Holy Trinity Lutheran Sermons: Recent Episodes
Holy Trinity Lutheran Sermons
Sermons delivered at Holy Trinity Lutheran for the Sundays (and some festivals) of the Church Year.
Music in these audio files courtesy of Mr. Lloyd Liese, director of Chicago’s Bachfest. Graphics courtesy of scholia.net or Pitts Theological Library.
Today’s Gospel (St. John 3:1–15) teaches us how to view both flesh and spirit. The Rev. Eric Stefanski shows “what matters” according to God’s Word: your works that condemn you, Jesus’ works that are credited to you through faith and save you and, therefore, the pure and saving doctrine of the Holy Blessed Trinity.
With that understanding, Black lives matter to God, so they must matter to us.
Speaking from today’s Gospel, St. John 14:23–31, Pastor Stefanski leads us to consider the cries of “No Justice, No Peace.”
Today’s Gospel, St. Luke 16:19–31, assures us that we who were too weak to scramble for the crumbs from the King’s table are now made His guest of honor in Christ Jesus.
As Pr. Stefanski notes, St. John 6:1–15 makes it clear that the chief sin over which we are to lament during our Lenten contemplation is that of unbelief. Yet, as we so lament, there is a call to rejoicing here in the middle of Lent, because we are not sons of the bondwoman who are cast out to try to make our own way in the world, but sons of promise, loved and adopted for all eternity.