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Author: David M. Frye

  • Selected, Sent, and Inspired

    This is the sermon I preached at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Beatrice, Neb., on Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 30–31, 2010, for the Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany. + + + Readings Jeremiah 1:4–10 Psalm 71:1–6 (antiphon v.6) 1 Corinthians 13:1–13 Luke 4:21–30 + + + Prayer Gracious God, open our eyes to the life-giving light…

  • Not in Word Alone

    “For our gospel did not come to you in word alone, but also in power and in the holy Spirit and with much conviction.” (1 Thessalonians 1:5a, NAB)

  • Rescue from Peril

    “In their distress they cried to the LORD, who rescued them in their peril.” (Psalm 107:6, NAB)

  • Do Not Fear

    “It is the LORD who marches before you; he will be with you and will never fail you or forsake you. So do not fear or be dismayed.” (Deuteronomy 31:8, NAB)

  • Two Ways

    “I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live, by loving the LORD, your God, heeding his voice, and holding fast to him.” (Deuteronomy 30:19b–20a, NAB)

  • Led for Forty Years

    “I led you for forty years in the desert …. Thus you should know that I, the LORD, am your God.” (Deuteronomy 29:4a, 5b, NAB)

  • Agreement with God

    “Today you are making this agreement with the LORD; he is to be your God and you are to walk in his ways and observe his statutes, commandments, and decrees, and to hearken to his voice.” (Deuteronomy 26:17, NAB)

  • Set Apart and Called

    “But the time came when he who had set me apart before I was born, and called me by his favor, chose to reveal his Son to me, that I might spread among the Gentiles the good tidings concerning him.” (Galatians 1:15–16a, LH)

  • Hope on the Fringes

    This is the sermon I preached at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Beatrice, Neb., on Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 23–24, 2010, for the Third Sunday after the Epiphany. + + + Readings Nehemiah 8:1–3, 5–6, 8–10 Psalm 19 (antiphon v. 7) 1 Corinthians 12:12–31a Luke 4:14–21 + + + Prayer Gracious God, open our eyes to…

  • A Prophet Raised

    “A prophet like me will the LORD, your God, raise up fro you from among your own kinsmen; to him you shall listen.” (Deuteronomy 18:15, NAB)