“Will you lay down your life for me?”/ Sermon for February 14th, 2024 / Ash Wednesday / Hope Lutheran Church, Rev. Lucas Andre Albrecht

John 13:36-38 Theme: “Will you lay down your life for me?” ___________________________ Intr – The Sermon text for today is from John’s Gospel. But I’d like to mention another John first. “John McClamrock was an achingly good-looking kid who bagged groceries at Tom Thumb and cruised Forest Lane on weekends...

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Text: 1 Corinthians 9:16-23 Theme: “For the sake of the Gospel” ___________________________ Intr  – I was told the story of a Christian missionary who was walking on the street and saw people in cult-like religious institution working in something in their property; painting, if I remember it correctly. He then...

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“Teaching with authority”/ Sermon for January 28th, 2024 / Epiphany 4 / Hope Lutheran Church, Rev. Lucas Andre Albrecht

Text: Mark 1:21-28 Theme: Teaching with Authority ___________________________ Intr – The online world offers us regularly tons of cards and banners bringing virtual wisdom for our lives, especially when it comes to picture-based social media websites. It goes from advice on health, to spirit, to sadness, to purpose…and so on....

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“Inclusively human”/ Sermon for January 14th, 2024 / Epiphany 2 / Hope Lutheran Church, Rev. Lucas Andre Albrecht

  Texts: John 1.43-51; 1Corinthians 6.12-20; Psalm 139; 1Samuel 3.1-10 Theme: Inclusively human ___________________________ Intr – “It is a big problem for human life when it becomes exclusively human.” This is inspired in a comment of Charles Taylor in “A secular age”.[1] I don’t know if that is exclusive to our...

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