Sermons on Lenten Season:

Are You Codependant Or A Coworker?

Contributed by Paul Andreasen on Mar 4, 2020

A look at what it means to be a coworker with Christ.

2 CORINTHIANS 6:1-13 I would like to ask you a question as we begin today. Answer this question. Who are you? When you think about your life, identify the top five adjectives, which would describe who you are. I will give a moment to brainstorm. The title of this sermon is, “Are you a ...read more

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 6:1-13

Denomination: Anglican

Validating Our Christian Identity

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 4, 2025

Lent is a time in which we engage our interior self with its brokenness, weakness and intentional wrongdoing. We are all sinners, but we are sinners endeavoring to become saints, by our faith and practice.

Friday after Ash Wednesday 2025 A priest of my acquaintance many years ago was in conversation with a Lutheran minister. He asked the minister if he believed that Martin Luther had made any big mistakes setting up a parallel Christian church. The minister candidly admitted that he thought Luther ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 58:1-9, Psalm 51:3-6, Matthew 9:14-15

Denomination: Catholic

Hosea--Is He A Loser And Chump? Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 24, 2025

He fell in love with a woman who found herself lovers, lots of them. She was frequently unfaithful. Despite her infidelity, Hosea took her back time after time.

Friday of the Third Week in Lent 2025 The prophet Hosea, if he lived in our modern culture, would be called a total loser, an inveterate chump. He was prophet to the northern kingdom of Israel and ministered during the reign of King Jeroboam II in the middle of the eighth century before Our Lord. ...read more

Scripture: Mark 12:28-34, Psalm 81:6-11, Psalm 81:14, Hosea 14:2-9

Denomination: Catholic

Return To The Jerusalem Temple Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 28, 2024

Jesus was found by His parents in His "Father's house" at age twelve. Twenty years later, why has He returned?

Third Sunday in Lent 2024 This week marks the middle-point of our Lenten pilgrimage! We have been with Jesus in the desert, as He was tempted, and we were with Him last week on the Mount of Transfiguration, as He prepared Himself and His most trusted disciples for the passion by having a Passover ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 20:1-17, Psalm 19:8-11, 1 Corinthians 1:22-25, John 2:13-25

Denomination: Catholic

Ho Kairos Mou - "My Appointed Time" Series

Contributed by Joel Pankow on Mar 1, 2006

This sermon examines the "appointed time" where Jesus knew that Judas would betray him at the "opportune time."

February 29, 2006 Matthew 26:14-25 Then one of the Twelve—the one called Judas Iscariot—went to the chief priests and asked, "What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?" So they counted out for him thirty silver coins. From then on Judas watched for an opportunity to hand him ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 26:14-25

Denomination: Lutheran

Funny Things Happen On The Way To The Promised Land Series

Contributed by Scott Carmer on Mar 14, 2005

There is more to gluttony than eating too much. It is a statement to God that you don’t trust God to take care of the future. You have to get all you can today because you aren’t sure of tomorrow.

Funny Things Happen on the Way to the Promised Land Exodus 16:1-5 March 13, 2005 It was the late Bronze Age, about 1,500 years or so before Jesus, and the people of Israel were coming to the end of 400 years of slavery in Egypt. Their ancestors had come to Egypt during a severe drought and ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 16:1-5

Denomination: Methodist

What Is Lent? (Temptation)

Contributed by Spencer Homan on Dec 11, 2007

A sermon that focuses on temptation while dealing with the questions of "What is Lent all about?"

Luke 4:1-13 And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit for forty days in the wilderness, tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days; and when they were ended, he was hungry. The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this ...read more

Scripture: Luke 4:1-13

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Cost – What Are You Carrying?

Contributed by Thomas Bowen on Apr 29, 2006

Who is in control of your life? Is it you to Jesus...can you pay the cost for your salvation?

Cost – what are you carrying? Mark 8:31-38 In the beginning of this chapter we see 4000 people fed with 7 loaves of bread and a few fish. Jesus told his disciples to feed the people and when they said, “yes, but how?” He provides a miracle. Now it should not have been a shock to the disciples, ...read more

Scripture: Mark 8:27-38

Denomination: Congregational

Enter The Dance Series

Contributed by Mary Erickson on Feb 27, 2020

Ash Wednesday sermon

February 26, 2020; Ash Wednesday Lenten Sermon Series 2020: Discipleship Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21 Rev. Mary Erickson Enter the Dance Nicholas Copernicus was a Polish astronomer in the 16th century. He was the first person to propose that the earth is NOT the center of the universe. We are, he said, a ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:1-21

Denomination: Lutheran

Witnessing To The Culture Of Death Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 7, 2020

We must work and pray, as St. Benedict told us to do. Work for the spread of the kingdom in our families and communities, and vote as a Christian must, for godly men and women who will resist the culture of death and legislate for life, peace, and goodness.

Tuesday of the 2nd Week in Lent 2020 For our first reading today, I have chosen to begin earlier in the first chapter of Isaiah than the Lectionary suggests, and to add the verses the Lectionary omits. The Lenten readings take a great deal of the very long prophecies of Isaiah, but they omit ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 1:10-20, Matthew 23:1-12

Denomination: Catholic

The Dialogue Of Ecumenism Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 12, 2016

Our prayer is that all Christians be One.

Thursday of Fifth Week in Lent 2016 Joy of the Gospel The providential juxtaposition of St. Patrick’s Day with the readings of this Lenten feria should lead us to make a comparison between the call of St. Patrick and the call of the Hebrew patriarchs. Patrick was called by God to return ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 17:3-9

Denomination: Catholic

Yes, A Church Leader Must Have A Sense Of Humor Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 23, 2019

We are told to have salt in us. Salt was used in the ancient world, and occasionally today, to preserve meat from corruption. So if we have spiritual salt, we will be preserved against that kind of corrupt thought and behavior.

Thursday of the 7th Week in Course 2019 St. Hilarius Today we have a rare treat because of the late date of Ash Wednesday and Easter. We get the rare festival of St. Hilarius, about whom I will speak in a moment. By now, most years, we are deep into Lent, and so the saints’ days are suppressed in ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 1:1-6, Mark 9:41-50

Denomination: Catholic

Easter Sermon On Peter

Contributed by Ava Ch on May 25, 2025

Resurrection hope meets us in our wandering and regret, assuring us that no failure is final when grace rolls the stone away.

Introduction Christ is risen! He is risen indeed. Friends, we gather on this Easter morning in the light of resurrection, but many of us carry shadows too. The shadows of the past year. The shadows of our regrets. And if we’re honest, some of us arrive like Peter—with hearts that have wandered, ...read more

Scripture: Luke 24:1-12

The Transformative Power Of Genuine Faith Series

Contributed by Dr John Singarayar Svd on Feb 17, 2024

The transformative power of genuine faith and contribute to the realization of a more just, harmonious, and interconnected world.

The Transformative Power of Genuine Faith Scripture: John 2:13-25 Introduction: The transformative power of genuine faith and contribute to the realization of a more just, harmonious, and interconnected world. Reflection In today's world, the concept of the Temple, symbolizing a place ...read more

Scripture: John 2:13-25

Denomination: Other

Looking Deeply, Letting Go Completely Series

Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on Mar 5, 2013

This is an exploration of sin and guilt and the freedom we can have in Christ.

I did some searching on the internet, and it appears that nobody wants to feel guilty. Not so much evidence of people not wanting to do bad things, but nobody wants to feel guilty. The term “guilt-free” is now a major marketing tool: I came across all sorts of ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 51:3-6

Denomination: Baptist