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…
Christmas Day Sermon 2016
To God Alone be the Glory The Nativity of our Lord 2016 St. John 1:1-14 Did you buy some of your own Christmas gifts? Did you give your husband or grandma or mom a very specific list? Did you go…
Christmas Eve Sermon 2016
All I Want for Christmas is a Sermon Luke 2:11 The Eve of the Nativity of our Lord 2016 At the risk of taking your mind far from church and birth of Jesus what do you want for Christmas? Now…
Midweek Advent #1 2016
Sola Gratia Midweek Advent 1 2016 There was one word that caused the Lutheran reformers more trouble than any other word – a little Latin word – “sola” it means alone or only. The word came into English as “solo”…