Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia!

Brothers and sisters, blessings in the name of our risen Savior on this glorious Easter morning!

Today is a day of feasting on eggs and sweet rolls, chocolates and jelly beans, ham and potatoes, and the love of family. Even better, we feast on the triumphant news of Christ’s victory over death and the devil, over sin and hell, ov. . .

Sermon Text: Zechariah 9:9-10

The Israelites’ heads must have hung toward their feet much of the time. They must have felt defeated. Sure, they had returned from exile in the East. But the temple was still in ruins. They were a small remnant of what they once were, and they struggled with their identity. But now the prophet told them, “Look up! Here comes your King!”

Fast-for. . .

Sermon on 2 Kings 4:17-37

Text: But the woman became pregnant, and the next year about that same time she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.
18 The child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the reapers. 19 He said to his father, “My head! My head!”
His father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.” 20 After the servant had lif. . .

Sermon on Isaiah 42:14-21

Text: “For a long time I have kept silent,
I have been quiet and held myself back.
But now, like a woman in childbirth,
I cry out, I gasp and pant.
15 I will lay waste the mountains and hills
and dry up all their vegetation;
I will turn rivers into islands
and dry up the pools.
16 I will lead the blind by ways they have not known,
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Sermon on Exodus 17:1–7

Text: The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. 2 So they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.”
Moses replied, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the LORD to the test?”
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Sermon on Genesis 12:1-8

Text: The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
2 “I will make you into a great nation,
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on eart. . .