Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Airline Safety Made Easy


Here is a perfectly easy and inexpensive solution to terrorism in the skies and airline safey--NO CLOTHES!

Everybody on a commercial airliner MUST fly naked. In addition, all prostheses must be left in a locker at he departing airport and all travelers must take one of those pre-colonoscopy cocktails to evacuate any possible ballistic balloons.

Easy-peasy.

Can I be the airline safety czar now?

BTW, I see where our president is referring to the Islamic terrorist airline bomber as an "extremist."

Funny, isn't that the very same thing he calls pro-life, second amendment advocate, tax cut favoring conservatives?

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Depart in Peace

Dear baptized heirs of God the Father and His kingdom,

Depart in Peace!

Funny way to start a sermon, eh?

To listen to the rest of this sermon preached for the First Sunday after Christmas at Trinity Lutheran Church of Layton, Utah click on this link. The audio includes the Hymn of the Day, "In HIs Temple Now Behold Him." The sermon begins at the 2:01 mark.

The Lord is indeed letting you depart in peace--for you, like Simeon, have seen the salvation of the Lord.

Have a blessed week and life as His Christmas children.

Friday, December 25, 2009

Welcome to Bethlehem! A Christmas Eve Divine Service

Dear Sinner,

Welcome to Bethlehem!

Click on this link to hear the audio recording of our 2009 Christmas Eve celebration of Emmanuel, "God with Us," in the Divine Service. If you would just like to listen to the sermon, it begins at the 29:45 mark.

Rejoice and be at peace as God's forgiven and beloved child in the house of the Lord.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Sometimes Ya Just Gotta Laugh . . .

. . and ya gotta love Dos Equis cerveza. Muy bueno!






















Here's a little context for the uninitiated.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Sometimes Ya Just Gotta Laugh

I'm dwivin in my caw,
I tuwn on the wadio . . .

Elmer Fudd does Bwuce Spwingsteen babeeeee!!!!!

Among You Stands One You Know

Dear people of the God who is coming--indeed is already here,

Among you stands one you know--Jesus the Christ, the very Son and Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

If you would like to hear this sermon preached at Trinity Lutheran Church in Layton, Utah for Rorate Coeli, the Fourth Sunday in Advent, click here.

The audio includes the Hymn of the Day, "Let the Earth Now Praise the Lord." The sermon begins at the 2:23 mark.

Come, Lord Jesus!

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Monday, December 14, 2009

Rejoice! in the Deeds of Christ

Dear fellow forgiven sinners,

Today's Gospel reading and sermon from Matthew 11 speaks to every Christian
who has ever gotten disgusted with the people at church. What Christian,
what pastor, hasn't had some variation of the following thought or
conversation?

"I'm not going to church anymore. A church should have better people. The
people there aren't very nice to me. They don't appreciate me, all they want
is my money. They're all a bunch of lazy hypocrites."

Yeah, so!? What else is new? Rejoice! and be forbearing because the Lord IS
at hand being forbearing of you, not holding your sin against you like you
hold it against others.

Rejoice! in the deeds of your Savior, Jesus Christ.

If you would like to hear the sermon preached at Trinity Lutheran Church in Layton, Utah for Gaudete, the Third Sunday in Advent, click here.

Come, Lord Jesus!

Rev. Kurt Hering, Pastor
Trinity Lutheran Church
Layton, Utah

Thursday, December 10, 2009

"You Don't Know What You've Got 'Til It's Gone"

The Swiss understand the importance of and reason behind the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. I wonder why U.S. citizens don't?



I guess it'll take a couple more 9/11s or confiscation by socialist tyrants to slap sense into our citizenry.

Would Joni Mitchell approve this message? :^)

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Your Redemption Is Near

Dearly beloved of God, our Father,

Your redemption is near.

If you would like to hear the sermon preached at Trinity Lutheran Church in Layton, Utah for Populus Zion, the Second Sunday in Advent, click here.

Come, Lord Jesus!

Rev. Kurt Hering, Pastor
Trinity Lutheran Church
Layton, Utah