FAITH LUTHERAN ALIEN RIGHTEOUSNESS SERMONS

This sermon explains that God's "steadfast love" is not an emotional feeling but divine, covenantal action — God's military conquest and fulfillment of promises through Christ. Your salvation and standing before God rest on Christ's accomplished righteousness, not your feelings or works.

It highlights the cross as both conquest and sacrifice, the legal/forensic nature of God’s mercy, and the sacraments and church as tangible assura...

This episode examines Biblical title of the Messiah as found in stanza four of the Advent hymn "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel," tracing the biblical story from Eden's loss of God's presence, through Israel's failure and judgment, to the surprising emergence of the Messiah as The Living Shoot from Jesse's stump, Who restores life, the Christ.

Listeners are reminded that believers are grafted into this True Vine, called to live and suffer...

This sermon reflects on Psalm 137 and the Advent hymn "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel," exploring Israel’s exile, the loss of God’s presence, and the desperate need for a Messiah. It traces how human rebellion leads to exile and how only the Divine Warrior, Jesus, restores God’s presence.

Through the themes of judgment, repentance, and hope, the sermon affirms that Christ is Emmanuel—God with us now in baptism and communion and fully at ...

This sermon for the first Sunday in Advent explores Jeremiah 23, Psalm 24, and Matthew 21 to show how God shares authority with "under-shepherds," how corruption entered both human and divine leaders, and how Christ the Righteous Branch restores and gathers the scattered. It emphasizes Jesus as the True Shepherd who conquers false rulers, re-establishes the church as His bride, and gives believers a foretaste of the renewed creatio...

This sermon draws on Deuteronomy 8 and Matthew to show how Jesus shared Israel’s wilderness trial, succeeded where they failed, and now shares His victory with us. Christ was present with Israel, suffered their rebellions, and fulfills God’s promise by giving the Promised Land as a gift through his righteousness.

Through baptism, the Lord binds Himself to His people, covers sin with His obedience, and sustains us with Word and Sacr...

This sermon, drawing on Matthew 25 and Isaiah 65, explains the parable of the ten virgins as a portrait of Jesus as both the bridegroom and the true Wisdom. Though all humanity is foolish in sin, we are grafted into Christ and made wise through his life, death, baptism, and Eucharist.

We are invited to follow as bridegroom in suffering and faithfulness now, with the sure promise of being received into the eternal wedding feast and ...

This episode traces the indictment of Israel in Micah—framed by Deuteronomy’s blessing and curse—and the nation’s hopeless plea of what can be offered to God. It then shows how Psalm 116 points to the Messiah as the definitive answer: Christ’s obedience, sacrifice, and resurrection satisfy God’s justice.

Listeners are invited to share in Christ’s merits, receive the cup of salvation in the sacraments, and respond with the lifelong ...

This sermon explores Genesis 1 and Psalm 8 to show how humanity's original priestly office was meant to rule and serve in God's cosmic temple, how sin broke that office, and how Jesus, the new Adam, restores and fulfills it through His incarnation, life, death, and resurrection.

It invites listeners to rest in Christ's accomplished victory, participate in His kingdom now, and hold on to hope that the grave cannot finally hold those...

This sermon reframes Reformation Sunday as a battle rather than a celebration, urging believers to reject complacency and defend the true gospel and orthodox confession against attacks from within and without.

Drawing on Psalm 46, the preacher presents Christ as the warrior-king whose victory guarantees the church’s ultimate safety, while calling Christians to participate in the struggle through repentance, faithful vocations, and ...

This episode examines Deuteronomy 10’s call to "circumcise the foreskin of your heart," placing it in the context of divine judgment and idolatry. It contrasts the law’s condemnation with the gospel, showing how Christ fulfills the law, drinks the cup of wrath in our place, and offers life and blessing through a blessed exchange.

Listeners are invited to see the text Christologically, to appreciate the seriousness of the law, and t...

In Luke 7 a widow mourns as her only son is carried out in a public funeral procession. Jesus meets her grief with compassion, touches the bier, and commands the young man to rise.

The sermon explains that death comes through sin, yet Christ willingly takes on humanity's guilt, dies, and rises to break death’s power. His holiness overcomes the impurity of death, and He shares His righteousness with us.

For those who trust Christ, d...

This sermon explores readings from 1 Kings and Luke 4 to explain why signs and wonders were given in Scripture, how Israel's rejection led God to show His works to Gentiles, and how Jesus fulfills Isaiah's promises by bringing salvation, sight, and the sacraments to the church.

It challenges modern believers to treasure the Word and sacraments, recognize Christ as the true Israel, and live out their vocation in the new creation whi...

This sermon explores Luke 10 and the story of the Good Samaritan to show that we are the wounded man in need of rescue, not the rescuer. Christ alone fulfilled the law and provided eternal life by his obedience, sacrifice, and compassion.

Having received life through Christ, we are called to follow his example: love as he loved, confront evil when needed, and be willing to suffer for the sake of others, living out the law now that ...