Sermon Audio 8/11/2019, 9th Sunday after Pentecost C

Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul

Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year C

Genesis 15:1-6

God's promise to Abraham is such good news. In our church, locally and nationally, we also heard some good news this week. What is God telling us? 

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Sermon Audio 3/17/2019, 2nd Sunday of Lent C

Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul

Second Sunday of Lent, Lectionary Year C

Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18

Luke 12:31-35

God's promise to Abram in Genesis 15 is one of the great moments in the history of God's people. This week we could not talk about God's promise without reference to the mosque attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand, and about the American-born white supremacy that inspired those attacks. How do we hear God's promise alongside such race- and religion-based violence?

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Sermon Audio 3/12/2017, Third Sunday of Lent A

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo 

Third Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year A

Genesis 12:1-4a 

In today's first reading, God begins a  relationship with Abram and Sarai that will forever shape God's relationship with all of humanity. God's command to become an immigrant comes with some of the most important promises God has ever made.

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Sermon Audio 8/11/2013

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo

12th Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year C
 
Genesis 15:1-6

At our annual outdoor worship service, we talked about how God called Abram outside to count the stars, so that Abram would believe and understand God's promise. How much does it matter where we hear God's word for us? And will you be watching the Perseid meteor shower tonight?

Sermon Audio 7/28/2013

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo

Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year C

Genesis 18:20-32

This one is up a bit late, as I went on vacation after worship that day for over a week. I don't remember what this sermon was about. Something about Abraham arguing with God's decision to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, which is a funnier scene than you might expect when the context is the height of God's judge-y / smite-y phase. Anyway, I recall that people liked this sermon, for whatever that's worth.