Sermon Audio 6/19/2022, 2nd Sunday after Pentecost C

Hope Lutheran Church and Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church, Saint Paul (in person and livestreamed)

Second Sunday after Pentecost, Revised Common Lectionary Year C

Luke 8:26-39

On this Juneteenth Hope joined with our new host congregation Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church to commemorate this day and to look at our Gospel story of demonic forces and freedom. What can we learn from the man possessed by demons? What can we learn from the rest of the Gerasenes whose region Jesus is visiting? 

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Sermon Audio roundup May 2022

 Another month goes by and I've failed to post audio of my sermons. Here are three for the last few weeks of May. 

Sunday May 15th Sermon

Acts 11:1-18

"Who was I, that I could hinder God?" 

Sunday May 22nd Sermon

Acts 16:9-15

The fruit of the church planted at Philippi

Sunday May 29th Sermon

Psalm 97

A foolish hope in the face of evil

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Sermon Audio 4/18/2021, 3rd Sunday of Easter B

Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul

(gathered via Zoom for live online worship)

 

Third Sunday of Easter, Lectionary Year B

Luke 24:36b-48

"You are witnesses of these things." Jesus' words to his disciples look different after all we have witnessed in our community and our nation this week.

 

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Sermon Audio 8/30/2020: Guest Preacher Shelby Condray

Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul

(gathered via Zoom for live online worship)

 Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year A 

Jeremiah 15:15-21 

Romans 12:9-21 

Matthew 16:21-28 

Our guest preacher for this week, Shelby Condray, is a renaissance man in San Diego with a theological degree from Boston University and a passion for justice as an expression of the Gospel. His reflections on the shooting of Jacob Blake and the deaths of other Black and brown people at the hands of the state intersect with the prophetic words of Jeremiah, Paul, and Jesus to weave a powerful image of what it means for us to take up our cross. Enjoy. 

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Sermon Audio 6/14/2020, 2nd Sunday after Pentecost A

Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul

(gathered via Zoom for live online worship)

Second Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year A

Matthew 9:35-10:23

Today we enter what the church has called "ordinary time," and it if we are to faithfully follow Jesus in this time it will not be ordinary at all.

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Sermon Audio 5/24/2020, Seventh Sunday of Easter A

Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul

(gathered via Zoom for live online worship)

Seventh Sunday of Easter, Lectionary Year A

1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11

Jesus' baptism teaches us about the grace of God in our own baptisms and throughout our lives.

(This sermon post comes out of order; I will publish four sermons on May 31st, and did today's first before returning to the previous three.)

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Sermon Audio 5/31/2020, Pentecost

Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul

(gathered via Zoom for live online worship)

Pentecost, Lectionary Year A

Acts 2:1-21

Well, this week our community and then our entire country exploded in civic unrest after Minneapolis police killed George Floyd. In the middle of an ongoing pandemic. What does it mean for us to cry, "Come, Holy Spirit!" on Pentecost on a time like this?

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Sermon Audio 8/4/2019, 8th Sunday after Pentecost C

Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul

Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year C

Luke 12:13-21

Gun violence. White supremacy. My sermon preparation on money as idolatry did a surprisingly good job of preparing me for the new sermon I had to write on Sunday morning.

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