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By Heart Proverbs 4:10-23 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Normally today would have been the first day of Catechesis. Catechesis is a specific and organized instruction in God’s Word. Often the youth of a certain age are catechized – instructed – in the Christian faith, by the pastor. To be fair, Pastoral catechesis is only be supplemental instruction in the Word of God Word. Catechetical instruction is supposed to

Go And Do Likewise Luke 10:23-37 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Do people today ask, or even think about the topic brought up by the question asked by the lawyer in today's text? Do many people think about eternal life? I am not sure! So many in our world do not even consider the question of what comes after this life – if anything. Many Christians do think along those lines, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit etern

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Isaiah the prophet looked forward to the coming of God’s Messiah. He is the one who recorded the great chapter that gives such a wonderfully vivid image to us of the suffering servant: the One who bears our griefs and carries our sorrows; who was stricken for us; smitten and afflicted for us. It is Isaiah who prophesies of the virgin conceiving and giving birth. It is Isaiah who records the prop

Family of faith at Timber Rattlers game. Rain delay making us wait..

What Is the Gospel? 1 Corinthians 15:1-10 & Luke 18:9-14 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. What is the Gospel? Some might think that’s a silly question, but it really is not. Why is not it a silly question? Because there are so many false ideas of what the Gospel is. Some say that the Gospel is preached when we’re told that Jesus’ died for sins. If they stopped there, that would be great, but they add things which

For The Common Good 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. In Paul’s day, there was a problem in Corinth. They were arguing about which was the better gift, the more important gift of the Holy Spirit. OK, more precisely, they were arguing about which person was better and more important, based upon which “gift” they had. Of course, their argument was not really about the gifts, nor was it about the Giv

Follow Your Heart? False Teachers? At Your Peril! Jeremiah 23:16-29 & Matthew 7:15-23 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. God gives warning to His children throughout Scripture. Today, both our Old Testament lesson from Jeremiah – and Christ Himself speaking in our Gospel lesson give us warning. First we heard this: Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with

Our Escape In Temptation 1 Corinthians 10:6-13 Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Today’s sermon could speak to a multitude of things, all of them sins; desiring evil, idolatry, eating and drinking and playing (without thankfulness to God), sexual immorality, testing God, and grumbling against God. Our text tells us that these were examples, written down for our instruction. They are a warning to us so that we migh