Christ is the Answer. What is the Problem?

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A sermon for the Third Sunday after Pentecost

In this season of Pentecost we ask: What is the problem? The problem is that we are worse off than we think. There is nothing in us, in ourselves, that can save us. We are caught in sin and death and even though we can’t quite take it that there’s nothing in us, there isn’t.

Two huge objections come up: Today we’ll deal with the first one and that is, of course: Good works. After all, good works are good. That’s common sense. What do we mean by “good works?”

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“To God alone the glory.”

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A sermon for the Seventh Sunday of Easter

There is a phrase, “To God alone the Glory.” It is sometimes used as a motto. We see it on buildings. We ask ourselves: “Where’s the glory?” We are not talking about pictures where there is a halo or a nimbus. There’s a girl’s name: Gloria. But where is the glory? We have hymns with glory in them: “Mine eyes have seen the glory!” That raises the question: Where is the glory? Where is it operative?

It is easier in the Old Testament. In the Book of Numbers the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night went with them. And when the temple was built, 1 Kings 8:10-11 says that “the glory of the Lord” filled the temple.

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Jesus is Lord for you and me

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John 14:1-6

A sermon for the Sixth Sunday of Easter

Hope is a flimsy word. We say: “I hope so…” and we mean: “Well, who knows?” We say: “hopefully” and mean “probably not.”

You recall the story of Pandora’s box: When she opened that box, all the evils of the world flew out but there was one thing left: Hope. The question was: Was that good or evil?

What is the basis for our hope, since the word itself can be so flimsy?

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