Text: John 2: 13-22 Grace, Peace, and Mercy from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. I would like to preface this sermon by saying that this one will be different from the others you’ve heard from me. I will be talking about some hard things that are going on in our world. Let us not […]

Grace, Peace and Mercy from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. In today’s Gospel text, Jesus starts teaching some controversial things. He says, “quite openly” to everyone how He, the Son of Man, must undergo great suffering, be rejected by the authorities, killed, and then rise again from the dead in 3 days. Peter was, […]

Grace, Peace, and Mercy from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. In today’s Gospel text we are sent back again to the beginning of Mark’s Gospel into Jesus’ baptism, now with the addition of Jesus’ temptation in the Wilderness. So immediately after the Son is declared Beloved, “the Spirit immediately drove him out into the […]