Sermons from Messiah Lutheran Church in Joliet, Illinois, featuring Pastors David Nygard, Kurt Hoover and David Stier.

We conclude our first season and our look at the Book of Luke by studying the word "Bowed" from Chapter 24!Join us for season 2 where we focus on the Book of Acts for the coming year. Also...how fitting is it that we ended on episode 100!

From all of us here at Messiah: Merry Christmas!Pastor Kurt gives us the Phrase "The Day Of Preparation" to study from Luke 23!

Pastor Kurt Hoover gives us the phrase "The Body" to study from Luke 23 on this Christmas Eve! Finish wrapping those presents while you listen!

Pastor Kurt Hoover gives us the word "Remembrance" to study from Luke 1!

Pastor Kurt Hoover gives us the word "Humble" to study from Luke 1! Did you know, the word "Estate" occurs only 5 times in the Bible? Take a listen to see what I'm talking about :)

Pastor Kurt gives us the word "Breathed" to study from Luke 23!

Pastor Kurt Hoover gives us the word "Spirit" to study from Luke 23! What do you think of when you see the word "Spirit"?

Pastor Kurt Hoover gives us the word "Curtain" to study from Luke 23! Wait...23?...weren't we just on Chapter 1!?

Pastor Kurt Hoover gives us the word "Fulfillment" to study from Luke! Remember...we are all human...took us a bit to remember the right names :)

Pastor Kurt and...Linus?..give us the word "Blessed" to study from Luke 1!

Pastor Kurt gives us the word "Joy" to study from Luke 2! All credit to Peanuts for that Charlie Brown Christmas reading of our scripture for this Sunday! Appreciate you showing up Linus!

Pastor Kurt Hoover gives us the word "Heart" to study from Luke 2! We have a special guest joining us tomorrow...

Pastor Kurt gives us the word "Savior" to study from Luke 2! It's surprising how few times this word is used...

Pastor Kurt gives us the word "Behold" to study from Luke 2!

Pastor Kurt Hoover gives us the word "Shepherds" to study from Luke 2! We divert a little bit from our theme this week so hold tight!

Pastor Kurt Hoover gives us the word "Hear" from Luke 8! Don't think about the tiny ear bones too much...

Pastor Kurt Hoover gives us the rod "Servant" to study from Luke 1! Isn't Pastor's singing Beautiful!

Pastor Kurt Hoover gives us the word "Barren" to study from Luke!

Pastor Kurt Hoover gives us the word "Overshadow" to study from Luke!

Pastor Kurt gives us the word "Virgin" to study from Luke 1! Not like the olive oil...

Pastor Kurt gives us the word "Treasured" to study from Luke! We talk about DnD again...sorry...not sorry...

Happy Thanksgiving!! Pastor Kurt gives us the word "Submissive" to study from Luke 2!

Pastor Kurt gives us the word "Search" to study from Luke 2! Roll an investigation check!

Pastor Kurt Hoover gives us the word "Favored" to study from Luke 1!

Welcome to our First week of advent! Pastor Kurt Hoover gives us the word "Angel" to study from Luke!

Pastor Kurt Hoover gives us the word "Reward" to study from Luke 23! Can I have a treat now? This is episode 75 I feel like I deserve something...lol

Pastor Kurt gives us the word "King" to study from Luke 23! This word happens way more than I thought it would...

Pastor Kurt give us the word "Christ" to study from Luke 23! This word isn't in the Old Testament?! What?!

Pastor Kurt gives us the word "Book" to study from Malachi 3! Are books really antique?

Pastor Kurt gives us the word "Arrogant" to study from Malachi chapter 3! Excuse my vulnerability in this one...was a little too self-aware in this one

Pastor Kurt gives us the word "Witness" to study from Luke 21! Anyone else remember Ken Davis' Skit about this?

Pastor Kurt gives us the word "Signs" to study from Luke 21! Nice.

Moving back into the book of Luke, we study the word "Stone" in chapter 21!

Pastor Kurt gives us the name "Elijah" to study from Malachi! Did you know Kurt wanted to name his son Elijah?

Pastor Kurt gives us the word "Leap" to study from Malachi!

Pastor Kurt gives us the word "Live" to study in Luke!

Pastor Kurt gives us the phrase "The LORD" to study from Luke 20! This word appears more than 6000 times in the ESV translation!

Pastor Kurt gives us the word "Die" to study from Luke 20!

Pastor Kurt gives us the word "Resurrection" to study from Luke 20! I promise I don't talk about any video games this time...

Pastor Kurt gives us the word "Sadducees" to study from Luke 20! Do you know the difference between a Sadducee and a Pharisee? Now you do!

Sorry for being a little late with this one! But there is a lot of good stuff to talk about with being Blessed and how we as a Church should be a blessing to others...I also talked about DnD so...

Nikolai picks the word "Persecute" to study from Matthew chapter 5!

Nikolai picks the phrase "Kingdom of Heaven" from the Bible to study in Matthew! What's a Beatitude?

Nikolai Stier gives us the word "Lamb" to study from Revelation 7! Was anyone else hungry while listening to this?

Pastor Kurt...wait...no...Nikolai Stier picks our word to study from Revelation 7 which is "Tribulation"! I hope you enjoy us trying to figure out how to run each others roles :)

Pastor Kurt gives us a word that occurs over one thousand times in the Bible!

Pastor Kurt gives us the phrase "Set Free" to study from John 8!...sorry about the intro I just had to leave it in :)

Pastor Kurt gives us the word "Baptized" to study from the book of Romans! I finally talk about video games again! It's been so long!

Pastor Kurt picks a word not from our readings this week! And...tries to sing some Les Miserables...

We take a break from the book of Luke to look at our readings for Reformation Sunday which comes from Romans 3!

Pastor Kurt gives us the word "Elect" to study from Luke 18! See you on Sunday!