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Category Archives: Lent Sermons
“…and setting a guard.”
Text: St. Matthew Passion Date: Passion/Palm Sunday + 4/17/11 Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI The enemies of Jesus remembered talk about Jesus’ prediction of being raised from the dead after three days. So they sought to ge… Continue reading
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“…and setting a guard.”
Text: St. Matthew Passion Date: Passion/Palm Sunday + 4/17/11 Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI The enemies of Jesus remembered talk about Jesus’ prediction of being raised from the dead after three days. So they sought to ge… Continue reading
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The Disciple’s Dying and Rising
Text: John 11 Date: Lent V + 4/17/11 Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI We have been following the pathway of Lent, the spiritual walk that leads to the full Easter faith, joy and hope of being a disciple of Jesus Christ, a Chri… Continue reading
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The Disciple’s Dying and Rising
Text: John 11 Date: Lent V + 4/17/11 Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI We have been following the pathway of Lent, the spiritual walk that leads to the full Easter faith, joy and hope of being a disciple of Jesus Christ, a Chri… Continue reading
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The Disciple’s Light
Text: John 9 Date: Lent IV + 4/3/11 Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI So far each of our Lenten visitors are different, but they are also the same. Nicodemus is an important man of the Pharisees, but he visits Jesus in the dark… Continue reading
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The Disciple’s Living Water
Text: John 4 Date: Lent III + 3/27/11 Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI Once again we have seen the power, the destructive power of water in the Tsunami that followed the great earthquake in Japan. Acres of land were erased of … Continue reading
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The Disciple Born Again
Text: John 3:1-17 Date: Lent II + 3/20/11 Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI Welcome to St. John’s Gospel and to the Lenten road to discipleship. That, above all, is the goal of both as the Apostle and Evangelist stated his pu… Continue reading
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The Disciples’ Temptations
Text: Matthew 4:1-11 Date: Lent I + 3/13/11 Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI The story is as old as the third chapter of the first book of Moses and as current as this moment. It is the story of life, God’s good gift of huma… Continue reading
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The Wicked Tenants
Text: Luke 20:9-19
Date: Lent V + 3/21/10
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI
The scribes and the chief priests perceived that Jesus had told this parable against them. They were right. But remember that St. Luke told us, “he began to tell the people this parable.” So if the “church officials” could figure out [...] Continue reading
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Celebrate
Text: Luke 15:1-3, 11-32
Date: Lent IV + 3/14/10
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI
The Fourth Sunday in Lent has been known traditionally as Laetare or “Rejoice” Sunday from the historic Introit that begins with Isaiah 66:10, “Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her.” It may seem strange [...] Continue reading
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