Sermons by Thomas Lutke

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The Facade and Reality of Palm Sunday (2024)

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Mark 14:32-42; Christ’s welcome to Jerusalem in the famous Triumphal Entry, but was really a facade, an illusion that the hearts of the crowd were really with Him. Mark instead records that Jesus wept as he neared the place where He knew he would soon be put to death. Following the Last Supper, Jesus took […]

Plumbing the Depths of Revelation 25

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Revelation 10:8-11; John’s encounter with the mighty angel continues, as the voice from heaven who instructed him to seal up the word of the seven thunders, instructs him to take the scroll in the angel’s hand. When John requests the scroll, the mighty angel tells him to take and eat it. This somewhat odd sounding […]

Plumbing the Depths of Revelation 24

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Revelation 10:1-7; Following the horrendous suffering and carnage of trumpets 5 and 6, John exxperiences another interlued that will usher in the sounding of trumpet 7. The aged apostle sees a mighty angel descend from heaven with a small scroll in his hand. His loud shout like a lion triggers the seven thunders, but John […]

Plumbing the Depths of Revelation 23

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Revelation 9:20-21; Following the horrific torture of the demonic locusts of the 5th trumpet and the four fallen angels released from the Ephrates river to bring about the deaths of 1/3 of the remaining population, John observes a very stark reality. Despite the warming from the Lord to those who have rejected His offer of […]

Plumbing the Depths of Revelation 22

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Revelation 9:13-19; “The first woe is past” with the completion of 5 months of horrific torture by the hellish loccust from the Abyss. The second woe is heralded by the 6th angel sounding his trumpet, which prompts a commanding voice from the altar in heaven. Four demonic angels that have been bound along the Euphrates […]

Plumbing the Depths of Revelation 21

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Revelation 9:7012; The apearance of the demon locust unlocked from the Abyss was so intense for John that he recorded their appearance in startling detail. Their composite characteristics reveal the fearsome nature of fallen angels who seek to vent their frustration and hatred upon every facet of God’s creation. Included in the descritpion was the […]

Plumbing the Depths of Revelation 20

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Revelation 9:1-6; Following the warning of the airborn eagle crying “Woe, woe woe”, John observes the 5th angel sounding his trumpet. What the apostle described as “a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth”, is clearly a spiritual being who is given keys to the Abyss. The pit of hell was opened […]

Blended Worship Gathering

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Blended Worship Gathering: Extended Scripture reading by Terra Kunish; a video report from missionaries John and wendy Patton; and a short devotional by Pastor Tom from Philippians 4

Plumbing the Depths of Revelation 19

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Revelation 8:6-13; Following the half hour of silence at the breaking of the 7th seal, the angel before the altar of heaven hurled the golden censer filled with holy fire upon that earth. That action set in motion the sounding of the first four trumpet judgements, which will decimate 1/3 of the land with fire, […]