Sermons from 2024 (Page 2)

The Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost October 20, 2024 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 How’s Your Followership? Followers of Christ Make Selfless Sacrifices!   19Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. 20To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under…

The Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost October 13, 2024 Ephesians 5:21-6:4 How’s Your Followership? Followers of Christ Maintain Proper Priorities!   17As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. “Good teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 18“Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone. 19You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not…

The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost October 6, 2024 Ephesians 5:21-6:4 How’s Your Followership? Followers of Christ Know How to Love Their Families!   21Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in…

St. Michael and All Angels September 29, 2024 Revelation 12:7-12 How’s Your Followership? Followers of Christ Have Powerful Allies!   7And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. 9The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his…

The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost September 22, 2024 Mark 9:30-37 How’s Your Followership? Followers of Christ are Humble Servants! They left that place and passed through Galilee. Jesus did not want anyone to know where they were, 31because he was teaching his disciples. He said to them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after three days he will rise.” 32But they did not understand what he meant and were…

The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost September 15, 2024 Ephesians 6:10-18 How’s Your Followership? Followers of Christ are Armed for the Battle!   10Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in…

The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost September 8, 2024 Mark 7:31-37 How’s Your Followership? Followers of Christ See the True Purpose of His Power!   31Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis. 32There some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged him to place his hand on the man. 33After he took him aside, away from…

The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost September 1, 2024 Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 How’s Your Followership? Followers of Christ Obey His Law from the Heart!   1The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus 2and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were “unclean,” that is, unwashed. 3(The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the…

The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost August 25, 2024 John 6:51-69 The Bread of Life — The Only Food We Really Need!   51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” 52Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 53Jesus said to them,…

The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost August 18, 2024 John 6:35-51 The Bread of Life — The Bread that Gives Wisdom and Life!   35Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. 36But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. 37All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I…