Sermons by Pr. Mark D. Lovett
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Advent 4 - Rorate Coeli: The Sunday of John Baptizing
December 20, 2015 18:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): John 1:19-28 Date of Delivery: December 20, 2015 In the name of the FATHER and of the +SON and of the HOLY SPIRIT.Look at the Introit of the Day. The antiphon, the part that brackets the psalm, comes from Isaiah 45 (v.8). And it speaks of Christ.“Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain down righteousness;let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit;let the earth cause them both to appear.”One...
Advent 3 - Gaudete: the Sunday of John in Prison
December 13, 2015 18:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Matthew 11:2-10 Date of Delivery: December 13, 2015 In the name of the FATHER and of the +SON and of the HOLY SPIRIT.Who wouldn’t want a Jesus to come in like a knight in shining armor and save the day? Who doesn’t want a Jesus to conquer money problems and financial problems and work problems? Who doesn’t want a Jesus to fix family and relationship problems? A Jesus to vindicate us before others, even when we lie just to be righ...
Advent 2 - Populous Zion: Sunday of the Fig Tree
December 06, 2015 18:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Luke 21:25-36 Date of Delivery: December 6, 2015 In the name of the FATHER and of the +SON and of the HOLY SPIRIT.Our Lord’s warning to His disciples – to you today – isn’t really to watch for the signs of His coming. In fact, the signs of His coming are rather mundane. That is, they’re always with us. When are the nations not in perplexity? When is the sea not taking lives? When are people not in fear and foreboding of what i...
Trinity 27 - The Sunday of the Ten Virgins
November 22, 2015 18:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Matthew 25:1-13 Date of Delivery: November 22, 2015 In the name of the FATHER and of the +SON and of the HOLY SPIRIT.Two weeks ago, on the twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity, our Lord spoke of the destruction of Jerusalem and the abomination of desolation, teaching us to flee this world and all that it might offer by removing any visage of safety within it. Then last week, the twenty-sixth Sunday after Trinity, our Lord taught us ...
Trinity 26 - The Sunday of the Sheep & the Goats
November 15, 2015 18:00Subject: Matthew 25:31-46 Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Date of Delivery: November 15, 2015 In the name of the FATHER and of the +SON and of the HOLY SPIRIT.Faith, hope, and love remain, and the greatest of these is love. Love is the fulfillment of the Law. (1 Corinthians 13:13; Romans 13:10)“Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in lo...
Trinity 25 - The Sunday of the Great Tribulation
November 08, 2015 18:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Matthew 24:15-28 Date of Delivery: November 8, 2015 In the name of the FATHER and of the +SON and of the HOLY SPIRIT.Our Lord’s compassion for His people is without limits. And here the Lord is compassionately warning His people of two things: to flee when the Abomination of Desolation is set up in the Holy Place, the Holy of Holies, and to watch out for false christs and false prophets.Most theologians agree that the chief inter...
All Saints Day
November 01, 2015 18:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Matthew 5:1-12 Date of Delivery: November 1, 2015 In the name of the FATHER and of the +SON and of the HOLY SPIRIT.The first words that our Lord says about His disciples, about those who have ears to hear and who take up their cross and follow Him, is that they are blessed. Blessed are they, the Lord says.And the disciples of Jesus are blessed for the exact reasons you would think they are blessed. They are blessed because there ...
Reformation Sunday
October 25, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Matthew 11:12-15 Date of Delivery: October 25, 2015
Trinity 21 - the Sunday of the Nobleman of Caperaum
October 18, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): John 4:46-54 Date of Delivery: October 18, 2015 In the name of the FATHER and of the +SON and of the HOLY SPIRIT.Jesus is always arguing with people. And not just the usual suspects of Pharisees, Sadducees, and scribes. He argues with His mother at the wedding in Cana. He argues with His disciples – a lot. He argues with Nicodemus, with the woman at the well, with the Syrophonecian woman He called a dog. And these are people aski...
Trinity 19 - The Sunday of the Paralytic
October 04, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Matthew 9:1-8 Date of Delivery: October 4, 2015 In the name of the FATHER and of the +SON and of the HOLY SPIRIT.Here we see Yahweh, the Lord, forgiving His people, healing His people, and rebuking the unbelief of His people. He’s been doing it since He called out to the man in the Garden: “Man, where are you?” He sought man so as to be reconciled to him, and He found him and He covered his shame.Nothing has changed in the will o...
Trinity 17 - the Sunday of the Pharisee's Dinner
September 27, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Rev. Warren Graff Scripture Passage(s): Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-25 Date of Delivery: September 27, 2015
Votive Mass of the Holy Eucharist
September 26, 2015 17:00Subject: Lutheran Lecture Series Speaker or Performer: Vicar Adam Barkley Scripture Passage(s): 1 Corinthians 11:23-29; John 6:55-58 Date of Delivery: September 26, 2015
Trinity 16 - the Sunday of the Widow's Son
September 20, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Luke 7:11-17 Date of Delivery: September 20, 2015 In the name of the FATHER and of the +SON and of the HOLY SPIRIT.Here in today’s gospel we have a fulfillment of our Lord’s words that He will build His Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.We hear those words, “and the gates of hell will not prevail against it,” and we mostly hear that even if and when hell should attack the Church it won’t win in the end. We ...
Trinity 15 - the Sunday of the Lilies of the Field
September 13, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Matthew 6:24-34 Date of Delivery: September 13, 2015 In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.Seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness is not a moral prescript. You don’t seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness by being good moral people. Surely Christians should be good moral people, but then so should everyone be good and moral. But you’re not. Some of us hide it better than others, b...
Trinity 14: The Sunday of the Ten Lepers
September 06, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Luke 17:11-19 Date of Delivery: September 6, 2015 In the name of the FATHER and of the +SON and of the HOLY SPIRIT.How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts! My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord. (Ps. 84). That’s part of Psalm 84, and today’s Introit that we sang as we entered the presence of the Lord.Make no mistake: we are in the dwelling place of the Lord; we are in the courts of the Lord. And we offe...
Trinity 13 - the Sunday of the Good Samaritan
August 30, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Luke 10:23-37 Date of Delivery: August 30, 2015 In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.The parable of the Good Samaritan is perhaps the most ironic parable told by our Lord. Ironic because it is most often understood as teaching the very thing that it is actually condemning. We teach our children that God wants them to be good then we are not preaching Christ. We so confused the Law and the Gospel that w...
Trinity 12 - the Sunday of the Deaf-Mute
August 23, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Mark 7:31-37 Date of Delivery: August 23, 2015 In the name of the FATHER and of the +SON and of the HOLY SPIRIT.This miracle of healing the deaf-mute really is a living parable by which we can discover the kingdom of heaven and the work of the Almighty.The man was deaf and had a speech impediment. He couldn’t hear or speak right. This represents all humanity. This is you and me. None of us can hear God or speak rightly about Him....
Trinity 11 - The Sunday of the Pharisee & the Tax Collector
August 16, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Luke 18:9-14 Date of Delivery: August 16, 2015 In the name of the FATHER and of the +SON and of the HOLY SPIRIT.It is no odd thing to hear someone say that pride is the opposite of humility. But since it is no odd thing, it passes over us like water over a rock. Rather, then, let us say that pride is the opposite of faith. For that is truly what humility is: faith.Consider Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith. He humbled ...
Trinity 10
August 09, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Luke 19:41-48 Date of Delivery: August 9, 2015
Trinity 9
August 02, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Al Hoger Scripture Passage(s): Luke 16:1-9 Date of Delivery: August 2, 2015
Trinity 8
July 26, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Rev. Fr. Michael Brockman Scripture Passage(s): Matthew 7:15-23 Date of Delivery: July 26, 2015
Trinity 7
July 19, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Mark 8:1-9 Date of Delivery: July 19, 2015 In the name of the Father and of the + Sonand of theHoly Spirit.You know that the gospel reading is about more than Jesus miraculously feeding some 4,000 people with a few loaves of bread and a few small fish. Certainly this shows His Lordship over creation and His ability to meet the daily needs of everyone with daily bread. But if that’s all it is, then why stop with the 4,000? Why not...
Trinity 6
July 12, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Matthew 5:20-26; Romans 6:3-11 Date of Delivery: July 12, 2015 In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.If when you hear the law of the Lord you think to yourself, “I could do better”: repent! Repent and believe the gospel.The problem with the law – and actually it’s a problem with us – is that we think we can keep it. That’s why we’re not always wrought with guilt; even unbelievers. We think when we’re no...
Trinity 5
July 05, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Luke 5:1-11 Date of Delivery: July 5, 2015
Trinity 4
June 28, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Luke 6:36-42 Date of Delivery: June 28, 2015 In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.Be merciful as your Father in heaven is merciful. How is our Father merciful? By sending His only-begotten Son to be born of woman, to become the curse of sin, to take our sins and our judgment, to die for us, and to rise for us, to ascend for us and to reign in mercy for us.Jesus is our Teacher. He teaches us how to show...
Trinity I
June 07, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Luke 16:19-31 Date of Delivery: June 7, 2015 In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.There are any number of doctrines that can be drawn from this parable of our Lord of the Rich Man and Lazarus. Among them is one that seems fitting in our day because there are so many wrong opinions about it; and that is the doctrine of heaven and hell and what is popularly called the afterlife in general. I don’t prefer...
The Feast of the Most Holy Trinity
May 31, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): John 3:1-15 Date of Delivery: May 31, 2015 In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.Today is the Feast of the Most Holy and Blessed Trinity; the God who created, redeemed, and sanctified us and is keeping us in Himself through the mysteries of Christ for the revealing of the children of God; those born again, born from on high, born of the Spirit. On this day the Church confesses the Athanasian Creed in pr...
The Feast of Holy Pentecost
May 24, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): John 14:23-31 Date of Delivery: May 24, 2015 In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.Those men in Jerusalem who would mock the apostles for being drunk were not entirely wrong. They were filled with new wine. They were filled with the Holy Spirit as our Lord said earlier, “No one pours new wine into old wineskins but pours new wine into new wineskins.” And the apostle says later, “Do not be drunk with muc...
Exaudi (Easter 7; Sunday a. the Ascension)
May 17, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): John 15:26 - 16:4 Date of Delivery: May 17, 2015 In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.We have again this year come though the birth, epiphany, passion, resurrection, and ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ. And throughout it all our Lord in His mercy has taught us and kept us in the truth. Now we come again to the remembrance of what comes after the Lord’s passion and ascension. Now comes the time of th...
Rogate (Easter 6)
May 10, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): John 16:23-30 Date of Delivery: May 10, 2015 In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.Jesus is speaking to His disciples on the night when He betrayed. He is speaking to them about things to come and says to them, “In that day.” “At that time I will speak to you plainly about the Father.” “In that day you will ask Me nothing but whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you … In that day you will...
Cantate (Easter 5)
May 03, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): John 16:5-15 Date of Delivery: May 3, 2015
Miscericordias Domini (Easter 3)
April 19, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): John 10:11-16 Date of Delivery: April 19, 2015 This sermon was originallyprepared by the Rev. Fr. David Petersen of Redeemer Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, IN.
Quasimodogeniti (Easter 2)
April 12, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): John 20:19-31 Date of Delivery: April 12, 2015 In the name of the FATHER and of the +SON and of the HOLY SPIRIT.Christ is risen! He is risen, indeed! Alleluia!Even though He is very God of very God, the Scriptures teach that Jesus overcame the world not by being divine, but by His faith in His eternal, heavenly Father. This is nothing other than that He entrusted Himself to the one who judges justly and was rewarded. He was crown...
Judica Sunday (Lent 5 - 2015)
March 22, 2015 17:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): John 8:46-59 Date of Delivery: March 22, 2015
Reminiscere (Lent 2 - 2015)
March 01, 2015 18:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Matthew 15:21-28 Date of Delivery: March 1, 2015 In the name of the FATHER and of the +SON and of the HOLY SPIRIT.Last week our Lord taught us that through fasting and clinging to the promises of our heavenly Father we overcome temptation and are rewarded by the comfort of angelic messengers who comfort us and remind us that we are the children of God with all the glory and blessedness that such children should have.So this week ...
Invocavit Sunday (Lent 1)
February 22, 2015 18:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Matthew 4:1-11 Date of Delivery: February 22, 2015 In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.Resist the devil and he will flee from you. That is what Jesus did. He resisted the devil and the devil left Him. How did He resist the devil? By the word of God. He did not resist the devil by denying His desires but by placing Himself squarely in the will of His heavenly Father.Now that may sound odd to you, that ...
Quinquagesima Sunday (2015)
February 15, 2015 18:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Luke 18:31-43 Date of Delivery: February 15, 2015 In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.We all have things that we have asked of the Lord that we did not receive. St. James says it is because we ask in order to spend it on our passions. Repent.We hear the gospel this morning and our lustful passions go right to the fact that this blind man prayed and got what he asked for and yet we pray and do not rece...
Sexagesima Sunday (2015)
February 08, 2015 18:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark Scripture Passage(s): Luke 8:4-15 Date of Delivery: February 8, 2015 In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.People love the parables of Jesus. We love them because we can always make ourselves out to be the good in every parable. Even the unbeliever thinks himself like the Good Samaritan. Even the sinner fancies that his heart will produce the good fruit. The proud are proud that they are like the publican and not like the Pharisee. An...
Septuagesima Sunday (2015)
February 01, 2015 18:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Matthew 20:1-16 Date of Delivery: February 1, 2015 In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.It was pride that caused the laborers in the vineyard to complain that those who worked but an hour received the same as those who had borne the heat of the day and worked all day in the vineyard. Pride comes before destruction (Proverbs 16:18).To be a sinner is to be a proud person. Sinners are full of pride. Sinne...
The Sunday of the Holy Transfiguration of our Lord
January 25, 2015 18:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Matthew 17:1-9 Date of Delivery: January 25, 2015 (No audio file available.)In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.The Transfiguration of our Lord is a profoundly theological event. It shouldn’t be lost on us. We shouldn’t dismiss it as yet another miracle, a taken-for-granted miracle that testifies to who the Lord Jesus actually it, which is Light of Light, very God of very God. This man that led Peter,...
In Memoriam + Gregory A Bitter
January 23, 2015 18:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): John 2:1-11 Date of Delivery: January 23, 2015 In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.Heather, Irene, Cole, Sydnie, Shaelynn, and Trey, to the whole family and to all that are gathered to mourn with those that mourn: grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. [Amen.]The prophet Isaiah writes, “There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine; all joy has grown dark; t...
Epiphany 2 (2015)
January 18, 2015 18:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): John 2:1-11 Date of Delivery: January 18, 2015 In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.Here is a hard topic: sexuality and marriage. But because the Lord has brought up the subject today He also wills that we should consider marriage and sexuality. Moreover, it is only a hard topic because we have let the world teach us about marriage and sexuality and have not stood firm on the word of God concerning it....
Epiphany 1 (2015)
January 11, 2015 18:00Subject: The Sunday in the Octave of Epiphany Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Luke 2:41-52 Date of Delivery: January 11, 2015 In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.“The parents of Jesus went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. And when He was twelve years old, they went up according to custom.” (Luke 2:41)It was the custom of the Jews to make the pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. It has always be...
The Feast of the Epiphany of our Lord (2015)
January 06, 2015 18:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Matthew 2:1-12 Date of Delivery: January 6, 2015
The Feast of the Holy Innocents (2014)
December 28, 2014 18:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Matthew 2:13-18 Date of Delivery: December 28, 2014 In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.The Holy Innocents, so named because they were innocent of any wrongdoing yet were murdered by the wicked king. They weren’t insurrectionists or militant rebels. They posed no immediate threat to that evil king or to his kingdom. They were innocent children, babies. And we rightfully cringe at their slaughter and a...
Advent 4 (Rorate Coeli), 2014
December 21, 2014 18:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Philippians 4:4-7 Date of Delivery: December 21, 2014 In the name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit.Rejoice in the Lord always, again I say, rejoice!No doubt we are all asked from time to time why we keep going to church. Haven’t we learned it all by now? What more could possibly be said that hasn’t already been said? Or my personal favorite, “I don’t have to go to church to be forgiven.” That’s nice. Way to n...
Advent 3 (Gaudete) 2014
December 14, 2014 18:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Matthew 11;2-10 Date of Delivery: December 14, 2014 In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.One can imagine that when John’s disciples returned to him he was eager to hear their report on Jesus’ answer to John’s question, Are you the one to come or should we wait for another? And it’s not hard to imagine that as the disciples of John were telling John what Jesus had said John’s anticipation might have gro...
Advent 2 (Populus Zion), 2014
December 07, 2014 18:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Luke 21:25-36 Date of Delivery: December 7, 2014 In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.Are you afraid of the end of days? Are you afraid of the Muslim, that his god requires him to kill you? Are you afraid of the so-called progressive liberals, that their gods require them to silence, ostracize, and persecute you until you conform to their religion? Are you afraid of what is coming on the world, the per...
Advent 1 (Ad Te Levavi), 2014
November 30, 2014 18:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Matthew 21:1-9 Date of Delivery: November 30, 2014 In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.Here is the point of today’s readings, the direction the liturgy takes us in today: the Lord Jesus enters. It is a fitting theme for the beginning of the Church Year, though it seems like it would be a fitting theme for the end of the Church Year. The end of the story is always when the hero finally gets to his dest...
Trinity 27 (2014)
November 23, 2014 18:00Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Matthew 25:1-13 Date of Delivery: November 23, 2014 In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.Most people classify the oil of the wise virgins as either faith or the good works that follow faith. Both are necessary for the Christian so both are viable contenders of being the oil, which is what the five foolish virgins are missing. Some say that the oil is the faith which lights the fire of good works to be ...