Showing posts with label Installation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Installation. Show all posts
02 November 2025

Given by Christ Jesus to Be a Shepherd of His Sheep

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“Thank God,” Dr. Luther once remarked, “even a seven-year-old child knows what a shepherd is and does.” He feeds and tends the lambs and she...
12 January 2025

United with Christ Jesus in His Baptism, His Cross, and His Office

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It was on this Sunday twenty-five years ago that I had the privilege of preaching for my father’s installation as the new pastor at Our Savi...
14 January 2024

Upon This Rock Christ Builds His Church

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The Church’s one Foundation is Jesus Christ, her Lord – the almighty and eternal Son of the Living God, conceived and born of the Blessed Vi...
07 January 2024

United with Christ: in His Cross and in His Office

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By a son’s reckoning, it will be twenty years ago this June; if memory serves me well, it was on the Nativity of St. John the Baptist — or, ...
08 June 2019

The Spirit of Christ Jesus in the Ministry of His Gospel

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We pray for the gift of the Holy Spirit in the confidence that our Father in heaven pours out His living and Life-giving Spirit generously u...
11 May 2019

The Ministry of the Word of Christ

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As He called and gathered the disciples to Himself, to follow Him on His journey from the waters of His Baptism to His Holy Cross and Passio...
20 September 2013

The Crucified and Risen Lord Gives Good Gifts

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St. Matthew, the former tax collector, is among the Lord’s good gifts to His Church.  Indeed, as one of the Twelve Apostles, and as the firs...