Sermons from 2018 (Page 2)
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.…
The Power of God for Salvation
POWERwalk Sermon Rev. Greg Mech | February 24, 2018 | Saturday Night Service | 6:00 pm The Power of God for Salvation, to Everyone Who Believes based on Matthew 25-28 and Romans 1 Song — I Am a Pilgrim Pastor: “I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith…
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…
Sackcloth And Ashes To Robes Of Righteousness
Sermon For Ash Wednesday Rev. Greg Mech | February 14, 2018 | Ash Wednesday | 7:00 pm Heart to Heart: Sackcloth and Ashes to Robes of Righteousness Sackcloth and ashes—the signs of mourning and repentance in the pages of Scripture. Today, we begin our Lenten journey. Today, we begin our return from exile. This is not a journey that begins with rejoicing and excitement; it begins with ashes. Our Lenten journey begins with ashes on our foreheads, a sign of…
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…
Jesus Is The Same
Sermon for National Lutheran Schools Week Rev. Greg Mech | January 28, 2018 | Sunday Morning | 8:00 am Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. -Hebrews 13:8 The families of Immanuel have been celebrating God’s goodness to Martin Luther School all week long! Sunday’s worship service focused on the theme for National Lutheran Schools Week, “It’s Still All About Jesus.” More than 100 local families are touched by the ministry of MLS every day. Learn about what…
Fulfillment
POWERwalk Sermon Rev. Greg Mech | January 27, 2018 | Saturday Night Service | 6:00 pm “Fulfillment” based on The Gospel of Matthew, Chapters 5-9 and The Beattitudes “Do not think I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” Matthew 5:17 Songs Come Thou Fount; Precious Lord Take My Hand Matthew 5:3-12 3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 9:18-19…
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…
Hearing Voices
POWERwalk Sermon Rev. Greg Mech | January 20, 2018 | Saturday Night Service | 6:00 pm “Hearing Voices” based on The Gospel of Matthew, Chapters 1-4 Song “Creation Sings the Father’s Song” Pastor: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. People: Amen. Pastor: By God’s grace He has revealed to us through the inspired writings of a former tax collector that the Lord our God cares for His people and wants to…
Jesus Calls Philip and Nathanael
Sermon for The Second Sunday after Epiphany Rev. Greg Mech | Sunday Service | January 14, 2018 | 8:00 am Jesus Calls Philip and Nathanael 43 The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.” 44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. 45 Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus…
The Baptism of Our Lord
Sermon for The Baptism of Our Lord Rev. Greg Mech | Sunday Service | January 7, 2018 | 8:00 am 4 John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. 5 And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.6 Now John was clothed with camel’s hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey. 7 And he preached, saying, “After me comes he…
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