Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church - Olive Branch, MS

October 19, 2025 - Trinity 18 Sermon

Color: Green

Old Testament: Deuteronomy 10:12–21
Psalm: Psalm 34:8–22; antiphon: v. 19
Epistle: 1 Corinthians 1:1–9
Epistle: 1 Corinthians 1:4–9
Gospel: Matthew 22:34–46
Introit: Psalm 122:1, 6, 8–9; antiphon: Liturgical Text
Gradual: Psalm 122:1, 7
Verse: Psalm 117:1

In Life and Death, Christ Fulfills the Law of God
 
The Pharisees ask a Law question. Jesus asks a Gospel question. The Pharisees seek to test Jesus in His own words. Jesus seeks to “test” them in the saving reality of who He is as the Messiah (Matt. 22:34–46). The Law requires you to “fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul” and to “love the sojouner” (Deut. 10:12–21). Failure to keep the Law perfectly brings judgment. On the other hand, the Gospel brings the grace of God given by Jesus Christ, that you may be blameless in the day of His return (1 Cor. 1:1–9). Jesus is David’s Son yet David’s Lord, true God and true man. He is Love incarnate who fulfilled all the demands of God’s Law on our behalf, that we might be saved from the Law’s condemnation and sanctified in the Gospel’s forgiveness. Thereby we see that “God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord” (1 Cor. 1:9).

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October 16, 2025 - Peace Lutheran Oxford, MS - Exodus 32:1-18

Exodus 32:1-18

October 15, 2025 - Midweek Ministry - Revelation 21:5-21

Revelation 21:5-21

October 12, 2025 - Trinity 17 Sermon

Color: Green

Old Testament: Proverbs 25:6–14
Psalm: Psalm 2; antiphon: v. 11
Epistle: Ephesians 4:1–6
Gospel: Luke 14:1–11
Introit: Psalm 119:1–2, 5–6; antiphon: vv. 137, 124
Gradual: Psalm 33:12, 6
Verse: Psalm 116:1

Whoever Humbles Himself Will Be Exalted
 
“Do not put yourself forward in the king’s presence” (Prov. 25:6–14). Rather, take the lowest position at the table. Humble yourself before Him. For your place is not for you to take but for Him to give. Conduct yourself with all lowliness and gentleness, bearing with one another in love (Eph. 4:1–6), that the King may give you glory in the presence of those at the table with you. “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted” (Luke 14:1–11). Is this not the way of Christ? He is the one who took the lowest place, who humbled Himself even to the point of death for us. He is now exalted to the highest place at the right hand of the Father that penitent believers may be exalted together with Him in the resurrection. To the humble at His Supper He says, “Friend, move up higher,” giving you His very body and blood for your forgiveness that you may ascend to take part in the great wedding feast which has no end.

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October 9, 2025 - Peace Lutheran Oxford, MS - Exodus 31:1-18

Exodus 31:1-18

October 8, 2025 - Midweek Ministry - Revelation 21:1-4

Revelation 21:1-4

October 5, 2025 - Peace Lutheran Oxford, MS - Acts 19:11-22

Acts 19:11-22

October 5, 2025 - Trinity 16 Sermon

Color: Green

Old Testament: 1 Kings 17:17–24
Psalm: Psalm 30; antiphon: v. 5b
Epistle: Ephesians 3:13–21
Gospel: Luke 7:11–17
Introit: Psalm 86:1, 7, 12–13; antiphon: vv. 3, 5
Gradual: Psalm 102:15–16
Verse: Psalm 115:11

Jesus Calls forth Life from Death
 
A large funeral procession carrying the only son of a widow is confronted by another large procession, Jesus and His followers. Death and Life meet face to face at the gate of the city (Luke 7:11–17). Filled with compassion, Jesus comes into direct contact with our mortality in order to overcome it. He touches the coffin and speaks His creative words of life, “Young man, I say to you, arise.” Jesus does what is neither expected nor requested. For through Christ, God the Father “is able to do far more abundantly than all we ask or think” (Eph. 3:14–21). Jesus bore our death in His body that we may share in His resurrection. Even as Elijah stretched himself out three times over the Zarephath woman’s son (1 Kings 17:17–24), God stretched Himself out over us in the threefold application of His name in the baptismal water, breathing new and everlasting life into us. “To Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.”

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October 2, 2025 - Peace Lutheran Oxford, MS - Exodus 30:17-38

Exodus 30:17-38

October 1, 2025 - Midweek Ministry - Revelation 20:11-15

Revelation 20:11-15