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Text: Luke 14:1-14 Date: Pentecost XIV (Proper 17) + 8/29/10 Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI God Himself is present: Let us now adore Him And with awe appear before Him. God is in His temple; All within keep silence; Humbly kneel in deepest rev’rence. He alone On His throne Is our [...]

Text: Luke 13:22-30 Date: Pentecost XIII (Proper16) + 8/22/10 Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI It was an innocent enough question. Just religious curiosity, I suppose, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?” When you look around, especially these days in our country with church attendance at, it seems, an all [...]

Text: Luke 12:22-34 Date: Pentecost XI (Proper 14) + 8/8/10 Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI This Sunday’s Word is about faith. But it’s more than that. The first two readings are about faith and the third reading from Luke’s Gospel is about worry, the opposite of faith. But it’s more than [...]

Text: Luke 12:13-21 Date: Pentecost X (Proper 13) + 8/1/10 Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI This is a most difficult sermon on a most difficult Word. It is difficult, first, because the bottom line, the “punch line,” the basic message ends up being, as you would expect, that you should give [...]

Text: Luke 11:1-13 Date: Pentecost IX (Proper 12) St. James the Elder, Apostle + 7/25/10 Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI At the end of the tenth chapter of Luke’s Gospel last week we understood the concluding story at the house of Martha and Mary to be an illustration or commentary on [...]