A Sermon on the Christian Life for the Season of Epiphany
A Lutheran woman has written an account of becoming a born-again Christian. She asks: “What does this mean?” She answers: “It means there was a point in my life where I came to the understanding that I had really offended God and that there were two ways it could go. Either through my repentance, belief, and trust in Jesus’s blood, that he paid the fine for me, or through my entry into hell.”
A Sermon on the Christian Life for the Season of Epiphany
In the season of Epiphany we look at how the Word of God works. Today is about the Christian life. We begin with Matthew 5:1-10 where we find the nine blessings of the Beatitudes. Let’s look at the middle blessing in Matthew 5:7: “Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy.”
A Sermon on Baptism for the Season of Epiphany.
In this season of Epiphany we are In this season of Epiphany we are looking at the Word of God. The coming of the Word is described as the coming of the light. The Word is also described as the water of life.
A sermon for the season of Epiphany.
In this season of Epiphany we celebrate the coming of the light. Today we look at how the light comes to us through the Word. We begin with John 1:1-3: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.” These glorious verses reflect Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
Julie Ponesse offers an excellent response to various governments and private agencies that demand COVID vaccines in her slim volume, My Choice: The Ethical Case Against COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates. She is a former professor of ethics and ancient philosophy who became an internet sensation when she lost her job at Western University in Ontario, CA, for refusing the jab. The central point of her argument against mandatory vaccinations is that such a policy denies the right of self-determination (“personal autonomy”) that belongs to each human being.