This sermon explores 2 Samuel 7 and Luke 2, tracing God’s covenant with David, the rise and fall of Israel’s temple, and the failure of David’s line to bring God’s light to the nations.

It shows how Jesus, the Son of David, fulfills the covenant as the true temple—dying, rising, and uniting believers as living stones—so that God’s salvation and light reach all people.

This sermon traces the Bible's central conflict between the serpent and God, showing how humanity repeatedly fails to protect the woman yet God intervenes—through Abraham, Moses, and ultimately Jesus—to rescue and reunite his people.

It highlights Christ's victory over the dragon, the meaning of baptism and communion that unites believers to Him, and calls Christians to live out their vocation to bless the nations.

This Nativity sermon draws on Exodus 40 and John 1 to trace God’s presence from Eden to the tabernacle and, finally, into the person of Jesus: Emmanuel who dwells with his people.

The tabernacle served as a miniature cosmic temple; in Christ the true temple is made flesh, restoring access to God through his life, death, and resurrection and making the gathered church the living temple.

This Christmas message proclaims victory over death, the gift of baptism and grace upon grace, and calls us to rejoice: Emmanuel has come to dwell with us.