What follows are the sermons Pastor Timm writes for the sheepfold at Redeemer. It has been said that “preachers are thieves” – meaning a preacher steals his good stuff from those who went before him. If you read something…
Lent 1 A Sermon 2017
Lent 1 A Does Baptism Make You Safe? Matthew 4:1-11 5 March 2017 – Redeemer Does your baptism make you safe? Well, how does it go for Jesus? Right after He is baptized he was led by the Spirit into…
Transfiguration A Sermon 2017
Transfiguration A Listen to Jesus Matthew 17:1-9 26 February 2017 – Redeemer Listen. But I want to say something. Listen. But I’ve got an idea. Listen. But I don’t like what you’re saying. Listening is hard. Just ask Peter. Peter…
Epiphany 7 A Sermon 2017
Epiphany 7 A But I Say to You Matthew 5:38-48 19 February 2017 – Redeemer What is the Gospel? What is the good news that you should expect to hear and hopefully do hear week in and week out at…
Epiphany 6 A Sermon
Epiphany 6 A Hard Words, Kept Words St. Matthew 5:21-37 12 February 2017 – Redeemer Sometimes you wish Jesus would keep quiet. Or at least if Jesus couldn’t keep quiet – the Sunday readings would skip over these words recorded…
Epiphany 5 A “Life Sunday” Sermon
Epiphany 5 A Here We Stand for Life Matthew 5:13-20 February 5, 2017 – Life Sunday, Redeemer On April 18, 1521, in the city of Worms, Germany, Martin Luther stood before Emporer Charles V. In essence Luther was on trial.…
Epiphany 4 A Sermon
Epiphany 4 A Blessed! Really! St. Matthew 5:1-12 29 January 2017 – Redeemer During Epiphany what you cannot see with your eyes is revealed to your ears. A baby is born in Bethlehem. Big deal, until some Magi show up…
Epiphany 3 A Sermon
Epiphany 3 A Zebulun and Naphtali Matthew 4:12-25 22 January 2017 – Redeemer I tried to Google Map Zebulun. Nothing. Naphtali. The same. Google said, “We couldn’t find Naphtali.” But it was there in the day of Jesus and in…
Epiphany 2 A Sermon 2017
Epiphany 2 A Behold St. John 1:29-42a 15 January 2017 – Redeemer Behold. When one of the Gospel writers writes the little word, “Behold. it is time to pay attention. They want you to see something you’ve never seen before.…
Baptism of our Lord 2017
Continue Sinning? By no means! The Baptism of our Lord Romans 6:1-11 8 January 2017 I have some really good news for you this morning. A day is coming when you will no longer need to listen to sermons, when…