The theme of the fourth week in Lent is "laetare" or "rejoice." Right in the middle of Lent, just before we move into Lent 5 and the heaviest part of the season, we get a little breather as we contemplate God's undeserved love for the world as Jesus expressed it to Nicodemus.
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Saturday, March 31, 2012
Lent 5 Midweek--The King Of The Jews
“No More Kings” was a rally cry in the American Revolution, but Jesus proposes to be a king and proposes that we live under Him in His kingdom. What sort of king is He?
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"It's All About Perspective"--Sunday Of Lent 3--3/11/2012
Jesus’ cleansing of the temple early in His ministry in John 2, His first action on His first visit to Jerusalem, must have made a whale of a first impression. How did the people understand this violent gesture? How do we?
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Lent 4 Midweek Sermon--Behold The Man!
Pilate is the source of yet another “double-edged saying” in the Passion of Christ. His comment “Behold the man!” of a Jesus who has been flogged and dressed up as a king is meant for dramatic effect. Still, it is the truth. In Him is the fullness of humanity. All of its sins and all for which the Son of God was willing to die.
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Lent 3 Midweek Sermon--Truly This Man Was The Son Of God!
This remarkable statement was made by a centurion, an outsider, a know-nothing with regard to the promises of God in the Old Testament. Yet, somehow, the centurion looks at the dead Jesus hanging from the cross and challenges us to see there the Son of God.
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Lent 2 Midweek Sermon--What Is Truth?
Our midweek series is “The Double-Edged Sword: The Double-Edged Sayings Of Christ’s Passion.” The series builds on the medieval interpretation of the “double-edged sword” of Heb. 4:12 as the double-edges of “letter/spirit.” Some of the utterances of the Passion, particularly said by those OTHER than Christ, have ironic double meanings, or at least deep meanings.
This sermon contemplates Pilate’s sardonic question of Jesus, “What is truth?”
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This sermon contemplates Pilate’s sardonic question of Jesus, “What is truth?”
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Ash Wednesday 2012--It Is Better For One Man To Die
Our Lenten series for 2012 kicked off on Ash Wednesday. The series was titled, "The Double-Edged Sword: The Double-Edged Sayings Of Christ's Passion." Tonight's "double-edged sword" is the words of Caiaphas when he put his "hit" out on Jesus, "better for one man to die than the whole nation perish." These words are ironically true, even from God the Father's perspective. They also fit nicely with the ashes/death theme of Ash Wednesday itself.
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Welcome to St. John's new new sermons site. We had too many problems with the one on wordpress, so we thought we'd try a different blog service.Hopefully, if this one works, we should get a successful podcast going which you can subscribe to directly and through iTunes.
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Sincerely in Christ,
Pastor Torkelson
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