Sermon Audio 10/18/2015, 22nd Sunday after Pentecost B

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo 

21st Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year B

Mark 10:35-45 

Jesus redefined success from looking like glory and power to looking like service and giving. Today we commit to following Jesus together in this congregation, some as new members and some making an estimate of financial giving for the coming year. 

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Sermon Audio 10/11/2015, 20th Sunday after Pentecost B

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo 

20th Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year B

Mark 10:17-31 

Today's Gospel lesson about Jesus and the rich man who asks how he can inherit eternal life turns on a single question from the text. It's not the question I would have expected. 

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Sermon Audio 10/4/2015, 19th Sunday after Pentecost B

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo 

19th Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year B

Mark 10:2-16 

Jesus' teaching on divorce is hard to talk about, and even harder to ignore. So let's talk about how people depend on each other, or don't. What does scripture have to say about how people depend on each other? 

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Sermon Audio 9/27/2015, 18th Sunday after Pentecost B

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo 

Day of Pentecost, Lectionary Year B

Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29 

Following Jesus is something we do together. 

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Sermon Audio 9/13/2015, Acts Series Week 15

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo 

Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year B

Acts 13:1-5 

Our Acts sermon series for the summer of 2015 ends with the commissioning of Barnabas and Paul as they are set apart and sent forth from Antioch. On this "God's Work. Our Hands." Sunday, what can we learn about being set apart and sent forth? 

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Sermon Audio 9/6/2015, Acts Series Week Fourteen

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo 

Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year B

Mark 7:24-37 

This Sunday we were blessed to hear the Word proclaimed by none other than the Rev. Sarah Friesen-Carper, Assistant to the Bishop for Congregational and Leadership Excellence of the North/West Lower Michigan Synod of the ELCA. She preached a powerful message about the Syrophoenician woman as part of "Confession, Repentance and Commitment to End Racism Sunday."

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Sermon Audio 8/30/2015, Acts Series Week Thirteen

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo 

Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year B

Acts 11:19-26 

The Holy Spirit does not work on our schedule. We can dwell on the past or worry about the future, or we can look and see what God is doing right now.

Yes, I recognize the irony of posting this sermon audio a week late.

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