Trinity Lutheran Church Sermons

Trinity 24. Christ in our Suffering

In this sermon Jesus meets two desperate souls: Jairus, whose daughter lies dead, and a woman long afflicted. Through delays, crowd, and despair their faith is tested and refined, and Christ proves his power by restoring life and healing the broken.

These linked stories show how our Savior enters the furnace of suffering, turns death into sleep, answers hidden faith, and gives lasting hope in resurrection and forgiveness.

All Saints' Day 2025. The Beatitudes: Blessings of the New Creation

On the mountain Jesus speaks the Beatitudes as the dawn of a new creation: the Word who called light now stands among us, bringing comfort, mercy, meekness, and the promise of the kingdom. These blessings reveal how Christ’s life, death, and resurrection make believers heirs of a renewed world.

The episode walks through each Beatitude—poverty of spirit, mourning, meekness, hunger for righteousness, mercy, purity, peacemaking, and persecution—showing how they are both present realities and future promises, uniting believers with the church and the saints in hope and joy.

Reformation Day 2025. The Everlasting Gospel: Luther’s Revelation of Righteousness

This sermon reflects on Psalm 46 and the story of the Reformation, recounting Martin Luther’s struggle with guilt and his discovery that righteousness is a gift received by faith in Christ, not earned by works or purchased indulgences.

It emphasizes that Christ is our refuge and strength, proclaims the gospel of grace alone through faith alone, and calls believers to hold fast to the finished work of Christ amid opposition and the shifting comforts of the world.

Trinity 18 2025. The Greatest Commandment: Love Fulfilled in Christ

After Jesus’ triumphal entry, religious leaders test him in the temple, hoping to trap him. Jesus answers by summing up the law: love God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.

The sermon explains how the law exposes our sin and drives us to the gospel, showing that Christ alone fulfilled the law by his perfect love and sacrificial death. His work and the Spirit enable and renew our love, giving practical guidance for living out Christian love amid trials and questions.

Trinity 17. Friend, Move Up Higher: The Humble Seat of God's Kingdom

This sermon recounts two Gospel events: Jesus heals a man with dropsy on the Sabbath and rebukes the Pharisees for their hypocrisy, then tells the parable of the wedding feast to teach the nature of God’s kingdom.

The central message is humility shaped by mercy—those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and the humble will be exalted. Listeners are urged to rely on God’s grace, rejoice in others’ blessings, and await the final honoring at the marriage supper of the Lamb.

Michaelmas 2025. Michael, Angels, and the Everyday Battle

This episode unfolds Revelation 12 and the Feast of St. Michael to show the cosmic battle between Michael and the dragon—and how that war touches ordinary life. The sermon emphasizes that the divine service, Word, and sacraments are where heaven meets earth and strengthen believers for spiritual warfare.

Using vivid examples (a weary nurse, a praying father, a courageous teenager), the preacher highlights everyday acts of faith as real blows against the enemy and explains how baptism and the armor of God equip Christians to stand firm.

Centered on Christ’s victory at Calvary and the resurrection, the message calls listeners to fight from victory: pray, forgive, serve faithfully in their vocations, and trust that angels and the Lord accompany them until final triumph.

Trinity 15 2025: Serving God in the Everyday

In the name of Jesus, amen. This episode celebrates Toby's baptism and explores what it means to serve God faithfully in everyday callings — from truck drivers and teachers to young adults, civil servants, and retirees.

The preacher warns against letting money, status, or career ambitions divide our loyalty and urges listeners to "seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness." Using practical examples, he shows how obedience, integrity, and trust in God's provision bring peace and purpose in daily life.

Ultimately, the message reassures believers that baptism clothes them in Christ's righteousness, that God knows their needs, and that putting Him first secures their work, future, and peace.

St. Matthew, 2025. Called from the Tax Booth to a New Life

Christ's mercy appears threefold in this sermon: He calls Matthew from his tax booth, claims Blake in baptism, and sets apart LWML officers to serve the church. Each instance reveals the same truth — Jesus seeks sinners, restores them, and sends them to share His grace.

Follow the pattern: Christ calls, forgives, gathers His people into the church, and sends them to proclaim His mercy to a world that desperately needs it.

Trinity 13, 2025. Mercy for a Broken Nation

On a day of national grief, this episode contrasts Longfellow’s sorrow with the Good Samaritan parable to show how Christ enters the world’s deepest wounds. It presents the beaten traveler as every human in need—victims of violence, the grieving, and the lost—and identifies Christ as the compassionate Savior who binds wounds with his blood and Spirit.

The sermon calls Christians to imitate that mercy: to comfort the grieving, uphold justice, resist indifference, and love even enemies, all while proclaiming the gospel’s hope. It insists that the church’s sacraments and word sustain and strengthen us to serve our neighbors.

Above the world’s pain rings the church’s proclamation: God is not dead; Christ has triumphed, and through him we share mercy, courage, and the promise of resurrection.

Trinity 12. The Deaf Mute.

Pastor contrasts the worlds attempts to reshape Jesus with the biblical truth that Christ does not change to fit us; rather, he changes us through his cross and Spirit.

Using 2 Corinthians and Mark 7, the sermon explains how the law exposes our sin and impotence, while Jesus touch and the gift of the Spirit bring hearing, speech, baptismal new life, and forgiveness.

Believers are urged to proclaim this gospel with confidence, see others as Christ sees them, and rely on Gods sufficiency for mission and service.