Sermons from St Paul Chuckery

The Lord's Prayer - 7th Petition

2012-01-22T07:30:00.002-05:00

But deliver us from evil. What does this mean? We pray in this petition, in summary, that our Father in heaven would rescue us from every evil of body and soul, possessions and reputation, and finally, when our last hour comes, give us a blessed end, and graciously take us from this valley of sorrow to Himself in heaven. In this last petition we pray that the Lord would deliver us from evil.

Lord's Prayer - 5th and 6th Petitions

2012-01-15T07:37:00.002-05:00

The city of Bombay in India is a city with a population of greater than 12 million people. There are nearly 60,000 people per square mile. And they don’t all live in high rises like we might expect. Instead they live on the street. Or next to it, to be more precise; in little villages pieced together from pieces of scrap metal and wood. Entire towns made from discarded construction

The Lord's Prayer in the New Year - Petitions 3 & 4

2012-01-08T06:56:00.000-05:00

“Here we now consider the poor bread basket, the necessaries of our body and of the temporal life.” [LC III p 72] Today in our ongoing series on the Lord’s Prayer we consider the 3rd Petition as well as the 4th. Thy Will be done and Give us this day our daily bread. We have begun with the bread. We have begun with the 4th. In the 4th Petition we pray for bread, but this prayer is for much

The Lord's Prayer in the New Year: Petitions 1 & 2

2012-01-01T07:02:00.001-05:00

Luther's Small Catechism: The Lord's Prayer Luther's Large Catechism: The Lord's Prayer Happy New Year! Today is a new day and the first day of the New Year and with this new year perhaps some of you have made a New Year’s resolution, a commitment for some new thing that you are going to do or to change for this next year. Perhaps you are already planning how you will go about making

Christmas Day

2011-12-25T06:14:00.000-05:00

This past Tuesday our St Paul Pre School had their Children’s Christmas program. Those of you who do Facebook might have noticed the picture I posted of the line-up of half sized shepherds, an inn keeper, Mary, Joseph, a few wise men, and of course a handful of angels (one of whom happened to be my daughter). Tori had been practicing her “Glory to God in the highest” line and had it down pat.

The Annunciation Luke 1:26-38

2011-12-18T07:46:00.004-05:00

It is an important article of the Christian Faith that Jesus is at the same time God and man, Divine and Human. Our three ecumenical creeds confess this exact thing and we say we believe it to be true every time we confess any one of them “I believe in Jesus Christ, his only son our Lord who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary.” (The Second Article to the Apostle’s

Advent Midweek 3 - the Road to Life

2011-12-14T18:36:00.001-05:00

“It’s too good to be true.” A phrase that is often followed by, “I’ll believe it when I see it.” Perhaps those phrases might have been spoken by Zechariah had he known them. For there he was, alone in the temple, when an angel, Gabriel, the Archangel, stood before him with news that we indeed too good to be true. I would suspect Zecharaih and Elizabeth had given up any hope of having a child

Advent 3 - 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24

2011-12-12T10:17:00.001-05:00

People love their heroes and Buckeye fans are certainly no exception. There are plenty of names that live on as significant parts of the local lore and history. Those who have significant contributions and sizable accomplishments, who have been key players during past seasons of success. Names like Archie Griffin, Eddie George

Easter 6 - Revelation 21

2010-05-09T05:40:00.001-05:00

Christians are a population of the joyful! There is joy set before us in what we are to receive in eternity. There is joy that is ours now.Today is Mother's Day. On this day that we honor our mothers we can affirm that moms are a population of the joyful. Just look at our Gospel lesson from last week; there was a reminder of the joy in bearing children. Moms-to-be are filled with joy when

Easter 5 - John 16:12-22

2010-05-02T05:26:00.000-05:00

Do you ever get the sense that there is something not quite right with the world? Oh, it's a good world. We wouldn't want to say that it wasn't. It is beautiful. It is filled with good things, with wonderful things. Things that bring us pleasure and joy and happiness and excitement. We witness the splendor of the night sky, the vivid colors of a summer sunset, the intricate details of the

Easter 4 - John 10:22-30

2010-04-26T10:25:00.002-05:00

“Love your enemies” the scriptures tell us. “Pray for those who persecute you.” That is easier said than done. But fortunately for us, that is exactly what Jesus does. If it would have been you or me, we probably would not have responded in the same way. We have all kinds of defense mechanisms that kick in when we are confronted. We get tongue tied, nervous, our blood pressure goes up.

Lent 4 - Luke 15:11-32

2010-03-14T06:10:00.000-05:00

You may or may not know this about me, but I am a gadget person. I love little electronic gadgets and I have a small collection of them. And among those gadgets, my favorite is my iPod. It turn our, a few weeks ago I lost my iPod. Julie will tell you that it is nothing more than a glorified toy. But I bet to differ. There

Lent 3 - 1 Corinthians 10:10-13

2010-03-09T09:26:00.001-05:00

“The end of the Ages has come.” says the Apostle Paul. That little phrase it kind of tucked in there, hiding in our epistle lesson, perhaps on our first time through you didn't notice it. But sure enough, right there at the end of verse 11, there it is. “The end of the ages has come.” The end times. The last days. The conclusion to history. That time has come!But then again, you probably

Lent 2

2010-02-28T07:18:00.000-05:00

In the history of the people of God, the city of Jerusalem was a grand and storied city. While its history goes back to the time of Abraham, during the reign of David it was inhabited by the Jebusites. David conquered Jerusalem and turned it into the capitol city of the nation of Israel. Once Jerusalem was captured David built for himself a palace and his son Solomon built for the Lord a

Lent 1 Psalm 92

2010-02-21T06:41:00.000-05:00

Text: Psalm 91The Devil came to Jesus intent on His destruction. IT was not the first time that the devil had set his sights on destroying a man. There had been hundreds, thousands, even millions before. But the first time had been of greatest importance. The first time it was a man named Adam. And for a man created to be perfect he was pretty easy prey. Adam went down, and with him fell

Epiphany 4

2010-01-31T06:59:00.000-05:00

“Authority” is a dirty word. We don't like it. We don't trust it. We don't want to have anything to do with it. You just have to say the word and It makes us think thoughts of domination. Oppression. Even lies & mistrust. If I were to yell out, “The authorities are coming.” and our first instinct would be to run away. At the very lest it might raise our blood pressure a bit. We don't

Advent 4

2009-12-20T07:27:00.000-05:00

There is nothing quite like the joy and the anticipation of an expectant mother. Mom's to be, sporting their little “baby bump” get stopped in public all the time to be asked questions like “when are you due?” “How are you feeling?” “is it a boy or a girl?” and many other such questions. People love babies. People love it when a young woman is getting ready to be introduced to the joys of

Advent 2 - Philippian 1:2-11

2009-12-07T06:28:00.001-05:00

He was a soldier in the Roman army, serving his tour of duty in the city of Philippi. He had been assigned to guard the prisoners in the jail and did his duty the way any other soldier would. He knew what was expected of him and he knew the penalty if he didn't obey. So he did what he had to do.One night he was assigned to watch the prisoners during the evening hours. There had been a

Pentecost 24

2009-11-15T12:57:00.000-05:00

And as Jesus came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings! And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”This is our text.“What great stones” remarked one of the disciples, as they made their way out of the Jerusalem temple. They

Pentecost 23

2009-11-15T12:56:00.000-05:00

Truly I say to you that this poor widow put in more than all the others who were contributing to the treasury. For they all contributed from their abundance. But she from her poverty contributed all she had, the whole of her life.So how much do you give? When you put your offering in the plate on Sunday morning, how much have you put in? Is it a lot? A little? Have you given freely and

Reformation Sunday 2009

2009-11-04T17:02:00.001-05:00

Modern businesses understand the benefit of a good marketing. They will spend millions of dollars to find a way to get their product stuck in your head so that when you go to the grocery store you are remembering their commercial or singing their song. And it works. We are apparently a people easy to manipulate and their ad

Pentecost 21

2009-10-25T05:42:00.001-05:00

People who make their living as inspirational speakers will tell you that if you want to be successful you have to be goal oriented. You have to set your sights on one thing and then devote yourself to accomplishing it. No matter what gets in your way, no matter what you have to sacrifice. Set your goal, put your mind to

Pentecost 20

2009-10-18T05:53:00.000-05:00

Brothers and sisters in Christ.We could all use a little rest. Could we not?With all the busyness and hustle and bustle of life. With all the things there are to be done. With all the commitments and requirements that are attached to our lives, we could all use a little rest. We are busy people. And we're right in the middle of it, aren't we? This is the busy season (as though there is a

Pentecost 19

2009-10-12T15:26:00.000-05:00

Suppose you are Jesus. How would you have handled this situation? A man runs up to you as you are on your way out of town and he wants to come with you. He is well dressed, apparently wealthy. He kneels down in front of you and tells you he wants to be a disciple. His way of asking is a bit unorthodox. “What must I do to be saved?” says the man. He wants to do something. Salvation doesn't

Pentecost 18

2009-10-05T10:18:00.000-05:00

Dear People of St Paul,You are a strange bunch of people.You might think I am kidding. You might think that I am making a joke, or taking a crack at your affinity for the local sport team or just going for the shock value.None of these are the case. You are strange! You're weird! An odd bunch of people who are completely outside of the mainstream! Your thoughts, your beliefs, your values are

Pentecost 17 Mark 9

2009-09-28T09:51:00.001-05:00

One of the benefits of our Lutheran School is the many lessons that are learned through out the day and through out the week. Our students are, to be sure, treated with a top notch education. They are taught (and taught well) their lessons of the general academic subjects. Our students can read and write add and subtract with the best of them.In addition to that, however, our St Paul students

Pentecost 16

2009-09-20T05:40:00.000-05:00

This past week I received a phone call from my local bank office asking me to rate the service that I had received at a recent visit. They gave me a scale of 1 to 5 and asked to rate the quality of attention I had received while I was there, how satisfied I was with how I had been treated, how likely I was to return and how

Pentecost 15 - Mark 9:14-29

2009-09-13T06:05:00.001-05:00

Mark 9:14-29Have you ever been afraid? Sure we are all afraid in some way, at some time or another. Sometimes, especially around Halloween, we even think it's fun. I am not talking about fun. I am not talking

Pentecost 14 - James 2:1-18

2009-09-08T12:24:00.000-05:00

Saint Lawrence of Rome was Martyred in the year 258 AD. Lawrence was one of the 7 deacons in Rome who was placed in charge of distributing the gifts of charity to the needy. The Roman emperor Valerian coveted the wealth of the church and demanded that Lawrence hand over the treasures of the church or he would be executed. Lawrence went out and gathered together all the poor and needy people

Pentecost 13 Mark 7:14-23

2009-08-31T08:52:00.000-05:00

Have you ever notice how many different categories we have for our relationships these days? Those of you who have set yourself up with a page on the online social networking site Facebook might have discovered that you can indicate your “relationship status” on your Facebook page, There are lots of different categories to

Pentecost 9. John 6:22-35

2009-08-03T10:35:00.000-05:00

When I get hungry I get grouchy. Maybe you do too. This past Thursday Julie and I ran a 4 mile road race in Dublin. As we have been training we have been altering our diet a little bit – eating less, limiting our snacks, cutting back on the unnecessary calories – because each extra little snack comes back to haunt you when your are out on the road logging the miles. It slows you down and

Pentecost 8 - Ephesians 3.14-21

2009-07-26T05:37:00.000-05:00

Recently within the halls of St Paul Chuckery discussions have been taking place as to the financial stability of our Church and School. Since it has been the topic of discussion in council meetings, at last Sunday's Voter's Meeting, in the news letter and in the bulletin, it is likely that you have caught wind of this already. According to our treasurer the congregation is currently about

Pentecost 6 - Ephesians 1.3-14

2009-07-13T09:28:00.000-05:00

God's will. What is God's will for my life? Maybe you have asked yourself that very question at some time. Maybe you have wondered if God had some specific plan that he had laid out for you, some specific thing that you are supposed to do, that He wanted you to do. Maybe you have been waiting for him to show you what that plan might be. If you have

Pentecost 5 - Mark 6:1-13

2009-07-06T09:00:00.001-05:00

Everyone loves a hero. And what better weekend to talk about heroes than the anniversary of our Nation's Independence. The history of the United States is filled with tales of heroism from men and women who have fought valiantly and with great personal sacrifice to preserve the freedoms that we celebrated just yesterday. The many wars and conflicts that our nation has been involved in has

Pentecost 2 - 2 Corinthians 5:1-10

2009-06-14T18:55:00.000-05:00

These days we have been hearing lots about the economy. There has been conversation about the housing market, more recently we have heard plenty in the news about the failure of General Motors, and locally

Easter 7

2009-06-03T12:22:00.001-05:00

It's graduation season. Over these next few weekends, our local high schools (not to mention our own St Paul's jr high) will be saying goodbye to their graduating classes. The students have completed their obligations, they have done all that needs to be done. And the students are ready to depart; to move on to the next thing and to take their next step.The students have prepared for their

Easter 6

2009-06-03T12:19:00.002-05:00

This is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you. Romeo and Juliet, Wuthering Heights, Anna Carinena, Gone with the Wind, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Pride and Prejudice, and Casablanca. Sleepless in Seatle, When Harry Met Sally, The Notebook, The Bridges of Madison County, The Princess Bride, not to mention a few of the current favorites in the Schlueter household Beauty and the

Easter 4

2009-06-03T12:19:00.001-05:00

Do you suppose they just didn't know? Shortly after the Holy Spirit was given on Pentecost, Peter and John went to the temple. While they were there they met a man who had been crippled since his birth. The man was a beggar and he asked the two companions for a few coins so he could buy a meal. “Silver and gold we do not have,” said Peter. “But what I do have I will give you. In the name