Sermons from 2025 (Page 2)

Sermons from 2025 (Page 2)

Day of Pentecost

As I was preparing for this morning’s message, I read several different commentaries on the passage from Acts. I participated in a Bible text study with a group of Lutheran pastors that meets weekly to share insight on the lectionary readings for the coming week. I read the passage several times and looked at the order of worship to get a feel for today’s worship setting.…

Seventh Sunday of Easter

Good Shepherd sermon  June 1, 2025  John 17. 20 – 26 “Oneness”     Grace, mercy, and peace to you, from God, the Creator, our Lord, and Savior, Jesus Christ, thru the power of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.     The next time you have a dollar bill in your hand, re-read – for the “umpteenth time” – the Latin words, “E…

Sixth Sunday of Easter

Good Shepherd Sermon: May 25, 2025.  John 14. 23-29 “Let Not Your Hearts Be Troubled”     Grace, mercy, and peace to you, from God, the Creator, our Lord, and Savior, Jesus Christ, thru the power of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.     Of all the places you have traveled to, domestic or foreign, is there one place you have enjoyed the…

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…