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Sermon Text — Mark 7:1-13 Proper 16 — August 23rd, 2015 Audio — https://www.steadfastlutherans.org/clips/sikora/Dr._Sikora,_Mark_7,_8_23_15.m4a   Grace, mercy and peace be unto you from…

Proper 15 LSB — August 16, 2015 Sermon Text — John 6:51-69 Audio — https://steadfastlutherans.org/clips/sikora/Dr._Sikora_John_6,_8_16_15.m4a   Grace, mercy and peace be unto you…

There’s nothing special about Ezekiel’s branch.  It’s just a twig.  And there’s certainly nothing extraordinary about a farmer sowing his seed.  Farmers have done that for thousands of years.  Nor is there anything especially attractive about a mustard seed.  Mustard seeds are small, very small.  Yet each of these are used by the Lord in our text to teach something quite extraordinary –  for each of these reveal the Kingdom of God.  You see the Kingdom of God isn’t about the mighty, the extraordinary or the attractive.

Nicodemus is a good, religious person.   He is what most people think all people should be.  He has a good reputation.  He’s an upstanding citizen.  He’s well respected in his religious community – a Pharisee.

May 24, 2015 — Pentecost Sunday
Sermon Text — Ezekiel 37:1-14
It is the Lord who opens eyes and it is the Lord who unstops ears.  He loosens tongues and causes the lame to leap.  Such is the One who brought us into being, who formed and fashioned us in the womb. 

The battle for our salvation was not brought about by the forging of plowshares into swords. The war for your redemption was not waged against flesh and blood but “but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness,

For three and a half years they followed Jesus.  That’s what disciples do, they follow their teacher, they go where He goes, hear what He speaks, and learn what He teaches, receive what He gives, and do what He bids.  The Life of a disciple is always one of going, hearing, learning, receiving and yes, even doing. 

“God is Love.” (1 John 4:8) There is no love in the world except the love which comes from the Father. Anyone who does not love does not know the Father. The Father loves the Son. The Son loves you.