Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church

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Ascension Certainties  Saint Luke 24:44-53 8 May 2016 – Redeemer The Lord’s timing couldn’t be better. Today, we observe the Ascension of our Lord. 40 days after Easter (which would have been this past Thursday), Jesus was parted from his…

Easter 5 C New Revelation 21:1-7 24 April 2016 – Redeemer At the end of last week’s sermon I left you with a picture of how weird the holy Christian church appears on earth. The picture was this – imagine…

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…