Rev. Michael Holmen's Sermons
282 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSermons preached at Peace Lutheran Church, Oelwein, IA and Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, Independence, IA. This is a dual parish of The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod. We use the one year, historic lectionary.
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201004 Sermon on Luke 14:1-11 (Trinity 17) October 4, 2020
October 04, 2020 14:53Audio Recording Sermon manuscript: We Christians live in the time of the New Testament, the new covenant, the new arrangement between God and us. The nature of this New Testament is that Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. By the redeeming sacrifice of the Son of God, all people have been reconciled to God, even though they have disregarded and even actively fought against God’s will. Therefore, through faith in Jesus we are justified before God. That mean...
200927 Sermon on Luke 7:11-17 (Trinity 16) September 27, 2020
September 27, 2020 14:32Audio Recording Luther quotation mentioned in the sermon: A Word from Luther All miracles and works of God are considered impossible in our eyes, and they are also impossible for the natural man to grasp; and this is to the end that God may be confessed to be an almighty Creator, for whom something impossible can be made possible, and can make something out of nothing. … Therefore, if death be present and I can no longer live, I must still know enough to say: “Nevertheless I live, and I ...
200920 Sermon on Matthew 6:24-34 (Trinity 15) September 20, 2020
September 20, 2020 14:36Sermon Audio Sermon Manuscript: About 250 years ago some men in Great Britain began to do some experiments with machines and the manufacturing of cloth. They had come up with some clever devices that were able to spin yarn and, later, to weave it in a way that was much more efficient than doing it by hand in people’s homes. At first these machines were powered by water wheels on a river. Eventually they would come to be powered by steam engines that used coal as their fuel. With these sou...
200913 Sermon on Luke 17:11-19 (Trinity 14) September 13, 2020
September 13, 2020 18:12Sermon Audio The outward appearance of something often tells you a lot about what is going on in general. When you go to a business and see that there are weeds growing, the paint is peeling, and dust is covering the merchandise, you know that that business is not in good shape. It is lacking the resources to keep itself in shape. A lot of times you can tell whether a person is healthy or not by looking at them. If they are pale and sweating, if they are gaunt and emaciated, if they are ...
200906 Sermon on Luke 10:23-37 (Trinity 13) September 6, 2020
September 06, 2020 14:33Sermon Audio Sermon manuscript: God’s Law is plain in our readings this morning. It is God’s Law that we should love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind. We should also love our neighbor as we love ourselves. Our Gospel reading further elaborates on the second part of this definition of God’s Law—what it means to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. There is more that could be said, therefore, about the first part—what it means to love God with all that you ca...
200830 Sermon on Mark 7:31-37
August 30, 2020 14:30Sermon Audio Sermon Manuscript: If you have ever traveled to a foreign country, then you’ve probably noticed how widespread the English language is. Signs usually have their message written in the indigenous language, but right below it, the message will have been translated into English. So if you go to far away places like Asia or Africa, you should still be able to make your way around, at least somewhat, because you know English. The reason why English is so prominent across the glo...
200830 Sermon on Mark 7:31-37 (Trinity 12) August 30, 2020
August 30, 2020 14:30Sermon Audio Sermon Manuscript: If you have ever traveled to a foreign country, then you’ve probably noticed how widespread the English language is. Signs usually have their message written in the indigenous language, but right below it, the message will have been translated into English. So if you go to far away places like Asia or Africa, you should still be able to make your way around, at least somewhat, because you know English. The reason why English is so prominent across the glo...
200823 Sermon on Luke 18:9-14 (Trinity 11) August 23, 2020
August 23, 2020 14:29Audio Recording Sermon Manuscript: It will be helpful for us to consider what the two men were like in our Gospel reading this morning. The point of the parable turns on these two being quite different from one another outwardly. So that is how we will begin today before getting into the meaning of the parable itself. The more important character to properly understand to get Jesus’s point is the Pharisee. Pharisees, understandably, do not have a great reputation among us because they ...
200816 Sermon on Luke 19:41-48 (Trinity 10) August 16, 2020
August 16, 2020 14:32Audio Recording Sermon Manuscript: From almost the very beginning of the world there have always been two different kinds of people: believers and unbelievers. Adam and Eve were created as believers. The devil turned them into unbelievers with his lies. God had mercy on them and came to them again. He brought them to repentance. He promised salvation in Jesus, the Seed of the woman. In the first generation after Adam and Eve we see the two different kinds of people. Cain, the firstborn,...
200809 Sermon on 2 Samuel 22:26-34 (Trinity 9) August 9, 2020
August 09, 2020 14:40Sermon Audio Luther Quotation referred to in the sermon: The First Commandment: "You are to have no other gods." That is, you are to regard me alone as your God. What does this mean, and how is it to be understood? What does "to have a god" mean, or what is God? Answer: A "god" is the term for that to which we are to look for all good and in which we are to find refuge in all need. Therefore, to have a god is nothing else than to trust and believe in that one with your whole heart. As I...
200802 Sermon on Jeremiah 23:16-29, Matthew 7:15-23
August 02, 2020 14:58Sermon audio Sermon manuscript: A few generations back there was a more widely spread notion that it was important to belong to a congregation. Most people could say that they were members at this congregation or that congregation. Today this is no longer the case. But it is important that we do not look at the past with rose colored glasses. Even when more people held membership in congregations, the good reasons for being a member weren’t at all clear to them. A lot of people were mem...
200726 Sermon on Romans 6:19-23 (Trinity 7) July 26, 2020
July 26, 2020 14:33Sermon audio Sermon manuscript: Our epistle reading last week was Romans 6 verses 1-11. Our epistle reading this week is Romans 6 verses 19 to the end of the chapter. Both last week’s reading ad this week’s reading are from the same chapter. It isn’t surprising that there is a connection between the two readings. So I’d like to refresh your memory of what was said last week. Our reading began with Paul’s rhetorical question: “What then, shall we remain in sin so that grace may abound? By ...
200719 Sermon on Romans 6:1-11 (Trinity 6) July 19, 2020
July 20, 2020 17:21Sermon audio Sermon Manuscript: There is an advent hymn that goes like this: “O Savior, rend the heavens wide! Come down, come down with might stride! Unlock the gates, the doors break down! Unbar the way to heaven’s crown.” We have some dramatic imagery here. “Jesus,” the singer says, “Rip the heavens in two as though you were ripping some fabric. With a determined march, looking neither to the left nor to the right, come right down here to us. There are gates and there are doors that are ...
200712 Sermon on 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 (Trinity 5) July 12, 2020
July 12, 2020 23:47200712 Sermon on 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 Sermon manuscript: In our epistle reading Paul says, “we preach Christ crucified.” Just a little later in the epistle he says this again. He says that when he came to the Corinthians he didn’t put on a big show. He didn’t speak super eloquently. He was determined to know nothing among them except Jesus Christ and him crucified. According to Paul’s own words, therefore, talking about Christ being crucified is important. In fact, he says that it is every...
200628 Trinity 3 Divine Service
June 28, 2020 19:11Bulletin 200628 Trinity 3 Divine Service Recording 200628 Sermon on Luke 15:11-32 Sermon Manuscript: In our Gospel reading the younger brother and the older brother appear to be quite different from one another. The younger brother is irresponsible. He squandered the wealth that he had received from his father. He did not worry about income and expenses. All he worried about was having a good time. The older brother stayed at home. He lived responsibly. He continued to work for his fathe...
200621 Trinity 2
June 21, 2020 17:51200621 Trinity 2 Bulletin 200621 Trinity 2 Divine Service 200621 Sermon on 1 John 3:13 Sermon manuscript: The apostle John says at the beginning of our reading: “Do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.” Let’s first understand who he is talking about. There are two groups of people here: “brothers” and “the world.” When John says, “brothers,” he is referring to Christians. He is not excluding women when he says “brothers,” as it might seem. He uses the word “brothers” becaus...
Trinity 1 Matins Service--ACH! I did it again! Sorry, no audio!
June 12, 2020 16:05Beginning this Sunday Peace Lutheran Church, Oelwein, will begin service at 8:30 in the sanctuary. The radio transmitter will be transmitting the service at 106.7 fm. Those who would like to worship in the parking lot are asked to pull up to the doors in order to get bulletins and hymnals for their car. These hymnals may either be returned at the front door after the service. You may also keep the hymnal in your car if you are planning on continuing to use the radio service in the parking lot...
Trinity 1 Matins Service
June 12, 2020 16:05Beginning this Sunday Peace Lutheran Church, Oelwein, will begin service at 8:30 in the sanctuary. The radio transmitter will be transmitting the service at 106.7 fm. Those who would like to worship in the parking lot are asked to pull up to the doors in order to get bulletins and hymnals for their car. These hymnals may either be returned at the front door after the service. You may also keep the hymnal in your car if you are planning on continuing to use the radio service in the parking lot...
Trinity Drive in Service
June 03, 2020 19:12200607 Trinity Drive in Service Audio Trinity Order of Service Sermon manuscript: A creed is a statement of belief. The Christian Church has three creeds—the Apostle’s Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed. All three of these creeds describe what Christians believe. All three of them describe the God in whom Christians believe. The shortest and simplest and oldest creed that we have as Christians is the Apostles’ Creed. This is the creed that we have been speaking on non-com...
200531 Pentecost Drive in Service
May 28, 2020 15:57200531 Pentecost Drive in Service 200531 Pentecost Order of Service The great festival of Pentecost is upon us. At Pentecost the Holy Spirit rushed upon the fledgling Christian Church so that they were compelled to preach. What they had to preach is what you heard from the book of Acts. The end of the ages has come upon us. Sons and daughters prophesy. Young men will see visions. Old men will dream dreams. There will be signs in the heavens and signs on the earth, blood and fire and a risi...
200524 Easter 7 Drive in Service
May 19, 2020 19:52200524 Easter 7 Drive in Service Audio 200524 Easter 7 Order of Service Sermon manuscript: The people of Israel were specifically chosen by God to be his own. They were the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They were led out of Egypt by God’s powerful hand. They cleansed the polluted land of Canaan, putting its idolatrous inhabitants to death, in order that they may live there eating milk and honey. Everyone had his own vine and his own fig tree. But what was more important than an...
200521 Ascension of our Lord Drive in Service
May 18, 2020 22:10200521 Ascension Drive in Service Audio 200521 Ascension of our Lord Order of Service Sermon manuscript: I didn’t grow up going to Ascension services. You probably didn’t either. They weren’t offered in the church where I grew up. The first time I ever went to an Ascension service was when I was in seminary. Up to that point I hadn’t really thought much about Christ’s ascension into heaven. It was just a line in the creed: “He ascended into heaven.” It was kind of a raw historical fact, bu...
200517 Easter 6 No Audio! Sorry!
May 17, 2020 16:22I'm very sorry, but I forgot to turn on the audio recorder for this service. I'll try to not let it happen again! Here is a copy of my sermon manuscript: One of the nice things about this part of the Church year is that for several weeks in a row all our readings come from the same few chapters of John’s Gospel. This portion of John’s Gospel is known as the “final discourse” because Jesus gave this instruction on Maundy Thursday, just before he was arrested. It was his last chance to teach ...
200510 Easter 5 Drive in Service
May 08, 2020 14:41200510 Easter 5 Drive in Service (audio) 200510 Easter 5 Order of Service Sermon manuscript: Our Gospel reading this morning is one of the most important and relevant portions of Scripture for us as Christians. It speaks to what we are about as Christians and what we do. This is always a very important thing to understand for anybody. A farmer, for example, needs to know what he is about and what he is supposed to do. If he didn’t know what to do, how could the crops get planted, tended, o...
200503 Easter 4 Drive in Service
April 28, 2020 17:47200503 Easter 4 Drive in Service (audio) 200503 Easter 4 Order of Service Sermon Manuscript: One of the words that Christians use in a special way is the word “world.” Those who are not familiar with Christ’s the apostles’ teachings might think that the globe, the planet earth, is being talked about with that word. That is not what is meant when the New Testament speaks about the “world.” What is meant by the word “world” has a lot to do with another special Christian word—the “flesh.” Her...
200426 Easter 3 Drive in Service
April 24, 2020 15:57200426 Easter 3 Drive in Service audio 200426 Easter 3 Order of Service Sermon Manuscript: There are a lot of different voices that say, “Follow me!” Your financial adviser says, “Follow me; I’ll make you a lot of money.” Your professor says, “Follow me; I’ll lead you out of the darkness of superstition into the light of reason.” Your doctor says, “Follow me; I’ll make you healthy.” Your political candidate says, “Follow me; I’ll lead you into a better future.” There are a lot of such vo...
200419 Easter 2 Drive in Service
April 17, 2020 18:45200419 Easter 2 Drive in Service audio 200419 Easter 2 Order of Service Sermon Manuscript: When Jesus rose from the dead on Easter morning he appeared to several disciples in different places, as you yourself can read about in the last chapters of the Gospels. Our Gospel reading today tells us what happened on the evening of Easter Day as well as a week later with Thomas. On the evening of Easter Day his disciples were in lockdown in an upper room of a house, fearing the Jews. Locked doors...
200412 Easter Drive in Service
April 10, 2020 20:02200412 Easter Drive in Service audio 200412 Easter Order of Service Sermon manuscript: There is a lot of peace that can be gained from the thought that everything is going to go back to normal. It is encouraging when we think of that time when we will no longer need to meet in cars or listen to sermons on our computer. It will be nice when we can go sit down in a restaurant somewhere or go to the golf course. But maybe what will be nicest of all is when we won’t have to worry about getting...
200410 Good Friday Drive in Service
April 08, 2020 16:50200410 Good Friday Drive in Service (audio) 200410 Good Friday Order of Service (bulletin) Sermon Manuscript: I’d like to speak with you tonight about the events leading up to the crucifixion during Holy Week. Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday. 500 years before Holy Week the prophet Zechariah said, “Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! Look! Your King is coming to you. He is righteous and brings salvation. He is humble and is riding on a donkey, on a colt the fo...
200409 Maundy Thursday Drive in Service
April 07, 2020 20:22200409 Maundy Thursday Drive in Service 200409 Maundy Thursday bulletin Sermon manuscript: About two and a half years ago our church celebrated the 500thanniversary of Martin Luther nailing the 95 theses concerning indulgences to the church door. This marked the beginning of an intense struggle throughout Christendom. Martin Luther’s writings caused much turmoil. Everybody had to take a stand. Was Luther correct or not? There was another man, named Desiderius Erasmus, who was a little old...
200405 Palm Sunday Drive in Service
April 05, 2020 16:54200405 Palm Sunday Drive in Service <--click here for audio 200405 Palm Sunday Order of Service <--click here for bulletin Sermon manuscript: Parades are a time of celebration and pageantry. You don’t have a parade at the time of tragedy and defeat. Parades are for winners. Today we hear of a parade that happened in Jerusalem. The winner is Jesus. He was the one who was being celebrated. John tells us that one of the reasons why there was a large crowd surrounding Jesus as he entered the...
200328 Home Worship Service (Lent 5)
March 28, 2020 18:35200328 Home Worship Service (Lent 5) Audio Recording <--click here for sound 200329 Lent 5 Home Worship Order of Service Document <--click here for order of service Our Gospel reading today comes from John’s Gospel. John is one of the twelve apostles. His brother was named James. It is believed that John is the only one of the twelve who died a natural death after living to be an old man. All the others were killed for preaching that Christ is the Savior. This does not mean that John did no...
Home Worship Service March 22, 2020
March 20, 2020 21:54200322 Home Worship Service (Lent 4) <--click for audio 200322 Lent 4 Home Worship Order of Service <--click for bulletin/order of service Sermon manuscript: Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God the Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Our readings today sound different from the way that they would under normal circumstances. Under normal circumstances we know where our daily bread is going to come from. We’re going to go to the grocery store and buy it. In order to pay for it ...
200315 Sermon on Exodus 8:16-21 (Lent 3) March 15, 2020
March 16, 2020 18:20200315 Sermon on Exodus 8:16-21 (Lent 3) March 15, 2020 I’d like to begin today by speaking about the background to our Old Testament lesson. Moses was an Israelite who was born during the time that the Israelites were enslaved under Pharaoh in Egypt. This was a time of persecution. The Egyptians didn’t want the Israelites to become too strong, so all the baby boys were supposed to be killed right after they were born. But his mother loved him and hid him for three months. Eventually it was...
200311 Midweek Sermon on Genesis 39:1-21 (Lent 2 Midweek) March 11, 2020
March 12, 2020 18:15200311 Midweek Sermon on Genesis 39:1-21 (Lent 2 Midweek) March 11, 2020 This past Sunday we heard Paul say, “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” I’d like to pull out two words from that quotation: faith and peace. Faith and peace go together. When we believe that we are justified before God through Jesus Christ, our Lord, then we have peace. We know that everything is going to be okay. Faith and peace going together is not just ...
200308 Sermon on Romans 5:1-5 (Lent 2) March 8, 2020
March 09, 2020 15:32200308 Sermon on Romans 5:1-5 (Lent 2) March 8, 2020 Whenever you start discussing what life is all about you run the risk of immediately turning off a large segment of the population. Discussing what life is all about is what Philosophy majors do. “Normal” people don’t. Then, instead of discussing what life is all about, you end up talking about whether we should all be like the philosophy majors. Understandably, most people do not want to be one of those. They tend to get wrapped up in all...
200304 Sermon on Genesis 37:12-36 (Midweek Lent 1) March, 4, 2020
March 09, 2020 15:30200304 Sermon on Genesis 37:12-36 (Midweek Lent 1) March, 4, 2020 Since we will be looking at the story of Joseph during these midweek services, I think we should start with some background information. Joseph’s father is Jacob. Jacob is the grandson of Abraham. Abraham was the man whom God chose as his own. God promised to bless him and his descendants. They would own the land of Canaan. They would be numerous. The world would be blessed through them. Abraham passed this inheritance down t...
200301 Sermon on God's punishment for sin (Lent 1) March 1, 2020
March 02, 2020 15:38200301 Sermon on God's punishment for sin (Lent 1) March 1, 2020 Last Thursday the late night talk show host, Stephen Colbert, made a joke at God’s expense. He was riffing on the continued spread of the coronavirus. Then he went off stage, got a bell, started ringing it, and this is what he said: “Plague! Plague! A righteous cleansing to punish man for his lust and vanity! Oh, swing your scythe O angry God. Repent! Repent! Repent!” The audience laughed. Then he said, “Where was I?” and conti...
200226 Sermon on 2 Peter 1:2-11 (Ash Wednesday) February 26, 2020
March 02, 2020 15:36200226 Sermon on 2 Peter 1:2-11 (Ash Wednesday) February 26, 2020
200223 Sermon on Luke 18:31-43 (Quinquagesima) February 23, 2020
February 24, 2020 16:38200223 Sermon on Luke 18:31-43 (Quinquagesima) February 23, 2020 Our Gospel reading today takes place right before Palm Sunday. They are on their way, passing through the town of Jericho. At the beginning of our reading Jesus says to his disciples, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem. Everything that was written about the Son of Man will come to pass. He will be handed over to the Gentiles, mocked, mistreated, spit upon, flogged, and they will kill him. On the third day he will rise again.” ...
200216 Sermon on Luke 8:4-15 (Sexagesima) February 16, 2020
February 17, 2020 17:27200216 Sermon on Luke 8:4-15 (Sexagesima) February 16, 2020 Harvest is a time of judgment. The amount of the harvest determines the judgment. If the harvest is bountiful, then the judgments will be positive. The farmer did a good job in planting and tending the crop. The weather was cooperative. When the harvest is scant, then the judgments will be negative. Something bad happened along the way. Perhaps the seed was planted too deeply or too shallowly. Perhaps there was too much rain or not...
200209 Sermon on Matthew 20:1-16 (Septuagesima) February 9, 2020
February 10, 2020 16:38200209 Sermon on Matthew 20:1-16 (Septuagesima) February 9, 2020 The parable we are considering today is difficult. It stands in sharp conflict with the way that we normally operate. It is similar in this way to another of Jesus’s parables—the parable of the unjust steward. In that parable there is a manager of his master’s business who was accused of mismanaging funds. The boss tells him that he is done. He needs to turn in the books. But before he turns in the books he writes down the debt...
200202 Sermon on Exodus 3:1-14 Matthew 17:1-9 (Transfiguration) February 2, 2020
February 06, 2020 17:55200202 Sermon on Exodus 3:1-14 Matthew 17:1-9 (Transfiguration) February 2, 2020 I’d like to begin today by speaking about the word, “mundane.” We don’t use this word a great deal, but I’m sure you’ve heard it. The way that it is used today is to describe something that is ordinary, dull, and boring. Taking out the garbage is mundane. Doing the dishes is mundane. Bunge jumping or sky diving are not mundane. Those activities are thrilling. So the way that we use the word “mundane” is as a ...
200126 Sermon on 2 Kings 5:1-15 Mat. 8:1-13 (read by elders) (Epiphany 3) January 26, 2020
January 30, 2020 17:51200126 Sermon on 2 Kings 5:1-15 Mat. 8:1-13 (read by elders) (Epiphany 3) January 26, 2020 Something we can learn about with our readings today is faith. In the Old Testament reading we hear about a foreign general named Naaman. He did not believe at first. Eventually he came around to trying out the word of the prophet Elisha. He was healed of his disease. In the Gospel readings we hear about the faith of the leper and then of the Centurion. Both believed in Jesus. Both received healing—the...
200119 Sermon on 6th Commandment (John 2) (Epiphany 2) January 19, 2020
January 30, 2020 17:39200119 Sermon on 6th Commandment (John 2) (Epiphany 2) January 19, 2020 About 2,000 years ago there was some husband and wife whose wedding was greatly honored. Their wedding was the occasion for Jesus’s first miracle. He gave them a present that is almost ridiculous in its proportions. He gave them somewhere between 120 and 180 gallons of the best wine they had ever tasted. Think of a 50 gallon barrel. They got about 3 of these. Jesus wanted this couple and all their guests to be merry and ...
200112 Sermon on Matthew 3:13-17 (Baptism of our Lord) January 12, 2020
January 13, 2020 20:52200112 Sermon on Matthew 3:13-17 (Baptism of our Lord) January 12, 2020 A couple weeks ago I spoke about how there is a long period of time during Jesus’s earthly life where we do not know much about him. From the age of about 2 until about 30 the Gospels only record one incident, when he was about 12. He went to Jerusalem with his family and accidently got left behind. Today we are considering the Baptism of our Lord. This is the next thing we hear about after Jesus’s childhood. Mark’s Gosp...
200105 Sermon on Genesis 46:1-7 (Christmas 2) January 5, 2020
January 06, 2020 19:50200105 Sermon on Genesis 46:1-7 (Christmas 2) January 5, 2020 I think one of the attributes of the Scriptures that indicate its truthfulness is the way that the history of God’s people has not been edited to “clean it up.” There is a natural compulsion in all of us to want to be liked and highly esteemed. Toward that end, we put our best foot forward. If company is coming, then we clean the house. The posts that we put on Facebook are not about our failures. We only put the good and respecta...
191229 Sermon on Luke 2:22-40 (Christmas 1) December 29, 2019
December 29, 2019 15:56191229 Sermon on Luke 2:22-40 (Christmas 1) December 29, 2019 There are four books of the Bible that tell us about the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus. These are called Gospels, which means, “good news.” They have been grouped together at the beginning of the New Testament. They are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. They are named after their authors, and so we say at the beginning of our Gospel reading, “The holy Gospel according to St.-whoever-wrote-that-Gospel, the such-and...
191225 Sermon on John 1:1-18 (Christmas Day) December 25, 2019
December 26, 2019 20:38191225 Sermon on John 1:1-18 (Christmas Day) December 25, 2019 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” That is the first sentence of the book of Genesis. The book of Genesis was written with two great objectives in mind. Moses speaks about two things more than anything else. He speaks about God and he speaks about God’s people. God created Man. Man feel into sin. God called him out of darkness into the light. Some received that light; some did not. Abel believed. Cain did n...
191224 Sermon on Luke 2:1-14 (Christmas Eve) December 24, 2019
December 26, 2019 20:37191224 Sermon on Luke 2:1-14 (Christmas Eve) December 24, 2019 One of the books that I use to teach bible history has a picture of Adam and Eve after they have been kicked out of the Garden of Eden. In the artist’s mind it must be several years later. Cain, their firstborn son is in the picture. He looks like he might be about 12. Abel also is in the picture. He looks like he might be about 6. The picture also has some of the fruits of their labors. There is a humble shelter. Some wooden fen...