Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! Amen. This is the first sermon in our Advent, in which we will come to understand what we are saying when we call Jesus the Messiah. The Hebrew word messiah and its Greek equivalent, christ, both mean “anointed one.” There […]
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! Amen. “Two others, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him. And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and […]
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! Amen. There is an apocryphal saying attributed to Martin Luther about the end of the world. Supposedly, when asked what he would do if he knew that the world was going to end tomorrow, he replied, “Plant an apple tree.” […]
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! Amen. In today’s Gospel lesson, Jesus says, “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth” (Matt. 5:5). Now that is quite interesting. The meek shall inherit the earth. But why not heaven? Because the heaven and earth […]