Sermons – Morrison Zion Lutheran Church

May 23, 2024

Salvation: My Strength, My Song (May 23, 2024)

Topic: Child, Defense, Forgiven, Graduation, Joy, Loved, Peace, Redeemed, Salvation, Senses, Sinful, Song, strength, Trust

Eighth Grade Graduation Service

Isaiah 12:2

March 29, 2024

Series: Good Friday, Seven Words, Triduum

Service of Seven Words (Mar. 29, 2024)

Speaker: Pastor James Enderle

Topic: Blessed, Care, Commitment, Cross, Death, eternity, Faith, Finished, forgiveness, Forsaken, God, Grace, Heaven, Hell, Innocent, Jesus, Joy, Love, Man, Paradise, Peace, Perfect, Physically, Resurrection, Salvation, Separated, sin, Spiritually, Suffer, Tempted, Trust

The Triduum (TRID-oo-um, “three days”) refers to the time from worship on Maundy Thursday until the final worship of Easter Day. The “Three Holy Days” of the passion and resurrection of Christ is the culmination of the entire church year. It is over these days – Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter – that we celebrate God’s redeeming love in the dying and rising of His Son, Jesus, and still see that love today. The Triduum is a single celebration. Once we have begun the Triduum on Maundy Thursday, we do not “leave” it until Easter Sunday. It is one continuous celebration of dying and rising, with Christ.

The Three Holy Days of Christendom continue on Good Friday with a service that focuses our attention on the words Christ spoke while on the cross. In these words we see the depth of our Savior’s suffering as well as the depth of His love for us.

Luke 23:26-34, Luke 23:35-43, John 19:25-27, Matthew 27:45-49, John 19:28-29, John 19:30, Luke 23:44-46

November 29, 2023

Series: Advent, The Clothing of the King

The Foretaste of Fashion (Nov. 29, 2023)

Speaker: Pastor James Enderle

Topic: Clothing, Death, Family, Fashion, Forgiven, Guilt, Hide, History, hope, Knowledge, Pain, Pressure, Robed, Savior, Scarlet, Shame, sin, Solution, Stress, Trust, White

This midweek Advent Sermon Series tells the stories of the clothing of the King. Stories that describe a wardrobe at once splendid and sin-stained, with fabrics that reveal who we are and cover us all the same. The clothing of the King is tattered and worn and glorious in its incorruptibility. It isn’t ours, yet He gives it to us freely.

Genesis 3:14-21

August 20, 2023

Series: Sundays after Pentecost, The Christian...

Trust God’s Powerful Water

Speaker: Pastor James Enderle

Topic: Complain, Destroy, Mediator, Save, Trust

The Christian answers doubt with faith. Doubt is the unfortunate companion of faith. Wherever faith clings to the promises of God, doubt is always right there lingering in the back of our mind, constantly asking the serpent’s Garden question, “Did God really say?” Today’s lessons show us believers who had faith in God and His abilities to save them, but yet doubted when His plans or purpose failed to match theirs. In each case, it is adversity that fights against faith and allows its unfortunate companion to rear its ugly head. And in each case, the true answer to doubt is not found in the great miracle that removes adversity but in the still, small voice of our Savior God whispering in His Word.

Exodus 14:10-31

January 29, 2023

Series: Sundays after Epiphany