Sermons

		Advent
		Christmas
		Epiphany
		Pre-Lent (Gesima Sundays)
		Lent
		Passiontide (Holy Week)
		Easter
		Pentecost (Series B)
		Trinity
		Major Festivals
		Minor Festivals
		Funeral Sermons
		Occasional Services

Messiah Lutheran Church uses the traditional one-year lectionary of the Western Christian Church. We are currently field testing the proposed revisions to the lectionary from the Lutheran Hymnal Project of the LCMS Commission on Worship.

Here are some of the resources on the web for the traditional lectionary:

Traditional Lectionary Resources

Commission on Worship Historic Lectionary Page

Book of Concord Readings for the One Year Lectionary

Selected Sermons on the Traditional Lectionary

		Pastor Rolf Preus
		Pastor Aaron Koch
		Prof. John Pless
		Pastor Marcus Zill
		Sermons by Dr. Martin Luther — The Church Postils
		Pastor David Kind

A quotation from Herman Sasse

"The humble preaching of the Gospel and the administration of the simple Sacraments are the greatest things that can happen in the world. For in these things the hidden reign of Christ is consummated. He himself is present in these means of grace, and the bearer of the ministry of the church actually stands in the stead of Christ. That certainly puts an end to any clerical conceit. We are nothing. He is everything. And that means that the terrible sin of pessimism, which is the pastor's greatest temptation, is finished with as well. It is nothing but doubt and unbelief, for Christ the Lord is just as present in His means of grace today as He was in the sixteenth or the first century And 'all authority in heaven and on earth' [Matt. 28:18] is just as much His today as it was when He first spoke that promise to the apostles. And it remains so into all eternity. Do we still believe this?"

Hermann Sasse, The Lutheran Doctrine of the Office of the Ministry in The Lonely Way: II, St. Louis: CPH, 1992, pg. 139.