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Wednesday of Reminiscere 2018

2/28/2018

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In tonight’s Gospel Jesus takes His disciples aside to let them know what is going to happen to Him.  This is the third time He has told them, and it is also the most detailed of the Passion predictions.  For the first time Jesus mentions that He will be handed over to the Gentiles and crucified.  How exactly the disciples responded we do not know.  But we know from the previous two times, they were shocked and saddened, but also perplexed.  How could this happen to the long-awaited Messiah?  How could their own leaders do this to their Savior?  They did not yet understand that Jesus would enter into His glory through rejection, suffering, and death.

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Reminiscere (Lent II) 2018

2/25/2018

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Be relentless!  Do not lean on your own reason, your own experience, your own view of the situation!  That is what Our Lord teaches us today by way of the Canaanite woman.  He is not polite, the way we count politeness.  He doesn’t give her what she wants so she is quiet and leaves everyone alone, like the disciples want Him to.  Instead, He does what He knows is right for her, right for the disciples, right for us.  Jesus teaches them and us to be relentless in prayer, always approaching the throne of grace with confidence.  Jesus teaches them and us to rely solely on His Word and the promises it records. 

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Wednesday of Invocabit 2018

2/21/2018

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We can all relate to Elijah.  We know what it’s like to have had enough.  Enough of the tensions that exist in this life.  You know everything that’s bothering you right now, everything that’s weighing you down—anxiety over the next chapter in life, wondering how to manage everyone’s hectic schedule, how this month’s bills will be paid, when the doctor will finally call with the test results.  And the list goes on.  All of these stresses weigh on you.  You wonder just how much more you can bear.

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Invocabit 2018

2/18/2018

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Today the Church reminds us that we are at war against our ancient enemy, the devil.  There is no complacency.  This spiritual warfare is serious.  It’s been going on for thousands of years, since the very first days after Creation.  But there is no dodging the draft.  Everyone who is Baptized has been enlisted and is fighting.  If the devil fought against our first parents, if he fought against Our Lord, what makes you think he’ll leave you alone?  And if you think he is leaving you alone, then he’s already winning.

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Ash Wednesday 2018

2/14/2018

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Ash Wednesday presents the great Christian paradox.  We are dead, yet alive.  The key ceremony of this day, which gives it its name, smacks us in the face, or the forehead if you will, with our own mortality.  “Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.”  In the back of our minds, we all know this is our destiny.  One day we will draw our last breath.  One day this body will go the way of all flesh, the way God never intended for it to go.  But because of our first parents’ sin and because of the sins we have added to it, death must come.  But herein is the paradox.  Even though we walk through this valley of the shadow of death, we fear no evil because God is with us.  He has sent His Son to bear our sin and be our Savior.  We are Baptized into Him.  So while we march towards death, we know that, as we will sing at Easter, death is but the gate of life immortal.  Ash Wednesday calls us to repentance for our sin, for our willing disobedience.  But it also reminds us that confession has two parts.  First that we confess our sin, but secondly that we receive absolution for all of our sin.  We are dead, but in Christ, we live.

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Quinquagesima 2018

2/11/2018

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Love…bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”  As we stand now on the threshold of Lent, as we prepare to follow Our Lord from the cross to the grave and back to the Upper Room to comfort His terrified disciples, this is the theme.  St. Paul’s great “Love Chapter” isn’t about weddings.  It’s not even about the love we have for others.  It’s about the love Jesus Christ has for you.  For you He bears all things, even your sin.  He believes all things, even that He drinks the Father’s cup of wrath to fulfill His will that all men might be redeemed.  He hopes all things, even that all might repent, believe, and receive His full forgiveness.  He endures all things, even the cross, to save you.  So today He reminds His disciples that what He is about to endure He bears willingly.  He goes to the cross in obedience to His Father and in love for His creation, the greatest love the world has ever known.

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Sexagesima 2017

2/4/2018

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When god created the world, everything was “very good.”  In that perfection, man was able to hear the Word of God rightly.  Adam and Eve’s hearts were, by nature, good soil.  The Word could take root and yield a hundredfold harvest.  There was only faith toward God and fervent love toward one another.  Unfortunately, the sower in today’s Parable isn’t the only sower.  The devil also sows.  He sows the seeds of doubt and unbelief.  He sowed those seeds in Adam and Eve and there was an immediate harvest of death.  Man fell into sin and lost the image of his Creator and the perfect relationship between God and His creation was destroyed.  Because of sin, man’s heart now has rocks, thorns, trampling feet, and demonic, devouring birds, all ready to destroy the seed of faith and its fruits.  Each seed bears fruit according to its kind, and we are now in the image and likeness of Adam, marred by sin, and we, too, are inheritors and breeders of sin and death.  No one is exempt from this death-causing sin.

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    Why does the Pastor preach?  Scripture explains that the role of preaching the Word of God is how saving faith is created: “How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed?  And how are they to believe in Him of whom they have never heard?  And how are they to hear without someone preaching?  And how are they to preach unless they are sent?  As it is written, ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!’ … So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the Word of Christ” (Romans 10:14-17).  The Augsburg Confession, seeing this connection between the Preaching Office and saving faith, summarizes Scripture on the Office of the Holy Ministry in this way: “To obtain [saving, justifying] faith, God instituted the Office of Preaching, giving the Gospel and the Sacraments.  Through these, as through means, He gives the Holy Spirit who produces faith, where and when He wills, in those who hear the Gospel.  It teaches that we have a gracious God, not through our merit but through Christ’s merit, when we so believe” (AC V 1-3).  The whole reason the Pastor preaches is so saving faith can be created, so we know that “we have a gracious God” who loves us and has saved us from our sin by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
     
    Preaching at Epiphany is centered in this Gospel of Jesus Christ.  Every sermon approaches the Scripture Readings for the day by explaining what they mean by way of confessional Lutheran hermeneutics and applying them to our lives as Christians in the Church and in the world. 
     
    The Sunday Readings used at Epiphany are from the Church’s historic lectionary, or calendar of readings, that has been in place for nearly 1,000 years.  We use this lectionary because we are an historic Church and we acknowledge the value of what has been handed down to us.  We use this as a way of obeying the Fourth Commandment, honoring our fathers in the faith and trusting their wisdom that assembled this annual cycle of readings.  It also helps with the training of adults and children alike as we come back to the same Readings year after year and learn from them.  We strive for a deep knowledge of key passages of Scripture rather than a limited knowledge of a breadth of Readings.  Though a system like this is neither commanded nor forbidden in Holy Scripture, we voluntarily use it to shape our time together, to ensure that we learn from the whole counsel of God, not just the Pastor’s favorite verses. 
     
    May these sermons be beneficial to you for growth in knowledge of the Word of God and a stronger faith in Jesus Christ, your Savior!  They provided for devotional use and for those who might like to reference them.

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For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.
Ephesians 2:8-9

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