Rev. Michael Holmen's Sermons

 Audio recordingSermon manuscript:Jesus said, “I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” What is an abundant life? This is a big question. What is an abundant life immediately brings up other questions: What is life for? How should we live our lives? Big questions like these have been asked and answered in countless ways. Philosophy and religion are two enormous fields of study that work with questions like these. Countless lifetimes could be spent reading the books that have been written to answer the questions of what life is for, how we should live it, what is an abundant life? Jesus, though, seems to be quite certain despite all the books. You heard what he said: “I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” Jesus knows what life is. He knows how it is to be had abundantly. He is talking about these things when he says, for example, in our reading: “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep… if anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and f