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Sermons from Pisgah Lutheran Church in Lexington, SC

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Sunday May 30, 2021

Sunday Sermon - The Holy Trinity

Sunday May 30, 2021

Nicodemus Visits Jesus
The Holy Trinity, 05/30/2021

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First Reading: Isaiah 6 : 1 - 8
Second: Romans 8 : 12 - 17
Gospel: John 3 : 1–17 (https://tinyurl.com/zkmn7u8z)

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Gospel Reading of John 15 : 26 - 27; 16 : 4b - 15
NICODEMUS VISITS JESUS
3 Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 2 He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God.” 3 Jesus answered him, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.” 4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother’s womb and be born?” 5 Jesus answered, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. 6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit] 7 Do not be astonished that I said to you, ‘You must be born from above.’ 8 The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” 9 Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?” 10 Jesus answered him, “Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?
11 “Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen; yet you do not receive our testimony. 12 If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. 14 And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.
17 “Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

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Pastor Stephen Mims
Pisgah Lutheran Church
1350 Pisgah Church Rd, Lexington, SC 29072
www.pisgahlutheran.org
@pisgahlutheran
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803-359-2223
We Share Our Gifts to Show God's Love

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THE LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come,
thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory,
forever and ever.
Amen.

Sunday May 23, 2021

Sunday Sermon - The Work of the Spirit

Sunday May 23, 2021

The Work of the Spirit
Day of Pentecost, 05/23/2021

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First Reading: Acts 2 : 1 - 21
Second: Romans 8 : 22 - 27
Gospel: John 15 : 26 - 27; 16 : 4b - 15

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Gospel Reading of John 15 : 26 - 27; 16 : 4b - 15
26 “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, he will testify on my behalf. 27 You also are to testify because you have been with me from the beginning.
4b “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. 5 But now I am going to him who sent me; yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6 But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts. 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 about sin, because they do not believe in me; 10 about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer; 11 about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.
12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 14 He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. 15 All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

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Sunday May 16, 2021

Sunday Sermon - Jesus Prays for His Disciples

Sunday May 16, 2021

Jesus Prays for His Disciples
Seventh Sunday of Easter, 05/16/2021

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First Reading: Acts 1 : 15 - 17, 21 - 26
Second: 1 John 5 : 9 - 13
Gospel: John 17 : 6 - 19 (https://tinyurl.com/yhhxzb9u)

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Gospel Reading of John 15 : 1 - 8 (NRSV)
JESUS PRAYS FOR HIS DISCIPLES
6 “I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; 8 for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. 9 I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. 10 All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them. 11 And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. 12 While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13 But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves. 14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. 15 I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one. 16 They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. 17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.

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Sunday May 09, 2021

Sunday Sermon - Love One Another

Sunday May 09, 2021

Love One Another
Sixth Sunday of Easter, 05/09/2021

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First Reading: Acts 10 : 34 - 48
Second: 1 John 5 : 1 - 8
Gospel: John 15 : 9 - 17 (https://tinyurl.com/mbknp27d)

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Gospel Reading of John 15 : 9 - 17 (NRSV)
LOVE ONE ANOTHER
9 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 11 I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.
12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 I do not call you servants[a] any longer, because the servant[b] does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. 16 You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. 17 I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.

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Sunday May 02, 2021

Sunday Sermon - The True Vine

Sunday May 02, 2021

The True Vine
Fifth Sunday of Easter, 05/02/2021

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First Reading: Acts 8 : 26 - 40
Second: 1 John 4 : 1 - 11
Gospel: John 15 : 1 - 8 (https://tinyurl.com/5tanfpsh)

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Gospel Reading of John 15 : 1 - 8 (NRSV)
THE TRUE VINE
15 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

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Sunday Apr 25, 2021

Sunday Sermon - Jesus the Good Shepherd

Sunday Apr 25, 2021

Jesus the Good Shepherd
Fourth Sunday of Easter, 04/25/2021
Guest Preacher: Seminarian Brandy Schneck

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First Reading: Psalm 23
Second: 1 John 3 : 16 - 24
Gospel: Mark 8 : 27 - 38 (https://tinyurl.com/2cdu7udp)

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Gospel Reading of Mark 8 : 27 - 38 (NRSV)
PETER'S DECLARATION ABOUT JESUS
27 Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” 28 And they answered him, “John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.” 29 He asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Messiah.”[a] 30 And he sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him.
JESUS FORETELLS HIS DEATH AND RESURRECTION
31 Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32 He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 33 But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.”
34 He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35 For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel,[b] will save it. 36 For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? 37 Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? 38 Those who are ashamed of me and of my words[c] in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

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Sunday Apr 18, 2021

Sunday Sermon - Jesus Appears to His Disciples

Sunday Apr 18, 2021

Jesus Appears to His Disciples
Third Sunday of Easter, 04/18/2021

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First Reading: Acts 3:12 –19
Second: 1 John 3 : 1 - 7
Gospel: Luke 24 : 36b - 48 (https://tinyurl.com/4brfmz8d)

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Gospel Reading of Luke 24 : 36b - 48 (NRSV)
JESUS APPEARS TO HIS DISCIPLES
36 While they were talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” 37 They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost. 38 He said to them, “Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? 39 Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see; for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” 40 And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. 41 While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” 42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43 and he took it and ate in their presence.
44 Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.” 45 Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, 46 and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, 47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses of these things.

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Sunday Apr 11, 2021

Sunday Special Music - Mary at the Tomb

Sunday Apr 11, 2021

"Mary at the Tomb"

Special Musical Performance By Pisgah Church Choir

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Sunday Apr 11, 2021

Sunday Service - Jesus Appears to the Disciples

Sunday Apr 11, 2021

Jesus Appears to the Disciples
Second Sunday of Easter, 04/11/2021
Guest Pastor: Rev. Kathleen Panning

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First Reading: Acts 4 : 32 - 35
Second: 1 John 1 : 1 - 2 : 2
Gospel: John 20 : 19 - 31 (https://tinyurl.com/44dz7dz)

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Gospel Reading of John 20 : 19 - 31 (NRSV)
JESUS APPEARS TO THE DISCIPLES
19 When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” 20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. 21 Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” 22 When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”
JESUS AND THOMAS
24 But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.”
26 A week later his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were shut, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” 27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe.” 28 Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” 29 Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.”
THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK
30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. 31 But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.

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Sunday Apr 04, 2021

Easter Sermon - Christ the Lord is Risen

Sunday Apr 04, 2021

The Resurrection of Our Lord (Christ the Lord is Risen)
Easter Sunday, 04/04/2021

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First Reading: Acts 10 : 34 - 43
Second: 1 Corinthians 15 : 1 - 11
Gospel: Mark 16 : 1 - 8 (https://tinyurl.com/apx948y8)

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Gospel Reading of Mark 16 : 1 - 8 (NRSV)
THE RESURRENTION OF JESUS
16 When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. 2 And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. 3 They had been saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?” 4 When they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had already been rolled back. 5 As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man, dressed in a white robe, sitting on the right side; and they were alarmed. 6 But he said to them, “Do not be alarmed; you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised; he is not here. Look, there is the place they laid him. 7 But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see him, just as he told you.” 8 So they went out and fled from the tomb, for terror and amazement had seized them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.

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