Carlyle Messiah Lutheran

Dear Holy Spirit, You call, gather and enlighten Your Church.  Grant us eyes to see our Savior’s Passion, ears to welcome Your call to repentance and hearts to be fertile ground for the seed of the Gospel.  Amen.

            The sermon text is our Gospel reading from John 12:20-43 previously read.

Grace, mercy and peace to you [...]

            Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  Amen.

       The Pharisees rejected Jesus.  They believed Him a heretic who presented a false picture of God.  Because He welcomed and ate with despised tax collectors and “sinners”, the Pharisees believed Jesus stood for an [...]

            Grace, mercy and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  Amen.

    The sermon text is from Luke 13:1-9.

        This weekend the First Baptist Church in Maryville is having a special memorial service for Pastor Fred Winters.  One year ago during the morning service at First Baptist, [...]

            Grace, mercy and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  Amen.       The sermon text is from Luke 13:31-35.   “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen [...]

            Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  Amen.

  The sermon text is from Luke 4:1-13 previously read.

            I think it odd considering how messed up our world is that surveys of those who claim to be Christians show that most so-called Christians believe in heaven and angels, [...]

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  Amen.

            The sermon text is from Luke 5:  When Simon Peter saw the miraculous catch of fish, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, Lord;  I am a sinful man!”  For he and [...]

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  Amen.

 Jeremiah 1:4-10:  The Word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you. Before you wer born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”  [...]

            Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  Amen.

            The sermon text is from Luke 4:16-30.

            Our text begins simply enough, “On the Sabbath day Jesus went into the synagogue as was His custom.”  Isn’t it amazing that for Jesus observing the Sabbath day in [...]

            Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  Amen.

            Advent is all about anticipation and expectation and preparation for Jesus’ Second Coming or Advent, holding in our hearts the saving work He began at Bethlehem as God’s promise that for us who know Christ through [...]

            Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  Amen.

What are your special memories of this time of year?  Did you grow up, like me, being bundled up and led to church on cold December Wednesday evenings – watching each week as the Advent wreath [...]