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Why Does The Church Often Rejoice When the World Grumbles?

Date: July 3rd of 2022
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: Luke 15:1-10
Context: Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript: CLICK HERE

Away With Excuses; Come, All Things Are Now Ready

Date: June 26th of 2022
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: Luke 14:15-24
Context: Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, N
Manuscript: CLICK HERE

Religious Pecking Orders Are Useless, You Need To Be Born Again

Date: June 12th of 2022 
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard 
Text: John 3:1-1-17 
Context:  Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE
 

False Churches And Their Towers Of Babel

Date: June 5th of 2022
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: Genesis 11:1-9
Context:  Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript: CLICK HERE

When ’Truth’ Does Not Belong To Your Feelings, Opinions, Or Thoughts - But Christ

Date: May 29th of 2022
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: John 15:26-16:4
Context: Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript: CLICK HERE

Does God Always Hear Our Prayers; Do We Always Pray Faithfully?

Date: May 22nd of 2022
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: John 16:23-33
Context: Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran of Minot, ND
Manuscript: CLICK HERE

Plastic Christianity’s Failure To Recognize Sorrow And Understand Joy

Date: May 14th of 2022
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: John 16:16-22
Context:  Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE 

When Confirmation Becomes Graduation?

Date: May 1st of 2022
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: John 10:11-16
Context:  Confirmation Sunday at St. Paul's Lutheran of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE 

He Replaces Fear With Faith

Date: April 24th of 2022
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: John 20:19-31
Context: Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE

When Sources Of Power Fail, The Redeemer Still Lives

Date: April 17th of 2022
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: Job 19:23-27
Context:  Easter Day Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript: CLICK HERE
 

Jesus Is Bigger Than Your Death Because He Is Bigger Than The Tomb

Date: April 17th of 2022
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: Isaiah 25:6-9
Context: Easter Sunrise Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE

Christ Does An Old Thing - Not A New Thing

Date: April 15th of 2022
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: John 19 - "It is Finished"
Context: Good Friday Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE
 

Where Do We Direct Our Hosanna Cries?

Date: April 10th of 2022
Speaker:  Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text:  Matthew 21:1-11
Context: Palm Sunday Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran of Minot
Manuscript: CLICK HERE

When We Don’t Like The Words Of Jesus

Date: April 3rd of 2022
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: John 8:46-59
Context: Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript: CLICK HERE

When Things Are Never Good Enough?

Date: March 27th of 2022
Speaker:  Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: John 6:1-15
Context:  Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE

Why Insults & Public Opinion Do Not Matter For The Christian

Date: March 13th of 2022
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: Matthew 15:21-28
Context:  Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE
 

Either Satan’s Way Or Jesus’ Way, But No Middle Ground

Date: March 6th of 2022
Speaker:  Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: Matthew 4:1-11
Context:  Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript: CLICK HERE

Half-Baked Apologies And The Repentance Games We Play

Date: March 2nd of 2022
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard 
Text: Joel 2:12-19
Context: Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript: CLICK HERE 

The Need To Sanitize Misery

Date: February 27th of 2022
Speaker:  Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text:  Luke 18:31-43
Context:  Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE 

Is Your Church At Ease or Militant?

Date:  February 20th of 2022
Speaker:  Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text:  Luke 8:4-15
Context:  Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE 

Grumbling Equality?

Date:  February 13th of 2022
Speaker:  Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text:  Matthew 20:1-16
Context:  Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE

You, Who Have Ears, Get Busy With Your Hands And Feet?

Date:  February 6th of 2022
Speaker:  Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: Matthew 17:1-9
Context:  Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE

Fear: Not A Virtue But The Enemy Of Faith

Date: January 30th of 2022
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text:  Matthew 8:23-27
Context:  Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE 

And Just Like That, Carolyn Will Be Let Loose From The Grave

Date: January 28th of 2022
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Context:  Funeral Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE 

I Can Do All Things Through Google That Educates Me?

Date:  January 23rd of 2022
Speaker:  Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text:  Matthew 8:1-13
Context:  Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE

The Misguided Attraction To Spiritual Signs

Date: January 16th of 2022
Speaker:  Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: John 2:1-11
Context:  Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE 

A Violent Baptism?

Date:  January 9th of 2022
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Theme:  Baptism (Matthew 3:13-17)
Context:  Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE 

Responding To The Robbery Of Death

Date: January 2nd of 2022
Speaker:  Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text:  Matthew 2:13-23
Context: Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE 

It Will Be Okay, I Am Ready To Die

Date:  December 26th of 2021
Speaker:  Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text:  Luke 2:33-40
Context:  Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE 

Not A Vague Or Floaty Ideology But Flesh And Blood

Date: December 25th of 2021
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: John 1:1-18
Context: Christmas Day Service at St. Paul's Lutheran of Minot, ND
Manuscript: N/A

For You

Date:  December 24th of 2021
Speaker:  Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Context:  Christmas Eve Sermon at St. Paul's of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE

Crushed Before Christ?

Date: December 19th of 2021
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text:  John 1:19-28
Context:  Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE

Bending To Popular Opinions & Kissing Up To Authority?

Date:  December 12, 2021
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: Matthew 11:2-10
Context:  Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE 

A Tiny Little Jesus For Tiny Little Lives?

Date: December 5th of 2021
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: Luke 21:25-36
Context:  Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE 
 

Without Advent, Christmas Makes No Sense!

Date: November 28th of 2021
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: Matthew 21:1-9
Context:  Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran of Minot, ND
Manuscript: Not available 

Gratitude Free From Circumstances

Date:  November 25th of 2021
Speaker:  Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text:  Philippians 4:6-20
Context:  Thanksgiving Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript: CLICK HERE

The Way Of Fools: Denying The Reality Of Death And Unprepared For The End

Date:  November 21st of 2021
Speaker:  Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text:  Matthew 25:1-13
Context:  Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran of Minot, ND
Manuscript: CLICK HERE 

Saints With Tilted Halos, Scrappy Faith, And Scuffed-up Bibles

Date: November 7th of 2021
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: Matthew 5:1-12
Context: Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript: CLICK HERE 

Your Freedom Is Christ - Not Politics, The Economy, Or Social Agendas

Date: October 31st of 2021
Speaker:  Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: John 8:31-36
Context:  Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE

The Failed Excuses For Not Attending Church, And What To Do About It?

Date: October 17th of 2021
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: Matthew 22:1-14
Context:  Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE 

Christ Holds Dale Into And Out Of The Grave

Date:  October 11th of 2021
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: Romans 14:7-9
Context:  Funeral Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran of Minot, ND
Manuscript:  CLICK HERE 

Why Does Grace Heal The Wounded And Anger The Self-Righteous?

Date: September 10th of 2021
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: Matthew 9:1-8
Context: Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran of Minot, ND
Manuscript: CLICK HERE 

Stop The Ranking - You‘re A Christian!

Date: September 26th of 2021
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: Luke 14:1-11
Context: Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript: CLICK HERE 

No More Chasing Love, Just Abiding

Date: September 25th of 2021
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: John 15:9-12
Context: Homily for the Blessing of Marriage
Manuscript: CLICK HERE

The Foolish Things Spoken At Funerals

Date: September 19th of 2021
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: Luke 17:11-17
Context: Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran of Minot, ND
Manuscript: CLICK HERE 

When Worry Is Wrapped In Fear And Future Grief

Date: September 12th of 2021
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: Matthew 6:24-34
Context: Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran of Minot, ND
Manuscript: CLICK HERE
 

The Christian Life - It is Like A Circle, Not A Line

Date: September 5th of 2021
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: Luke 17:11-19
Context: Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran of Minot, ND
Manuscript: CLICK HERE

When Bad People Do Good - So Irritating!

Date:  August 29th of 2021
Speaker:  Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: Luke 10:23-37
Context:  Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran of Minot, ND
Manuscript: CLICK HERE 

Christianity: It's Not Primarily About 'Being Hands & Feet' But 'Listening'

Date: August 21st of 2021
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: Mark 7:31-37
Context: Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript: CLICK HERE

Why Petty Rule-Keeping Amounts To Nothing Before God

Date:  August 15th of 2021
Speaker:  Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard
Text: Luke 18:9-14
Context:  Sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Minot, ND
Manuscript: CLICK HERE