Sermons from February 2020

Come Closer to God

Exodus 24:8-18  (ESV)8 And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, 10 and they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet…

Kleptomania and Its Cure

Ephesians 4:28 (ESV)28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. Dear Friends in Christ,      A church is supposed to be a safe place, isn’t it?  In fact, we often refer to the inside of a church…

What Am I to Be?

Matthew 5:13-16 (ESV) Salt and Light13 “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.14 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Nor…

Getting Something for Nothing

Exodus 20:15 (ESV)15 “You shall not steal.    As best as I can recall, it happened to me the first time during my 3rd year of college.  I was living in a dorm at that time attending Concordia Senior College in Fort Wayne, IN, a Lutheran college that was geared primarily toward the training of future pastors.…