(This is my August 2015 Newsletter article to my congregation.) I’m a recovering antinomian. Please pray for me, because antinomianism is a contagious disease. It can spread through preaching and teaching and, like all false teaching, can lead to death.…
9 August 2015 Sermon
Too Much for You, but Not Too Much for Jesus Proper 14 B 1 Kings 19:1-8 9 August 2015 – Redeemer Sometimes you wonder why the Holy Spirit inspired the prophets and apostles to record certain events in the Bible…
26 July 2015 Sermon
Proper 12 B The Rainbow – Not What You Think Genesis 9:8-17 26 July 2015 – Redeemer One of my favorite movie quotes of all time is from the movie Princess Bride in which Inigo Montoya says, “You keep using…
2 August 2015 Sermon
Proper 13 B “Undeserved Manna” Exodus 16:2-15 2 August 2016 – Redeemer It is hard to find an illustration comparable to the children of Israel grumbling in the wilderness. You’ve witnessed your own children throwing a tantrum over a bag…
Wedding Sermon
Sermon for the Holy Marriage of Matthew Vernon Moss and Katie Anne Timm Zion Lutheran Church Bensenville, Illinois 17 July 2015 anno Domini And I heard something like a voice of an immense crowd and like the sound of many…
Sermon: Dead Preacher – Good Ending
Proper 10 B Dead Preacher – Good Ending St. Mark 6:14-29 12 July 2015 – Redeemer So how does the text end? The preacher is dead. Herod has kept his word and his cabinet members won’t see him as a…
Sermon July 5, 2015
He Speaks to the Offended and Rebellious Proper 9 B St. Mark 6:1-13 5 July 2015 – Redeemer How many times do you warn a wayward child? How many times do you ask a spouse to stop it (whatever sin…
A Pastoral Letter to Redeemer
June 28, 2015 Dear Friends in Christ, We surely live in a world that is fallen in sin and decaying by the moment. On June 26, the Supreme Court of the United States expressly ignored God’s will and Word, God’s…
28 June 2015 Sermon
Where Do You Go When There’s Nowhere Else to Go? Proper 8 B 28 June 2015 Redeemer / St. Mark 5:21-43 Where do you go when there’s no where else to go? That’s the synagogue ruler who prays for his daughter to…
June 21, 2015 Sermon
God there for you. God here for you. St. Mark 4:35-41 21 June 2015 – Redeemer Proper 7 B That boat had at least four professional fisherman in it – James, John, Andrew and Simon. Four men who had fished…