Service Folder📖🔍 Service Folder (print) Jeremiah 23:21-32 ▪ Romans 8:12-17 ▪ ✞ Matthew 7:15-23 There are two ways – one is a broad way that leads to destruction and the other is a narrow way that leads to life. Along the way are false prophets who, like ravenous wolves entice souls to leave the narrow way for the broad way. Though they…
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Sermons on Romans
Theme: Providence Service Folder📖🔍 I Kings 17:8-16 ▪ Romans 6:19-23 ▪ ✞ Mark 8:1-9 God kept his Word through the prophet Elijah to provide for a widow and her son when all seemed hopeless. (In Kings 17:8-16) That Word is fulfilled in the Word made flesh, Jesus, who had compassion on a crowd of 4000 and provided bread for them in the…
Service Folder Service Folder (print) Our Only Hope Is in Christ’s Righteousness “Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matt 5:20). God demands nothing less than perfection and holiness from you in regard to His commandments (Ex. 20:1–17). Your only hope, then, is not in your own goodness but in the…
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 (.docx) Service Folder (.pdf) Sunday is Trinity Sunday. It is the custom of the Church to confess the Athanasian Creed on this day. While we will sing a hymn version of Athanasian Creed, the sermon will quote the following from it: “Whoever will be saved shall, above all else, hold the catholic faith…. and the true Christian faith is this,…
Service Folder Tonight we continue with our Lenten Series For Us. We talked about angels at Lent Vespers 1. Tonight we talk about the darker side of angels: the fallen angels who rebelled against God with their leader, the devil. We will see how God delivered a man possessed by a demon and how he has delivered you and me from the…
Service Folder Jesus talks all about seeking us in this week’s lessons. He does not wait passively for us to come to Him; nor does He act out of selfish gain. Praying, visiting, preaching – In all these things, Jesus is for us. This work is often overlooked because it is so ordinary. He comes in ordinary-sounding words to do his extraordinary…