- Acts 6:1-9, 7:2a, 51-60
How Can the Good Shepherd Let His Sheep Suffer and Be Slaughtered?
- Acts 6:1-9, 7:2a, 51-60
In this sermon we explore the hard question: How can the Good Shepherd allow His sheep to suffer and even be slaughtered? Looking at the story of Stephen—the first Christian martyr—we see how Christ teaches His flock to prioritize His Word, raises up the vulnerable to serve the venerable, leads His people through death into new life, and uses their faithful witness to both soften and harden hearts. Stephen’s peaceful confidence, even as he was violently killed, shows the Shepherd who stands to receive His sheep and calls them home to heavenly pastures where no wolf follows.
- Acts 2:36-47
How Does Christ Save Us from This Crooked Generation?
- Acts 2:36-47
This sermon explores how Christ rescues us from a crooked and twisted generation by opening our eyes to our blindness, giving us His gifts instead of burdens, and placing us into a new Spirit‑filled community. From the Emmaus road to Pentecost, we see how God reveals Himself through His Word, Baptism, and the fellowship of believers who gather around the apostles’ teaching. In a world bent by the devil’s lies, Christ straightens us by His grace and unites us as a family that encourages, supports, and reflects His love. Join us as we see how the risen Lord still saves, still gathers, and still transforms His people today.
- John 20:24-31
Why Isn’t Seeing and Touching the Proof of Our Faith?
- John 20:24-31
In this sermon on Thomas and the risen Christ, we explore why seeing and touching are not the proof of faith—and why Jesus calls you blessed for believing without seeing. From the Trinity to Baptism, from the Lord’s Supper to creation itself, we confront the limits of human reasoning and the way sin twists our logic. Yet Christ meets us exactly where our reasoning collapses, just as he met Thomas, and through his written Word he creates, nourishes, and sustains faith. This message shows how faith sets reason right, how God uses his promises to anchor us in suffering, and how believing becomes a clearer sight than anything our eyes can give. “These are written that you may believe…”—and through that believing, have life in his name.
- Matthew 28:9-10
Christ's First Three Statements after His Resurrection
- Matthew 28:9-10
In this Easter message, we hear the risen Christ speak his first three words of resurrection comfort: “Greetings,” “Do not be afraid,” and “Go and tell my brothers.” As the women at the tomb discover, Jesus meets sinners with welcome, removes our deepest fears, and sends ordinary believers with his promise. Rooted in Job’s confession—“I know that my Redeemer lives”—this sermon proclaims the victory Christ gives over sin, death, and the grave. Because he lives, we will rise.
- Luke 23:46
Our Savior's Final Prayer Comforts You
- Luke 23:46
In this Good Friday message, we reflect on Jesus’ final words from the cross and the astonishing truth behind them: the God‑Man chooses the moment of His death, entrusts His entire life and saving work into the Father’s hands, and wins the victory that restores our harmony with God. Through Scripture, real‑life stories, and the comfort of Christ’s finished work, this sermon points us to the Father who now holds us with the same love and certainty with which He received His Son.
- John 13:1-15,34
Jesus Speaks a New Commandment Before His Crucifixion
- John 13:1-15,34
In this Maundy Thursday message, we look at Jesus’ “new commandment” and the love that speaks louder than words. From the humility of washing His disciples’ feet to the sacrifice He would make on Good Friday, Christ shows us a servant love that cleanses, empowers, and transforms. This sermon reflects on that love, how it reshapes our hearts, and how it moves us to serve one another with the same grace He has shown to us.
- Psalm 24
How Is Christ the King?
- Psalm 24
On Palm Sunday, Psalm 24 lifts our eyes to see Jesus not as the political king the crowds expected, but as the true King of Glory who comes to claim His world, cleanse His people, and take His eternal throne. This sermon traces David’s psalm through three movements: Christ the King who rules over all creation, Christ the King who makes clean hearts and calls us to seek His face, and Christ the King who enters—not into earthly Jerusalem for worldly power, but into His Church and into the hearts of His people. As the ancient gates are commanded to lift their heads, we are called to open our own hearts to the Lord strong and mighty, the Lord who saves, the King who still comes to reign in grace today.
- John 19:30
Jesus Shouts Out the Victory
- John 19:30
With His final breath, Jesus declared "It is finished!" This was not a cry of defeat, but a triumphant announcement that the sacrifice had been made, the work completed, and salvation secured once and for all. These three words carry the weight of all of Scripture, fulfilling every promise and every picture of atonement that pointed forward to the cross. Nothing remains to be added to what Christ accomplished there, which means nothing can be taken away either. The victory belongs to Him, and because it does, the love of God for His people goes on without end.
- John 11:17–28
Whenever You Think, "If Only the Lord God Had Stayed with Me in My Crisis," Always Think, "He is the Resurrection and the Life."
- John 11:17–28
When Martha met Jesus outside Bethany, her grief spilled out in a familiar lament: "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." In our own crises, we often share her feeling that God was somehow absent when we needed Him most. But Jesus redirects her, and us, away from what He might do and toward who He is: not merely a healer or helper, but the resurrection and the life itself. Because Christ is personally and powerfully present with His people, every crisis we face is already in the hands of the One who conquered death and bends even our darkest moments toward His glory.
- John 19:28-29
Our Champion Wins the Greatest Wrestling Match in History — For You
- John 19:28-29
Jesus endured the full physical toll of the cross, refused to yield in the deepest spiritual agony, and pressed on to fulfill every last word of Scripture. In His simple cry, “I thirst,” we see both His true humanity and His unwavering determination to save us. He knows exhaustion. He knows pain. He knows abandonment. And He endured it all so that you would never spiritually thirst again.