On March 31, 2025, I preached at Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church of Freeburg, Illinois. The sermon was based 2 Corinthians 5:16-21, the epistle appointed for the fourth Sunday in Lent, Series C of the three-year lectionary. It was the first time that my mother heard me preach since my ordination in 2008. Thank you, Paster Keseman, for the opportunity!
“Therefore, from now on, we regard no man after the flesh. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things have passed away; behold, all things are made new. And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them; and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. For He has made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
