Zion Lutheran Sioux Falls
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Ninth Sunday After Pentecost
In Deuteronomy, God chooses Israel not because of their own greatness, but purely out of His baseline love and faithfulness to His promise. Romans mirrors this comforting truth, assuring us that our salvation rests entirely on God's active purpose—nothing in all creation can separate believers from His love in Christ Jesus. Finally, the Matthew parables illustrate the supreme, hidden value of the…
Eight Sunday After Pentecost
The Parable of the Weeds makes an obvious point: there is both good and evil in the world, and even in the church. Sometimes people lament the “hypocrites” and brokenness found in both, but Jesus says don’t be surprised by this. In this present age there will be both good and bad, wickedness and evil. The devil works to cause this discord and evil. While it may be troubling, confusing and…
Seventh Sunday After Pentecost
Trust, writes the prophet Isaiah, that God’s Word has the power to accomplish His will! “It will not return to me empty but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.” In the Gospel we see that Word in flesh doing the work of the Father, planting the seeds of the Kingdom liberally in order to produce an abundant crop, not of grain, but sons and daughters who, by…
Fifth Sunday After Pentecost
A battle has been raging over the centuries between those who ignore the hard truth that we are sinners, hopeless by ourselves, and those who have realized the real good that our Lord has graciously won for us. At the time of Jeremiah, self-proclaimed prophets such as Hananiah preached a false peace even as Israel was in exile in Babylon. In Paul’s day, members of the Early Church thought freedom…
Fourth Sunday After Pentecost
Jesus’ followers are “peculiar” people. Following the path that He has blazed for you means your walk will be “out of step” with a sinful world. Jesus shakes you out of the customary ways of thinking, speaking, and “doing,” inviting us to follow Him. A journey that, unsurprisingly, goes through valleys of rejection and suffering, after all “a student is not above his teacher….it’s enough for the…
Third Sunday After Pentecost
We are the helpless, harassed sheep who foolishly promise we can keep God's Law perfectly (Exodus). Knowing we can't, Christ dies for us while we are still His broken, weak enemies (Romans). Moved by profound compassion, Jesus sends out His Church into the world to deliver this free gift of life and forgiveness to all who are weary (Matthew). It shifts the focus entirely away from what we do for…
Second Sunday after Pentecost
Hosea exposes the emptiness of mere ritual, calling instead for a steadfast love that acknowledges our deep spiritual need. In Romans, Paul highlights Abraham to show that justification never comes through fulfilling the Law, but entirely by faith in God's promises. Finally, Jesus encapsulates this in Matthew, declaring that He came to call sinners, not the self-righteous, offering mercy over…