Sermon: The Name Above Every Name
The Name Above Every Name | Exodus 20:7 | Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost | LCMS Sermon
What does it really mean to take God's name in vain — and why would a holy God ever hand sinners the right to call Him by name at all?
Most of us assume the Second Commandment is only about crude language, and quietly consider ourselves innocent. But Scripture reveals something deeper: God's name is His own personal gift, disclosed to Moses at the burning bush, and every prayerless day we leave that gift unused is a quiet guilt we rarely name.
This sermon traces that same holy name into the New…
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