Text: John 16:16-22 (One Year)
Preacher: Pastor Jacob Ehrhard, St. John’s Ev. Lutheran Church, Chicago, Illinois
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“Divine Love” Easter 4 2019
Tag: Historic Lectionary
The world tempts us to measure it otherwise. By works. By wealth. We are sinners suffering in a painful world. We’ve told ourselves that if Christianity were true, we wouldn’t be here like this. The truth is, if Christianity were true, Jesus would be. The good shepherd seeks out his sheep.
Text: John 10:11-16 (One Year)
Preacher: Pastor Harrison Goodman, St. Paul Lutheran Church in Carroll, Nebraska
For all that Thomas is, I thank God. Yes, for his pig-headedness, for his doubt, for his denial, for his dyed-in-the-wool skepticism — for all that, I thank God. Why? Because, as St. Gregory put it, “More does the doubt of Thomas help us to believe, than the faith of the disciples who believed.”
Text: John 20:19-31 (One Year)
Preacher: Pastor Christopher Gillespie, St. John Ev. Lutheran Church — Sherman Center, Random Lake, WI
But he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He is risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid Him.
Text: Mark 16:6
Preacher: Pastor Donavon Riley, St. John Lutheran Church, Webster, MN
Death. He’s your enemy. The enemy we’re all afraid of. No one wants to die. We’re not too afraid of the devil, we’re generally not too afraid of our sins either. We should be. But the fact that one second your here and the next your not, well, that’s just terrifying!
Text: Ex 14:10–15:1
Preacher: Pastor Aaron Fenker, Bethlehem and Immanuel Lutheran Churches, Bremen, KS
“How could this be the plan? Who’d make a plan like this? Who’d even do it!? It’s questionable at best. Really looking at it, it’s ridiculous, insane. You could almost say its demonic! That’s really the sort of plan it is. Is there another way to explain it?”
Text: Gen 22:1–14; Heb 9:11–15; Jn 8:46–59
Preacher: Pastor Aaron Fenker, Bethlehem and Immanuel Lutheran Churches, Bremen, KS
Maybe you have even lamented like your fathers, “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full…” Life was so much better before? Ignorance was bliss? But you are not simply physically hungry, because there is a greater hunger and thirst. No amount of earthly bread or the loveliest spring water will satisfy the demands of the Law and death.
Text: John 6:1-15 (One Year)
Preacher: Pastor Christopher Gillespie, St. John Ev. Lutheran Church — Sherman Center, Random Lake, WI
Stress. Daily troubles. Tragedies. Sins. Death. Devil. Hell. In the midst of all that, in our own whirlwind of trouble, we’re broken, desolate, afflicted, all alone. Or so it seems. Sure, what we see is all the mess of this life. Just darkness. Just slavery. Just sin, death, devil, hell. The real question, though, isn’t what you see. The real question is what the Lord sees and what the Lord does.
Text: “My eyes are ever toward the Lord because He takes My feet out of the net.” (Ps 25:15)
Preacher: Pastor Aaron Fenker, Bethlehem and Immanuel Lutheran Churches, Bremen, KS
In dealing with the Canaanite Woman, Jesus shows the disciples the folly of their pride while the Woman keeps her eyes on the real and true Savior.
Text: Matt. 15:21-28 (One Year)
Preacher: Pastor Eric Brown, Trinity Lutheran Church, Herscher, Illinois
Temptation. The devil’s worst is when he uses God’s own word, but inverts the command and the promise. Jesus, though, restores faith in the promise and overcomes the devil’s temptation for you.
Text: Matt. 4:1-11 (One Year)
Preacher: Pastor Jacob Ehrhard, St. John’s Ev. Lutheran Church, Chicago, Illinois
