Theme: Humility – Pharisee and Publican Service Folder📖🔍 ✞ Luke 18:9-14 ▪ ✞ Matthew 9:9-13 The lowly tax collector who prayed, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner!” was the one who went down to his house justified before God, not the respectable, outwardly righteous Pharisee who trusted in himself and his own good living (Luke 18:9–14). The one who penitently despairs…
503 665 7283 2010 NE Division St. Gresham, Oregon 97030
Evangelical Lutheran Church
“For by grace you have been saved through
faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God”— Ephesians 2:8, 9
Sermons on Luke
Theme: Renewed Obedience Service Folder📖🔍 Jeremiah 7:1-11 ▪ I Corinthians 12:1-11 ▪ ✞ Luke 19:41-18 In today’s Gospel (Luke 19: 41-18) Jesus weeps over Jerusalem and its Temple because of its coming destruction. Destruction would come, because the city refused to see that God visited them in the Person of Jesus. Jesus then cleansed the Temple of merchandising as a type of…
Theme: The Steward’s Shrewdness Sanctified Service Folder📖🔍 I Chronicles 29:10-13 ▪ I Corinthians 10:6-13 ▪ ✞ Luke 16:1-9 “The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness” (Luke 16:1–9). The steward’s shrewdness is praiseworthy for two reasons. First, he knew the master would be merciful. He trusted that the master would honor the debts he forgave in the master’s name. In the…
Service Folder (.pdf) Service Folder (.docx) Old Testament: Jeremiah 16:14-21 Epistle: I Peter 3:8-15 Gospel: Luke 5:1-11 On this 250th birthday of our nation, we remember that many followed our forefathers risking all to fight for temporal freedom. We follow Jesus for eternal freedom, purchased by the forgiveness of sins. In that freedom, Jesus called fishermen to be fishers of men (Luke…
Service Folder Old Testament: Genesis 50: 15-21 Epistle: Romans 8: 18-23 Gospel: Luke 6: 36 “Be merciful, even as your Father also is merciful” (Luke 6:36–42). The old Adam in us wants to condemn. To condemn is to put yourself in the place of God. Jesus is our Joseph, who comforts us with words of pardon and reconciliation (Gen. 50:15–21). He…
Service Folder Old Testament: Micah 7: 18-20 Epistle: I Peter 5: 6-11 Gospel: Luke 15: 1-10 (11-32) As we think about Father’s Day, a poet once penned, “Our Father by whom all fatherhood is named.” As great an honor as is to be named after our heavenly Father, there is no perfect human father. Those of us who are fathers all fall…
Service Folder (.pdf) Service Folder (.docx) The LORD God has prepared a feast of Salvation. (Isaiah 25:6-9) By means of the Gospel the Spirit invites all to believe it and to receive the LORD’s saving gifts in the Holy Supper. Many make excuses and reject this invitation, even as the Jews did in the days of Jesus, yet the Master’s house will…