“Eternal life in our daily life”, John 17:11-19; 1 John 5:9-15; Psalm 1 / May 12th, 2024 / Seventh Sunday of Easter / Hope Lutheran Church, Rev. Lucas Andre Albrecht

Text: 1 John 5:9-16; John 17:11-19; Psalm 1; Theme: Eternal Life in our daily life ___________________________ Intr – You are watching a game with you friend and it is the final game of the series. Your friend celebrates every good play and gets super tense at every difficult moment. You...

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“Abide in Me”, John 15:1-8 / April 28th, 2024 / Fifth Sunday of Easter / Hope Lutheran Church, Rev. Lucas Andre Albrecht

Text: John 15:1-8 Theme: “Abide in Me” ___________________________ Intr – Imagine a person who became very invested in giving access to food to as many people as he noticed many families struggling to survive in his neighborhood. He then came up with an idea: he started giving Grocery Store free...

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“Love for the Sheep”, John 10:11-18 / April 21st, 2024 / Fourth Sunday of Easter / Hope Lutheran Church, Rev. Lucas Andre Albrecht

Text: John 10:11-16 Theme: “Love for the sheep” ___________________________ Intr –  The Good Shepherd Sunday is always a deep, rich well we can draw from. Here are a couple of highlights I wanted to reflect about with you today thinking especially of our Gospel reading.[1] 1 – The hired hand ...

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“Identity in Jesus”, Luke 24:36-49/1 John 3:1-7 / April 14th, 2024 / Third Sunday of Easter / Hope Lutheran Church, Rev. Lucas Andre Albrecht

Text: Luke 24:36-49, 1 John 3:1-7 Theme: Identity in Jesus Edited transcript[1] ____________________________ Intro – Dear friends in Christ, what is your “story of everything”? What is the story arc that explains life as you know it and  as you live it? I borrowed this concept from Professor Okamoto(Concordia Seminary,...

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” words from the Word”, John 20:19-31 / April 7th, 2024 / Second Sunday of Easter / Hope Lutheran Church, Rev. Lucas Andre Albrecht

  Text: John 20:19-31 Theme: Words from the Word ___________________________ Watch the full sermon here   Intro – Are you familiar with the 7/38/55 rule for interpersonal Communication? If you Google it, you’ll find plenty of sources referring to it as the Mehrabian rule, which goes like this: interpersonal communication...

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