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St. Peter assures those who believe in the risen Lord Jesus that even though they go through suffering, an inheritance awaits them--one that is better than the perishable items left behind in your grandmother's attic.
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Pastor Wayne Shevey served as our guest preacher. Pastor Shevey is a campus pastor at Wisconsin Lutheran College.
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Growing up, did your home, or your grandparents' home, have a picture of Jesus in it? If so, it was probably very inaccurate. Many paintings and pictures of Jesus found in America picture him as a Caucasian individual despite Jesus being a descendant of the Jewish nation. To get an accurate picture of our Savior who ascended into heaven forty days after his resurrection, we can turn to the picturesque language of Revelation chapter 19.
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This Sunday we celebrated our Lord's ascension. This recording begins with the Prayer of the Day, the first prayer of every service that helps set the theme for the day's worship.
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What makes for powerful public speaking doesn't necessarily make for powerful preaching. Paul tells us what does make for powerful preaching, whether for first century Corinth or twenty-first century Wind Lake.
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Prayer should not be some last ditch effort when we feel our weakest. Rather, it should be rooted in the strength we know we always have in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Pastor Wayne Shevey serves as a campus pastor at Wisconsin Lutheran College in Milwaukee.
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Part two of our midweek Advent series is the natural followup to last week's. After we've meditated on God's word and heard him speak to us, we talk to him in prayer. The psalmist shows us how it's done so that we can use prayer to help prepare the way for the Lord this Advent and Christmas.
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Our midweek Advent series is entitled "Prepare the Way for the Lord." We do so by looking at Psalm 119 -- the longest chapter in the Bible. The author shows us how we can prepare for Jesus only once God has prepared us... in meditation, in prayer, and in suffering. This devotion focuses on meditating on God's word.
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The third and final part of our midweek Advent series. Sometimes people will talk about something hurting "so good" or say "no pain, no gain." Often, this is just talk, and people don't want to go through suffering. Christians have a different perspective. The psalmist helps show us that when God lets suffering into our lives, he uses it to prepare our hearts for his coming to us.
Proclaim a Pure Confession because of Christ's Promises
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When his disciples were scared and vulnerable, the glorious Son of God dealt with them tenderly. In doing so, we see how he wants to deal with us, despite our sins.
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The Bible is not a self-help book. It's something far better and far more powerful! It is the very word of God himself through which he continuously reforms individual hearts, whole congregations, and entire church bodies.
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Jesus' parable is spoken against the extremen rejection sinful mankind is capable of. But it also highlights the eternal resolve God the Father and God the Son show us in order to save us from our sin.
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A sermon for the First Sunday in Advent.
The other readings were Isaiah 2:1-5 and Matthew 21:1-11.
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Pastor Wayne Shevey was our guest preacher; he serves at Wisconsin Lutheran College in Milwaukee.
Rejoice in the Love of the Trinity from Beginning to End
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A sermon for the First Sunday after Pentecost -- Holy Trinity.
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Pastor Shevey was our guest preacher and serves at Wisconsin Lutheran College in Milwaukee.
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When was the last time something of yours was lost? What did you do about the situation? Jesus tells us about a lost-and-found episode then ends with joy for him, for angels, and for you.
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Can our God be both relentless and relenting? Two prophets, one from the Old Testament and another from the New Testament, help us answer that question.
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When God says, "Remember to get your rest," he has in mind a particular kind of rest. And it's not so much about you going out of your way to get it. It's about you slowing down to receive it from him in Jesus.
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Reformation Sunday is NOT about us boasting that we're Lutherans. It's not about elevating Martin Luther to the status of Jesus Christ (or even the prophets and apostles, for that matter). Reformation Sunday is about taking comfort in what God has declared each one of us not guilty of our sins because of Jesus Christ.
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Pastor Wayne Shevey served as our guest preacher. Pastor Shevey is a campus pastor at Wisconsin Lutheran College in Milwaukee.
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Sermon for the Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany
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"Evangelize" and "evangelism" are big words. They are church-y words. But we don't need to shy away from them. In fact, Saint Paul tells us in a simple way that God has called us to live out those words.
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The New Year comes with lots of things to do -- both things we want to do and things we have to do. In Jesus, we find true satisfaction because he does all the things we need him to do, including the impossible ones.
Seminarian Joel Krieger is in his final year at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary (Mequon, WI). This spring he will graduate and will await his first assignment to serve as an ordained pastor. We pray for God's blessings upon Joel and his family!
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Over the next month, we're celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation. Don't know what that movement was? It can be summed up in four mottos: "sola gratia," "sola fide," "sola Scriptura," and "solus Christus." Four Latin phrases that teach the biblical truth of how sinners like you and me are saved. Over the next four weeks you'll hopefully learn something about the history of the Reformation, but more importantly, you'll grow in your trust of how God has completely saved you. Up first: "sola gratia," the fact that we are saved by grace alone.
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The fourth and final sermon as part of our Reformation 500 series, Peter and John tell us what the Lutheran Reformation was all about. Their message and the reformers' mission is captured in a simple yet powerful painting by Lucas Cranach, which can be viewed at this link:
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Acts chapter 16 shows us how a man went from being shaken to the core to being filled with joy. Paul and Silas tell you that you don't have to survive a near-death experience to be filled with that same joy.
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When Jesus read those seven hundred year old words from Isaiah, something special happened that Sabbath in that synagogue in Nazareth: scripture was fulfilled. Can it happen again among us?
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Readings for the Third Sunday after the Epiphany:
First Lesson: Isaiah 61:1-6
Second Lesson: Acts 4:23-31
Gospel: Luke 4:14-21
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We like to think we can do anything they put their hands to -- as long as we want to do it. In reality, we're not as capable as we think, nor are we as willing as we may seem. God knows us better than ourselves, and that's why he puts his merciful hand at work in our lives, just as he did with Moses.
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Even the casual observer of Holy Week knows to look at Jesus these seven days. But when one looks at Jesus, what are they supposed to see? God the Father wants us to see the way that Jesus serves because, after all, the Son of God came to be not just a servant, but THEE servant.
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A sermon for the Fifth Sunday in Lent.
The other readings were 2 Kings 4:17–37 and Romans 8:11–19.
Pastor Wayne Shevey (Wisconsin Lutheran College) served as our guest preacher.
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The world is a big and scary place. That's why VIP's have bodyguards. Each Christian is a very important person to God, and so he assures you that you have something on your side to guard you in all your ways.
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Would the world choose you according to the standards it celebrates? Even if it did, that neither gives you anything to boast about before God nor does it guarantee joy. Paul explains that when you see yourself according to God's choosing you in Jesus, you have true joy.
This is the second in a series of sermons from 1 Corinthians.
