledgeable in so…

The First Sunday in Advent December 3, 2017 Isaiah 64:1-8 Come Lord Jesus… To Give Us Confidence!   Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!  As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you!  For when you did awesome things that we did not expect you came down, and the…

Christ the King Sunday November 26, 2017 Matthew 27:27-31 Hail to the King!   Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him.  They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head.  They put a staff in his right hand and knelt in front of him and mocked him.  “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said. …

Saints Triumphant November 19, 2017 Matthew 25:1-13 The Wisdom of the Saints   “At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.  Five of them were foolish and five were wise.  The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them.  The wise, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps.  The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they…

Last Judgment November 12, 2017 Matthew 25:31-46 1 + 2 + 2 = Your Eternity   “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory.  All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.  He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. …

Reformation Sunday November 5, 2017 John 8:31-32 The 500 Year Legacy of the Reformation: 100% Faithfulness to the Word!   To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”  (NIV1984)   Dear fellow heirs of the Lutheran Reformation,   What is a “legacy”?  Whenever I think of a “legacy” I usually think of either something that…

The Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost October 29, 2017 Isaiah 25:6-9 The LORD’s Holy Mountain!   On this mountain the LORD Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine—the best of meats and the finest of wines.  On this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations; he will swallow up death forever.  The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears from all faces; he…

The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost October 22, 2017 Isaiah 5:1-7 Live A Fruitful Life!     I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard:  My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside.  He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines.  He built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepress as well.  Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded…