Our Savior Evangelical Lutheran Church
Sermons
The Fifth Sunday after Trinity
July 5, 2026
The LORD called fishermen to be fishers of men (St. Luke 5:1-11). The net they would use is the message of the Cross, which is foolishness and a stumbling block to the world (1 Cor 1:18-25). The power of God to save is not in spectacular signs like wind and fire and earthquakes (1Kings 19:11-21), nor is it to be found in human intelligence and wisdom. The power of God to save comes in the still, small voice of the preaching of Christ crucified.
The Fourth Sunday after Trinity
June 28, 2026
"Be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful" (St. Luke 6:36-42). The old Adam in us, however, wants to condemn and seek vengeance. But the LORD says, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay" (Rom 12:14-21). To condemn, to avenge yourself, is to put yourself in the place of God. Only Christ is merciful as the Father is merciful. He is the one who overcame all evil with the good of His Cross.
The Thrid Sunday after Trinity
June 21, 2026
"This man receives sinners and eats with them) (St. Luke 15:1-10). This statement of judgment against Jesus by the Pharisees is in fact a proclamation of Gospel truth. For our God is one who delights in mercy, who casts all our sins into the depths of the sea through the Cross (Micah 7:18-20). "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." (1 Tim 1:12-17). Those who refuse to be counted as sinners also refuse Jesus who came only for sinners.
The Second Sunday after Trinity
June 14, 2026
Wisdom has issued an invitation to the divine feast: "Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed. Forsake foolishness and live" (Proverbs 9:1-10). This is the call of the Spirit of Christ to believe the Gospel and to receive His saving gifts in the Holy Supper. Many make excuses and reject this invitation, even as the Jews did in the days of Jesus, yet the Master's house will be filled. The Gospel call therefore goes out to the lowly and despised, into the highways, even to all the Gentiles (St. Luke 14:15-240. For "you who once were far off have been brought near by the Blood of Christ" (Eph 2:13-22).
The Octave of the Holy Trinity
June 7, 2026
When the beggar Lazarus died, he was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. For he was truly Abraham's seed. He believed in the LORD, and the LORD "accounted it to him for righteousness" (Gen 15:1-6). The name Lazarus means "God is my help." The unnamed rich man, on the other hand, did not love and trust in God. For he evidently cared little of the beggar at his gate. He who loved and trusted in possessions and prestige died and was in torment in Hades (St. Luke 16:19-31). Repentance and faith are worked only through Moses and the prophets - that is the Word of God, for it points us to Christ.
Our Savior Evangelical Lutheran Church is a congregation of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod