Pastor Iromar Schreiber was our guest pastor on June 26th. Here is the sermon he preached on the theme, “God is Love.” Ever since our Fall into sin, we have been trying to find the love we have lost in our first paradise. Every day, we see this yearning in TV, magazines, and the internet […]
John 3:1-15: Born of Water and Spirit
June 19, 2011 by
Our Lutheran father in the faith, Philip Melanchthon, wrote, “The mysteries of God are to be adored, rather than investigated” (Loci Communes, 1521 edition). He is correct. For after confessing the faith in the words of the Athanasian Creed, who can fully explore, let alone, understand what we just confessed? In the Athanasian Creed, we […]
Holy Matrimony of Brandon Ponce and Jessica Marmon
June 18, 2011 by
This is a beautiful wedding story. Both Brandon and Jessica are members of a sister congregation, Holy Cross in Collinsville, Illinois. However, they wanted to be married here in Kimberling City. So this what happened: they received all their marriage counseling and preparation there and I, as a pastor in a sister congregation, married them […]
God’s Purposes in Marriage
June 15, 2011 by
As I prepare to marry a young couple, I contemplate again God’s reasons for marriage. Marriage is for companionship. It is also for the procreation of children. But largely forgotten is its role in our salvation. Here’s a 50th-wedding anniversary sermon I preached from the archives on that topic. You have an oriental rug, old, […]
Pentecost: Acts 2:1-21
June 12, 2011 by
The crowd at Pentecost thinks the first Christians are drunk. They hear the cacophony of 120 Christians. They hear the old and wrinkled, the young and sparkly eyed, men and women, and pastors and parishioners all speaking in the rush of excitement. The crowd thinks they are hearing a bunch of drunkards. That’s what St. […]
John 15:26-16:4
June 5, 2011 by
Jesus says that whoever confesses Him before others, He will confess before His Father in heaven (Matthew 10:32). The Apostle Peter says, “Always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks about the hope that you have” (1 Peter 3:15). So, every Christian in his everyday life is to point others to Jesus. […]
John 16:23-30: Praying in Jesus’ Name
May 29, 2011 by
Jesus says, “Whatever you ask.” So what have you asked of God? Jesus says, “Whatever you ask the Father … He will give you.” So what have you asked the Father? Was it a want or a need? And did you get it? But have your prayers become sparse and spindly, because you haven’t received […]
Isaiah 12:1-6 (Luke 15:11-32)
May 22, 2011 by
Isn’t the idea of “holy anger” strange? I mean, how can anger be holy when we consider it sinful? But if we think about it, we know that anger itself can’t be a sin. Read the Bible! More than just once, it describes God getting angry with His people. And since God doesn’t sin, anger […]
John 16:16-22: The “Woman” and the “Man”
May 15, 2011 by
“When a woman is in labor, she has pain, because her time has come. Yet, when she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the agony, because of the joy that a Man has been born into the world” (John 16:21). So says our Lord in St. John’s Gospel. Jesus said those […]
Called to Suffer: 1 Peter 2:21
May 8, 2011 by
Somehow, in some way, a malformed idea has infected the Church. The idea is this: It is that our faith is all about worldly well-being and pleasure. Because of this idea, we have lost our focus on eternity, expecting God to give us heaven on earth. Because of this idea, we’ve given up preaching “Jesus […]
