As you heard last week during the sermon, this Sunday is the teaching sermon service for this year. As you have heard many times before, this means that today’s sermon will be divided into four different parts that each that focuses and teaches a different division of the divine service. The first division of the service is “The Preparation.”…For more, click on the title above.
Author: kyriss
Loving your neighbor
Got water? The Lord causes to deliver the brokenhearted
Today’s Psalm selection follows this congregation’s five evenings of emphasizing God’s work through Holy Baptism. Daily lessons taught the reality that God Himself has chosen to work His wonders through plain water and His Word. …For more, click on the title below.
Being sons of encouragement
God’s Word moves you to fear, love and trust in Him
Today marks the beginning of the long green season of the Church Year, that which has long been called, “ordinary time.” he season’s shades will change as we, in the Word, travel through the Sundays of Trinity. Colorshifts will help mark the different emphases long given to the ancient divisions of the Trinity season. Each of our greens will provide visual reminders for us of the growth and new life that God continues to give us in Christ. As we receive Him, we learn to conduct our lives in Him, according to His Word….For more, click on the title above.
Might of the Voice of the Lord
Today our congregation observes the liturgical holiday of Holy Trinity Sunday. As such, our nave is adorned in white paraments. These paraments bring to mind the wonderful and pure white garments of Christ at the Transfiguration or Holy Baptism where we are clothed in Christ. …For more, click on the title above.
The gift of God’s steadfast love
The Psalm appointed for this Pentecost begins anew the revelation that God the Holy Spirit continues to reveal the gift of God’s steadfast love to the faithful through our hearing God’s Word. That may be remembered each year as we celebrate the fifth of the Great High Feasts of the Ancient Church. The Holy Spirit, working through God’s proclaimed and heard Word, brings forth from it all the meanings of His Name. This He does as the Word continues to be planted deep in people, like you, who hear it and believe it. …For more, click on the title above.
Do not be surprised at the trials
Let’s face it, it seems a little strange for us in our country today to think about persecution, doesn’t it. It is something that happens overseas, but we say it can’t happen here. We live in a land that prides itself on religious liberty. America is different. We in this country are not burned at the stake or thrown to lions for being Christian, so that makes it tougher to wrap our minds around today’s epistle text….For more, click on the title above.
Cast me not away
I ask you to join with me in prayer….Really, actually Please, I want you to join me as we pray together the words of the antiphon. (You can find that on inside of your bulletin.) These words also serve as the theme of our worship service:
O Lord God heavenly Father – (together) Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Amen. …For more, click on the title above.
Ascension
About 40 days ago, we observed and celebrated the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead. Over the course of these 40 days, the readings and sermons have focused on the Resurrection and the gift of salvation.
Today, our focus shifts to the Ascension and what comes next, both for the Disciples turned Apostles and for the church as a whole, both at that time and today….For more, click on the title above.