Sermons

SERMON: MARCH 3, 2019 Luke 9:28-36 (37-43) Today, we find ourselves just a few days before the season of Lent begins. In fact, this coming Wednesday is Ash Wednesday when we impose ashes on our foreheads to remind ourselves that we are sinners, and that our only hope is to receive salvation through Jesus Christ,…

SERMON: FEBRURARY 24, 2019 LUKE 6:27-38 Today’s scripture lesson continues with Jesus’ instructions of how we should live our lives as His disciples. Just like last Sunday’s Gospel lesson, Jesus’ words continue to turn our world and lives upside down! I think that many of your will agree with me that Jesus’ words this week…

SERMON: FEBRUARY 17, 2019 LUKE 6:17-26 Our Gospel lesson for this morning marks the beginning of a series of teachings referred to as the “Sermon on the Plain.” It is a shorter version of the much more familiar collection of Jesus’ teachings in Matthew’s Gospel labeled the Sermon on the Mount, a set of teachings…

SERMON: FEBRURARY 10, 2019 LUKE 5:1-11 I bet many of you have been fishing! Let me see a show of hands! Of course, I have been fishing also. I grew up with five brothers and we would often walk out to what we called the Red Bridge as you started up Kennedy’s Valley during the…

SERMON: LUKE 4:21-30 FEBURARY 3, 2019 Here we are again, smack dab in the synagogue in Nazareth, and Jesus has just read the shortest sermon in history. “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” Jesus would have been surrounded by family, the disciples, and His neighbors.  In a small village like Nazareth, and…

SERMON: JANUARY 27, 2019 LUKE 4:14-21 Welcome to the third Sunday in Epiphany.  Today, our Gospel reading comes from the book of Luke.  In fact, today’s reading tells us of the first public act of Jesus.  However, in reality it is not an act, but a sermon, and in a nutshell gives us Jesus’ life,…