My name is Dan, and I'm a Lutheran Pastor in Chicagoland. This podcast is a way for me to reach out to you and share God’s Word through Sermons, conversations, and my thoughts. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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Above all else, guard your heart. Good fruit comes from good trees. Bad fruit comes from bad trees. Trinity 14 fourteenth Sunday after Trinity. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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And who is my neighbor? Am I a good neighbor? Jesus the Good Samaritan Trinity 13 thirteenth Sunday after Trinity --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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The Word of God has power to save, open, heal, and more. Our confidence is from Christ, not ourselves. Trinity 12 Twelve. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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Why did God accept Abel’s sacrifice but not Cain’s? How does Jesus teach similarly with the Pharisee and the Tax Collector? Trinity 11 Eleven --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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What is a hardened heart? How can a heart become hardened? How can my heart be softened? Can Jesus be angry with me? Trinity 10 ten --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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For the St Paul, Lockport, IL family retreat, “For signs and seasons.” The Sun, Moon, and Stars.Revelation 21 and Luke 21--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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How are we to use what God has given us? Take the example of the dishonest manager! 9th Ninth Sunday After Trinity--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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For the Feast of St Mary Magdalene.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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Christians make sacrifices of earthly things for eternal/spiritual things in thanksgiving and gratitude. Jesus looks with compassion on these Christians who seek his Word and respond in faith.7th Seventh Sunday after Trinity.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support…
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Righteousness that exceeds the scribes and Pharisees - Matthew 5:17-30, Romans 1:18-27
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Cohabitation. Homosexuality. Disorder. What did Jesus mean? That the 10 commandments can be perfectly followed but it’s even harder? That they cannot be followed so that you shouldn’t try? That they aren’t broken if no one finds out? 6th Sixth Sunday after Trinity--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support…
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Be Merciful as Your Father Is Merciful - Luke 6:36-42
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Impossible outside of Christ. 4th Fourth Sunday After Trinity.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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Jesus receives and eats with repentant sinners, even now. Jesus does not eat with unrepentant sinners, aka Pharisees, for very long. Trinity 3. 3rd Third Sunday after Trinity--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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How to get to the Banquet - Proverbs 9:1-10
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Jesus doesn’t beg people to come to his banquet. He simply invites. Trinity 2 second 2nd Sunday after Trinity.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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A Christian household is rooted in the daily reading and sharing of God’s Word.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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Why does Pastor bow so much in church? Why did Isaiah? Why don’t I? Holy Trinity--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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The Spirit Unites Through and Around the Word - Acts 2:1-11
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The day of Pentecost.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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The Ascension of our Lord - 2 Kings 2:5-15
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Ascension Observed. Mark 16:14-20--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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Jesus ascends for our advantage. He sends His Spirit, who will convict the World concerning sin, righteousness, and judgment. 5th Fifth Sunday of Easter Cantate.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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If You Keep His Commandments - John 3:25-36, 1 John 2:1-8
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This sermon was preached for fellow pastors at a meeting of the Northern Illinois Confessional Lutherans. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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Live in the Joy of the Resurrection - John 16:16-22
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Jubilate 4th Fourth Sunday of Easter--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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Because your shepherd, your pastor, is not Jesus, keep his mind and heart on the scriptures, the only place “one flock” can emerge from. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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The Spirit AND the Water AND the Blood - 1 John 5:4-10
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Jesus comes delivers to you the benefits of His sacrifice on the cross in many specific ways. 1 John 5:4-10 Quasimodo geniti--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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Easter Sunday, the Resurrection of our Lord. Jesus isn’t in the tomb, he’s where he promised he would be.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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Good Friday--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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No Way to Live: the Repentant Thief - Luke 23:35-43
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A great way to die, but no way to live. A sermon for Zion Bensenville’s Tre Ore Service for Good Friday.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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The Supper Doesn’t Create Unity - John 13:1-15
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Warning: hoarse pastor.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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The Palm and the Passion Matthew 27, John 12
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Remember both the Palm and the Passion. Confirmation Sunday--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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You bear the Name of God in baptism by faith. You go into the world bearing His Name. Numbers 6:22-27 Revelation 22:1-7--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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God will never ask you to do what he wouldn’t do Himself. We commend our loved ones to Him, knowing that we will receive them back from the dead in resurrection on the Last Day. Fifth Sunday of Lent--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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Christ Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes way the son of the world by his death and shed blood. We eat his living flesh and drink his living blood to receive the benefits of his sacrifice, as he bid us do in his New Testament.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support…
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Making What’s Life-giving, Inexhaustible - John 6
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God is your Father. The Church is your Mother. Jesus distributes what he earned on the cross for you through his Church. Fourth 4th Sunday of Lent - Laetare. John 6:1-15--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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Jesus sang the Sanctus. Think about that. Isaiah 6. Matthew 21:6-7--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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Third Sunday of Lent. Luke 11:14-28--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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The Divine Service continues with the Kyrie: Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy.” --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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In todays readings, both Jacob and the Canaanite Woman wrestle with God. It’s only after these trials do we realize that God never meant to hurt you, but only to refine and strengthen your faith. Second Sunday of Lent.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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The Divine Service, the Christian’s day, the Christian’s life— all begin “In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” Matthew 18:15-20, Matthew 28:18-20--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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The Deceiver Deceives Himself - Matthew 4:1-11
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Satan lies in all sorts of ways. He can trick you into thinking that voice is your own thoughts and feelings. He can trick you into thinking your friend is giving you good advice. God’s Word alone guards and defeats the Father of Lies. First Sunday in Lent.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support…
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Return to the Lord: Ash Wednesday - Joel 2
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Returning to the Lord is always the right response, whether we are broken or joyful. We return to the Lord as He serves us in the Divine Service.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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God’s Presence passes through the Jordan to deliver His People and to deliver on His Promise. What does it mean to be anointed? Joshua 3--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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The Parable of the Sower--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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Work in the Vineyard and Predestination - Matthew 20
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If I don’t do anything toward my salvation, what gives?--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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The Word, the Water, the Supper. They confirm for you the Truth that you do not feel.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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Why We Celebrate the Transfiguration - Matthew 17:1-9
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The Transfiguration isn’t often highly regarded or thought of by many American Protestant Christians, let alone our secular neighbor. So…. Why do we celebrate this Feast, and why now?--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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How is Jesus’ glory made manifest at the Wedding at Cana? What does the Bible have to say about Marriage?--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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Tell me more about these “Magi,” these “Wise” men!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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A Cozy Holy Family Christmas - Luke 2:22-40
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What was a day in the life of a faithful Hebrew family like in Jesus’ day?--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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Christmas: The Great Cloud of His Presence - John 1:1-18
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Incense in a tabernacle, temple, now Church. Jesus is with us, not in thought or spirit, but in Flesh, dwelling among us.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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Christmas Eve: A Mother’s Lowly Act of Love, A Son’s Ultimate Act of Love - Luke 2
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Mary wrapped her son both in swaddling cloths and in burial cloths. Jesus died and rose again. Merry Christmas!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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You don’t have to come up with the Words, use Jesus’. Just be the Voice!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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God doesn’t send a prophet or priest this time. He himself has become our salvation.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dan-greg/support
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