April - September 2006 Sermons
April 30th, 2006: Easter 3 - This sermon on Luke 24 addresses how we still have some fear left in us after the resurrection, and how Jesus deals with that fear. 
May 7th, 2006:  Good Shepherd Sunday - This Sermon on John 10 talks about what comfort we have knowing that Jesus is our Good Shepherd.  The shepherd's job is dangerous.  The shepherd's job is personal.  Let that be  your comfort as Jesus contrasts HIMSELF with the "hired hand." 
May 14th, 2006: Easter 5 - This sermon is based on Philip's call to the Ethiopian eunuch on the desert road.  It may have seemed like a remote and inconsequential place to go.  Yet the Lord blessed Philip's run alongside of the chariot as he was able to witness to Christ from Isaiah 53. 
June 4th, 2006:  Pentecost - I used a different text for this sermon from 1 Samuel.  It was based on how the Holy Spirit worked on Saul.  I found great interest in doing a Bible study on Saul and thought it would be an interesting place to approach the work of the Holy Spirit from on this Sunday.  Read through and you might find some interest in it. 
June 18th, 2006:  Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath.  The Sabbath Day was commanded in the book of Exodus and then reiterated in today's text from Deuteronomy.  What does it mean to us as Christians who live in the light of the death and resurrection of Christ?  Read and find out. 
June 25, 2006: This is the first of four sermons in a sermon series on Confession and Absolution.  This sermon addresses the need for confession and what good it does - in contrast to today's view of sin by a majority of Christianity.
July 2, 2006:  This sermon dissects Psalm 51 in a study for what is a core confession of sins all about.
July 9, 2006:  This is the third of four sermons on Confession.  This sermon examines what specific sins to confess - reflecting on Luther's questions, "what sins should we confess?"  The answer to this question gets into our personal lives and responsibilities as Christians living in the world. 
July 16th, 2006:  In this fourth and final installation on Confession and Absolution, we address how important it is to believe in the words of absolution.  Based on the command and promise of Christ, we look forward to the absolution as if Christ Himself were promising us salvation.
July 23rd, 2006:  Pentecost 7: 2 Corinthians 12:7-10.  Pride is listed as the first of the ancient 7 deadly sins.  Paul addresses the way the LORD kept him from being conceited by using the most conceited of them all - Satan. 
July 30th, 2006:  Pentecost 8: Amos 7:10-15.  Amos was a no name fig plucker from the southern kingdom.  Yet God called him to go and preach at a center of worship in northern Israel.  Amaziah wanted him to feel like a duck out of water.  Yet Amos responded like we all should in a difficult call - by being faithful to the call God has given us - even when we are out of our element.
August 6, 2006: Pentecost 9:  Mark 6:30-34.  After a full day of healing and preaching, the disciples of Jesus had gone without eating and were worn out.  Are you worn out from serving?  Jesus knows what your limitations are.  Read on to see how Jesus deals with his tired servants and his shepherd-less sheep. 
August 13, 2006: Pentecost 10:  Exodus 24:3-11.  Popular Christianity makes a big deal about making commitments to Christ.  Yet how many of those who get rebaptized and recommit themselves to Christ end up in the same hole they came from time and again?  Words and commitments are a dime a dozen.  Learn about commitment - God's style - from this text in Exodus.
August 20, 2006: Pentecost 11:  Ephesians 4:17-24.  In this text Paul calls on the Ephesians not to fall into the thinking and mind set of the Gentiles that were living among them - and of whom they had once been.  This sermon touches upon the unbelieving mind set and how to fight against that thinking as modern day Christians. 
August 27, 2006: Pentecost 12:  1 Kings 19:3-8 When Elijah was threatened with his life by Queen Jezebel, he ran for his life. He was ready to give up and quit.  This doesn't seem like Elijah, yet it happened.  It happens to even the strongest of Christians. How do we respond in such times, and more importantly - how does GOD respond?  Find out in today's sermon. 
September 10, 2006, Pentecost 14:  Joshua 24:14-18 Prior to his death, Joshua put a decision before the Israelites - choose this day whom  you will serve.  They could either revert back to their ancient religion of wood or stick with the Living God who brought them to the Promised Land.  As Christians, we pray that God would give us the strength to choose wisely.