Sermons from July 2024
Trinity 9 – 2024
Trinity 2 Bulletin ↓ Our Savior Lutheran Church, Grants Pass, OR ↓ Faith Lutheran Church, Medford OR Luke 16:1-9-13 BE BAD STEWARDS?! TOUGH GOSPEL/S There are Sundays when the lectionary readings make me wish I could just pick my own text or maybe do a nice sermon series on some benign self-improvement theme. Today is one of them. The Gospel has a bunch of sayings of Jesus all clustered around the uncomfortable topic of your money, calling it “unrighteous Mammon”…
Trinity 8 – 2024
Trinity 8 2024 Bulletin ↓ Our Savior Lutheran Church, Grants Pass, OR ↓ Faith Lutheran Church, Medford OR Matthew 7:15-23 “JUDGE FALSE PROPHETS” In the Name of the One True LORD of the Church, Dear Fellow Redeemed; DON’T JUDGE I saw a graphic a while back. It pictured the Bible chapter from which our Gospel is taken. This is the 7th chapter of Matthew and the final chapter of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. The graphic depicted verse one: Judge…
Trinity 7 – 2024
Trinity 7 – 2024 ↓ Our Savior Lutheran Church, Grants Pass, OR ↓ Faith Lutheran Church, Medford OR Mark 8:1-9 “WAGES VS. GIFTS” Come, Lord JESUS, be our Guest and let these GIFTS to us be blessed. Give us grace, dear Heavenly Father. Give us the gifts that we do not deserve. Thank you, merciful God, for not giving us the wages that we do deserve, Amen. UNNATURAL DEATH “The wages of sin is death.” I think most understand that…
Trinity 6 – 2024
Trinity 6, 2024 Bulletin ↓ Our Savior Lutheran Church, Grants Pass, OR ↓ Faith Lutheran Church, Medford OR Matthew 5:17-26 RIGHTEOUSNESS PAST THE PHARISEES LORD God, Heavenly Father, we confess that we are poor, wretched sinners, and that there is no good in us; our hearts, flesh, and blood being so corrupted by sin that we are never in this life without sinful lusts and desires. Dear Father, forgive our sins, and let Your Holy Spirit cleanse our hearts so…