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 based on Numbers 6:22-27 for Trinity Sunday, June 13/16, 2019. It is everyone’s favorite part of the service. Everything has been building up to this climax. From the moment they first sit in the pew, every Christian cannot wait to hear those words. It finally comes: the benediction. All of a sudden our…
Sermon on John 14:23-27 for Pentecost, June 6 & 9, 2019 Everybody wants peace. Everybody has their own idea of peace. And in our world, it seems that nothing is harder to find than peace. I think most of us would define peace as “The absence of conflict.” Maybe some would define peace as “a sense of…
Sermon for 7th Sunday of Easter, June 2, 2019, on Revelation 22:12-17, 20 Dear friends in Jesus, It’s somewhat ironic, sinful even, that just about every day we ask Jesus to come be with us to bless us as we receive our food at meal times. Yet there are times during that same day…
A sermon on John 16:16-24 for the 6th Sunday after Easter, May 23/26, 2019. The hearts of all the people watching the movie pound in anticipation of what will happen next. The hero hangs off a cliff, bridge, a tall building, or whatever else it might be. As time ticks by the hero’s grip slowly…
Sermon on John 13:31–35 for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, May 16 & 19, 2019 Many times in the Bible God is connected with love. The most famous verse in the Bible begins “God so loved the world” (John 3:16). The apostle John writes in his first letter “God is love” (1 John 4:16). There…
Sermon for 4th Sunday of Easter (Good Shepherd Sunday), May 12, 2019 on Revelation 7:9-17 Dear fellow sheep in the Good Shepherd’s flock, Many of us enjoy “rags to riches” stories, don’t we? We like the Cinderella story, from peasant to princess. We enjoy a good movie story line in which the guy working…
A sermon based on Revelation 5:11-14 for the 3rd Sunday after Easter, May 2/5, 2019. Have you ever seen a celebration so amazing and spectacular that you wish you could just be there? Many times we watch these events on television. You receive an overall view of what things look like. You can still hear…
Sermon on 1 Corinthians 15:51-57 for the Easter Day, April 21, 2019 Do you know what a rhetorical question is? It’s a question you ask without really expecting an answer. Public speakers ask them to try to get people thinking about the implied answer. In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul has two rhetorical questions as the conclusion to…
Sermon on Galatians 3:10-13 for Good Friday, April 19, 2019 I’m afraid the word “curse” is a foreign word to us. Yes, we know what people say when they accidentally hit their thumb with a hammer or shut their fingers in a door. That’s cursing. Our Catechism class definition of cursing is “Using God’s name to wish…
A sermon based on II Samuel 12:1-13 for the Confessional Service, April 16, 2019. The deer in the headlights look. The deer stands frozen staring right back into the oncoming headlights. The driver tries to guess the deer’s next movement to avoid an accident. The hearts of both the deer and driver pound rapidly wondering…