Biblical Text: Luke 11:1-13 Ok, I start off with something a bit hokey – Tony Stark/Iron Man – but this is about Fathers and Sons. (And yes it includes daughters, but the language we are given in Fath

Biblical Text: Luke 10:38-42 The text is Mary and Martha which is usually taken as a compare and contrast of two symbols. Martha representing the active life and Mary the contemplative life. But I thi

Biblical Text: Luke 10:25-37 The Text is the Good Samaritan. When you are preaching on such a story you really have to be content with telling the old old story. And as a Lutheran that Old Old story i

Biblical Text: Luke 10:1-20 The text is Jesus sending out the 70, or is it the 72? That is one of the few textual questions of the New Testament. Which like all textual questions is ultimately unanswe

Biblical Text: Luke 8:26-39 The Gerasene Demoniac is one of those stories that is so vivid for me it stands a proof of the rest of the biblical story. Nobody could make it up. And it is such a perfect

Text: The Athanasian Creed It was Trinity Sunday. Probably the one Sunday a year where I don’t have a very specific biblical text as the basis of the Sermon. That’s ok, because the Creeds in the Luthe

Biblical Text: Acts 2: 1-21, 22-47, John 14:23-31 This Sunday continues a couple of series. It continues our study of the book of Acts even if we have been “jumping around” in that book. This sermon e

Biblical Text: Acts 1:1-26 This Sunday on the church calendar – the 7th Sunday of Easter – to me is the strangest one in the entire calendar. The sermon gets into that a bit, so I won’t spell it out h

Biblical Text: Acts 16:6-15 The text as I read it had two parts. The first being something of a travel itinerary. And it was travel that was done under some uncertainty and stress. First Paul wanted t

Biblical Text: Text: Acts 11:1-18, John 16:12-15 Change in the church is always a contentious issue. But even Jesus assumed that it would happen. And the book of Acts gives an example of a significant