Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church

Easter 4 C Revelation – It’s Jesus Revelation 7:9-17 17 April 2016 – Redeemer Do you know the very first words of the book of Revelation? With the book’s reputation you might think it begins, “Don’t read this book of…

Easter 3 C The Revelation of the Lamb Revelation 5:1-14 10 April 2016 – Redeemer Saint John the Evangelist is weeping. He has been swept into a Divine Revelation by the Holy Spirit on the Lord’s day and now what…

Easter 2 C Seen and Unseen Fears St. John 20:19-31 3 April 2016 – Redeemer They had both doors locked. That’s how afraid they were. That’s what Saint John tells us. The doors being locked. That’s plural doors – inner…

The First Commandment The Resurrection of our Lord 27 March 2016 – Redeemer Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles, but…

Lent 5 C Judgment Sunday Luke 20:9-20 13 March 2016 – Redeemer The Sundays all used to have names – Latin names. We’ve lost the names and now all we have is numbers – the 5th Sunday in Lent was…

Lent 4 C Lost and Found Son(s)? Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 6 March 2016 – Redeemer Two sons and they are both lost – one is lost in a distant land and the other is lost right at home. Which one…

Lent 3 C A Fair God and Good People St. Luke 13:1-9 28 February 2016 – Redeemer Sermon idea from Pr. Harold Senkbeil Where in the World is God? Jesus said, ‘Unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.” Lk…

Good and Dead Preachers Lent 2 C Jeremiah 26:8-15 and Luke 13:31-35 21 February 2016 – Redeemer It’s not a very good day for preachers in today’s readings. Jeremiah finished preaching and instead of an “amen” his congregation said, “You…

Lent 1 C Jesus 3 Satan 0 St. Luke 4:1-13 14 February 2016 – Redeemer The Devil was undefeated. He was winning a billion to none. There wasn’t a man, woman, or child on earth that he had not beaten…

Transfiguration C A Tour of God’s Mountains Saint Luke 9:28-36 7 February 2016 – Redeemer How many Bible stories could you name that involve mountains? Well there’s Mount Moriah where Abraham was asked to sacrifice Isaac. There’s Mount Sinai where…