Sermons from 2024 (Page 2)
Trinity 16 – 2024
Trinity 16- 2024 ↓ Our Savior Lutheran Church, Grants Pass, OR ↓ Faith Lutheran Church, Medford OR Luke 7:11-17 WHEN LIFE & DEATH CONTEND PRAYER LORD God, Heavenly Father, You sent Your Son to be made Flesh, that by His death He might atone for our sins and deliver us from eternal death: We pray, confirm in our hearts the hope that our LORD Jesus Christ Who with but a Word raised the widow Nain’s son, in like manner…
Trinity 15 – 2024
Trinity 15- 2024 Bulletin ↓ Our Savior Lutheran Church, Grants Pass, OR ↓ Faith Lutheran Church, Medford OR Matthew 6:24-34 DON’T WORRY; FATHER KNOWS PRAYER Dear LORD, Make us Your children and keep us Your children so that You will always be our Father. Help us to trust in You as children trust their Father, and teach us to pray to You with all boldness and confidence, just like little children approaching their Father. We are Your children, only by…
Trinity 14 – 2024
Trinity 14 – 2024 Bulletin ↓ Our Savior Lutheran Church, Grants Pass, OR ↓ Faith Lutheran Church, Medford OR Luke 17:11-19 FAITH & THANKS TO THE LORD “UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!” On His way to Jerusalem, where Jesus was going to die and rise for the life of the world, He was met by ten lepers. Leprosy was more than a medical condition, it was a social disease. It turned you into an outcast. It isolated you from your family and friends.…
Trinity 13 – 2024
Trinity 13 – 2024 Bulletin ↓ Our Savior Lutheran Church, Grants Pass, OR Faith Lutheran Church, Medford OR Due to technical difficulties, there is no video for Faith Lutheran Church. Luke 10:23-37 JESUS TO YOU: GO ‘DO LIKEWISE’ PRAYER Dear LORD Jesus, You are the only Good Samaritan Who has seen us lying in our blood-guiltiness on the way of this life. You did have mercy on us and took away the sins of the world. We pray You, fill…
Trinity 12 – 2024
Trinity 12, 2024 ↓ Our Savior Lutheran Church, Grants Pass, OR ↓ Faith Lutheran Church, Medford OR Mark 7:31-37 STRANGE MEANS OF HEALING STRANGE MEANS Can you imagine a total Stranger coming up to you, sticking His fingers in your ears, spitting and touching your tongue? And your own friends brought you to Him! It wasn’t’ quite what the people had in mind when they brought their friend to Jesus. All they asked was for Jesus to place His Hand…
Trinity 11 – 2024
Trinity 11 – 2024 Bulletin ↓ Our Savior Lutheran Church, Grants Pass, OR ↓ Faith Lutheran Church, Medford OR Luke 18:9-14 TALE OF 2 RELIGIONS TWO WORLD RELIGIONS There are really only two religions in the world, and it has always been that way – the religion of the Law and the Religion of the Gospel. In the religion of the Law, you work your way up to God. In the religion of the Gospel, God comes down to you.…
Trinity 10 – 2024
Trinity 10- 2024 ↓ Our Savior Lutheran Church, Grants Pass, OR ↓ Faith Lutheran Church, Medford OR Luke 19:41-48 JESUS’ DAILY TEACHING & CLEANING He was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people sought to destroy Him, and were unable to do anything; for all the people were very attentive to hear Him. This is Your Word, Heavenly Father. Sanctify us by Your Truth. Your Word is Truth. Amen. WRONG…
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…