Christ is Risen! Alleluia!
In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Many people struggle with taking what you hear on Sunday in the sermon and connecting it to the rest of your daily lives. This is one of those things that pastors spend time and effort trying to do, to give you something that will stay with you through the week. Of course, the hope is that the Gospel – that Christ has borne your sin to the Cross, suffered and died taking on the punishment and paying the price for your sins there upon the cross, and is raised for your justification that you may be his own and have eternal life – that this Gospel is the thing that stays with you throughout the week.
But if we were to be honest, it is quite easy to forget just what the sermon was about. How often have you sat here, listened to some preacher hold forth for ten, fifteen, twenty minutes, sometimes eloquently and persuasively, sometimes not, and then forgotten what he said by the first distribution hymn? How many of you, if quizzed on Wednesday, would remember today's sermon?
