Sermons

Luke 2:1-20 (no sermon note) In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. All went to their own towns to be registered. Joseph also went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was descended from the house and family of David. He went to be registered with Mary, to whom he was engaged and who was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. And [...]

This week our kids put on their Christmas pageant. Be sure to check it out on our Facebook page. Pastor Sean

Isaiah 42:1-9 (sermon note: 12-11 sermon note) Here is my servant, whom I uphold,    my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon him;    he will bring forth justice to the nations. He will not cry or lift up his voice,    or make it heard in the street; a bruised reed he will not break,    and a dimly burning wick he will not quench;    he will faithfully bring forth justice. He will not grow faint or be crushed    until he has established justice in the earth;    and the coastlands wait for his teaching. Thus says God, the Lord,    who created the heavens and [...]

Esther 4:1-17 (sermon note: 12-04 sermon note) When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went through the city, wailing with a loud and bitter cry; he went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one might enter the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth. In every province, wherever the king’s command and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and most of them lay in sackcloth and ashes. When Esther’s maids and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed; she [...]

Habakkuk 1:1-7; 2:1-4; 3:3b-6, 17-19 (sermon note: The oracle that the prophet Habakkuk saw. O Lord, how long shall I cry for help,    and you will not listen? Or cry to you ‘Violence!’    and you will not save? Why do you make me see wrongdoing    and look at trouble? Destruction and violence are before me;    strife and contention arise. So the law becomes slack    and justice never prevails. The wicked surround the righteous—    therefore judgment comes forth perverted. Look at the nations, and see!    Be astonished! Be astounded! For a work is being done in your days    that you would not believe if you were told. For [...]

Isaiah 36:1-3, 13-20; 37:1-7; 2:1-4 (sermon note: In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, King Sennacherib of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. The king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem, with a great army. He stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Fuller’s Field. And there came out to him Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the recorder. Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of [...]

This week I switched pulpits with Intern Sarah from Zion Lutheran here in Superior. Here's the message I gave at Zion. Luke 21:5-19 When some were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and gifts dedicated to God, he said, ‘As for these things that you see, the days will come when not one stone will be left upon another; all will be thrown down.’ They asked him, ‘Teacher, when will this be, and what will be the sign that this is about to take place?’ And he said, ‘Beware that you are not led astray; for many will come in my name [...]

2 Kings 5:1-15 (sermon note: 11-06 Sermon note) Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man and in high favour with his master, because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man, though a mighty warrior, suffered from leprosy. Now the Arameans on one of their raids had taken a young girl captive from the land of Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife. She said to her mistress, ‘If only my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.’ So Naaman went in and told his lord just what the [...]

1 Kings 3:4-28 (sermon note: 10-30 sermon note) The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the principal high place; Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt-offerings on that altar. At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, ‘Ask what I should give you.’ And Solomon said, ‘You have shown great and steadfast love to your servant my father David, because he walked before you in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart towards you; and you have kept for him this great and steadfast love, and have given him a son to sit on his [...]

2 Samuel 11:1-5, 26-27; 12:1-9; Psalm 51:1-9 (sermon note: 10-23 sermon note) In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab with his officers and all Israel with him; they ravaged the Ammonites, and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. It happened, late one afternoon, when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; the woman was very beautiful. David sent someone to inquire about the woman. It was reported, ‘This is Bathsheba daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the [...]

Joshua 24:1-26 (sermon note: 10-16 sermon note) Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel; and they presented themselves before God. And Joshua said to all the people, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Long ago your ancestors—Terah and his sons Abraham and Nahor—lived beyond the Euphrates and served other gods. Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac; and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau [...]

Exodus 14:5-7, 10-14, 21-29 (sermon note: 10-02 sermon note) When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the minds of Pharaoh and his officials were changed towards the people, and they said, ‘What have we done, letting Israel leave our service?’ So he had his chariot made ready, and took his army with him; he took six hundred picked chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them. As Pharaoh drew near, the Israelites looked back, and there were the Egyptians advancing on them. In great fear the Israelites cried out to the Lord. They said to Moses, [...]