Category: Sermons

Today, again, in the prayer given to collect our minds and hearts into the truths of the day, we asked God to continue to send His Holy Spirit to us. He, the Third Person of the Holy Trinity, is the Divine One Who not only works life and faith in the hearers of God’s Word. He is the one Who, through faithful people hearing God’s Word rightly divided into Law and Gospel, ever works to move them, you, into lives which spring from the Faith and are engaged in good works. …For more, click on the title above.

This is another auspicious day in the life in this part of the Body of Christ called Catalina Lutheran Church. Here, at the 9 a.m. Service, we again rejoice in receiving an additional gift from God. This is given to us accompanied by the beautiful treasures that continue to flow forth for us to receive and return to from His Holy Word: Holy Absolution, Holy Baptism, and the Sacrament of the Altar. What special spiritual gift, one that this congregation has only received five other times in her 42-year history on this hill, do we continue to rejoice in receiving today? …For more, click on the title above.

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The theme for this day follows upon this past week’s teaching concerning how God continues to meet His people on this hill. A goodly number of us have heard again from readings that also resound throughout the Church Year, of all that God has done, is doing, and will do for His faithful people. From hearing of God’s chosen people eating and drinking in His Presence in the Old Testament into having the Promise of the blessedness of the coming New Heavens and Earth, we learned that, as God’s children, we who have died and risen to new life in Christ are heirs of God, and most certainly, co-heirs with Christ….For more, click on the title above.