Author: Pastor Lockman
As Disciples of Jesus — We Have the Joy of Knowing That There’s Still More!
Saints Triumphant Sunday November 13, 2016 Luke 20:27-38 Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question. “Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and have children for his brother. Now there were seven […]
As Disciples of Jesus— We Need to Be Very Pragmatic With the Gospel!
Sunday of Last Judgment November 6, 2016 Luke 19:11-27 While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once. He said: “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to have himself appointed king […]
The Heart of the Lutheran Reformation
Reformation Sunday October 30, 2016 Jeremiah 31:31-34 “The time is coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke […]
As Disciples of Jesus— We Know Who We Are!
The Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost October 23, 2016 Luke 18:9-14 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: ‘God, I thank you that […]
As Disciples of Jesus— We Pray Persistently!
The Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost October 16, 2016 Luke 18:1-8 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him […]