Sermon


Is Christ in, where Christ is on it?

For years, I hold back to eat pork. In a supermarket I bought a "veal bratwurst". Someone told me, "There's pork in that veal bratwurst!" I could hardly believe it. In the fine print, however, it was black and white. "Der Kassensturz" (a Swiss TV show) has tested the veal bratwurst and writes: Veal sausages are very popular at barbecues. But not every sausage that looks like a veal bratwurst ...

Carefree in God

Today's society, especially in the industrialized world, is under increasing pressure: the majority of people are constantly beset by something. People suffer from time constraints, pressure to perform (work, school, society), financial difficulties, general insecurity, terrorism, war, weather disasters, loneliness, hopelessness, etc., etc. Stress and depression have become everyday words, problems, diseases ...

What is freedom?

Recently we visited our daughter and her family. In an article I read the sentence: "Freedom is not the absence of compulsion, but the ability to renounce love for one's neighbor" (Factum 4 / 09 / 49). Freedom is more than the absence of constraints! We've already heard some sermons on freedom, or have already studied this topic myself. The special thing about this statement for me, however, is that freedom is associated with renunciation ...

Take the plunge

A famous parable of Jesus: Two people go to the temple to pray. One is a Pharisee, the other a tax collector (Luke 18,9.14). Today, two thousand years after Jesus told this parable, we might be tempted to nod knowingly and say, "Sure, the Pharisees, the epitome of self-righteousness and hypocrisy!" try to imagine how the parable from Jesus ...

Reason for hope

The Old Testament is a story of frustrated hope. It begins with the revelation that human beings were created in the image of God. But it wasn't long before people sinned and were driven from Paradise. But with the word of judgment came a word of promise - God told Satan that one of Eve's descendants would crush his head 3,15). A liberator would come. Eva probably hoped ...

Live for God or in Jesus

I ask myself a question about today's sermon: "Do I live for God or in Jesus?" The answer to these words has changed my life and it can change your life too. It is a question of whether I try to live completely lawfully for God or whether I accept God's unconditional grace as an undeserved gift from Jesus. To put it clearly - I live in, with and through Jesus. It is impossible to cover all aspects of grace in this one sermon ...

The whole armor of God

Today, on Christmas, we are dealing with "the armor of God" in Ephesians. You will be surprised how it deals directly with Jesus, our Savior. Paul wrote this letter in prison in Rome. He was aware of his weakness and put all his trust in Jesus. "Last: Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His strength. Put on the armor of God so you can stand against the cunning attacks of the devil "...

The poured out life of Christ

Today I would like to encourage you to heed the admonition that Paul gave to the Philippine Church. He asked her to do something and I will show you what this was about and ask you to decide to do the same. Jesus was completely God and completely human. Another passage that speaks of the loss of its divinity can be found in Philippians. «Because this mind is in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, when he was in ...

Blind trust

This morning I stood in front of my mirror and asked the question: mirroring, mirroring on the wall, who is the most beautiful in the whole country? Then the mirror said to me: Can you please go aside? I ask you a question: «Do you believe what you see or do you trust blindly? Today we take a close look at faith. I would like to express one fact clearly: God lives, he exists, believe it or not! God is not dependent on your faith. ...

The transformation of water into wine

The Gospel of John tells an interesting story, which occurred at about the beginning of Jesus' ministry on earth: He went to a wedding, where he turned water into wine. This story is unusual in some respects: what happens is a bit of a miracle, more like a magic trick than a messianic work. Although it prevented a somewhat embarrassing situation, but did not turn so directly against ...

Our reasonable worship

“I now exhort you, brothers and sisters, through the mercy of God, that you offer your body as a sacrifice that is living, holy and pleasing to God. Let that be your reasonable worship ”(Romans 12,1). That is the subject of this sermon. You noticed correctly that a word is missing. In addition to reasonable worship, our worship is a logical one. This word is derived from the Greek "logiken". Service in honor of God is ...

Jesus is our mediator

This sermon begins with the need to understand that all people have been sinners since Adam's time. In order to be fully delivered from sin and death, we need a mediator to deliver us from sin and death. Jesus is our perfect mediator because he freed us from death through his sacrificial death. Through His resurrection, He gave us new life and reconciled us to Heavenly Father. Who Jesus as his personal mediator to the Father...