Sermons from October 2016

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A First Commandment Faith

Download Life Guide Today, we’ll be taking a Catechism pop quiz. Maybe some of you had an anxious flashback from adolescence. But don’t worry, this quiz won’t be graded. It will be important for your faith, though. I’ll give you some examples, and you tell me if they broke the First Commandment. If you don’t […]

Christian, Don’t Give Up!

Download Life Guide    When introducing his study of the Lord’s Prayer, Martin Luther writes: “Our Father in heaven. What does this mean? With these words God tenderly invites us to believe that he is our true Father and that we are his true children, so that we may pray to him as boldly and […]

Great are the Works of the Lord

Download Life Guide If you woke up today with only the things you thanked God for yesterday… what would your life look like? I thought about that this week and was amazed at all of the blessings I take for granted. Physical blessings like health, family, friends, food, clothing, safety… and the more important – […]

Whose Slave Are You?

Download Life Guide Back in the day, when I was in high school, we called it “Initiation.”  It was the time-honored tradition of breaking in the new crop of freshman.  At Martin Luther Academy, where I went to High School, freshmen were called Fuchses, and for the first week of the school year, we dressed […]