Sermons @ FLC
By Pr. Jon Niketh
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First Lutheran Church in Lynn, MA is a welcoming community of faith on Boston's North Shore. We gather to celebrate God's goodness and love each Sunday morning in the Eucharist at 10:30 AM. There are no outsiders in God's family or in ours. You are welcome here.
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Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep - Ash Wednesday (B) | 2 Corinthians 5:20b—6:10 Matthew 6:1–6, 16–21 Lent begins with a solemn call to fasting and repentance as we begin our journey to the baptismal waters of Easter. As we hear in today's readings, now is the acceptable time to return to the Lord. During Lent the people of God will reflect on the meaning of their baptism into Christ's death and resurrection. The sign of ashes suggests our human mortality and frailty. What seems like an ending is really an invitation to make each day a new beginning, in which we are washed in God's mercy and forgiveness. With the cross on our brow, we long for the spiritual renewal that flows from the springtime Easter feast to come. | 2/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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When I See Your Face - Transfiguration of Our Lord (B) | 2 Corinthians 4:3–6 Mark 9:2–9 The Sundays after Epiphany began with Jesus' baptism and end with three disciples' vision of his transfiguration. In Mark's story of Jesus' baptism, apparently only Jesus sees the Spirit descending and hears the words from heaven. But now Jesus' three closest friends hear the same words naming him God's beloved son. As believers, Paul writes, we are enabled to see the God-light in Jesus' face, because the same God who created light in the first place has shone in our hearts to give us that vision. The light of God's glory in Jesus has enlightened us through baptism and shines in us also for others to see. | 2/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No Turning Back - Sixth Sunday after Epiphany (B) | 2 Kings 5:1–14 Mark 1:40–45 The leper is confident in Jesus' power to heal. Naaman, on the other hand, is comically hard to convince that he can be healed by such an unlikely foreigner as Elisha, who directs him to wash in such a sorry excuse for a river as the Jordan. Jesus' healing power is here among us in the ordinary water of the font, in the ordinary bread, in the ordinary people who make up the body of Christ. We would be well-advised to take the advice of the least powerful among us (like the servant girl in Naaman's household) if we want to find the one who will heal us. | 2/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alone Time - Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (B) | Isaiah 40:21–31 Mark 1:29–39 In Isaiah it is the one God who sits above the earth and numbers the stars—it is that God who strengthens the powerless. So in Jesus' healing work we see the hand of the creator God, lifting up the sick woman to health and service. Like Simon's mother-in-law, we are lifted up to health and service. Following Jesus, we strengthen the powerless; like Jesus, we seek to renew our own strength in quiet times of prayer. | 2/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tortured Thoughts - Fourth Sunday after Epiphany (B) | Deuteronomy 18:15–20 Mark 1:21–28 In Deuteronomy God promises to raise up a prophet like Moses, who will speak for God; in Psalm 111 God shows the people the power of God's works. For the church these are ways of pointing to the unique authority people sensed in Jesus' actions and words. We encounter that authority in God's word, around which we gather, the word that trumps any lesser spirit that would claim power over us, freeing us to follow Jesus. | 1/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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