FAITH LUTHERAN ALIEN RIGHTEOUSNESS SERMONS

The King Who Shares His Throne: Advent Reflections on Good and Bad Shepherds

This sermon for the first Sunday in Advent explores Jeremiah 23, Psalm 24, and Matthew 21 to show how God shares authority with "under-shepherds," how corruption entered both human and divine leaders, and how Christ the Righteous Branch restores and gathers the scattered. It emphasizes Jesus as the True Shepherd who conquers false rulers, re-establishes the church as His bride, and gives believers a foretaste of the renewed creation through sacraments and mission.

When Christ Enters the Wilderness: Your Substitute and Savior

This sermon draws on Deuteronomy 8 and Matthew to show how Jesus shared Israel’s wilderness trial, succeeded where they failed, and now shares His victory with us. Christ was present with Israel, suffered their rebellions, and fulfills God’s promise by giving the Promised Land as a gift through his righteousness.
Through baptism, the Lord binds Himself to His people, covers sin with His obedience, and sustains us with Word and Sacrament. The sermon calls us to gratitude for Christ’s substitutionary suffering and to trust that our salvation rests in Him, not our works.

When Wisdom Marries: Jesus as Bridegroom and Wise Virgin

This sermon, drawing on Matthew 25 and Isaiah 65, explains the parable of the ten virgins as a portrait of Jesus as both the bridegroom and the true Wisdom. Though all humanity is foolish in sin, we are grafted into Christ and made wise through his life, death, baptism, and Eucharist.
We are invited to follow as bridegroom in suffering and faithfulness now, with the sure promise of being received into the eternal wedding feast and the new creation.

When Mountains Accuse: Micah’s Question and the Messiah’s Answer

This episode traces the indictment of Israel in Micah—framed by Deuteronomy’s blessing and curse—and the nation’s hopeless plea of what can be offered to God. It then shows how Psalm 116 points to the Messiah as the definitive answer: Christ’s obedience, sacrifice, and resurrection satisfy God’s justice.
Listeners are invited to share in Christ’s merits, receive the cup of salvation in the sacraments, and respond with the lifelong sacrifice of thanksgiving expressed in worship and service to neighbor.

Restored: Adam's Office and Christ's Victory

This sermon explores Genesis 1 and Psalm 8 to show how humanity's original priestly office was meant to rule and serve in God's cosmic temple, how sin broke that office, and how Jesus, the new Adam, restores and fulfills it through His incarnation, life, death, and resurrection.
It invites listeners to rest in Christ's accomplished victory, participate in His kingdom now, and hold on to hope that the grave cannot finally hold those united to Him.

Sing the New Song: Christ’s Violent Victory (Psalm 149)

This sermon on Psalm 149 proclaims Christ’s victory over sin, death, and the devil and calls the saints to sing and participate in that victory.
Using the imagery of tambourines, lyres, and the two-edged sword, it explains how Christ shares His triumph with his people, honors them in their daily vocations, and calls them to suffer, fight, and rest in the promise of resurrection.

Reformation Day: A Call to Arms for the Church Militant

This sermon reframes Reformation Sunday as a battle rather than a celebration, urging believers to reject complacency and defend the true gospel and orthodox confession against attacks from within and without.Drawing on Psalm 46, the preacher presents Christ as the warrior-king whose victory guarantees the church’s ultimate safety, while calling Christians to participate in the struggle through repentance, faithful vocations, and the means of grace (baptism and the Lord’s Supper).The message is an urgent call to action — preserve and pass on the confessional faith, hold the line even at cost, and trust the peace of God as you fight for the next generation of the church.

Circumcise Your Heart: From Divine Judgment to the Blessed Exchange

This episode examines Deuteronomy 10’s call to "circumcise the foreskin of your heart," placing it in the context of divine judgment and idolatry. It contrasts the law’s condemnation with the gospel, showing how Christ fulfills the law, drinks the cup of wrath in our place, and offers life and blessing through a blessed exchange.Listeners are invited to see the text Christologically, to appreciate the seriousness of the law, and to receive the hope and renewal offered through Jesus’ obedience, suffering, and resurrection.

The Anointed One: From Shame to Sovereignty

This sermon examines Psalm 2 and Luke 14 to show how the Bible’s vision of the Messiah frames all Scripture: Jesus is the humble servant who is vindicated, exalted, and given all authority.It connects Proverbs and the Gospel to the cross as Christ’s victory, invites believers to baptism and communion as participation in his status, and calls Christians to suffer now while anticipating their future co‑rule with him.

When Death Meets the Author of Life: The Widow of Nain

In Luke 7 a widow mourns as her only son is carried out in a public funeral procession. Jesus meets her grief with compassion, touches the bier, and commands the young man to rise.
The sermon explains that death comes through sin, yet Christ willingly takes on humanity's guilt, dies, and rises to break death’s power. His holiness overcomes the impurity of death, and He shares His righteousness with us.
For those who trust Christ, death no longer has the final word. The message offers comfort in loss, assurance of forgiveness through baptism and Communion, and the hope of resurrection and eternal life.