Sermons from April 2025
Easter 2 – 2025
Our Risen Savior Brings Peace Second Sunday of Easter St. John 20:19–31 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace…
Easter – 2025
Exordium When a person is going through tremendous difficulties, they can find themselves saying, “I feel like Job.” Hopefully, we won’t go through as great as hardships as Job did, but we Christians have and will face troubles in this sinful world. Yet, one of the amazing things about the book of Job is that in the middle of his great suffering—losing his children, animals, and health, right in the darkest moments—Job proclaims one of the most comforting verses in…
Good Friday – 2025
Holy Week Prophecies: Today You Will be With Me in Paradise Good Friday – Pr. Abraham Faugstad Homily St. Luke 23:39–43 Then one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed Him, saying, “If You are the Christ, save Yourself and us.” But the other, answering, rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this Man has done nothing wrong.” Then he…
Maundy Thursday – 2025
The Word, Not Sense, Must be Our Guide Maundy Thursday – Pr. Abraham Faugstad Homily 1 Corinthians 11:23–32 For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when He was betrayed took bread, and when He had given thanks, He broke it, and said, “This is My body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of Me.” In the same way also He took the cup,…
Palm Sunday – 2025
Numbers 21:4–9 4 Then they journeyed from Mount Hor by the Way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became very discouraged on the way. 5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our soul loathes this worthless bread.” 6 So the Lord sent fiery…
Midweek Lent 5 – 2025
Holy Week Prophecies: Rerurn in Glory Midweek Lent V – Pr. Abraham Faugstad Homily St. Matthew 26:62-68 62 And the high priest stood up and said, “Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?” 63 But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, “I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.” 64 Jesus said to him, “You have said so. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of…
Lent 5 – 2025
Veiled Glory I. Moses’ Reflected Glory: Frightens the Sinner II. Jesus’ Veiled Glory: Comforts the Sinner Exodus 34:29-35 29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God. 30 Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near…
Midweek Lent 4 – 2025
Holy Week Prophecies: Prepared for Burial Midweek Lent IV – Pr. Peter Faugstad Homily St. Matthew 26:6–13 Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came up to Him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on His head as He reclined at table. And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? For this could have been sold for a large sum and…