Sermon Audio 1/16/2022, 2nd Sunday after Epiphany C

Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul (in person and live on Zoom)

 

Second Sunday after Epiphany, Revised Common Lectionary Year C

 

John 2:1-11

 

In the rituals we share as Christians, God uses ordinary things to do the extraordinary.

 

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Sermon Audio 4/15/2018, Easter 3B

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo 

Third Sunday of Easter, Lectionary Year B

Luke 24:36b-48 

The church is Christ's body in the world, and we are members of that body. Baptism and eucharist lead us into the work of being Christ's body.

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Sermon Audio 11/19/2017, 24th Sunday after Pentecost A

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo 

Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year A

Matthew 25:14-30 

Zephaniah 1:7, 12-18

1 Thessalonians 5:1-11

Sometimes life feels like mess after mess, and we are left to trust that through Jesus, God gives grace in a graceless world. 

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Sermon Audio 4/2/2015 Maundy Thursday

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

"Love one another" is Jesus' most powerful, challenging command to his disciples. He gives this new commandment during his final meal with them. How can we follow such a simple, complicated commandment? In this meal Jesus shows us how to love one another. 

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Sermon Audio 5/4/2014 Easter 3A

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo

Third Sunday after Easter, Lectionary Year A

Luke 24:13-35

Jesus' appearance to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus is pretty much my favorite thing ever. This story is as influential in how I live my call to pastoral ministry as anything in the Bible, for starters. How do we experience the presence of Christ among us when we gather in his name? Who does Jesus come to, and when? These and other great questions in this sermon.

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Sermon Audio 12/22/2013

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo

Fourth Sunday of Advent, Lectionary Year A

Matthew 1:18-25

Matthew's version of the birth of Jesus is light on details. Jesus was a normal-enough baby, born to a normal-enough family, and somehow God uses these utterly common people - Mary and Joseph - to save the world.

Sermon Audio 11/27/2013

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo

Thanksgiving Eve Worship, Lectionary Year C

John 6:24-35

Eucharist is the fancy church word that means "thanksgiving," so when we celebrate the sacrament at our Thanksgiving Eve worship, the sermon practically writes itself!

Sermon Audio 10/6/2013

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo

20th Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year C

World Communion Sunday

Luke 24:13-35

We switched to Luke's iconic story of the walk to Emmaus to talk about the pattern of worship we share with churches around the world and the presence of Jesus we share at our table each Sunday. I love this stuff, so I may have gotten a little extra-shouty in this one.

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Sermon Audio, 3/3/2013

Third Sunday of Lent, Lectionary Year C

Isaiah 55: 1-9

We read this passage from Isaiah 55 every year at the Vigil of Easter, as one of the great Hebrew Scripture stories of God's mercy and faithfulness through all of human history. Set alongside such rich, popular tales as the creation story, Noah and the flood, crossing the red sea, Ezekiel's dry bones, and Daniel's friends in the fiery furnace, what is it about this Isaiah reading that makes it an annual requirement at our most sacred gathering of the year?

Note: I think this sermon starts off slow but turns awesome toward the end.