Sermon for Lent Midweek Service, March 11, AD 2026

Massive change can happen with words. The War of the Worlds radio broadcast in 1938 caused a mass panic. Words written in books brought communist revolutions in Europe beginning in the 1840s. Words of philosophers and popular thinkers in 1700s made people believe that religion was no longer a thing for “enlightened” man to believe. If words can be used for evil, they can certainly also be used for good. God’s Word brought massive change to the Roman Empire, the gospel changed what Europe would be in a few hundred years, just because the words of the gospel were preached. Nations throughout history, like Germany in the reformation, were changed by the preaching of the Word of God. If man’s word can be powerful, is not God’s Word more powerful?