Sermons from December 2025

Sermons from December 2025

“WHY ARE YOU GOING TO EGYPT?”

Why are you going to Egypt?           Grace to you and peace from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  Amen.  The text which we would like to consider today is our gospel lesson just read earlier.  We hear again a few selected verses.  (read text)           Dear Christian friends.  Most of you know that I grew up in Milwaukee.  Actually it was a suburb of Milwaukee called Menomonee Falls.  But despite the rush hour traffic…

Arise!  Shine!  Your Light Has Come!

 Christmas Eve       December 24, 2025 In him was life, and that life was the light of men.  The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.  We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.  John 1:4.9.14 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *…

“DON’T FORGET HIS NAME”

Don’t Forget His Name! – Matthew 1:18-25 Dear Christian friends.  Are you good at remembering names?  Perhaps this has happened to you.  It happened to me on a while ago at a grade school Basket Ball game.  This man walked up to me, said hello and shook my hand and the entire time I was thinking to myself – who is this?  So, I asked.  And when he told me I felt really dumb.  It was Pastor Andy Schultz from…

“KEEP WAITING”

Keep Waiting – James 5:7-10 Dear Christian friends.  In sure that most of you have ordered a Christmas gift for someone from a mail order catalog, or through the internet?  Once the order is in, then comes the wait. When the mailman comes you wonder if he brought it with him. Maybe you run to the window when you hear the UPS truck coming down the street? Then the amount of time for delivery comes and passes, the package hasn’t…

“LOOK IN THE MIRROR”

Look In The Mirror – Matthew 3:1-6 I’d like you to consider the following familiar scene. Think about the definitions for repentance it might suggest to a young child. A parent stands before two children, one is crying, the other has a smirk on their face. Big brother just hit little brother and knocked him down. “Tell your brother you’re sorry!” The response comes back, “I’m sorry,” but mom or dad responds, “You don’t look sorry. You don’t sound sorry.…