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  • Amid The Flood

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Oct 26, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,284 views

    Dramatic monologue as if Martin Luther were the preacher, telling his own story. Time period is the Wartburg stay; focus is on hope and trust in a changing world, "amid the flood" of change.

    [Backstage] Walled up here in this fortress, kept practically as a prisoner, prevented from teaching, prohibited from preaching, what good am I? What can I accomplish in such a place? I was not born for idleness, nor for solitude. I was born for action. I was destined by Him who holds in His ...read more

  • The All Sufficient Grace Of God

    Contributed by Clarence Eisberg on Oct 29, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 6,544 views

    Grace is the theme for this Reformation Sermon. Illustrations are from recent "cultural" views or comments like "who is that guy hanging on the cross" "good people go to heaven when they die."

    In Jesus Holy Name November 1, 2009 Text: Romans 3:21-24 Reformation “The All Sufficient Grace of God” Twenty years after the demonstrations that brought down the Berlin Wall many say that East Germany is spiritually near death. The Nazi and Soviet regimes that ruled East Germany tried ...read more

  • A New Birth Of Freedom

    Contributed by Christopher Raiford on Oct 28, 2004
    based on 24 ratings
     | 4,712 views

    A sermon that celebrates the Lutheran Reformation of the Church

    A New Birth of Freedom Reformation Sunday October 31, 2004 Jeremiah 31:31-34 "The time is coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand ...read more

  • You Are A Divine Masterpiece

    Contributed by Daniel Habben on Nov 4, 2012
     | 5,924 views

    You Are A Divine Masterpiece 1) Formed in love; 2) Reformed by grace

    What’s the most impressive sculpture you’ve seen? The city of St. Albert owns a number of expensive sculptures that are on display behind city hall. They’re nice but I am partial to the pottery of Japan. Three hours north of Tokyo is a pottery town called Mashiko which as a boy I ...read more

  • Church For The Churched

    Contributed by Steve Hereford on Aug 25, 2006
    based on 14 ratings
     | 17,478 views

    Who is the church for? Believers or unbelievers? Or to use more contemporary terms - churched or unchurched. Listen today as Pastor Steve addresses who is the church in the midst of the seeker-sensitive movement.

    Recently I was invited to attend a church planters conference in Lake Yale. At that conference I was exposed to various teaching and methods for reaching the unchurched. As I sat there and listened and took notes, I couldn’t help to think how we have somehow missed it when it comes to the purpose ...read more

  • I'm Clay But Hey That Is Ok

    Contributed by Joel Pankow on Nov 1, 2002
    based on 41 ratings
     | 7,842 views

    how God REFORMED the church of Jeremiahs and Luthers time and how we can be reformed as well

    November 2, 2002 Jeremiah 18:1-11 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his ...read more

  • The Church, A Place Of Beauty, Goodness, Truth Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 5, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,105 views

    We need to understand both meanings of church, and how the beauty found in a church can attract unbelievers to Christ.

    Monday of 14th Week in Course Sacrosanctum Concilium Jacob, following in the steps of his grandfather Abraham, was careful as he moved through the land of Canaan to identify special places of the divine presence. One of these is Bethel, which means “house of God.” There Jacob had a ...read more

  • Prayer And The Chronically Unhappy

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Apr 21, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,075 views

    For Reformation Sunday, October 1987: Job in the Old Testament and Luther in the Reformation Era were chronically unhappy people, but used that as a form of spiritual energy to drive them toward creative achievement and an honest personal faith.

    It looks as though some people are just born to be unhappy. There are some people who are going to approach nearly everything with a complaint or a gripe, who are going to make a personal issue out of everything. Nothing is quite good enough, nothing quite satisfies. There are folks whose ...read more

  • Rev. 22:10-21 People Have Been Warned To Be Ready

    Contributed by William D. Brown on Nov 8, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 11,342 views

    people around the world have died in their sins having been warned of dying without Jesus as their Lord and Savior, and some have adjusted their coarse of life somewhat by joined a church, and others have turned over a new leaf so to speak, but that’s not

    REV. 22:10-21 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WARNED TO BE READY 4-5-08 Most of us have seen documentaries on our TV’s about the great passenger ship “Titanic”, how the captain and crew was warned many times by other ships, that there was dangerous ice bergs floating around where the Hugh passenger ...read more

  • "reformation: Finding Peace With God"

    Contributed by Clarence Eisberg on Oct 25, 2019
     | 3,162 views

    The Reformation explosive, hard hitting, controversial, grace saturated, salvation clarifying Christ moment in history, based on Luther’s understanding of God’s grace as he lectured on Romans. The Reformation changed culture and our view or vocation.

    In Jesus Holy Name October 27, 2019 Text: Romans 3:21-24 Redeemer “Reformation: Finding Peace with God” What a great event last night. Good food. Great music. Fun fellowship. Great beer. I always tell my Calvinist friends I’m so glad I’m a Lutheran. Why? Because I don’t ...read more

  • The Potter Reforms The Clay Into His Kind Of Pot

    Contributed by Joel Pankow on Oct 29, 2021
     | 3,072 views

    Reformation starts with repentance. A reflection on Jeremiah's words in light of the Reformation on October 31st.

    10.31.21 Jeremiah 18:1–11 1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 2 “Get up, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will reveal my words to you.” 3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and he was making something on the wheel. 4 But the pot he was forming out of the ...read more

  • Stay The Course: The Remnant Church

    Contributed by Dennis Lee on Jan 2, 2021
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,704 views

    Today's message is about our need to stay the course and go back to the basic of our faith and be that remnant that God has called the church to be. It also takes a look at the 5 basic tenants of the Protestant Reformation, or the 5 Solas.

    Stay The Course The Remnant Church ** Watch: https://youtu.be/g3t-VJPgaiA The title of our message comes from a show I had watched called, “The Patriot,” staring Mel Gibson. And there was an underlying theme that continued to be brought out throughout the show, and that is to “Stay The Course.” ...read more

  • Presence Driven

    Contributed by Dr. Jonathan Vorce on Dec 12, 2018
     | 8,667 views

    There are four kinds of Churches today. Personality Driven, Program Driven, Purpose Driven and Presence Driven. What kind of Church are we?

    Exodus 33:14 INTRODUCTION: • Share personal stories about the manifested presence of God. • There are four kinds of churches today: 1. Personality Driven 2. Program Driven 3. Purpose Driven 4. Presence Driven • I have found that the most effective for me is to be “Presence Driven”. I’m not ...read more

  • Scripture Or Tradition

    Contributed by Michael Koplitz on Jun 1, 2021
     | 2,042 views

    When is it time to challenge church leadership as to whether or not they are following the Scripture? The last was 1517 and we called that the Reformation. It is time for another Reformation.

    Rev. Dr. Michael H. Koplitz Mark 7:1-13 For 2000 years, the church has been creating ordinances for the people of God to follow. Many of these ordinances are not based on biblical Scripture but on the theological beliefs developed over the centuries. For example, in the Catholic Church, a priest ...read more

  • The Canons Of Dort Series

    Contributed by Keith Foskey on Jun 22, 2014
     | 4,314 views

    What is the TULIP of Reformed Theology and where did it come from?

    Church History: Examining the Creeds and Confessions of the Church Through the Ages and Why They Matter. Lesson 11: The Canons of Dort QUESTION: How many of you have ever heard of the theological acronym TULIP? Typically the TULIP is known as the Doctrines of Grace. Sometimes it is referred to ...read more