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Monthly Archives: March 2011
What it means to be free from the devil
Sermon for Lent 3 – Oculi Luke 11:14-28 + Exodus 8:16-24 + Ephesians 5:1-9 It’s serious business we have before us today. That’s always true, of course, when sinful people like you and I come into the presence of the … Continue reading
Behind a mask of rejection, faith finds a merciful Christ
Sermon for Second Sunday in Lent – Reminiscere Matthew 15:21-28 + Genesis 32:22-32 + 1 Thessalonians 4:1-7 A lot of people are put off by the Jesus who is presented to us in today’s Gospel – the one who appeared … Continue reading
Lenten meditations on the Small Catechism – The Ten Commandments, First Table
In true catechism form, let me begin this evening with a question: What do the Ten Commandments have to do with the season of Lent and with our preparation to remember the events of Holy Week? The answer? Everything. The … Continue reading
The Second Adam stood the test
Sermon for Lent 1 – Invocabit Matthew 4:1-11 + Genesis 3:1-21 + 2 Corinthians 6:1-10 Last week’s Gospel took us to the outskirts of Jerusalem, right on the doorstep of Palm Sunday. We were just about ready to plunge into … Continue reading
The Miracle of Faith
Sermon for Quinquagesima Luke 18:31-43 + 1 Samuel 16:1-13 + 1 Corinthians 13 We have two stories before us today in the Gospel for Quinquagesima. Blindness ties the two together. We see both spiritual and physical blindness, and the miraculous … Continue reading
Four kinds of soil, four kinds of disciples
Sermon for Sexagesima Luke 8:4-15 + Isaiah 55:10-13 + Hebrews 4:9-13 As the rain and snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish…so is my word that … Continue reading
