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Welcome to Luther Memorial Chapel and University Student Center |
We invite you to visit us for the Divine Service each Sunday at 9am and each Monday at 7pm. We are a congregation of the South Wisconsin District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.
Our congregation is named “Luther Memorial” not primarily to remember the great reformer, but rather because Luther...
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TEXT: LUKE 19:28-40
THE KING COMES TO HIS KINGDOM
Preached by Vicar Kyle Krueger
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen
The season of Advent is about the arrival of the King to His kingdom. The Church’s Advent season begins today with the arrival of Jesus on a colt, a donkey to the cheers of the crowd. The rest of the world began an Advent season of sorts, a coming if you will, a few days ago with the arrival of the biggest shopping day of the year, “Black Friday”. People cheering to the stores opening at 5am. Clothes and branches laid down at the feet of Jesus. Check books and Visa cards laid down at the feet of retailers. Two questions deserving of an answer this day. One asks, what’s in your wallet? The other asks, what’s in your heart? The one has done all the clever advertising and offers us just what we want on sale. The other knows us better than we know ourselves and offers us just what we need for free. Two voices reaching out for our attention. The one voice says, Behold, the X-Box 360 and all the other latest and greatest gadgets. The other, Behold, the Lamb of God.
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TEXT: DEUTERONOMY 8 TRUE THANKSGIVING REMEMBERS WHAT GOD HAS DONE AND IS DOING!
Preached by Rev. Kenneth Wieting
Moses said to God’s Old Testament people, You shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness to humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. Moses then details the good land God was giving them saying - “When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you.” Dear thankful people of God: Human hearts and minds that do not rightly remember God’s giving cannot rightly bless and give thanks to God! Nothing so shames our fallen race as the failure to gratefully remember God’s giving in the way He asks us to remember. By nature we sinners remember the things we should forget and we forget the things we should remember. Just one thing out of sorts can easily discolor hundreds of blessings. This can be especially true when disappointment and decline are the order of the day. |
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TEXT: MARK 13:1-13/HEBREWS 10:11-25
LET US DRAW NEAR WITH A TRUE HEART IN FULL ASSURANCE OF FAITH
WITH OUR HEARTS SPRINKLED CLEAN FROM AN EVIL CONSCIENCE
Preached by Rev. Kenneth W. Wieting
In many and various ways God spoke to His people of old by the prophets, but now in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son. Dear hearers of the Word made flesh;
I express to every vicar my aversion to a diet of “French salad” sermons. By that I mean we should not often include a host of “may we” and “let us” language. “May we” do this – “let us” do that. These expressions aren’t inherently bad but easily become stock and stale. Also, we are the doers in both expressions – hence - although they are often meant to be gospel-like, they are law freighted – “let us” try harder – “may we” be more joyful – “let us” do better, etc. In addition, “may we” can too easily be heard as a mere wish – “may we give more generously”. |
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TEXT: MATTHEW 5:1-12; I JOHN 3:1-3; REV 7: 2-17
THESE ARE THE ONES COMING OUT OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION
Preached by Rev. Kenneth W. Wieting
Dear saints of God, freed from your sins by the blood of Christ, grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come and from the seven spirits who are before his throne (that is from the Holy Spirit), and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead: In the past we have studied of the book of Revelation and that is helpful in understanding the numbers and symbols used in apocalyptic writing. Please know that the points made in this sermon treat Revelation as the Word of God interpreted literally, but not woodenly.
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TEXT: MARK 13:24-37
KEEP WATCH BECAUSE... THE OWNER OF THE HOUSE WILL COME BACK!
Preached by Rev. Kenneth Wieting
To those who are called, beloved of God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ; mercy, peace and love be multiplied to you (Jude 2). Dear hearers of the Son of Man who will come again in judgment;
“Stay awake – for you do not know when the master of the house will come…lest he come suddenly and find you asleep. And what I say to you I say to all: Stay awake.” With this Sunday, the church year draws to a close. As it does God’s Word calls our attention to the end of this earth and the end of our lives on this earth. The heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and they who dwell in it will die in like manner – the prophet Isaiah (51:6). O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am! – The Introit (Psalm 39). |
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TEXT: MARK 12
Preached by Vicar Kyle Krueger
Honor and shame. These seem like common threads through out all of History. And we learn this paradigm, this way of thinking at a young age don’t we? If a young child wets their pants in school and everyone laughs at them, they feel shame. If they win an award in a science fair they feel honor.
Teenagers may understand these two feelings the best. It is an honor and shame social system in High school. If you don’t party enough or at all, if your not sexy enough or not cool enough, if you don’t wear just the right name brand clothing and shoes, if you don’t hang out in the right crowd you often feel intense shame and are put to shame by others for not living up to these sociological demands. And if you ignore the right people, if have the juiciest gossip you maybe honored for such things.
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HIS STORY, OUR STORY
Preached by Vicar Kyle Krueger
Do you ever wonder why it is we like stories so much? I’m sure many of you where read the traditional night time story when you where little and maybe you read them to your children now. Or think about how much money is spent every year on movies and television shows. We love our movies to have a good story line, we want them to have good actors, and we want them to be exciting and filled with mystery and suspense. Most of us get involved with sitcoms, we enjoy getting to know the characters, and we cannot wait to see what will happen in the next episode. We love a good story.
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