Sermon Audio 7/26/2015, Acts Series Week Eight

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo 

Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year B

Acts 7:51-60 

Prophetic grief is the public lament that challenges the injustices that have led to violence against God's people. The death of Stephen in our Acts sermon series is an excellent lens through which we can explore prophetic grief as the work of following Jesus today. For more on prophetic grief, search the hashtags #PropheticGrief and #SlateSpeak (the online church conversation that inspired this sermon, by @TheSlateProject) on Twitter. 

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Sermon Audio 7/19/2015, Acts Series Week Seven

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo 

8th Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year B

Acts 6:1-6

The Holy Spirit will mess with you. Thus I learned anew when a series of technological circumstances led me to preach this sermon from memory. Of course that was also the intended point of the sermon, on how the apostles' establishment of the diaconate in Acts 6 did not go as planned. Funny how that works.

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Sermon Audio 7/12/2015, Acts Sermon Series Week Six

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo 

Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year B

Amos 7:7-15

Acts 5:1-11

Mark 6:14-29

Three challenging readings today - the death of John the Baptist, the deaths of Ananias and Sapphira, and Amos arguing with Amaziah - all have a surprising thing in common. Each features a character with the same motivation: popularity. They wanted to impress people. They wanted people to like them. When is popularity not Good News? 

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Sermon Audio 7/5/2015, Acts Sermon Series Week Five

LutheranChurch of the Savior, Kalamazoo 

Acts Sermon Series Week Five

2 Corinthians 8:7-15

This week our detour from Acts continues with an exploration of generosity in Paul's second letter to the Corinthians. My passion for generosity combines with translational nerdery, congregational participation, and Jesus' first sending of his twelve disciples to address a 20-year-old mystery. Much excitement!

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