But if we walk in the light, just as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses us from all sin. 1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light, just as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses us from all sin. 1 John 1:7
Sermons on Matthew
Christmas – Matthew 1:18-25 Please listen with me to a reading from the first chapter of the Gospel according to St. Matthew, beginning at the 18th verse. Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the…
Matthew 21:1-9 We read in today’s text from St. Matthew: “Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, ‘Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Loose them and bring them to Me. And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, “The Lord…
On the last day, our bodies will rise immortal from their graves: purified and purged of all sin and of all the effects of sin. We will be brought home to the Zion of God’s beauty and perfection, in the new heavens and the new earth, where righteousness dwells forever. For now we do still…
Matthew 25:31-46 A common theme in popular movies involves a villainous character who does a lot of harm to a lot of people. Good people are killed, and the evil character seems to be prevailing, until justice is, in the end, meted out to him: either by a vengeful survivor hero, a skilled martial arts…
Matthew 9:1-8 In today’s Gospel from St. Matthew, we heard the story of the paralytic whose friends brought him to Jesus, with the hope that Jesus would heal him. This story also appears in the Gospels of Mark and Luke, who add the detail that the man’s friends, because of the crowds, opened up the…
St. Michael and All Angels Many people are drawn to fantasy stories about epic clashes between angels and demons, in which, on a superhuman scale, the forces of good battle against the forces of evil. We might sit in amazement as we watch movies about this kind of thing. We might be deeply absorbed in…
St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist Have you ever thought about the politics that were present among the disciples of Jesus? I’m not referring just to the way in which they related to each other. I mean the disciples’ involvement in the secular politics of the day, in that corner of the Roman Empire in which…
The institution of the Lord’s Supper by our Savior Jesus Christ, on the night in which he was betrayed, is recorded in three of the Gospels – Matthew, Mark, and Luke – and in St. Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians. But in these four inspired accounts, the descriptions of exactly what Jesus said are…