Rev Mendez Sermons & Notes

Rev. Arturo Mendez St. Matthew Lutheran church of Westfield 08/15/2021   Sermon Preaching Text: John 6:51-69    Theme:  ! Jesus our true bread of Life!     Introduction: bread and wine Sharing bread and a good wine is always good and enjoyable. Who do you share it with?  It is a good bread that satiates your daily life, but perishes! The true bread of Life is Christ and never perish, it is for eternal life!       51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”  [1] 52  The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”   53  So Jesus said to them,  “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.   Jesus is saying a claim of who he really is, he is talk...

Rev. Arturo Mendez 07-25-2021 Text Mark 6:45-56 Theme:  Jesus Christ in  Action ! Peace and grace from our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. To all of you Amen! 45  And immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he himself dismissed the crowd.  46  And  after he * had said farewell to them, he went away to the mountain to  pray. 1 st . Action of Jesus: Sent His disciples. We all know very well when Jesus preached on the mountain, we know that there were more than 5000 people since in those days children or women were not counted, after Jesus had preached about the kingdom the crowd was gathered and hungry the disciples of Jesus told him  Maste r is late and they are  hungry ,  Jesus give  them  a specific command ,   that the disciples give them  to eat! Here we see a definitive action about Jesus by telling the disciples that they  were in charge of ...

Rev. Arturo Mendez Sermon: “Blasphemy to the Holy Spirit” Sunday June 6 2021 Serie B    May the peace and grace from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ be with all of you Amen! Mark 3:14  And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach  15  and have authority to cast out demons.  16  He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter);  17  James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder);  18  Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot,  19  and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.  20  Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat.  21  And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He is out of his mi...