Sermons
New Birth from Our Triune God
Holy Trinity Sunday
You were baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. One God in three persons, and three persons in one God. To know God as he reveals himself, as he wants to be known, is to know his salvation. He alone can reveal earthly things and heavenly things. And he tells you to look to the cross, to listen to his word, and to find assurance in your baptism. By this he gives you eternal life.
The Holy Spirit Comes to Us with Peace
Pentecost: The Coming of the Holy Spirit
God has chosen not to work by outward signs. He has chosen not to be in your face, but to be in your heart. This is a wonder we can hardly comprehend. But this, my heart, is where Almighty God, the Lord of Armies, who is Holy, Holy, Holy and whose glory fills the heavens and the earth—this God makes my heart his home. He couldn’t be contained by any magnificent building of stones and yet here in my small heart, with me, he is pleased to dwell.
Reflections on Repentance: Revealing Our Sinful Nature
Ash Wednesday
God in his mercy reveals your sinful nature so that you can see and know just how great is his mercy at the cross. Your sinful nature shut you off from God, with no solution, with only the burden of guilt and the darkness of death. But Jesus is your light and life, he is your forgiveness. In him you are the righteousness of God.