Sermons on Old Testament (Page 12)
Out Of Egypt Through The Water
Sermon For Lent Midweek Three Rev. Greg Mech | Wednesday, March 7, 2018 | Lent Midweek Three | 7:00 pm Midweek Vespers 3 – Out of Egypt: Through the Water As We Gather How does one escape from a bad situation? Where does one turn when surrounded by brutality, slavery, and death? We desire to flee, to find refuge. We need to begin a journey that will set us free, but the result of our efforts is nothing more than…
Third Sunday in Lent Sermon
Sermon for The Third Sunday In Lent Rev. Greg Mech | March 4, 2018 | Sunday Service | 8:00 am | Immanuel Lutheran Church – Joplin, MO Divine Service – Setting 4 Hymn Thy Word Is a Lamp unto My Feet Hymn 973 Invocation, Confession and Absolution of Sins page 203 Psalm 19:1 (antiphon: v. 8) The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing | the heart;* the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening…
Mountain To Mountain Mount Moriah To Mount Zion
Sermon For Lent Week Two Rev. Greg Mech | Wednesday, February 28, 2018 | Lent Week Two | 4:00 pm Mountain to Mountain: Mount Moriah to Mount Zion A Thought as We Gather Today, we journey from mountain to mountain. Mountains are amazing and awe-inspiring, but to journey through or to climb them is no easy task. When Abraham saw Mount Moriah, he was neither inspired nor amazed. His heart was filled with fear and dread, for on this mountain…
Second Sunday in Lent Sermon
Sermon for The Second Sunday In Lent Rev. Greg Mech | February 25, 2018 | Sunday Service | 8:00 am Divine Service, Setting Four Hymn “Salvation unto Us Has Come” Hymn 555, v. 1,2,5 & 6 Baptism of Stormee Lee Harra (10:30 service) Invocation and Confession (left column) page 203 Introit Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.…
Garden To Garden Eden To Heaven
Sermon For Lent Week One Rev. Greg Mech | Wednesday, February 21, 2018 | Lent Week One | 4:00 pm Garden to Garden: Eden to Heaven A Thought as We Gather Gardens are places of beauty. Gardens are places of rest. Gardens are places that bring joy to our hearts as we walk through their midst. The Garden of Eden was such a place—of beauty and perfection, of joy and peace. But man could not resist temptation, and the result…
On Eagles Wings
SERMON FOR The Fifth Sunday After Epiphany Jason Glaskey, DCE | February 4, 2018 | Sunday Morning | 8:00 am (This sermon “On Eagles Wings” was originally written and preached by Rev. Greg Mech in 2012.) but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. –Isaiah 40:31 People in the ancient Near East often used birds to make a point. In Ex.19 Yahweh…
Life Sunday
Sermon for The Third Sunday After Epiphany – “Life Sunday” Rev. Greg Mech | January 21, 2018 | Sunday Service | 8:00 am God’s Love Comes Big Enough to Make Every Life Matter. Jonah Goes to Nineveh 3 Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.” 3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly…