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Sermon / Pr. Ted Giese / Thursday April 13th 2017 - / Mark 14:12-26 / Jesus Serves You through His Word - The Third Commandment

(The focus for our Wednesday evening Services, and for Holy Week and Easter, will be the 10 Commandments. Local pastors were provided with a sermon corresponding to their assigned commandment, the sermons are from a sermon series, written by Rev. Brent Kuhlman for Concordia Pulpit...


Audio - Holy Week Devotional Scripture Readings

Sunday (Palm Sunday): Monday in Holy Week: Tuesday in Holy Week: Wednesday in Holy Week: Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday): Good Friday: Holy Saturday: Easter Sunrise: Easter Day: Easter Monday: Easter Tuesday: Easter Wednesday: Easter 2 (First Sunday...


Sermon / March 25, 2016 / Good Friday / Isaiah 53 / Pastor Terry Defoe

4 Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; he punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are...


Sermon / Maundy Thursday / March 24, 2016 / A Towel & A Basin / John 13 / Pastor Terry Defoe

13 Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. (N.R.S.V.) We have come this evening to our Maundy Thursday worship service. Tonight, as you...


Sermon / Pr. Ted Giese / Sunday March 20th 2016 - / John 12:12-19 / A Train Wreck Calls Hosanna

Mount Olive Lutheran Church / Pr. Ted A. Giese - / John 12:12-19 / A Train Wreck Calls Hosanna The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is He...


Recap & Review - Episode 1 / A.D. The Bible Continues

Listen here for audio of radio interviews about films from a Christian perspective with Pastors Ted Giese and Todd Wilken on IssuesEtc.org where Christianity meets culture. Listen to this recap and review of Episode 1 "The Tomb is Open" of A.D. The Bible Continues and watch for...


Were You There? - John 19:34/ Pastor Ted Giese / Good Friday

Were You There? - John 19:31-37 / Good Friday Sermon / Mount Olive Lutheran Church / Rev. Ted A. Giese / April 3rd 2015 Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that...


Maundy Thursday \ Pastor Terry Defoe \ 1 Corinthians 11 \ Joyful Remembering

23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the same way, after supper he took the...


Jesus Your Light & Refuge in Despair - Psalm 43 Sermon From April Prayer Service

Prayer Service, Lenten Mid-Week 6, April 1st - 2015.  Rev. Ted Giese, Mount Olive Lutheran Church, Regina SK. Psalm 43,           Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause                    against an ungodly people,           from the deceitful and unjust man                   ...


Christ the King: Bridegroom of the Daughter of Zion - John 12:12-19 / Pr. Ted Giese / Palm Sunday

"Christ the King: Bridegroom of the Daughter of Zion" Palm Sunday - Pr. Ted Giese / Mount Olive Lutheran Church / March 29th 2015 (John 12:12-19) The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out...


Maundy Thursday Sermon 2014/ Vicar James Preus/ Jesus is Our Passover Lamb!

17 Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?” 18 He said, “Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with...


The Agony in the Garden

Recently I had the privilege to take part in Canadian Lutheran World Relief's (CLWR) 2014 Global Encounter, held in Israel and Palestine. In addition to visiting places like the Augusta Victoria Hospital and various Lutheran schools which are supported in part through funding from CLWR, I also...


The Face That Gives Me Peace / Good Friday April 18th, 2014 / John 1 / Pr. Ted Giese

Mount Olive Lutheran Church / Rev. Ted A. Giese / Good Friday 2014 / April 18th / The Light of Men Shines / John 1:1-5   In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him was...


Slow Patient Promise Fulfilled / Sermon / Palm Sunday April 13th, 2014 / John 12 / Pastor Ted A. Giese

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Slow Patient Promise Fulfilled / Palm Sunday / Mount Olive Lutheran Church / Rev. Ted A. Giese / April 13th 2014 / John 12:12-19             The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to...


Sermon From Sunday March 31st 2013 / Easter Sunday

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Mount Olive Lutheran Church / Rev. Ted A. Giese / March 31st / Easter Sunday Season of Easter, John 20:1-18.   Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. So she ran and went to...


Funeral Sermon for Ralph Woolhether / March 30th Holy Saturday 2013

Funeral Sermon for Ralph Woolhether / March 30th Holy Saturday 2013

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Funeral Sermon for Ralph Adrian Woolhether / March 30th Holy Saturday 2013 / Rev. Ted Giese Mount Olive Lutheran Church / Service held at Regina Funeral Home, Regina Saskatchewan.     [Jesus says to His disciples,] “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in Me. In...


Sermon from Thursday March 28th / Maundy Thursday

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Mount Olive Lutheran Church / Rev. Ted A. Giese / March 28th / Maundy Thursday in the Season of Lent, Luke 22:7-20.   Then came the day of Unleavened Bread, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.  So Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we...


Psalm 7 Sermon From April 2012 Prayer Service

Mount Olive Lutheran Church / Rev. Ted A. Giese / Wednesday April 4th2012: Holy Week Psalm 7. “In You I Take Refuge”                 O LORD my God, in You do I take refuge;                         save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,             lest like a lion they tear my...