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!
October 2025
- We seek mercy, and God forgives us
- God speedily gives justice to His elect
- Lifting up one voice for mercy and praise
- By faith, we are forgiven and forgiving servants
September 2025
- A Great Chasm
- Speaking the Lord’s Word
- The Lord is Our Shepherd
- Counting The Cost of Discipleship
August 2025
- God heals, exalts, and repays the humble
- Like Saint Bartholomew, we are first served and then serve
- The Storm of the Lord
- Jesus comes like a thief, but no thief approaches our heavenly treasure
- The Judge and the Redeemer
July 2025
- Someone’s knocking at the door
- The one thing necessary
- Jesus proves to be a neighbor to us
- Satan’s falling and God’s writing
June 2025
- Receiving Jesus and Proclaiming the Kingdom
- The Presentation of the Augsburg Confession
- Jesus is victorious over demonic powers for people like us
- The glory of the Holy Trinity is Christ crucified for you
- Jesus’s comforting peace
- Resurrection and Revelation: Jesus is coming soon
May 2025
- The Ascension of Our Lord
- Resurrection and Revelation: The Holy City’s inhabitants are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life
- God’s Word settles Church conflict
- Resurrection and Revelation: God’s Perfect and Eternal City
- Resurrection and Revelation: The Lamb shepherds the sheep
- Resurrection and Revelation: The Slain Lamb is standing
April 2025
- Resurrection and Revelation: Jesus is the Firstborn of the Dead
- The tomb was not Jesus’s and will not be our forever home
- Seven Statements, One Saving Purpose
- The New Covenant
- Victory Parades
- Places of the Passion according to St. Luke: The Skull
- The Lord of the Vineyard’s fruit
- Places of the Passion according to St. Luke: Before Pilate
March 2025
- This man receives sinners and eats with them
- Places of the Passion according to St. Luke: The High Priest’s House
- The Lord’s pleasure is that we repent and live
- Places of the Passion according to St. Luke: The Mount of Olives
- The Prophetic Voice of the Lord and His House
- Places of the Passion according to St. Luke: The Upper Room
- The Winner of our Spiritual War
- Repenting in sackcloth and ashes
- Jesus’s Exodus and our Exodus
February 2025
- Forgiven, We Forgive
- Now and Then
- Catches of fish and catches of people
- Our purification and presentation


