Sermon Text: Luke 19:41-48

August 21, 2022 Trinity 10 The Sunday Jesus Weeps & Clears the Temple

August 21, 2022 Trinity 10 The Sunday Jesus Weeps & Clears the Temple

Sunday: Trinity 10 | Sermon Text: Luke 19:41-48

Trinity 10
Luke 19:41-48
August 21, 2022

“More Tears & More Prayer”

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

Jesus was on His way into Jerusalem (this is on Palm Sunday) and He stops to cry bitterly (the word suggests many tears and lamentations like you see people at a funeral and not just one little tear). And He says, “If only you’d known what would give true peace, but you don’t.” He cries for those who don’t believe.

We’re pretty good in this church about praying for people who are physically sick, that is, their physical bodies aren’t well. Most churches are good at that and we absolutely should be. We’re more than happy to pray for people who aren’t members of our church, relatives or members of the community, who are physically sick. Usually it’s cancer but other things as well. For instance, today we’re actually giving thanks for ————–, a pastor a ——-, another church here in town. He said we could take him off our list as he’s doing quite well after a very successful surgery and treatments. We’re also praying for ————, who has cancer.

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Trinity 10 August 25, 2019 The Sunday of Jesus Clearing the Temple

Trinity 10 August 25, 2019 The Sunday of Jesus Clearing the Temple

Sunday: Trinity 10 | Sermon Text: Luke 19:41-48

Trinity 10
Luke 19:41-48
August 25, 2019

“Does the Church Make Life Better or Worse?”

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

“The Church only cares about getting money.” I’m going to be giving you some popular objections to the Church and this is one of the most common. The Church just wants your money. I was at Seminary in Fort Wayne when they sent a group of us to the hospital in town to do visits. We met with the chaplain at the hospital and he gave us a list of about ten names. The very first gentleman I visited with told me he hadn’t been back to church in many years. What was the reason? They only cared about money. He said he had quit going when the only time the church reached out to him was when they showed up at his door asking why he wasn’t giving offerings. Does the Church only care about money?

Another objection – “The Church is a bunch of hypocrites.” Oh yeah, one of our favorites. Everybody at church says one thing and does another, right? And that pastor—he’s the biggest hypocrite of all. He preaches every Sunday from the pulpit and then he doesn’t live any different than anyone else. We know all the members of that Church and we know some of the things they’ve done—what a bunch of hypocrites!

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Trinity 10 The Sunday of Jesus Weeping and Cleansing the Temple August 5, 2018

Trinity 10 The Sunday of Jesus Weeping and Cleansing the Temple August 5, 2018

Sunday: Trinity 10 | Sermon Text: Luke 19:41-48

Trinity 10 The Sunday of Jesus Weeping & Cleansing the Temple
Luke 19:41-48
August 5, 2018

“House of Prayer”

(Some thoughts of this sermon are taken from various sermons by Rev. David Petersen for Trinity 10.)

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

As Jesus angrily drove out people and animals from the Temple with a whip He had hastily fastened together, He said, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.”

Two hundred years from now, the home you currently live in, along with the town you live in, the church you worship in, and the country that you hold citizenship in, may all very well be gone. Or, at any rate, may be only a shadow of what they are today. Despite our current President’s bid to make America great again, no nation in the history of the world has ever been great for that long. We shouldn’t delude ourselves. Nothing is guaranteed in this world. America is never guaranteed to be great. And the map is never guaranteed to stay as it is. In fact, the map is more guaranteed to change than anything else. …

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Trinity 10 August 20, 2017

Trinity 10 August 20, 2017

Sunday: Trinity 10 | Sermon Text: Luke 19:41-48

Trinity 10
Luke 19:41-48
August 20, 2017

“Where to Look for Peace”

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

(No full text of the sermon available.)

  1. Terrorism – from Latin terrere, “frighten”.
  2. The terrorism of the Romans against Jerusalem in 70AD.
  3. Was Jesus crying over the terrorism in the world?
  4. Is there anything more terrible than life without God?
  5. Jesus cries for us as He goes to suffer all our terrorism.
  6. Jesus wants you to know the things that make for peace.
  7. Christianity is the only teacher of true peace.