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A New Creation
Christ Lutheran ChurchCleveland, OhioJuly 6, 2025by: Rev. Dean Kavouras Pentecost 4CNew Creation For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails, nor uncircumcision. But a New Creation. (Galatians 6:15 – DKV) —Those were bold words that Saint Paul wrote to the Galatian Christians in the year 49 AD … just 16 years after Pentecost. But necessary words because…
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Don’t Look Back
Christ Lutheran ChurchCleveland, OhioJune 29, 2025by: Rev. Dean Kavouras Pentecost 3Never Look Back Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the Kingdom of God.” (Luke 9:62) You have heard it said: Never look back. It is good advice; great advice to be sure…
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Encore
Christ Lutheran ChurchCleveland, OhioJune 22, 2025by: Rev. Dean Kavouras Pentecost 2Encore “When the herdsmen saw what happened they fled the scene and reported this in city and countryside alike; and the people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons were expelled sitting…
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Who Is God?
Christ Lutheran ChurchCleveland, OhioJune 15, 2025by: Rev. Dean Kavouras TrinityWho Is God? There was a time in living memory that when anyone referred to God they meant God as He reveals himself in the Bible. The Christian God, so to speak. Though not everyone was able to articulate it they accepted God as the Trinity.…
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Your Good Spirit
Christ Lutheran ChurchCleveland, OhioJune 8, 2025by: Rev. Dean Kavouras PentecostYour Good Spirit “Let Your Good Spirit lead me on level ground.” Psalm 143:10 Of the many benefits that God bestows upon us let us consider at the top of the list the gift His Son who redeemed us, and especially on this 50th Day after His…
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Worship God
Christ Lutheran ChurchCleveland, OhioJune 1, 2025by: Rev. Dean Kavouras Easter 7 And I, John, heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them I prostrated myself to worship at the feet of the Angel who showed them to me but he said to me, “You must not do that! for I am…
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Here Comes The Bride
Christ Lutheran ChurchCleveland, OhioMay 25, 2025by: Rev. Dean Kavouras Easter 6Here Comes The Bride Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came and spoke to me saying, “Come! I will show you the Bride that the Lamb has married. Revelation 21:9 All the visions of the…
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It Is Done
Christ Lutheran ChurchCleveland, OhioMay 17, 2025by: Rev. Dean Kavouras Easter 5It Is Done Then I saw a new heaven and new earth for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away and the sea was no more. Then I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from heaven from God prepared as…
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Sealed By God in Holy Baptism
Christ Lutheran ChurchCleveland, OhioMay 11, 2025by: Rev. Dean Kavouras Easter 4Sealed By God in Holy Baptism And I watched as he opened the sixth seal, and as he did the earth quaked violently and the sun went black as sackcloth, and the whole moon became like blood; the stars fell from the sky to the…
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It Is The Lord
Christ Lutheran ChurchCleveland, OhioMay 4, 2025by: Rev. Dean Kavouras Easter 3It Is The Lord And when he took the book the four living creatures, and the twenty four priests fell on their faces before the Lamb, each having a harp and golden bowls full of incense which are the prayers of the saints; and they…