(I preached this sermon at Christ Lutheran Church in Harrisburg, on Sunday September 6, 2026. It was in response to Exodus 20:17. You can listen to the audio at this link.) We have come to the last Sunday in our four week walk through the Ten Commandments. Three weeks...

There are many key conflicts that exist in the world and in humanity. Often we think of spectrums where two opposites are on opposing sides of a line and are as far away from each other as possible. We assume that if we are at one end of the...

Based on Exodus 20:17 One verse.  That’s the whole reading for this Sunday.  It’s the final segment of our four week series on the Ten Commandments.   The verse reads: “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, male or female slave, ox, donkey, or anything...

(I preached this sermon at Christ Lutheran Church in Harrisburg, PA on August 30, 2026 in response to Exodus 20:12-16. You can also listen to the audio at the following link.) There is a fight going on right now in several states over whether the Ten Commandments should hang...

I’m in the midst of a four part sermon series on the Ten Commandments. I wasn’t sure that I wanted to given that the Commandments are the center of a political fight going on in various parts of the country right now. But I decided to go ahead with...

Based on Exodus 20:12-16 We now move from the first group of commandments, which are about our relationship with God, to the second set of commandments, which are about our relationship with our neighbor.  The order matters.  Our foundation starts with our relationship with God.  It is only with a right...

(I preached this sermon at Christ Lutheran Church in Harrisburg, on Sunday August 23, 2026. It is in response to Exodus 20:3-11. You can listen to the audio of the sermon by clicking this link.) Last week we spent an entire sermon on one chapter, Exodus 19, before we...

An argument can be made for opposites. The argument is easy to make. We live in a culture that breathes the air of opposites. There’s option A or B. There’s up or down. There’s left or right. Two teams play against each other, only one will win. Two political...

Based on Exodus 20:3-11 As we move from the foundation of the Ten Commandments into the Commandments themselves, we see a pattern.  The first group of commandments are about our relationship with God.  This relates to the foundation of the commandments – God is the one who frees Israel and loves...

(I preached this sermon at Christ Lutheran Church in Harrisburg on Sunday, August 16, 2026. You can listen to the audio by going to this link. The sermon was in response to Exodus 19 and 20:1-2) Every nation writes something down to explain itself to itself. The Declaration of...