FAITH LUTHERAN ALIEN RIGHTEOUSNESS SERMONS

From Eden to the Wedding Feast

This episode explores the biblical story from Eden to the messianic wedding feast, tracing humanity's fall, Israel's history, and God's faithful promise culminating in Christ. Through imagery of gardens, temples, rivers, and feasts, the sermon connects the wedding at Cana and the cross to the ultimate restoration in Revelation—where water is replaced by wine, sin is atoned for, and God's presence is restored.

When the Ark Meets the River: Baptism as Conquest and New Creation

This episode traces the presence of the Lord from Joshua 3 to Matthew 3, showing how God's coming brings both conquest and recreation. Using the Ark crossing the Jordan and Jesus' baptism, the sermon connects the Old Testament deliverance with the New Testament work of Christ: the Spirit hovering, the division of waters, and the decisive overthrow of sin.It explains how baptism unites us with Christ—dying to the old self and rising as the new creation—offers assurance in the face of death, and invites believers to receive grace concretely in the sacraments: forgiveness, new life, and the promise of resurrection.

Christ, the True Temple: David’s Covenant Fulfilled

This sermon explores 2 Samuel 7 and Luke 2, tracing God’s covenant with David, the rise and fall of Israel’s temple, and the failure of David’s line to bring God’s light to the nations.It shows how Jesus, the Son of David, fulfills the covenant as the true temple—dying, rising, and uniting believers as living stones—so that God’s salvation and light reach all people.

When Christ Marries His Bride: The Dragon Defeated

This sermon traces the Bible's central conflict between the serpent and God, showing how humanity repeatedly fails to protect the woman yet God intervenes—through Abraham, Moses, and ultimately Jesus—to rescue and reunite his people.
It highlights Christ's victory over the dragon, the meaning of baptism and communion that unites believers to Him, and calls Christians to live out their vocation to bless the nations.

Emmanuel Dwelt Among Us: From Eden to the Tabernacle

This Nativity sermon draws on Exodus 40 and John 1 to trace God’s presence from Eden to the tabernacle and, finally, into the person of Jesus: Emmanuel who dwells with his people.The tabernacle served as a miniature cosmic temple; in Christ the true temple is made flesh, restoring access to God through his life, death, and resurrection and making the gathered church the living temple.This Christmas message proclaims victory over death, the gift of baptism and grace upon grace, and calls us to rejoice: Emmanuel has come to dwell with us.

When Light Slashes the Deep: The Cosmic War of Christmas

This episode traces the biblical story from God’s creative light cutting through the dark waters, to humanity’s fall in Eden, and God’s promise to redeem creation by becoming man.It presents Christ’s birth not as a quiet baby scene but as a cosmic counter-invasion: the pre-incarnate Son fights the powers of darkness throughout history, culminating in his incarnation, atoning death, and resurrection to slay the dragon and reclaim creation.Listeners are invited to see Christmas as the victory of God’s glory, to join in the church’s suffering and witness, and to receive Christ’s redeeming gifts at the Lord’s table with hope for the final restoration of all things.

From Eden to the Altar: Advent's Promise Restored

This sermon for the fourth Sunday in Advent reads Deuteronomy 18 and traces the story from creation and the fall to Israel as the new Adam, showing humanity's need for a true mediator. It presents Jesus as the promised prophet like Moses who descends to bring us back into God's presence and restore what was lost.The message emphasizes the sacraments and the altar as the place where heaven meets earth, inviting listeners to come, feast, and be made whole in Christ.

From Babel to Emmanuel: Christ Rebuilds God's Temple

This sermon examines the Biblical titles in the final stanza of "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel," showing how humanity's fall in Babel led to scattering and spiritual domination, and how God responds through the incarnation. Christ's life, death, resurrection, and ascension begin the undoing of Babel by reclaiming the scattered nations and inaugurating a new humanity.
Advent is presented as Yahweh's counter-invasion to recover his people, and Pentecost as the Spirit's work that gathers the nations into one temple—the church—bringing unity, victory over sin and death, and the hope of Christ's return.

Steadfast Love: God's War, Not Your Feelings

This sermon explains that God's "steadfast love" is not an emotional feeling but divine, covenantal action — God's military conquest and fulfillment of promises through Christ. Your salvation and standing before God rest on Christ's accomplished righteousness, not your feelings or works.It highlights the cross as both conquest and sacrifice, the legal/forensic nature of God’s mercy, and the sacraments and church as tangible assurance of the gospel in the believer's life.

From Stump to Shoot: The Branch of Jesse and Emmanuel's Return

This episode examines Biblical title of the Messiah as found in stanza four of the Advent hymn "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel," tracing the biblical story from Eden's loss of God's presence, through Israel's failure and judgment, to the surprising emergence of the Messiah as The Living Shoot from Jesse's stump, Who restores life, the Christ.
Listeners are reminded that believers are grafted into this True Vine, called to live and suffer with eternal joy in everyday vocations, and sent out in hope as they await the second advent.