Build on the Rock - 2018 Summer Series - Week 2 - The Tower of Babel

Defiance against God won't be tolerated

The Lord is a God of justice and mercy.

Leave those half-built, humanistic projects behind and move on to live the life that God seeks from his people.  Follow his direction and build a life that honors him.  Amen

Pastor Ron Koehler

Build on the Rock - 2018 Summer Series - Week 1

Jesus explains that a wise builder builds his house on a rock because physical buildings need good foundations.

Our entire lives are a building project so let us, with God's help, build on the rock of Jesus our Savior who provides a firm and lasting foundation.

Pastor Nathan Kassulke

Holy Trinity Sunday

• We are freed from sin's slavery by the Holy Spirit.
• We have the Father's ear in all our prayers.
• We share in the Son's suffering and glory.

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.

Pastor Timothy Patoka

The Day of Pentecost - The Coming of the Holy Spirit

• The Holy Spirit helps us by teaching us about Jesus
• His teaching unlocks Jesus' eternal peace.

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful people, and kindle in them the fire of your love.

Pastor Timothy Patoka

Ascension Sunday - What is Jesus doing in heaven right?

Jesus blesses his church

• by assuring you his saving work is complete.
• by organizing his church
• by equipping his people to serve

Pastor Ron Koehler

Sixth Sunday of Easter - Love each other as I have loved you.

Jesus said:

• As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.
• My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.

Pastor Timothy Patoka

Fifth Sunday of Easter - Jesus is the true vine - Abide in Him

• Jesus explains that fruits of faith are produced because we are connected to him and because he gives his life-giving love to us.
• Our fruits of faith demonstrate our love to others, not to our glory, but to God's glory.

Pastor Nathan Kassulke

Fourth Sunday of Easter - Good Shepherd Sunday

• Jesus will not abandon his sheep when danger comes
• Jesus and his sheep know each other well

Pastor Tim Patoka

Third Sunday of Easter

• Christ's resurrection removes fears
• Christ's resurrection creates bold messengers

Pastor Ron Koehler

Second Sunday of Easter

• Christ's resurrection assures our present forgiveness
• Christ's resurrection assures our future resurrection

Pastor Timothy Patoka

Hebrews: 7:23-27

• Jesus is alive! He is not in the tomb.  He has risen just as he said.
• We have in the risen Jesus a high priest who truly meets our needs, who saved us from our sins and now lives to help us, to intercede for us.
• And his help, his accomplishment, his priesthood, mean our salvation will never end.  It is eternal.

Pastor Nathan Kassulke

God Most Holy, look with mercy on this your family for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, be given over into the hands of the wicked, and suffer death upon the cross.  Keep us always faithful to him, our only Savior, who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.  Amen

• The Tabernacle and the High Priest Foreshadow Jesus Christ
• The Great Day of Atonement Foreshadows the Cross
• The Blood of Our Great High Priest Cleanses Us
• Our Great High Priest Is Tried and Tortured
• Our Great High Priest Is Crucified
• Our Great High Priest Dies
• Our Great High Priest Is Buried

Exodus 26, 28; Leviticus 16; Hebrews 9; Mark 15

Pastor Nathan Kassulke

Have confidence that Jesus, our Great High Priest, is the mediator of a covenant that is better, stronger, and smarter than the old covenant.

Dearest Jesus, we thank you for the gift of your body and blood, given and shed for the salvation of our souls.  Thank you for strengthening us with your Word and Sacrament. Amen.

Pastor Ron Koehler

What a day Palm Sunday must have been when Jesus triumphantly entered Jerusalem!

Jesus willingly humbled himself.

God exalted him above all

Pastor Timothy Patoka

Let us approach God boldly with our prayers in every time of need and for others and their needs.  Amen.

We are priests who enter God's presence through Christ's body,

who are urged to enter God's presence boldly.

Pastor Ron Koehler

I have glorified it and I will glorify it again (John 12:28)

Jesus' willing death glorifies the Son of God.

Jesus' guilty death glorifies God's name.

Jesus' death shares God's glory with his children

Pastor Timothy Patoka

And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood.

The better altar is the Cross of Jesus where are sins are forgiven.

Pastor Ryan Heiman

"...it is by grace you have been saved, through faith..."

Thank God for His amazing fit of grace by walking with the Lord

Pastor Ron Koehler

"Where is the lamb for the burnt sacrifice?" Isaac asked his father, Abraham

1. Jesus was an acceptable sacrifice
2. His sacrifice was accepted by God

Pastor Timothy Patoka

Jesus, our High Priest, is able to empathize with us in our weakness, able to energize and strengthen us to serve him.

Pastor Nathan P. Kassulke