Sermons

LUKE 4:1-13 Is there is anyone here this morning who has never faced temptation, please raise your hands.   Just what I thought, there are no hands up!  If we are honest with ourselves, hardly a hour goes by that we are not tempted in some way.  Let’s face it, temptation is just plain seductive and…

MATTHEW 6:1-6, 16-21 My question for you this Lenten evening is, “How is it with your soul?”  As you walk up the aisle this evening and receive the sign of the cross on your forehead, and here the words, “Remember you are dust and to dust you will return,” I urge you to think about…

Luke 9:28-36 (37-43) Today, is also the Sunday that we traditionally focus on the “Transfiguration” of Jesus.  I have to admit that “Transfiguration” is a strange churchy word, a word that most of us have never used in a conversation with someone.  Most of us are familiar with the word, transformation, and transfiguration is similar…

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 are perhaps some of…

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 that have long been…

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 summer, and we spent…