Sermons
Like Lutheran preachers before him, Pastor Galler in Epiphany 2013 points to the crucifix in declaring God’s love for the world that sent His Son Jesus to die for our sins.
God’s Word has been preached arguably since the Creator first spoke to His creation in the Garden of Eden. At many times and in many ways, God spoke by the prophets, and in these last days He has spoken by His Son (Hebrews 1:1). In faithful Lutheran churches such as Pilgrim, the living voice of Jesus Christ still preaches, law and Gospel as in the days of His sojourn on earth (Mark 1:14-15), that those who hear the word of Christ might have faith in Him (Romans 10:13-17) and so have eternal life in Him (John 3:16; 20:31).
Below you will find links to all sermons preached at Pilgrim since November 20, 2011. Each link takes you to a page with the full text of the sermon and options to hear audio, when the audio is available. May God, as He promises (Isaiah 55:10-11), bless your reading of and listening to His Word!
April 2019
- Broken, Crushed or Built
- Herod’s Seeing Jesus and Finding Him Not Guilty
March 2019
- God’s Functional Family
- The Sanhedrin’s Lack of Faith and Confession
- What do we think about sinners?
- The Strengthening Angel and the Bloody Sweat
- How often would we gather?
- Peter’s being sifted and strengthening
- Jesus was tempted for us
- Personal Piety and Heavenly Treasure
- Jesus’s Transfiguration reveals both His glory and our glory
February 2019
- Our Father’s mercy leads to our mercy
- We are blessed when we are reviled on Jesus’s account
- God enables repentant sinners to remain in His presence
- Don is with Jesus, and you can be also
- Jesus is the Son of God sent to preach us into the Kingdom of God
January 2019
- The Lord’s favor and His hearers’ favor
- Jesus’s signs manifest His glory for faith in Him
- Fear Knots and Fear Nots
- Come to worship the King
December 2018
- Give Love as a Gift
- The Only-begotten Son of God was born of Mary, so you can be born of God
- God exalts those of humble estate
- Fig Trees
- Far more than a game
- Jesse’s Tree
- God uses those He sends apart from people’s expectations
- Great Trees of Mamre and Machpelah
- The Coming King brings peace and glory
November 2018
- The Son of Man gathers His elect
- Mid birth pains
- Contributing out of poverty
- Numbers count, or do they?
October 2018
- Apart From
- Jesus has mercy on us
- Wealth and the Kingdom of God
- Jesus gives us treasure in heaven
- Separation and Remedy
September 2018
- The ‘cream’ of Mark 9:38-50
- Jesus serves all, and we receive Him by receiving others
- Jesus helps our unbelief and all other things
- Jesus does all things well for you
- Jesus declares all food and all believers clean
August 2018
- God hands down His Gospel tradition through us
- God the Father grants that we come to Jesus for eternal life
- As Christ Loved Us
- Credo: ‘I Believe’ Is the Voice of All the Church
July 2018
- Jesus astounds us with water
- Jesus Christ feeds us Himself
- John the Baptizer, Jesus, and Us
