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11 + 1 = 13
Text: Acts 1:12-26 Date: Easter VII + 5/20/12 The sermon title, “11 + 1 = 13,” is, at first, intended to be a little humorous comment about finding a replacement for Judas Iscariot to restore the number of apostles to the original number of twelve. The humor I see is that though in today’s text, [...]
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11 + 1 = 13
Text: Acts 1:12-26 Date: Easter VII + 5/20/12 The sermon title, “11 + 1 = 13,” is, at first, intended to be a little humorous comment about finding a replacement for Judas Iscariot to restore the number of apostles to the original number of twelve. The humor I see is that though in today’s text, [...]
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More Water!
Text: Acts 10:34-48 Date: Easter VI + 5/13/12 Christ is risen! He is risen, indeed! For thirty-six days now the Lord, risen from the dead, has appeared alive to His disciples. Quoting St. Paul’s list, “he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time…. [...]
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See, Here Is Water!
Text: Acts 8:26-40 Date: Easter V + 5/6/12 The Lord is risen! He is risen, indeed! After appearing to His disciples a number of times after Easter, on the fortieth day at His Ascension He mapped out the mission that they should preach repentance and the forgiveness of sins, baptize and teach beginning in Jerusalem, [...]
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There Is Salvation in No One Else
Text: Acts 4:1-12 Date: Easter IV + 4/29/12 Christ is risen! He is risen, indeed! Appearing to His apostles He commanded them from now on to preach repentance and the forgiveness of sins in His name to all nations for the salvation of every person. We have seen in our readings from the Book of [...]
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Times of Refreshing
Text: Acts 3:11-21 Date: Easter III + 4/22/12 Christ is risen! He is risen, indeed! Today we heard St. Luke’s report of our Lord’s appearance to His disciples on that first Easter Day. As John reported so Luke tells us that Jesus “stood among them.” Then He said, “Peace to you!” Luke tells us a [...]
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Testimony with Great Power
Text: Acts 4:32-35 Date: Easter II + 4/15/12 Christ is risen! He is risen, indeed! The resurrection of the Lord Jesus is the big thing, the main event, the heart and center of the entire Christian message. Resurrection from the dead is what’s behind everything else that is taught, believed and goes on in the [...]
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Death: Denied or Devoured?
Text: Isaiah 25:6-9 Date: Easter Day + 4/8/12 Christ is risen! He is risen, indeed! With St. Paul we confess the truth that “we know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, [...]
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Messianic Expectations
Text: Isaiah 53 Date: Good Friday + 4/6/12 When the prophet Isaiah penned these words about the coming Savior, “he was wounded for our transgressions,” surely no one, you would think, maybe even the prophet himself, considered the wounds of which he wrote to be actual, physical bruises and gashes of the skin. No, this [...]
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The Marriage Supper of the Lamb
Text: Exodus 24:3-11 Date: Holy (Maundy) Thursday + 4/5/12 “Behold the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.” Tonight we recall the Covenant God made with the people of Israel at Mt. Sinai pointing to the New Covenant established by Jesus at the Last Supper, [...]
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