Sermons

Jesus sprang from those people—sinners and saints, rulers and peasants, foreigners and native-born, wise and fools. He suffered, died, and rose again for those people. And He did it for you and me.

Christians are taught to reflect on our sin. We do this, not to beat ourselves up, not to wallow in self-pity, but to let this remorse turn us back to God. And turning to the Lord who loves us in spite of our sin, we hear His voice, “Come now, let’s reason together.

And then He took it all to the cross and nailed it there. But this time it’s not like the donkey—the Lord isn’t going to return this loan to us. It’s gone for good.

Paul is encouraging us to get ready for the day of salvation—the day when Jesus returns and all evil is gone. That will be a celebration better than any wedding—the day we see our Savior face to face.

And yet God says that “the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains”—if not literally, then certainly figuratively. It will become the center of all nations, and people everywhere will come to hear the Lord’s Word and obey it.

We are baptized. We have been buried with Christ and raised to new life through faith in His Name. We have been born again and we have a new hometown. Birth and baptismal certificates will list a certain location as the place of birth, but as brothers and sisters in Christ we can now claim the heavenly Jerusalem as our home

So, when we look upon Jesus, it is the image of God our eyes behold, when we listen to the Words of Jesus, it is the voice of God our ears hear. Jesus is God begotten from the substance of the Father before all ages

Have you noticed how people stop mentioning the name of the family member you lost? How they censor their conversation about your major illness, or job loss, or divorce?

He was there before anything else was, from all eternity, and the Father created all things for Him. Even today, Jesus holds everything together and keeps it going, day by day and minute by minute.