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Note: This is Part 1 of a sermon from July 4, 2021 and is slightly adapted from the original. Part 2 will be in next week’s issue of The Record-Times. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen! Today’s Gospel (Luke 5:1-11) is the miraculous catch of fish and the calling of Peter, James, and John as “fishers of men.” It’s not a sermon or a parable but a history, so it does not teach us directly by words of instruction but indirectly by words of example. It has much to teach us, but the main...
Note: This is a sermon from February 28, 2021, and is slightly adapted from the original. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen! It’s no mistake that God’s ancient people, Israel, was named after its forefather, Jacob. The name “Israel” means something like, “wrestles with God.” God renamed Jacob “Israel” because Jacob physically wrestled with Him all night and wouldn’t let go (Genesis 32). Jacob wouldn’t let go of Him until He blessed hi...
[Continued from last week] Fourth, this Gospel teaches that the sign of a man from the dead, like Jesus, the virgin-born, eternal Son of God, will not bring to repentance those who do not listen to Moses and the Prophets. It reads, "And he said, 'Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house—for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.' But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear the...
Note: This is a sermon from Sunday, June 6, 2021, and is slightly adapted from the original. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen! Today's Gospel (Luke 16:19-31) is the story of the rich man and Lazarus. I say story because it is not called a parable and is quite possibly a history. Parables, some say, are meant only to teach one thing. But if the story of the rich man and Lazarus is a parable it breaks this rule, because it teaches...
