Service Folder We decorate in preparation for Christmas. Our decoration preparation includes the use of lights—from candles to string lights. These luminous decorations also help us prepare for the advent (or coming) of Jesus during Advent, a season of preparation. Tomorrow we will consider how lights point us to the coming of Christ and the glory He brings.
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Sermons on Isaiah
Service Folder Today is the Last Sunday in the Church Year. On this Sunday we look for Jesus to return and bring the Church, purchased with his blood and nurtured by Word and Sacrament, home. In the gospel for the day, Jesus is pictured as a Bridegroom and the Church as 10 Virgins waiting for him to bring us to the joyous…
Service Folder Today’s lessons turn us to the end times and Jesus’ return. The end times will be marked by tribulation and false prophets (Matthew 24:15-28). At the end, Jesus will return to raise the dead and “grant to all believers in him, eternal life. (I Thessalonians 4:13-18) As we live in these last times, God gives us gospel promises to keep…
Service Folder Saints Are Blessed in the Eternal Presence of Christ “A great multitude from all tribes and peoples and languages cry out ‘salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne.’” (Rev. 7:2-12). It is the chorus sung by the church in heaven, “standing before the throne of God and the Lamb.” Until then, we are a part of the…
Service Folder Jesus Invites Us to His Wedding Feast to Receive Abundant Righteousness. God sounds forth the Gospel call: “See, I have prepared my dinner … Come to the wedding feast” (Matt. 22:1–14). But many reject this invitation in favor of worldly pursuits. And so the call goes out to others, both the good and the bad. For the wedding invitation is…
Service Folder Theme: “The Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins” (Matt. 9:1–8) The Lord God was present in the flesh to absolve the paralytic. Jesus showed skeptics in the crowd that he had power to forgive sins. He did by healing the paralytic. The Lord still has power on earth to forgive sins. He does by giving authority…
Service Folder Here on earth, where we fight and suffer, here God comes to us; here he shares in our troubles – that is the message of this close connection into which Jesus comes with the deaf man in Sunday’s Gospel (Mark 7: 31 – 37). He heals through the might of his word; he breaks through the barrier which separated the…