A sermon for the Fourth Sunday after Trinity, by Fr. Jerome Leckband.
Showing mercy and forgiving people the wrongs they do is what marks our lives as Christians. God has removed his just judgment against us and forgives us all our sins for the sake of Christ. When Jesus tells the disciples in Luke 6, “Judge not,” He is directing us to treat others with the same mercy that our Father in heaven has shown to us. Through God’s Word, He leads sinners to repent of their sins and receive Christ’s forgiveness.
A sermon for the Third Sunday after Trinity, by Fr. Dan Suelzle.
The sinful human nature is plagued by a constant temptation to refashion God into our own image—to turn His Word into an a la carte menu where we pick what is comfortable and discard what is convicting. Whether through world religions that demand rigorous submission or modern idols like wealth, comfort, and self-righteousness, left to ourselves we will always gravitate towards a self-made religion of human effort. But as the prophet Micah warns, the true and almighty God cannot be compromised or tamed by our manufactured spiritualities; He exposes these empty, impotent idols for what they are, and invites us to cast our cares upon him, for he truly cares for us.
But his care for us is not vague. What sets the true God apart from every false, human-made religion is that He does not demand we climb a ladder of perfect submission to earn His favor; instead, He descends to us in the flesh. Jesus Christ makes all the difference, drawing a sharp, exclusive line between the religions of human effort and the Gospel of divine grace. On the cross, God poured out His just judgment upon Christ instead of us, paying the ultimate price so that we can know exactly where we stand with Him. We are left not with an anxious hope for mercy, but with the absolute certainty of being fully pardoned, loved, and redeemed by a God who has no equal.
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A sermon for the Second Sunday after Trinity, by Fr. Jerome Leckband
What does it mean to “fear the Lord”? In his sermon on yesterday’s Gospel from Luke 14:16-24, Father Leckband guided us through the Master’s invitation in the parable of the Great Banquet, reminding us that true fear of the Lord is not the terror of a slave, but the faithful, expectant love of a child.
Too often, we juggle our spiritual lives with the demands of work, home, and family, treating the Gospel as just another obligation. But the Gospel is not merely one treasure among many—Christ is our very life. We come to His table not because we have it all together, but because we are beggars in desperate need of His righteousness.
The Father has borne all the expenses of this feast through the cross. No matter your sins or past failures, Christ says to you today: “Come, for all is ready.”
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