# Saint Bartholomew Evangelical Lutheran Church, of Fort Myers, Florida

> 1 Cross + 3 Nails = 4 Given


## Posts

- [You Also Go into the Vineyard](https://churchfmfl.com/you-also-go-into-the-vineyard/): The Kingdom of Heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for His Vineyard.
- [A Bright Cloud Overshadowed Them](https://churchfmfl.com/a-bright-cloud-overshadowed-them/): Matthew we heard St. Peter make the confession to the Lord that the Lord + Jesus was the “Christ, the Son of the Living God.”
- [Lord, Save Us!](https://churchfmfl.com/lord-save-us/): The holy Scriptures are full of historical events where the Triune Lord God blesses His people, they rejoice at first, and then fall into a pattern of forgetfulness, turning away from the Lord, and after they endure oppression on account of their sinfulness, they cry out to the Lord God for help.
- [Many Will Come from East and West](https://churchfmfl.com/many-will-come-from-east-and-west/): Our Lord + Jesus had just finished preaching the Sermon on the Mount.
- [An Angel of the Lord Appeared to Joseph](https://churchfmfl.com/an-angel-of-the-lord-appeared-to-joseph/): Every great meal, every great feast will include a variety of flavors—not just sweet, but also sour or bitter or salty.
- [Those Things Which Were Spoken of Him](https://churchfmfl.com/those-things-which-were-spoken-of-him/): St. Simeon in the section before our Gospel reading from the Evangelist St. Luke, proclaims all the good things that this Child would do for His people.
- [This Is the Testimony of John](https://churchfmfl.com/this-is-the-testimony-of-john/): The season of Advent is the season of St. John the Baptist, for he is the Forerunner of the Christ. 
- [When John Had Heard the Works of Christ](https://churchfmfl.com/when-john-had-heard-the-works-of-christ/): How are we to know that the Lord + Jesus is the Christ, the Coming One, the Anointed One of the heavenly Father?
- [There Will Be Signs](https://churchfmfl.com/there-will-be-signs/): Our Gospel reading from the Evangelist St. Luke once again takes us to the final week of our Lord’s life on this Earth.
- [The Multitudes Cried Out](https://churchfmfl.com/the-multitudes-cried-out/): The end of the Church’s Year and the beginning of the Church’s Year both point us to the coming of the Son of God, our Lord + Jesus Christ.
- [You Know Neither the Day nor the Hour](https://churchfmfl.com/you-know-neither-the-day-nor-the-hour/): Despite the claims of some who distort the truth and make claims that one can determine the date of the Last Day, our Lord + Jesus, in the last week of His life on this Earth before His crucifixion and death, tells us that we can know neither the day nor the hour.
- [Lord, When Did We?](https://churchfmfl.com/lord-when-did-we/): The Church’s year wraps up with two parables. Both the parable today and the one next Sunday, compare two contrasting groups of people.
- [There Was a Certain Nobleman](https://churchfmfl.com/there-was-a-certain-nobleman/): Last week we heard from our Lord + Jesus in the last week before His death and resurrection. This week we hear from our Lord + Jesus just after He began His earthly mission.
- [Tell Those Who Were Invited](https://churchfmfl.com/tell-those-who-were-invited/): In the Gospel reading from the Apostle and Evangelist St. Matthew there are two warnings that our Lord + Jesus gives in the parable of the Wedding Feast.
- [He Arose and Departed](https://churchfmfl.com/he-arose-and-departed/): The readings that we use every Sunday and on other Feast and Festival days for the Epistles and Gospels comprise what is known as a pericopal system.
- [God Has Visited His People](https://churchfmfl.com/god-has-visited-his-people/): Our Lord + Jesus Christ the day before the events in today’s Gospel reading from the Evangelist St. Luke had performed a healing of a man on his deathbed.
- [Do Not Worry](https://churchfmfl.com/do-not-worry/): Mankind is very adept at choosing for themselves a god—any god—other than the One True Triune Lord God.
- [As They Went, They Were Cleansed](https://churchfmfl.com/as-they-went-they-were-cleansed/): What causes these ten lepers to break the Law both by leaving their required isolation from others and by banding together in order to approach not just any ordinary person, but a Rabbi Who is well versed in the Law?
- [Go and Do Likewise](https://churchfmfl.com/go-and-do-likewise/): There are many who mistakenly use this text as a means to preach about how we should be more like the Good Samaritan.
- [Immediately His Ears Were Opened](https://churchfmfl.com/immediately-his-ears-were-opened/): There are those in this world who believe that the Lord God has left us; that He just created us and then set us in the world to fed for ourselves.
- [God, Be Merciful to Me A Sinner!](https://churchfmfl.com/god-be-merciful-to-me-a-sinner/): Our Lord + Jesus speaks a parable today. The Evangelist St. Luke tells us that the parable was told for those who trusted in themselves and their own righteousness.
- [This Man Was Wasting His Goods](https://churchfmfl.com/this-man-was-wasting-his-goods/): A certain rich man had a wasteful steward. This parable from the Evangelist St. Luke is about us.
- [They Set Them Before the Multitudes](https://churchfmfl.com/they-set-them-before-the-multitudes/): Like the crowds in today’s pericope from the Evangelist St. Mark’s Gospel who were in the wilderness, we too are in a wilderness.
- [I Am a Sinful Man, O Lord!](https://churchfmfl.com/i-am-a-sinful-man-o-lord/): The Evangelist St. Luke tells us that our Lord + Jesus is preaching by the Lake of Gennesaret.
- [Can the Blind Lead the Blind?](https://churchfmfl.com/can-the-blind-lead-the-blind/): The Gospel reading for today from the Evangelist St. Luke is often used as an excuse for license to commit sin.
- [There Is Joy in the Presence of the Angels](https://churchfmfl.com/390-2/): Self-righteous people always think that their righteousness is better than other people’s.
- [All Things Are Now Ready](https://churchfmfl.com/all-things-are-now-ready/): It is a pitiful thing to disdain the gifts of the Lord God. He gives them to us out of His grace and bountiful merciful.
- [Though One Rise from the Dead](https://churchfmfl.com/though-one-rise-from-the-dead/): There are some people that no matter what means you use to persuade them, they will just not listen.
- [And He Bade Many](https://churchfmfl.com/and-he-bade-many/): My dear friends, the first three Sundays after Trinity Sunday are comprised of three connected themes: faith, hope, and love.
- [Here He Is Comforted](https://churchfmfl.com/here-he-is-comforted/): My dear friends, one of the hardest parts about being a pastor is not being able to take away someone’s physical pain.
- [Ye Must Be Born Anew](https://churchfmfl.com/ye-must-be-born-anew/): My dear friends, the Triune Lord God created man and woman in the beginning to be in His image.
- [Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled](https://churchfmfl.com/let-not-your-heart-be-troubled/): My dear friends, the Gospel for today, the Feast of Pentecost, from the Apostle and Evangelist St. John is often chosen for funerals.
- [These Things Have I Spoken unto You](https://churchfmfl.com/these-things-have-i-spoken-unto-you/): Hallelujah! Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Hallelujah! My dear friends, faith is not just knowledge of the Lord + Jesus.
- [Ye Shall Ask in My Name](https://churchfmfl.com/ye-shall-ask-in-my-name/): Dear friends, in chapter seventeen of the Apostle and Evangelist St. John’s Gospel, the next chapter after the one from which our reading is taken, our Lord prays on behalf of His Apostles.
- [Whither Goest Thou?](https://churchfmfl.com/whither-goest-thou/): Dear friends, during the Easter season we get to hear the dialogue that our Lord + Jesus, the Christ, had with His disciples before His arrest and crucifixion.
- [A Little While](https://churchfmfl.com/a-little-while/): My dear friends, today in the Church’s year is named “Jubilate.”
- [I AM the Good Shepherd](https://churchfmfl.com/i-am-the-good-shepherd/): My dear sheep, St. Peter tells us in the Epistle reading today from his First Epistle to the Saints that the Lord + Jesus, the Christ, is our Bishop and Shepherd.
- [Receive Ye the Holy Spirit](https://churchfmfl.com/receive-ye-the-holy-spirit/): My dear friends, in the beginning when the Triune Lord God created the heavens and the earth, He formed man from the dust of the earth.
- [Be Not Amazed](https://churchfmfl.com/be-not-amazed/): My dearly beloved friends, the Sabbath rest is over, the Day of the Resurrection of our Lord + Jesus, the Christ is here!
- [Blessed Is He That Cometh](https://churchfmfl.com/blessed-is-he-that-cometh/): My dear friends, we are once again presented with the scene with which we began the Church’s year.
- [He Shall Never Taste of Death](https://churchfmfl.com/he-shall-never-taste-of-death/): My dear friends, the enemies of the Lord God are always looking for an excuse to bring an accusation against His people.
- [As Much as They Would](https://churchfmfl.com/as-much-as-they-would/): My dear friends, after the Lord God rescued the Israelites from the bondage of slavery in the land of Egypt by the hand of Moses, He led them into the wilderness so that they might worship Him.
- [How Shall His Kingdom Stand?](https://churchfmfl.com/how-shall-his-kingdom-stand/): My dear friends, during the season of Lent we focus on the Ten Commandments.
- [Great Is Thy Faith](https://churchfmfl.com/great-is-thy-faith/): During the Lenten season we spend a significant amount of time reflecting upon the Ten Commandments and what is required to keep them.
- [Then Was Jesus Led Up of the Spirit](https://churchfmfl.com/then-was-jesus-led-up-of-the-spirit/): My dear friends, there are some similarities in our Gospel reading from the Apostle and Evangelist St. Matthew regarding our Lord’s temptation by the devil in the wilderness, and our first parents’ temptation in the Garden of Eden.
- [They Understood None of These Things](https://churchfmfl.com/they-understood-none-of-these-things/): My dear friends, we are justified by faith.
- [He Spake by a Parable](https://churchfmfl.com/he-spake-by-a-parable/): My dearly beloved, our Lord + Jesus, the Christ today speaks to us in a parable.
- [He Sent Them into His Vineyard](https://churchfmfl.com/he-sent-them-into-his-vineyard/): My dear friends, we come today to the beginning of Gesimatide, also called by some, “Pre-Lent.”
- [After Six Days](https://churchfmfl.com/after-six-days/): My dear friends, the events of today’s Gospel reading from the Apostle and Evangelist St. Matthew takes place six days after another event that should also be familiar to us.
- [The Third Day](https://churchfmfl.com/the-third-day/): My dear friends, this is now the second Sunday in a row where the Evangelist makes mention of the events happening on the third day.
- [His Parents Went Every Year to Jerusalem](https://churchfmfl.com/his-parents-went-every-year-to-jerusalem/): My dear friends, last Sunday, the Sunday within the Octave of the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord, we heard how our Lord’s parents first took Him to the temple to present Him as their firstborn Son, and complete the purification rite for the Blessed Virgin Mary.
- [The Witness of John](https://churchfmfl.com/the-witness-of-john/): My dear friends, Advent is the season of St. John the Baptist, for this season goes before the season of the Incarnation of the Christ—the Mass of the Christ, Christmas.
- [Behold, I Send My Messenger](https://churchfmfl.com/behold-i-send-my-messenger/): My dear friends, the season of Advent is all about our Lord + Jesus coming to us poor, miserable sinners.
- [Then Shall They See the Son of Man](https://churchfmfl.com/then-shall-they-see-the-son-of-man/): My dear friends, we should really have only one goal in this life.
- [Thy King Cometh unto Thee](https://churchfmfl.com/thy-king-cometh-unto-thee/): The past few Sundays we heard about our Lord’s return on the Last Day.
- [Watch!](https://churchfmfl.com/watch/): My dear friends, our Lord tells us today to “watch.” What does it mean to watch; to be watchful?
- [Inasmuch As Ye Did It](https://churchfmfl.com/inasmuch-as-ye-did-it/): When we come to the end of the Church’s year we are inundated with a lot of “doom and gloom.”
- [For the Elect’s Sake](https://churchfmfl.com/for-the-elects-sake/): My dear friends, the devil prowls around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. 
- [Have Patience with Me](https://churchfmfl.com/have-patience-with-me/): My dearly beloved, the parable of the unmerciful servant which we hear today is prompted in the Scriptures by St. Peter’s question of our Lord + Jesus.
- [The Man Believed](https://churchfmfl.com/the-man-believed/): Our Lord + Jesus performed His first miracle in Cana at a wedding feast. 
- [I Have Made Ready My Dinner](https://churchfmfl.com/i-have-made-ready-my-dinner/): My dear friends, the heavenly Father has prepared for us a meal—a wedding supper—in which we get to eat that which has been slaughtered.
- [The Son of Man Hath Authority](https://churchfmfl.com/the-son-of-man-hath-authority/): Today we have the familiar story of the healing of the man sick of the palsy who was let down from the roof before our Lord + Jesus.
- [The Son of David](https://churchfmfl.com/the-son-of-david/): My dear friends, there are three types of churches one must always avoid.
- [Sit Not Down in the Chief Seat](https://churchfmfl.com/sit-not-down-in-the-chief-seat/): Pride destroys the soul.
- [He That Was Dead Sat Up](https://churchfmfl.com/he-that-was-dead-sat-up/): My dear friends, it is most certain that we are born dead.
- [Seek Ye First His Kingdom](https://churchfmfl.com/seek-ye-first-his-kingdom/): Mammon is defined as our earthly possessions.
- [Jesus, Master, Have Mercy on Us ](https://churchfmfl.com/jesus-master-have-mercy-on-us/): St. Luke the Evangelist tells us that our Lord + Jesus is heading toward Jerusalem.
- [He That Showed Mercy on Him](https://churchfmfl.com/he-that-showed-mercy-on-him/): The Lord + Jesus had sent out seventy men to prepare the way of His coming by preaching the Gospel that the Messiah—the Anointed One—of the Lord God had come down from Heaven to earth.
- [He Maketh the Dumb to Speak](https://churchfmfl.com/he-maketh-the-dumb-to-speak/): We are presented today by one of the few Gospel readings in the Church’s year from the Evangelist St. Mark.
- [He That Humbleth Himself Shall Be Exalted](https://churchfmfl.com/he-that-humbleth-himself-shall-be-exalted/): My dear friends, nobody likes to be called a sinner.
- [He Was Wasting His Goods](https://churchfmfl.com/he-was-wasting-his-goods/): When our Triune Lord God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, created Adam and Eve, our first parents, He placed them into the Garden of Eden and gave them dominion over all of creation.
- [Every Good Tree](https://churchfmfl.com/every-good-tree/): Every good tree can only bear good fruit.
- [First Be Reconciled to Thy Brother](https://churchfmfl.com/first-be-reconciled-to-thy-brother/): My dearly beloved, some might question why we do not have a different set of Propers; ones that would better fit the occasion, as is often the case with many congregations.
- [The Son Abideth For Ever](https://churchfmfl.com/the-son-abideth-for-ever/): We are all conceived and born in sin.
- [Constrain Them to Come In](https://churchfmfl.com/constrain-them-to-come-in/): Our Triune Lord God is a very gracious Lord God.
- [Except One Be Born Anew ](https://churchfmfl.com/except-one-be-born-anew/): When we were born according to our flesh, we had no knowledge of it.
- [He Shall Teach You All Things](https://churchfmfl.com/he-shall-teach-you-all-things/): In the beginning the Earth was waste and void; and darkness covered over the whole Earth.
- [When the Comforter Is Come ](https://churchfmfl.com/when-the-comforter-is-come/): Hallelujah! Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Hallelujah! Since our Lord + Jesus has been crucified, buried, and has indeed risen from the dead on the third day, and since He has now ascended to sit on the right hand of the heavenly Father, He sends to us the Holy Ghost, the Comforter.
- [Pray to the Father](https://churchfmfl.com/pray-to-the-father/): Hallelujah! Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Hallelujah! And because the Christ is risen indeed, we now have an Intercessor for us Who sits at the right hand of the Father.
- [What Is This That He Saith?](https://churchfmfl.com/what-is-this-that-he-saith/): Some of His disciples therefore said one to another, “What is this that He saith unto us, ‘A little while, and ye behold Me not; and again a little while, and ye shall see Me: and, ‘Because I go to the Father?’”
- [Peace Be unto You](https://churchfmfl.com/peace-be-unto-you/): Hallelujah! Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Hallelujah! Our Lord + Jesus blesses His Apostles three times in this Gospel pericope from the Apostle and Evangelist St. John.
- [He Is Risen!](https://churchfmfl.com/he-is-risen/): Hallelujah! Christ is Arisen! He is risen indeed! Hallelujah! Abraham, the patriarch of the people of Israel, took his son Isaac, at the Lord God’s request, to a mountain of which the Lord God directed him.
- [Hosanna in the Highest!](https://churchfmfl.com/hosanna-in-the-highest/): Palm branches have always been a symbol of victory.
- [Which of You Convicteth Me of Sin?](https://churchfmfl.com/which-of-you-convicteth-me-of-sin/): Today is Judica Sunday. This day begins the season of the Church’s year known as Passiontide.
- [Whence Are We to Buy Bread?](https://churchfmfl.com/whence-are-we-to-buy-bread/): This Gospel stands in stark contrast to the rest of the Gospel readings from the season of Lent.
- [A House Divided Against a House Falleth](https://churchfmfl.com/a-house-divided-against-a-house-falleth/): Our society loves to plug diversity as if our differences make us stronger.
- [He Answered Her Not a Word](https://churchfmfl.com/he-answered-her-not-a-word/): There are many in this world who when their prayers seem to go unanswered turn their backs on the One to Whom they pray.
- [The Tempter Came](https://churchfmfl.com/the-tempter-came/): The Gospel from the Apostle and Evangelist St. Matthew for today begins with the word “Then.”
- [We Go Up to Jerusalem](https://churchfmfl.com/we-go-up-to-jerusalem/): The “Gesimas” or “Pre-lent” is a time of preparation for Lent. A time to do a little “spring cleaning” of the soul so that when Lent comes around, we do not have any obstacles in our way prohibiting us from focusing on the cross, and our salvation from sin, death, and the devil by Christ’s sacrifice of death upon it.
- [The Sower Went Forth to Sow His Seed](https://churchfmfl.com/the-sower-went-forth-to-sow-his-seed/): Our Lord + Jesus is a Sower Who goes out diligently and persistently to sow the seed of the Word of God.
- [Call the Laborers](https://churchfmfl.com/call-the-laborers/): Our Lord + Jesus Christ tells us today that the Kingdom of Heaven is like a Householder, Who is the Christ, going into the marketplace of the world, to call laborers, all those who have faith in the Lord + Jesus, to come and work in His Vineyard, the Church. 
- [This Is My Beloved Son](https://churchfmfl.com/this-is-my-beloved-son/): Throughout the season of Epiphany our Lord + Jesus has been manifested to us as both God and man.
- [When He Was Come Down](https://churchfmfl.com/when-he-was-come-down/): The season of Epiphany is about the manifestation, the revealing, of the Lord + Jesus as both God and man not just to the Jews, but to the whole world.
- [When the Wine Failed](https://churchfmfl.com/when-the-wine-failed/): Our Lord + Jesus once again reveals Himself to be both God and man.
- [The Boy Jesus Tarried Behind in Jerusalem](https://churchfmfl.com/the-boy-jesus-tarried-behind-in-jerusalem/): St. Luke the Evangelist relates in his Gospel two things that may escape our notice at first glance.
- [His Name Was Called JESUS](https://churchfmfl.com/his-name-was-called-jesus/): St. Luke the Evangelist tells us in the Gospel reading for today that our Lord received the name of + Jesus on this eighth day of His life; when the days were fulfilled for circumcising Him.
- [She Brought Forth Her Firstborn Son](https://churchfmfl.com/she-brought-forth-her-firstborn-son/): This morning, the Evangelist St. Luke established His manhood. That our Lord and Savior be both God and man is of utmost importance.
- [The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness](https://churchfmfl.com/the-voice-of-one-crying-in-the-wilderness/): St. John the Baptist comes in the wilderness to proclaim the coming of the Messiah.
- [The Works of the Christ](https://churchfmfl.com/the-works-of-the-christ/): Moses was the first prophet. He was the first in line of the Old Testament prophets that led up to the coming of St. John the Baptist.
- [The Heavens Shall Be Shaken](https://churchfmfl.com/the-heavens-shall-be-shaken/): It is amazing, but there are people in this world who are actually surprised to find that evil exists in this world.
- [That It Might Be Fulfilled](https://churchfmfl.com/that-it-might-be-fulfilled/): When our Lord + Jesus Christ came to at first, He was born for us out of the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
- [Ten Virgins](https://churchfmfl.com/ten-virgins/): Today we are once again taken to the Last Day; to the day of the judgment of mankind.
- [When the Son of Man Comes](https://churchfmfl.com/when-the-son-of-man-comes/): Last week we heard that the Lord + Jesus would come on the Last Day as lightning flashes from the East to the West.
- [As the Lightning Comes](https://churchfmfl.com/as-the-lightning-comes/): Our Lord + Jesus describes for us today in the Gospel reading from the Apostle and Evangelist St. Matthew two separate comings.
- [For Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen](https://churchfmfl.com/for-many-are-called-but-few-are-chosen/): With the Twentieth Sunday after Trinity Sunday the Church begins to focus on the Last Day.
- [Your Sins Are Forgiven You](https://churchfmfl.com/your-sins-are-forgiven-you/): Our Lord + Jesus had just been rejected by the Gergesenes.
- [Which Is the Great Commandment?](https://churchfmfl.com/which-is-the-great-commandment/): We meet our Lord + Jesus today in the final days leading up to His crucifixion.
- [Is It Lawful to Heal on the Sabbath?](https://churchfmfl.com/is-it-lawful-to-heal-on-the-sabbath/): St. Luke the Evangelist presents to us in the Gospel reading a healing and a parable by our Lord + Jesus.
- [A Dead Man Was Being Carried Out](https://churchfmfl.com/a-dead-man-was-being-carried-out/): We have all experienced the grief of death.
- [As He Went to Jerusalem](https://churchfmfl.com/as-he-went-to-jerusalem/): “Your faith has made you well.”
- [A Certain Man Went Down from Jerusalem](https://churchfmfl.com/a-certain-man-went-down-from-jerusalem/): Three times today in the Introit and the Gradual we sing, “Have respect to Your covenant, O Lord; Oh, do not let the oppressed returned ashamed.
- [He Took Him Aside from the Multitude](https://churchfmfl.com/he-took-him-aside-from-the-multitude/): The Evangelist St. Mark tells us in this Gospel reading from his Gospel that our Lord began in the region of Tyre and Sidon.
- [Some Who Trusted in Themselves](https://churchfmfl.com/some-who-trusted-in-themselves/): The whole life of a believer in Christ—a Christian—is one of repentance.
- [He Went into the Temple](https://churchfmfl.com/he-went-into-the-temple/): Our Lord + Jesus, the Christ, once again enters into the temple of the Lord God.
- [Agree with Your Adversary Quickly](https://churchfmfl.com/agree-with-your-adversary-quickly/): When some people hear “unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the Kingdom of Heaven” they believe they immediately need to work on being more righteous than the scribes and Pharisees.
- [This Man Receives Sinners](https://churchfmfl.com/this-man-receives-sinners/): The Pharisees and scribes were indignant that the Lord + Jesus received sinners and ate with them.
- [Still There Is Room](https://churchfmfl.com/still-there-is-room/): Our Lord + Jesus was invited to a supper on the Sabbath by one of the rulers of the Pharisees.
- [Unless One Is Born of Water and the Spirit](https://churchfmfl.com/unless-one-is-born-of-water-and-the-spirit/): Moses, the servant of the Triune Lord God, was commanded by the Lord God to teach Aaron and his sons to bless the people with the same blessing with which we end every Divine Service.
- [My Peace I Give to You](https://churchfmfl.com/my-peace-i-give-to-you/): On the Fourteenth Day of the First month the Jews celebrated the Feast of the Passover.
- [Your Sorrow Will Be Turned Into Joy](https://churchfmfl.com/your-sorrow-will-be-turned-into-joy/): That bad things will happen to us in this life is without doubt. Many of us experience, or have experienced the trials and tribulations that this life places before us.
- [There Will Be One Shepherd](https://churchfmfl.com/there-will-be-one-shepherd/): During the season of Easter, the Gospel readings all prepare us for the Feast of Pentecost.
- [Receive the Holy Spirit](https://churchfmfl.com/receive-the-holy-spirit/): There are many in our society who have a concept of faith that is backwards.
- [See the Place Where They Laid Him](https://churchfmfl.com/see-the-place-where-they-laid-him/): Just three days ago, on Good Friday, our Lord and Savior + Jesus Christ suffered and died for our sins, and the sins of the whole world, so that all those who believe on Him might have everlasting life.
- [He Shall Never See Death](https://churchfmfl.com/he-shall-never-see-death/): As we enter the last two weeks of Lent—as we enter Passiontide—we meet our Lord + Jesus in Jerusalem.
- [This Is Truly the Prophet](https://churchfmfl.com/this-is-truly-the-prophet/): My dear friends, today is Laetare Sunday. It is a Sunday of rejoicing.
- [Even the Little Dogs Eat the Crumbs ](https://churchfmfl.com/even-the-little-dogs-eat-the-crumbs/):  In Nomine Iesu!  In the Name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.  Prayer in Pulpit before Sermon:  Almighty and Everlasting God, Who […]
- [Jesus Was Led Up by the Spirit ](https://churchfmfl.com/jesus-was-led-up-by-the-spirit/): The temptation of our Lord + Jesus Christ seems to be confusing to some people.
- [To You It Has Been Given ](https://churchfmfl.com/to-you-it-has-been-given/): The parable in today’s Gospel reading from the Evangelist St. Luke is more than just a story on where to plant in order to reap a good harvest.
- [Ye Cannot Serve God and Mammon](https://churchfmfl.com/ye-cannot-serve-god-and-mammon/): My dear friends, our Triune Lord God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost wants to give us every blessing.
- [Who Is My Neighbor?](https://churchfmfl.com/who-is-my-neighbor-2/): My dear friends, the beginning of the Gospel from the Evangelist St. Luke, at first glance, seems to be just background information before we get into the heart of the text.
- [Two Men Went Up into the Temple to Pray](https://churchfmfl.com/two-men-went-up-into-the-temple-to-pray/): My dear friends, in the Fifth Petition to the Lord’s Prayer we pray that our heavenly Father would “Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.”
- [He Entered into the Temple](https://churchfmfl.com/he-entered-into-the-temple/): My dear friends, when we celebrate Palm Sunday it comes at the end of the Lenten season, and at the beginning of Holy Week. 
- [He Was Wasting His Goods](https://churchfmfl.com/he-was-wasting-his-goods-2/): My dear friends, the unjust steward and the children of this world are wiser than the children of light because they recognize how desperate their situation is and go about their business with a single-minded zeal for improving it.
- [By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them](https://churchfmfl.com/by-their-fruits-ye-shall-know-them/): My dear friends in Christ, there are those who question why it is so important to get doctrine right.
- [Here in a Desert Place](https://churchfmfl.com/here-in-a-desert-place/): My dear friends, we often meditate upon the feeding of the four thousand, or the five thousand, without paying much attention to the context.
- [Thou Shalt Not Kill](https://churchfmfl.com/thou-shalt-not-kill/): My dear friends, after Adam and Eve first sinned in the Garden of Eden our Lord God promised them a Savior.
- [Can the Blind Guide the Blind?](https://churchfmfl.com/can-the-blind-guide-the-blind/): My dear friends, can the blind guide the blind?
- [There Shall Be Joy in Heaven](https://churchfmfl.com/there-shall-be-joy-in-heaven/): My dear friends, last Sunday we heard about how our Lord + Jesus sat down to eat bread with the scribes and Pharisees in the house of one of the chief Pharisees. 
- [That My House May Be Filled](https://churchfmfl.com/that-my-house-may-be-filled/): My dear friends, our Lord + Jesus had been invited to the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to sit down to eat with them.
- [That Which Is Born of the Spirit Is Spirit](https://churchfmfl.com/that-which-is-born-of-the-spirit-is-spirit/): My dear friends, our Lord + Jesus tells Nicodemus in the Gospel reading from the Apostle and Evangelist St. John that “that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”
- [Whom the Father Will Send in My Name](https://churchfmfl.com/whom-the-father-will-send-in-my-name/): My dear friends, the Lord God instructed the Prophet Moses to tell the people of Israel that they were to appear before Him—His tabernacle—three times a year.
- [Ye Also Bear Witness](https://churchfmfl.com/ye-also-bear-witness/): My dear friends, this Sunday was anciently known as Dominica expectationis, that is, the Sunday of Expectation, or to say it another way this Sunday is known as “Waiting Sunday.”
- [Ye Shall Ask in My Name](https://churchfmfl.com/ye-shall-ask-in-my-name-2/): My dear friends, our Lord + Jesus, the Christ, gives us a great promise today.
- [The Spirit of Truth](https://churchfmfl.com/the-spirit-of-truth/): My dear friends, modern Christianity wants to reduce our Lord + Jesus down from His throne at the right hand of the heavenly Father to be our buddy and friend.
- [Your Sorrow Shall Be Turned into Joy](https://churchfmfl.com/your-sorrow-shall-be-turned-into-joy/): My dear friends, we have reached the point in the Easter season where we spend time hearing what our dear Lord + Jesus, the Christ, said to His Apostles in the Upper Room before His betrayal, arrest, and trial.
- [I Lay Down My Life](https://churchfmfl.com/i-lay-down-my-life/): My dear friends, a Good Shepherd cares deeply for His sheep.
- [We Have Seen the Lord](https://churchfmfl.com/we-have-seen-the-lord/): My dear friends, Hallelujah! Christ is Risen! He is risen indeed! Hallelujah! On the day of His resurrection, our Lord + Jesus, the Christ, appears to His Apostles in the Upper Room.
- [They Come to the Tomb](https://churchfmfl.com/they-come-to-the-tomb/): My dear friends in Christ, Hallelujah! Christ is Risen! He is risen indeed! Hallelujah!
- [Hosanna to the Son of David!](https://churchfmfl.com/hosanna-to-the-son-of-david/): My dear friends, the Prophet Moses had prayed to the Lord God that He would raise up in his stead a man just like him to lead the people of Israel.
- [It Is My Father That Glorifieth Me](https://churchfmfl.com/it-is-my-father-that-glorifieth-me/): My dear friends, we begin Passiontide with our Lord + Jesus once again battling the forces of evil; He is battling with those who refuse to believe on Him.
- [This Is of a Truth the Prophet](https://churchfmfl.com/this-is-of-a-truth-the-prophet/): My dear friends, when the people of Israel were freed from the bondage of slavery to the Egyptians they followed the Prophet Moses into the wilderness.
- [When a Stronger Than He Shall Come](https://churchfmfl.com/when-a-stronger-than-he-shall-come/): My dear friends, one of the features of the historic lectionary during Lent is that every Gospel reading has our dear Lord battling the devil, or demons.
- [O Lord, Thou Son of David](https://churchfmfl.com/o-lord-thou-son-of-david/): My dearly beloved, in the Lenten season our focus upon our sins and our breaking of the Ten Commandments should drive us toward three things: fasting, prayer, and almsgiving.
- [If Thou Art the Son of God](https://churchfmfl.com/if-thou-art-the-son-of-god/): My dear friends, less than two months ago we celebrated the birth of our Lord + Jesus, the Christ.
- [Thou Son of David, Have Mercy on Me](https://churchfmfl.com/thou-son-of-david-have-mercy-on-me/): My dear friends, today we are presented a Gospel in two parts.
- [The Sower Went Forth to Sow](https://churchfmfl.com/the-sower-went-forth-to-sow/): My dear friends, the Evangelist St. Luke writes that a great multitude from every city resorted unto our Lord + Jesus.
- [This Is My Beloved Son](https://churchfmfl.com/this-is-my-beloved-son-2/): My dear friends, historically in the Church’s year there were three events in our Lord’s life that were always observed.
- [This Beginning of His Signs](https://churchfmfl.com/this-beginning-of-his-signs/): My dear friends, this narrative is often called “The Wedding in Cana.”
- [He Was Subject unto Them](https://churchfmfl.com/he-was-subject-unto-them/): My dear friends, the Son of God comes to His temple.
- [Out of Egypt Did I Call My Son](https://churchfmfl.com/out-of-egypt-did-i-call-my-son/): My dear friends, every great meal, every great feast will include a variety of flavors—not just sweet, but also sour or bitter or salty.
- [A Sign Which Is Spoken Against](https://churchfmfl.com/a-sign-which-is-spoken-against/): My dear friends, Our Lord is presented in the Temple. Isaiah calls it the House of Prayer for all people.
- [He That Cometh After Me](https://churchfmfl.com/he-that-cometh-after-me/): Today, my dear friends, we hear a voice in the wilderness crying to us to “make straight the way of the Lord.” 
- [Art Thou He That Cometh?](https://churchfmfl.com/art-thou-he-that-cometh/): Now when, my dear friends, the Lord God in Deuteronomy eighteen promises the Prophet Moses that He will raise up a Prophet like Moses from the Israelites and would put His Words into His mouth, we are invited to compare Christ, the Prophet Who is promised by the Lord God, with Moses.
- [Then Shall They See the Son of Man](https://churchfmfl.com/then-shall-they-see-the-son-of-man-2/): My dear friends, many people when they read, or hear, the end of times texts, picture the Last Day as a dark day; a day of woe and sadness, or weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- [Behold, Thy King Cometh!](https://churchfmfl.com/behold-thy-king-cometh/): My dear friends, we have entered into the season where the whole world turns its focus to Christmas.
- [The Wise Took Oil in Their Vessels](https://churchfmfl.com/the-wise-took-oil-in-their-vessels/): My dear friends, the people of Israel on their last night in the land of Egypt were told by the Lord God, through the Prophet Moses, to prepare a Passover lamb by killing it at twilight, and spreading its blood on the doorposts and lintels as a sign to the avenging angel to pass over their house.
- [When the Son of Man Shall Come](https://churchfmfl.com/when-the-son-of-man-shall-come/): My dear friends, the world has reduced religion down to doing good works.
- [Wheresoever the Carcase Is](https://churchfmfl.com/wheresoever-the-carcase-is/): My dear friends, what is an abomination?
- [Call Them That Were Bidden to the Marriage Feast](https://churchfmfl.com/call-them-that-were-bidden-to-the-marriage-feast/): My dear friends, in the Trinity season, this season which we are in currently, there are two Gospels that contain a wedding feast.
- [Thy Sins Are Forgiven](https://churchfmfl.com/thy-sins-are-forgiven/): My dear friends, it is truly a remarkable thing that our Lord + Jesus does for this man sick of the palsy.
- [How Is He His Son?](https://churchfmfl.com/how-is-he-his-son/): My dear friends, in today’s Gospel reading from the Apostle and Evangelist St. Matthew our Lord silences both the Sadducees and the Pharisees.
- [He That Humbleth Himself Shall Be Exalted](https://churchfmfl.com/he-that-humbleth-himself-shall-be-exalted-2/): My dear friends, our dear Lord + Jesus, the Christ, asks the question today, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?”
- [Many Publicans and Sinners Came](https://churchfmfl.com/many-publicans-and-sinners-came/): My dear friends, our Lord + Jesus, the Christ, had just healed a paralytic. This is the paralytic we hear about on the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday every year. 
- [He That Showed Mercy on Him](https://churchfmfl.com/he-that-showed-mercy-on-him-2/): My dear friends, our Lord + Jesus, the Christ, in today’s Gospel reading from the Evangelist St. Luke gives us a parable showing what is the consequence of sin and evil in this world.
- [Ephphatha!](https://churchfmfl.com/ephphatha/): My dear friends, you have heard me say countless times that the Holy Ghost works through means.
- [I Appoint unto You a Kingdom](https://churchfmfl.com/i-appoint-unto-you-a-kingdom/): My dear friends, the Apostles in the reading for today argue amongst themselves who among them is the greatest.
- [His Lord Commended the Unrighteous Steward](https://churchfmfl.com/his-lord-commended-the-unrighteous-steward/): My dear friends, our Lord + Jesus never avoided tough subjects in His preaching.
- [If It Die, It Beareth Much Fruit](https://churchfmfl.com/if-it-die-it-beareth-much-fruit/): My dear friends, today’s Propers, at least the readings, all mention the planting of seeds.
- [I Have Compassion on the Multitude](https://churchfmfl.com/i-have-compassion-on-the-multitude/): My dear friends, what a remarkable statement that St. Mark the Evangelist makes in the Gospel for today!
- [They Left All, and Followed Him](https://churchfmfl.com/they-left-all-and-followed-him/): My dear friends, as we have seen over the last two Sundays, the first five Sundays after Trinity Sunday all have to do with faith and mercy.
- [Be Ye Merciful](https://churchfmfl.com/be-ye-merciful/): My dear friends, many people when they read this text latch onto the “judge not, and ye shall not be judged” part of the text.
- [There Is Joy in the Presence of the Angels](https://churchfmfl.com/there-is-joy-in-the-presence-of-the-angels/): My dear friends, as we will hear more in-depth next Sunday, today’s Gospel is all about faith and mercy.
- [Even So Must the Son of Man Be Lifted Up](https://churchfmfl.com/even-so-must-the-son-of-man-be-lifted-up/): My dear friends, in Numbers chapter six, the Lord God tells Moses to give instructions to Aaron, the high priest.
- [We Will Come unto Him](https://churchfmfl.com/we-will-come-unto-him/): My dear friends, our Lord + Jesus, the Christ, says to His Apostles, “Let not your hearts be troubled.”
- [Now I Go unto Him That Sent Me](https://churchfmfl.com/now-i-go-unto-him-that-sent-me/): The Gospel pericopes of the Easter season do not follow a linear pattern.
- [What Is This That He Saith?](https://churchfmfl.com/what-is-this-that-he-saith-2/): Today is the halfway point of the Easter season. This is marked by a Sunday of rejoicing.
- [I Know Mine Own](https://churchfmfl.com/i-know-mine-own/): Sheep are known for having two traits: they have a propensity to wander and go where it is dangerous for them to go.
- [Whose soever Sins Ye Forgive](https://churchfmfl.com/whose-soever-sins-ye-forgive/): The dust of the earth cannot make itself alive. Neither can dry bones make themselves flesh and blood and be alive again.
- [He Is Risen](https://churchfmfl.com/he-is-risen-2025/): My dear friends, Hallelujah! Christ is Risen! He is risen indeed! Hallelujah!
- [Hosanna in the Highest!](https://churchfmfl.com/hosanna-in-the-highest-2/): My dear friends, the Gospel for today from the Apostle and Evangelist St. Matthew is the only Sunday Gospel reading that is repeated in the Church’s year.
- [Before Abraham Was Born, I AM](https://churchfmfl.com/before-abraham-was-born-i-am/): My dear friends, throughout the season of Lent we have seen our Lord + Jesus, the Christ, battling the powers of the devil and his horde.
- [He Himself Knew What He Would Do](https://churchfmfl.com/he-himself-knew-what-he-would-do/): My dear friends, today’s Gospel reading from the Apostle and Evangelist St. John stands in stark contrast to the rest of the Gospels for the Lenten season.
- [By the Finger of God](https://churchfmfl.com/by-the-finger-of-god/): My dear friends, every word of the Bible is God’s Word.
- [Even the Dogs Eat of the Crumbs](https://churchfmfl.com/even-the-dogs-eat-of-the-crumbs/): My dear friends, the mustard seed is one of the smallest of seeds, but when the plant grows and matures it produces much fruit.
- [It Is Written](https://churchfmfl.com/it-is-written/): My dear friends, we pray in the sixth petition of the Lord’s Prayer, “And lead us not into temptation.”
- [We Go Up to Jerusalem](https://churchfmfl.com/we-go-up-to-jerusalem-2/): My dear friends, with this Sunday we prepare to transition into another season of the Church’s year.
- [Bring Forth Fruit with Patience](https://churchfmfl.com/bring-forth-fruit-with-patience/): My dear friends, our Triune Lord God is ever abundant in His mercy and compassion.
- [It Is My Will](https://churchfmfl.com/it-is-my-will/): My dear friends, in the close of the Commandments our heavenly Father refers to Himself as a “jealous God.” We often equate jealousy as having a negative connotation.
- [A Bright Cloud Overshadowed Them](https://churchfmfl.com/a-bright-cloud-overshadowed-them-2/): My dear friends, the season of Epiphany is the season where our Lord + Jesus reveals Himself to be the Son of the Lord God.
- [Every Male that Openeth the Womb](https://churchfmfl.com/every-male-that-openeth-the-womb/): My dear friends, in the Garden of Eden, after Adam and Eve first sinned, they realized that they were both naked.
- [The Harvest Indeed Is Plenteous](https://churchfmfl.com/the-harvest-indeed-is-plenteous/): My dear friends, the Lord God in the Flesh comes to redeem mankind, to make for Himself a people who were no people: by healing souls afflicted and burdened by sin, by inviting and welcoming back the rebellious, wasteful sons, by opening His house and table to the Gentiles, the Prostitutes and Tax-collectors, the sinners.
- [If Any Man Would Come After Me](https://churchfmfl.com/if-any-man-would-come-after-me/): My dear friends, our Lord + Jesus says in the Gospel reading for today from the Apostle and Evangelist St. Matthew, “If any man would come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.”
- [When He Was Twelve Years Old](https://churchfmfl.com/when-he-was-twelve-years-old/): My dear friends, when our Lord + Jesus, the Christ, was twelve years old.
- [Flee into Egypt](https://churchfmfl.com/flee-into-egypt/): My dear friends, today’s Gospel reading from the Apostle and Evangelist St. Matthew is a continuation of the Gospel reading for tomorrow, the Festival of the Epiphany of our Lord.
- [The Redemption of Jerusalem](https://churchfmfl.com/the-redemption-of-jerusalem/): My dear friends, on just the first Sunday after our Lord’s birth into the flesh of mankind, we are carried forward to His cross and Passion.
- [The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness](https://churchfmfl.com/the-voice-of-one-crying-in-the-wilderness-2/): My dear friends, you have most likely often heard me say that the season of Advent is the season of St. John the Baptist.
- [Much More Than a Prophet](https://churchfmfl.com/much-more-than-a-prophet/): My dear friends, our Lord + Jesus comes to His people in three ways during the Advent season: in a little over two weeks, we will celebrate His first coming.
- [Your Redemption Draweth Nigh](https://churchfmfl.com/your-redemption-draweth-nigh/): My dear friends, during the Advent season the Church’s focus, our focus, is on the advent, that is, the coming, of our Lord + Jesus, the Christ.
- [That It Might Be Fulfilled](https://churchfmfl.com/that-it-might-be-fulfilled-2/): My dear friends, today we begin a new Church year.
- [They That Were Ready Went In](https://churchfmfl.com/they-that-were-ready-went-in/): My dear friends, the last three Sundays of the Church’s year all focus on being prepared.
- [The Righteous into Eternal Life](https://churchfmfl.com/the-righteous-into-eternal-life/): My dear friends, if one was to ask any random stranger on the street, “What kind of person goes to heaven?”
- [The Abomination of Desolation](https://churchfmfl.com/the-abomination-of-desolation/): My dear friends, just as at the time of the Babylonian captivity the Lord God caused the Ark of the Covenant to be lost, so also, He caused the second temple in Jerusalem to be razed and destroyed.
- [What Thinkest Thou?](https://churchfmfl.com/what-thinkest-thou/): My dear friends, often, when this text comes around in the Church’s year, many parishes turn this Sunday into what they call a “Stewardship Sunday.”
- [But That Servant Went Out](https://churchfmfl.com/but-that-servant-went-out/): My dearly beloved and fellow poor, miserable sinners, the greatest gift anyone can ever receive is the forgiveness of sins.
- [Himself Believed, and His Whole House](https://churchfmfl.com/himself-believed-and-his-whole-house/): My dear friends, we are justified by faith.
- [They Would Not Come](https://churchfmfl.com/they-would-not-come/): My dear friends, the servants are sent out into the partings of the highways to invite as many as they shall find, both bad and good.
- [Jesus Seeing Their Faith](https://churchfmfl.com/jesus-seeing-their-faith/): My dear friends, it is most certainly true that we are justified by faith.
- [Is It Lawful to Heal on the Sabbath?](https://churchfmfl.com/is-it-lawful-to-heal-on-the-sabbath-2/): My dear friends, we cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven without much tribulation.
- [Weep Not](https://churchfmfl.com/weep-not/): My dear friends, today we meet two crowds in the city of Nain. One is a joyful crowd following the Lord + Jesus, the Christ.
- [No Man Can Serve Two Masters](https://churchfmfl.com/no-man-can-serve-two-masters/): My dear friends, our Lord + Jesus, the Christ in His Sermon on the Mount declares that, “No man can serve two masters.”
- [Thy Faith Hath Made Thee Whole](https://churchfmfl.com/thy-faith-hath-made-thee-whole/): My dear friends, there is no doubt that we are justified by faith. It is by faith in the Lord + Jesus that we are made whole.
- [Who Is My Neighbor?](https://churchfmfl.com/who-is-my-neighbor/): My dear friends, the certain lawyer in today’s Gospel reading asks our Lord + Jesus, the Christ, “And who is my neighbor?
- [His Ears Were Opened](https://churchfmfl.com/his-ears-were-opened/): My dear friends, the kingdom of the Christ is found only where the forgiveness, compassion, and love of our Lord + Jesus, the Christ can be found.
- [He Saw the City and Wept](https://churchfmfl.com/he-saw-the-city-and-wept/): My dear friends, one may wonder why we read such a disturbing and macabre reading as the History of the Destruction of the City of Jerusalem.
- [Beware of False Prophets](https://churchfmfl.com/beware-of-false-prophets/): My dear friends, the last time we were together you heard a sermon from the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount, from the fifth chapter of the Apostle and Evangelist St. Matthew’s Gospel.
- [Ye Have Heard That It Was Said](https://churchfmfl.com/ye-have-heard-that-it-was-said/): My dearly beloved, we can in no wise be saved by our keeping of the Law.
- [Henceforth Thou Shalt Catch Men](https://churchfmfl.com/henceforth-thou-shalt-catch-men/): My dear friends, our Lord shows us the peace which His grace and mercy ultimately gives to our troubled souls.
- [He Spake Also a Parable](https://churchfmfl.com/he-spake-also-a-parable/): Today our Lord + Jesus asks, “Can the blind guide the blind?”

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