Sermons from 2025 (Page 2)

Sermons from 2025 (Page 2)

Fifth Sunday of Easter

Good Shepherd sermon  May 18, 2025  John 13. 31-35 “Love Like Me”     Grace, mercy, and peace, to you, from God, the Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, thru the power of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.     Today’s passage is the beginning of what is known as “The Farewell Discourse in John’s gospel.”  But, it really…

Third Sunday of Easter

Good Shepherd sermon.  May 4, 2025.  John 21. 1-19 “Feed My Sheep”     Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God, the Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, thru the power of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.     Wow, simply, wow.  There is so much to unpack in these 19 verses that I think it’s unfair to those of us called to…

Easter Sunday

Good Shepherd sermon – Easter – 4.20.25  Luke 24. 1-12 “This IS the Day!”      Grace, mercy, and peace to you, from God the Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, thru the power of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.     At 1st Lutheran Church, in downtown Dayton, where I pastored for about seven years, had a worship…

Palm Sunday

Good Shepherd Sermon: 4/13/25  Palm Sunday  Luke 23. 1-49 “God’s Back”     Grace, mercy, and peace to you, from God, the Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, thru the power of the Holy Spirit.  Amen     A number of years ago, while pastor at Bethany Village, I conducted a Lenten study on the “Body of Christ.”  We…

Fifth Sunday in Lent

Good Shepherd Sermon.  April 5 – 6, 2025.  John 12. 1-8 “Fragrance of Extravagant Abundance”     Grace, mercy, and peace to you, from God, the Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, thru the power of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.     Do you remember “seeing” radio shows portrayed with the announcer cupping a hand behind…

Fourth Sunday In Lent

Good Shepherd sermon March 30, 2025. Luke 15: 1-3, 11(b)-32 “The Heart of God”     Grace, mercy, and peace to you, from God, the Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, thru the power of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.     Before we move on with today’s lesson from Luke, I would like to share a few notes to this wonderfully familiar parable…

Second Sunday in Lent

Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18; Philippians 3:17-4:1; Luke 13:31-35March 15-16, 2025 CITIZENS OF HEAVENI love to travel. This is an old passport of mine issued in 1991. The identif cation picture shows a man with far fewer wrinkles and a lot more hair than now. The remaining pages in it and other passports I’ve accumulate show evidence of my wanderlust. On them you’ll find…