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Sermon / Pr. Ted A. Giese / Forth Sunday in Advent / Sunday December 24th 2017 - / Luke 1: 26 - 38 / "Christmas Fears? - Fear Not"
Mount Olive Lutheran Church / Pr. Ted A. Giese / Sunday December 24th 2017: Advent / Luke 1: 26 - 38 "Christmas Fears? - Fear Not" In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house...
The Star (2017) Timothy Reckart - Movie Review
The Star (2017) Directed by: Timothy Reckart Writers: Carlos Kotkin (screenplay by), Simon Moore, Carlos Kotkin (story by) Stars (voice): Steven Yeun, Keegan-Michael Key, Aidy Bryant, Gina Rodriguez, Zachary Levi, Christopher Plummer, Ving Rhames, Gabriel Iglesias, Kelly Clarkson, Anthony...
Funeral Sermon For Horst Naujok / Saturday September 16th 2017
Text: Luke 23.43Theme: Christ sums up God’s love___________________________Intr – How can one sum up a life time in a few words or sentences? Is that ever possible? This surely is not something easy to do. Especially when someone’s walk of life has spanned eight decades. Our brother...
Sermon / Pr. Ted Giese / Sunday April 30th 2017 - / Luke 24:13-35 / Hearing Jesus - Seeing Jesus
Mount Olive Lutheran Church / Pr. Ted A. Giese / Sunday April 30th year: Easter 2017 / Luke 24:13-35 "Hearing Jesus - Seeing Jesus" That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking with each other about all these...
Sermon / Guest Preacher Rev. Daryl Solie / March 22th 2017 - / Luke 2:51, 4th Commandment, Wednesday Midweek Lenten Service
(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...
Sermon / Pr. Ted Giese / Sunday January 1st 2017 - / Psalm 8 & Luke 2:21 / Why Does God Care About Humanity?
Mount Olive Lutheran Church / Pr. Ted A. Giese / Sunday January 1st 2017: Circumcision and Name of Jesus / Psalm 8 & Luke 2:21 "Why Does God Care About Humanity?" O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of...
Sermon / Pr. Ted Giese / Saturday December 24th 2016 - / Luke 2:1-20 / How's Your Heart This Christmas?
Mount Olive Lutheran Church / Pr. Ted A. Giese / Sunday December 24th 2016: Christmas Eve, / Luke 2:1-20 “How's Your Heart This Christmas” In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor...
Sermon / Pr. Ted Giese / Sunday November 20th 2016 - / Luke 23:27-43 / Christ the King
Mount Olive Lutheran Church / Pr. Ted A. Giese / Sunday November 20th 2016: The Season of Pentecost, Luke 23:5-36. "Christ the King" And there followed [Jesus] a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for Him. But turning to them Jesus said, “Daughters...
Sermon / Pr. Ted Giese / Sunday November 13th 2016 - / Luke 21:5-36 / Look at The Leaves
Mount Olive Lutheran Church / Pr. Ted A. Giese / Sunday November 13th 2016: The Season of Pentecost, Luke 21:5-36. "Look at The Leaves" And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, [Jesus] said, “As for these things that you see, the...
Sermon / Pr. Ted Giese / Sunday October 23rd 2016 - / Luke 18:9-17 / Seeking Justification
Mount Olive Lutheran Church / Pr. Ted A. Giese / Sunday October 23rd 2016: The Season of Pentecost, Luke 18:9-17. "Seeking Justification" [Jesus] also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the...
Sermon / Sept 18, 2016 / Luke 16:1-15 / The Shrewd Manager / Pastor Terry Defoe
Our sermon text is found in Luke's gospel, chapter 16. I'm reading verses 14 and 15: The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and were sneering at Jesus. He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly...
Sermon / Sept 11, 2016 / Luke 15:1-10 / Lost & Found / Pastor Terry Defoe
Our sermon text is found in Luke's gospel, chapter 15. I'm reading verses 1 to 3: Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” Then Jesus told them...
Sermon / August 21, 2016 / Luke 13:22-30 / We Have it in Writing / Pastor Terry Defoe
Luke’s Gospel chapter 13. I’m reading verses 22 to 25: 22 Then Jesus went through the towns and villages, teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem. 23 Someone asked him, “Lord, are only a few people going to be saved? He said to them, 24 “Make every effort to enter through the narrow...
Sermon / Pr. Ted Giese / Sunday August 14th 2016 - / Luke 12:49-56 / Does Jesus Divide?
Mount Olive Lutheran Church / Pr. Ted A. Giese / Sunday August 14th 2016: The Season of Pentecost, Luke 12:49-56. " Does Jesus Divide? Does The Truth Divide?" “I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled! I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is...
Sermon / July 31st, 2016 / Luke 12:13-21 / An Abundant Harvest / Pastor Terry Defoe
From the 12th chapter of Luke’s Gospel, beginning at verse 16: 16 And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. 17 He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’ 18 “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will...
Sermon / Pr. Ted Giese / Sunday July 17th 2016 - / Psalm 27 & Luke 10:38-42 / Wait For The Lord
Mount Olive Lutheran Church / Pr. Ted A. Giese / Sunday July 17th 2016: The Season of Pentecost, Psalm 27 & Luke 10:38-42. "Wait For The Lord" The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of...
Sermon / Pr. Ted Giese / Sunday July 10th 2016 - / Luke 10:25-37 / Inheriting Eternal Life
Mount Olive Lutheran Church / Pr. Ted A. Giese / Sunday July 10th 2016: The Season of Pentecost, Luke 10:25-36. "Inheriting Eternal Life" And behold, a lawyer stood up to put [Jesus] to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” [Jesus] said to him, “What is...
Sermon / Pr. Ted Giese / Sunday July 3rd 2016 - / Luke 10:1-20 / Take No Shoes For Your Feet
Mount Olive Lutheran Church / Pr. Ted A. Giese / Sunday July 3rd 2016: The Season of Pentecost, Luke 10:1-20. "Take No Shoes For Your Feet" After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of Him, two by two, into every town and place where He himself was about to go....
Sermon / Pr. Ted Giese / Sunday June 26th 2016 - / Luke 9:51-62 / A Jesus Didn't Look Back
Mount Olive Lutheran Church / Pr. Ted A. Giese / Sunday June 26th 2016: The Season of Pentecost, Luke 9:51-62. "Jesus Didn't Look Back" When the days drew near for Him to be taken up, [Jesus] set His face to go to Jerusalem. And He sent messengers ahead of Him, who went and entered a village...
Sermon / June 12, 2016 / Luke 7:36-8:3 / Do You See This Woman? / Pastor Terry Defoe
One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. And a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he was eating in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. She stood behind him at his...