Let’s pray one more time. Blessed Lord, who caused all holy scriptures to be written for our learning, grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and the comfort of your holy word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life, which…
Our Father in heaven, we ask for your help – not simply because sermons begin with a prayer – more importantly, because we really need your help. I need your help to preach your word faithfully, boldly, humbly, clearly. We need your help if we are to hear and to receive and be changed. We…
Father I ask that you would come now and guard me from error and grant this people that they would take heed how they hear, and that you would grant people in this room by the hundreds to hear with a good heart, and that they would receive the Word, that it would go down…
Let’s go to the Lord once more in prayer. Lord Jesus we do thank you for that wonderful truth that you have come to us to save us, to sanctify us, to redeem us O Lord. We pray for our time this morning as we come before Your Word in the sacraments or that it…
Once again, it is a joy to be with you, Christ Covenant Church. If you will take your copy of God’s Word and turn with me to Luke chapter 2, we’ll actually read verses 21, starting there, just one page over from the familiar Christmas story. Luke chapter 2, verses 21 through 40. “And at…
Father in heaven, we pray that you would send your Holy Spirit to illumine what we do here this evening, illumine your word. Give us understanding, give us insight. We confess our inability to rightly interpret and imply the sacred scriptures without the insight given by the Holy Spirit. Grant us that insight. Let the…
Our Father in heaven, we pray that as we open your Word that it would prove to be profitable for teaching, reproof, correction, for training in righteousness. That we might be adequately equipped for every good work. Before I begin to look into the text, I just wanted to establish some connections between myself and…
This evening we’ll be looking at Luke, chapter 24, verse 34. It reads: “The Lord has risen indeed and has appeared to Simon.” Several weeks ago we looked at this verse and tonight I am preaching from the very same short passage. As you may know, there are several ways to approach preaching. Exegetical preaching,…
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