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Sermons from January 2025

Epiphany 3 – January 26, 2025

Service Folder Missions, Light of the World A Jewish leper and Gentile centurion, who has a paralyzed servant – both come to Jesus, trusting the authority he has as God in the flesh to help. After granting both their requests Jesus remarks, “Many shall come from east and west and sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.”…

Epiphany 2 – January 19, 2025

Service Folder Marriage and Family Jesus manifests his divine glory at a wedding in Cana. He does by providing a substantial gift to the bridal couple – water changed to a large quantity of wine. Jesus’ provision for the bridal couple is a reflection of how Jesus, the Bridegroom, lovingly provides salvation for his Bride, the Church, and how he pours out…

Epiphany 1 – January 12, 2025

Service Folder Mary and Joseph take the twelve year old Jesus to Jerusalem’s temple for Passover. (Luke 2:41–52). Our young Lord, true man, subject to Mary and Joseph, reveals Himself also to be true God, whose father is not Joseph but the Almighty Father in heaven. Jesus does this at the time of the Passover – for He came to be the…

Epiphany Eve – January 5, 2025

 Service Folder While Christmas has focused on the Incarnation of our Lord — that is, on God becoming flesh — the season of Epiphany emphasizes the manifestation or self-revelation of God in that same flesh of Christ. For the Lord Himself has entered our darkness and rises upon us with the brightness of His true light (Is. 60:1–2). He does so…