This week, we begin a new year in the church cycle with the first Sunday of Advent. Sermon texts for this week are Isaiah 64:1-9 and Mark 13:24-37. Here’s my sermon for December 3, 2017. Do you ever wonder where
Advent 1: Tear Open the Heavens
Sermon: Sheep and Goats and Sin and Faith and Jesus
This week, Christ the King Sunday, we finish up Matthew 25 with the parable of the sheep and the goats in Matthew 25:31-46. I found this 2011 post from David Lose at Working Preacher helpful. Here’s my sermon from November
2017 Thanksgiving Sermon: Count Your Blessings
Sermon for Thanksgiving Eve 2017. The texts are the healing of the lepers in Luke 17:11-19 and Deuteronomy 8:7-18. How many of you are familiar with the phrase, “count your blessings”? There’s a classic hymn from 1897 called “Count Your Blessings”
Sermon: Stewarding a Dollar – November 19, 2017
This week’s sermon uses an illustration of handing out a dollar that I got from this 2010 post by David Lose over a year ago, but during the week when I intended to use it, the town flooded, and I
Justly Waiting – November 12, 2017 Sermon
Sermon from November 12, 2017, on Matthew 25:1-13, Amos 5:18-24, and Psalm 70. What is the longest you’ve ever waited in line for something? Anyone ever camped out overnight for something, maybe concert tickets, or a new phone, or a