I Am Baptized!

January 11, 2015
Pastor William Diehm
Baptism, Christ, Day, Jesus, Lord, Martin Luther, Sermon

On this day of the Baptism of Our Lord, the preacher makes the claim that what happens with Jesus happens with us! An invitation is made to imagine that this is the sermon preached at the hearer’s baptism.

Compassion: The Dead Are Raised

June 9, 2013
Pastor William Diehm
Day, Dead, Elijah, Jesus, ministry, Prayer, raised, World

Elijah and Jesus show the compassion of God by raising dead sons of widows. Does God still raise the dead? How does the human reaction to our sinful condition hold up to the crises in our day? With an illustration of ministry at a time of great grief, the sermon invites the hearer to come […]

Love One Another

May 13, 2012
Pastor Kari Smail
Another, Commandment, Day, give, hurts, Love, Mother, Mother's, One, School, Story, Ted, Teresa, until

Today we hear Jesus say, “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.” This lesson at first sounds so wonderful to our ears. We have one of our “love” readings, and it even falls on Mother’s Day. Yet while it certainly is a wonderful reading, it is not as […]

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