ST. STEPHEN’S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH
Striving to speak God’s saving truth in love. Ephesians 4:15
St. Stephen’s Evangelical Lutheran Church and School | Beaver Dam, WI | 920.885.3309
A sermon on John 11:17-27, 38-45 for the 5th Sunday in Lent, March 29, 2020. Each week after the sermon we confess our faith with either the Apostles’ or Nicene Creed. This confession gives a brief overview of our Christian faith. We confess our faith in the Triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We…
Sermon on John 9:1-7, 13-17, 34-39 for Lent 4, March 22, 2020 After all matter was created, darkness still covered all. God said, “Let there be light.” It was the first step of bringing order out of disorder and making that creation “very good.”Genesis chapter one is one of the few places we read about physical light—the light…
A Sermon based on John 11:33-37 for Midweek Lent Worship, March 18, 2020. It started out as a normal day at the high end car dealership. People wandered in dressed in designer suits looking at all the vehicles. The sales people took care of those customers hoping to hit it big on the commission. All…
A sermon based on Genesis 12:1-8 for the 2nd Sunday of Lent, March 8, 2020. I can remember when my kids were younger packing up for trips. We lived down in Texas with two kids and then another came as well. My family was in Oshkosh and Andrea’s family lived outside of Lansing, MI. When…
https://youtu.be/fApRVGtGMb8 Sermon on Genesis 3:1-15 and Matthew 4:1-11 for Lent 1,A, March 1, 2020 Temptation is something that is both complex and simple. It is complex because the devil keeps working at us, slithering his way in. He gets us to distrust someone around us. Distrust turns into suspicion. Suspicion turns into assumptions about evil…
A sermon on Matthew 5:21-37 for the 6th Sunday after Epiphany, February 13/16, 2020. We need to have a heart to heart talk. Immediately, warning alarms ring in our mind. What did I do? Did I offend them in some way? Is some terrible news coming, which I need to brace myself for? A heart…
https://youtu.be/e7LfK4uZTeI?t=1773 Sermon on Matthew 5:13-20 for Epiphany 5, A, February 6 & 9, 2020 I know Pastor Heyer has mentioned this in sermons… that phrase that was popular in the 1990s, “What would Jesus do?” It’s not a bad question. Jesus certainly is the best example to follow. But he is more than an example to…
Sermon on Psalm 27 for Epiphany 3, A, January 26, 2020 We remember King David as a person who had many ups and downs—I would say extreme ups and downs compared with our lives. He was a shepherd boy, out in the field, tending his flock. Then he killed the giant Goliath, and everyone shouted…
A sermon based on Colossians 2:6-15, for the 2nd Sunday after the Epiphany, January 16/19, 2020. Signs all around the perimeter give warnings. Everyone knows the inherent danger that exists from doing this activity. The intermittent whistle sounds causing all to look at the one who broke the rules. Every now and then we see…
A sermon on Isaiah 60:1-6 for Epiphany Sunday, January 2/5, 2020. In June 2018, there was a highly publicized rescue effort of a youth soccer team, who were trapped in a cave in Northern Thailand. One day after practice twelve players and one assistant coach explored this cave. While they were in the cave, floodwaters…