Online Sermons Keyed to the Lectionary, Year A

All the sermons here are in the public domain and available on the web. As close as possible, the sermons are keyed to the Revised Common Lectionary currently in use in the ELCA. Sermons will be added to this page as the year(s) progress. If you have found a sermon that you would like to recommend for this page, contact the Commission for Synodical Lay Worship Leaders (Bishop Riegel, chair). For sermons that are not keyed to any particular pericope (assigned reading) but are appropriate to season, day, or occasion, go to Section III: Online Sermons for the Occasion, Day, or Season. N.B., some of these sermons are longer than is typically expected of sermons today. In consultation with his/her Supervisor, a Reader may find redaction helpful.

* Luther's Magnificat is too long for a single sermon. Selecting a section of the work may be a reasonable option.

^† CCEL preserves the typographical error found in NPNF First Series X:243. The sermon is for Matthew 11:7-9, not Matthew 10:7-9.

* CCEL preserves the typographical error found in NPNF, First Series, X:50. The sermon is for Matthew 2:11, not Matthew 2:2.

* The link is to Luther's Hauspostille, a collection of sermons for the year intended for home devotion. They may be read with profit in the corporate worship of the church. The online format is a PDF scan of the 1884 two-volume printing. As such, the hypertext link takes you to the volume and not the particular sermon. You will have to find the page (page number is provided in parentheses) on the text (not the PDF interface).

^† These are two different sermons on the same text.

* Wahren Christentum by Johann Arndt is divided into multiple books with chapters (and, sometimes, parts). The full text can be found at Project Guttenburg under the title, True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, The Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc.

^† These are two different sermons on the same text.