Sermons from September 2025

Sermons from September 2025

Beggars at the Gate

Grace, Mercy and Peace be to you from God our Father and the Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. The parable today of the Rich Man and Lazarus, continues Jesus’ theme in this section of Luke’s Gospel which is this: You can’t serve two masters. Like the Dishonest manager in the first part of Luke 16, the Rich man described here has been busily serving one master. He’s been serving money and the power and pleasure that comes with it. But meanwhile,…

You Can’t Serve Two Masters

Grace, Mercy and Peace be to you from God our Father and the Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. There has been a lot going on in our nation lately. I’ve been processing it. You’ve been processing it. The murder of Charlie Kirk and the aftermath has shocked and shaken us. And of course there’s been a lot of analysis. Everyone is trying to tell us what all this means. Well, frankly, I don’t know what it means politically or what it…

The Unshakeable Peace of Faith

Dear people of God, do you notice how I begin most every message that I preach. I begin with this greeting: Grace, Mercy and Peace be to you…it actually comes from the New Testament epistles, but it is also the custom of many preachers to use that greeting at the beginning of a sermon. We begin with the Peace of God. And we end too, with the Peace of God. The last words I say to you in today’s message;…

Disciplined by Faith

Grace,  Mercy and Peace be to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  Amen These last few weeks we’ve been studying the book of Hebrews,  and asking the question, “What does faith have to do with Faith?” And why are Christians everywhere called to to walk by faith, to live by faith? Two weeks ago, we learned that Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Faith clings to the unbreakable…