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…
“Come and You Will See!”
The Second Sunday after Epiphany January 19, 2020 John 1:29-41 “Come and You Will See!” The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! This is the one I meant when I said, ‘A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’ I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he…
A Time for Transition!
The Baptism of Our Lord January 12, 2020 Matthew 3:13-17 A Time for Transition! Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. But John tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” Jesus replied, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John consented. As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out…