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Trinity 3 July 7, 2019 The Sunday of the Lost Sheep and Lost Coin

Trinity 3 July 7, 2019 The Sunday of the Lost Sheep and Lost Coin

Trinity 3
Luke 15:1-10
July 7, 2019

“Be Carried and Carry Others”

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

The Scriptures today are giving us a sermon on humility. 1 Peter 5, “Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God….”

You are full of pride. I am full of pride. And pride is the archenemy of God. It’s the anti-God. Pride put ourselves way up here on top where two things happen. One, we don’t need God because we think we’re too good for Him and we do just fine without Him. And two, we don’t love other people because we think we’re too good for them. That’s the Pharisees and scribes in the Gospel reading which I’ll be talking about today.

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Sexagesima February 24, 2019 The Sunday of the Sower

Sexagesima February 24, 2019 The Sunday of the Sower

Sexagesima
Luke 8:4-15 & 2 Corinthians 11:19-12:9
February 24, 2019

Puff Out Your Chest? -OR- Pick Up Your Cross?

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

After St. Paul did his work in Corinth, preaching the Gospel in that city, later on some other men came in there and started talking bad about Paul. They called him weak and ineffective. It became a battle for power. Who was better? Who should the people listen to? Well, St. Paul uses a great term for these guys. He twice calls them super-apostles (2 Cor. 11:5, 12:11). That’s right before and right after our Epistle today, he calls them super-apostles.

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Trinity 17 The Sunday of Humility September 23, 2018

Trinity 17 The Sunday of Humility September 23, 2018

Trinity 17
Luke 14:1-11
September 23, 2018

“Humility Looks Like Jesus”

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

C. S. Lewis says there’s a particular sin that every single person suffers from and yet hardly anyone ever thinks they have it. At the same time, he says it’s a sin that we very easily identify and find in everyone except ourselves. So what is this sin that we think we never have but we think everyone else does have? It goes by many names and phrases—arrogant, self-conceited, “full of himself”, “thinks the world revolves around her”, stuck-up, “high on his horse”, “thinks she’s better than everyone else”, “in love with himself.” Christians simply call it what the Bible calls it: PRIDE. …

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Trinity 11 The Sunday of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector August 12, 2018

Trinity 11 The Sunday of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector August 12, 2018

Trinity 11
Luke 18:9-14
August 12, 2018

“Stop Trying To Be Noticed”

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

(Some thoughts of this sermon are taken from various sermons by Rev. David Petersen for Trinity 11.)

The Pharisee thanks God that he isn’t like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers. And we all think he’s a terrible jerk for it. But is it always a sin to thank God that you’re not like someone else? Is it okay to say, “Thank you, God, that I’m not that child molester in prison?” Or “thank you, God, that I’m not that mother who has had all her children taken away, is addicted to heroin, and is on welfare? Is it always wrong to thank God that you’re not someone else? …

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