June 14 Summer Service Sermon
Mark 4:26–34
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- Jun 14, 2015June 14 Summer Service Sermon
June 14 Summer Service SermonMark 4:26–34We hear parables of Jesus as He teaches about His Kingdom. Here, Jesus relates to the Old Testament reading we just heard. 26And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. 27He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. 28The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 29But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.” 30And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? 31It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth, 32yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.” 33With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. 34He did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.
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- May 31, 2015May 31 Late Service Sermon What is the Athanasian Creed
May 31 Late Service Sermon What is the Athanasian CreedWhat is the Athanasian Creed
Athanasian Creed L Whoever desires to be saved must, above all, hold the catholic faith. C Whoever does not keep it whole and undefiled will without doubt perish eternally. L And the catholic faith is this, C that we worship one God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity, neither confusing the persons nor dividing the substance. L For the Father is one person, the Son is another, and the Holy Spirit is another. C But the Godhead of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit is one: the glory equal, the majesty coeternal. L Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Spirit: C the Father uncreated, the Son uncreated, the Holy Spirit uncreated; L the Father infinite, the Son infinite, the Holy Spirit infinite; C the Father eternal, the Son eternal, the Holy Spirit eternal. L And yet there are not three Eternals, but one Eternal, C just as there are not three Uncreated or three Infinites, but one Uncreated and one Infinite. L In the same way, the Father is almighty, the Son almighty, the Holy Spirit almighty; C and yet there are not three Almighties, but one Almighty. L So the Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Spirit is God; C and yet there are not three Gods, but one God. L So the Father is Lord, the Son is Lord, the Holy Spirit is Lord; C and yet there are not three Lords, but one Lord. L Just as we are compelled by the Christian truth to acknowledge each distinct person as God and Lord, so also are we prohibited by the catholic religion to say that there are three Gods or Lords. C The Father is not made nor created nor begotten by anyone. L The Son is neither made nor created, but begotten of the Father alone. C The Holy Spirit is of the Father and of the Son, neither made nor created nor begotten, but proceeding. L Thus, there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Spirit, not three Holy Spirits. C And in this Trinity none is before or after another; none is greater or less than another; L but the whole three persons are coeternal with each other and coequal, so that in all things, as has been stated above, the Trinity in Unity and Unity in Trinity is to be worshiped. C Therefore, whoever desires to be saved must think thus about the Trinity. L But it is also necessary for everlasting salvation that one faithfully believe the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. C Therefore, it is the right faith that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is at the same time both God and man. L He is God, begotten from the substance of the Father before all ages; and He is man, born from the substance of His mother in this age: C perfect God and perfect man, composed of a rational soul and human flesh; L equal to the Father with respect to His divinity, less than the Father with respect to His humanity. C Although He is God and man, He is not two, but one Christ: L one, however, not by the conversion of the divinity into flesh, but by the assumption of the humanity into God; C one altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by unity of person. L For as the rational soul and flesh is one man, so God and man is one Christ, C who suffered for our salvation, descended into hell, rose again the third day from the dead, L ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father, God Almighty, from whence He will come to judge the living and the dead. C At His coming all people will rise again with their bodies and give an account concerning their own deeds. L And those who have done good will enter into eternal life, and those who have done evil into eternal fire. C This is the catholic faith; whoever does not believe it faithfully and firmly cannot be - May 24, 2015May 24 Late Service Sermon Memorial Day Weekend
May 24 Late Service Sermon Memorial Day WeekendJohn 15:26–27; 16:4b–15Jesus gives His disciples a sermon on the Holy Spirit. He shares the Holy Spirit’s mission and purpose and the power that would come with it. Jesus promised that though He was going to leave, the Holy Spirit would come and walk alongside us with peace and comfort, pointing us always to truth and God’s glory. 26“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. 27And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning. 4But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you. “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. 5But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. 7Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. 8And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: 9concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; 10concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; 11concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged. 12“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 14He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. 15All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
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- May 17, 2015May 17, 2015 Late Service Kids Message
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- May 17, 2015May 17, 2015 Late Service Sermon Called to be Children Of God
May 17, 2015 Late Service Sermon Called to be Children Of GodJohn 17:11b–19Jesus’ prayer for His people continues as He passionately pleads for God to protect them, fill them with joy, and sanctify them. His intercession hasn’t stopped as He prays for us even to this day. 11And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. 12While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 13But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. 16They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 18As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.
- May 10, 2015May 10 Late Service Sermon Mothers Day
May 10 Late Service Sermon Mothers DayJohn 15:9–17In the works of John (his Gospel and Epistles), one of his main emphases is in the understanding of love. How does God love us? How do we love God? Are we to love others? These questions are definitively answered in this section on what it means to love. 9As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. 10If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 11These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. 12[Jesus said:] “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends. 14You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
- May 3, 2015May 3 Late Service Sermon You are the Branches
May 3 Late Service Sermon You are the Branches1 John 4:1–11How do we know what is from God and what isn’t from God? John encourages his readers to test and challenge everything they hear and see to verify if it is from the LORD. There are certain markers that can help us know what is from God: the acknowledgement of Jesus as Lord, loving others, and loving God. We are reminded to not simply accept everything but be discerning in what is good and right verses what is wrong and destructive. 1Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. 4Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 5They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. 6We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error. 7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
- Apr 26, 2015April 26 Late Service Sermon Speak Lord – We are Listening
April 26 Late Service Sermon Speak Lord – We are ListeningJohn 10:11–18
Jesus is the good shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep and we, as his sheep are called to listen to His voice. 11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 13He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 14I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, 15just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd. 17For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. 18No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”