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  • Preparing For The Light Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Dec 4, 2011
    based on 101 ratings
     | 34,735 views

    This year, Christmas will fall on Sunday. This year people will be faced with a decision of whether Sunday worship will be a matter of "convenience" or "cost." What can we learn form the ministry of John the Baptist that will help us to make the right dec

    Several years back a life-style management consultant surveyed about 1000 people about how they prepared for Christmas. What he found was this: · The average person spent up to an hour and 10 minutes a day during the last week of December bickering over holiday related plans such as what parties ...read more

  • Hard Questions Answered

    Contributed by Mark Aarssen on Jun 20, 2018
     | 5,068 views

    In John Chapter 3 Jesus points us to the Prophetic Record that maps out Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. In this golden chapter of the Bible Jesus lays out the path of salvation for Nicodemus and for the rest of us.

    It Was No Secret Numbers 21:4-9 John 3:10-21 Luke 18:31:33 This week marks the fourth week in Lent as we travel with Jesus toward His passion and glory. At this time Jesus is preparing the Disciples for what lies ahead, namely His arrest, torture and crucifixion. After three years of ministry ...read more

  • Farewell-Reformation Style

    Contributed by Christopher Martin on Oct 7, 2021
     | 4,129 views

    This is a sermon for Reformation Sunday, 2020. This was also my Farewell Sermon, as I had accepted a call to another parish and this was my last Sunday at St. John's Lutheran Church-Vilmar of rural Greene, Iowa.

    The first farewell sermon I remember hearing from a Pastor was Easter Sunday, 1996. Dr. James Lamb was preaching his last sermon as Senior Pastor of my home church, St. Paul Lutheran Church, Garner< Iowa, as he had accepted a call to become Executive Director for Lutherans for Life. I will ...read more

  • Strength For The Week

    Contributed by Jeffrey Sims on Jun 21, 2025
     | 406 views

    When we’re tired, God offers not just comfort but renewal—a power exchange when we place our hope in Him. I used this for Sunday Night but it would go well on Sunday morning.

    Isaiah 40:28–31 (NIV) 28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. 29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. 30 Even youths grow ...read more

  • Welcoming The King

    Contributed by Lyndon Marcotte on Jun 16, 2011
     | 5,972 views

    Palm Sunday text that teaches that we must expect to encounter the risen Christ this day and even find Him in the most unlikely of places and faces.

    “Welcoming the King” – Matthew 21:1-11 There is a lot of buzz surrounding the upcoming Royal Wedding. I realized that there are many people only a few years younger than myself who have no memory of the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. We Americans have always had an ...read more

  • Friends Forever

    Contributed by Mary Erickson on Nov 4, 2020
     | 2,787 views

    On All Saints Sunday we remember and celebrate how we have been knit together into the mystical body of our Lord Jesus Christ

    November 1, 2020 All Saints’ Day Hope Lutheran Church Rev. Mary Erickson Revelation 7:9-17; Matthew 5:1-12 Friends Forever Friends, may grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and Christ Jesus our Lord. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. All Saints’ ...read more

  • The Beginning

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Sep 15, 2013
    based on 9 ratings
     | 7,201 views

    The preexistence of God and the plurality of His Persons. The order of Creation, and the presence of God's wisdom.

    THE BEGINNING. Genesis 1:1-31, Genesis 2:1-4a. "In the beginning God" implies that God existed before the beginning of time. No mere thing existed before the beginning, but only God. There is no duality, no struggle between equal forces of good and evil: just God. Yet we see God in ...read more

  • The  Danger  Of  An  Empty  House  (Christ The King Sunday 2022)

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Nov 18, 2022
     | 2,196 views

    Consider what provoked Jesus to teach this parable.  Jesus had healed a man who was unable to speak. His opponents in the crowd accused Jesus of working for the devil (Luke 11:15) whose works Jesus came to destroy (I John 3:8).

    Luke 11:21 "When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are safe. 22 But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted and divides up his plunder. 23 "Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does ...read more

  • Fourth Sunday Of Easter: "they Recognize His Voice"

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Mar 28, 2023
     | 944 views

    The Lord is my pace-setter, I shall not rush.

    Burt Kettinger tells about a small church in Rocky River, Ohio, just west of Cleveland where he grew up. This church had a small restroom behind the pulpit that had a door right behind the pulpit for the convenience of the pastor. There was also a door on the other side of the same restroom that ...read more

  • The Fish And The Loaves

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Aug 24, 2002
    based on 58 ratings
     | 30,549 views

    A sermon for the 11th Sunday after Pentecost Proper 13 Jesus and the loaves and fish

    11th Sunday after Pentecost Proper 13 Matthew 14: 13-21 "The Fish and the Loaves" 13* ¶ Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a lonely place apart. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns. 14* As he went ashore he saw a great throng; and he ...read more

  • Remember Who You Are

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Aug 24, 2002
    based on 45 ratings
     | 10,367 views

    A sermon for the third sunday after Easter A sermon about Jesus’ encounter on the Road to Emmaus

    Third Sunday of Easter Luke 24:13- 35 "Remember who you are" Many years ago my family and I attended an Institute for Renewal at Luther College, one of the morning speakers was Dr. William Willimon who is a pastor and a professor at a southern seminary. During his talks, which were always good, ...read more

  • Faith Will Find A Way

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Feb 24, 2003
    based on 21 ratings
     | 9,110 views

    A sermon for the 7th Sunday after the Epiphany The Leper being lowered through the roof

    7th Sunday after the Epiphany Mark 2:1-12 "Faith Will find A Way" 2:1 ¶ And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. 2 And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room for them, not even about the door; and he was preaching the word to ...read more

  • I Can Sleep When The Wind Blows

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Nov 4, 2002
    based on 119 ratings
     | 8,768 views

    A Sermon for the 25th Sunday after Pentecost Proper 27 The Parable of the 10 Maidens

    25th Sunday after Pentecost Proper 27 Matthew 25:1-13 "I can sleep when the wind blows."     1 ¶ "Then the kingdom of heaven shall be compared to ten maidens who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. 3 For when the foolish took their ...read more

  • Hope Risk

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Nov 11, 2002
    based on 20 ratings
     | 5,673 views

    A sermon for the 26th Sunday after Pentecost Proper 28 A sermon about talents

    26th Sunday after Pentecost Proper 28 Matthew 25:14-30 "Hope, Risk"   14 ¶ "For it will be as when a man going on a journey called his servants and entrusted to them his property; 15 to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16 ...read more

  • "God Is Ever-Watchful.”

    Contributed by Dr. Jerry Morrissey on Sep 6, 2001
    based on 160 ratings
     | 11,092 views

    FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST SEPTEMBER 16, 2001 LUKE 15:1-10

    FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST SEPTEMBER 16, 2001 LUKE 15:1-10 Thank you Heavenly Father for being ever-watchful even when we are not and for seeking us out when we are lost and pointing us in the right direction when we lose something valuable. Amen. Title: “God is ...read more