Apr 21, 2019 | Sermons, Worship
In the name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. “If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied, we are of all people most miserable” (1 Cor 15:19). Thus the Apostle Paul at the start of our...
Apr 20, 2019 | Sermons, Worship
How frightened the chief priests and the Pharisees of Jerusalem were of a dead man! Their fear is utterly astounding! In their own words, they left no doubt about their opinion of Jesus of Nazareth. He was a fraud, a deceiver, an impostor, a charlatan....
Apr 19, 2019 | Sermons, Worship
A priest, a minister and a rabbi walked into a movie theater together. No joke. They did. I saw them. It happened on Ash Wednesday in 2004. The movie they went to see was Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, and I was there to see it, too, with several of my...
Apr 18, 2019 | Sermons, Worship
Just last month, a new study came out from researchers at three universities in Australia: Monash University in Melbourne, the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, and the University of Melbourne. The study “has found that more than half of car...
Apr 10, 2019 | Sermons, Worship
In the name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. When many people think about Noah’s Ark and the Great Flood, the word impossible may come to mind several times, in reference to its size or seaworthiness, or gathering that many animals....
Apr 7, 2019 | Sermons, Worship
The sermon text for the 5th Sunday in Lent is from Philippians 3:14. [14] I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (ESV)
