Sermon Audio 5/8/2016, Seventh Sunday of Easter C

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo 

Seventh Sunday of Easter, Lectionary Year C

Revelation 21:10, 21:22-22:5 

The Tree of Life is a powerful biblical image of God's healing presence among God's people. How can this image shape our own congregation's ministry? 

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Sermon Audio for Sunday 5/1/2016, Sixth Sunday of Easter C

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo 

John 14:23-29

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you." Special guest preacher Rev. Sarah Friesen-Carper, Assistant the the Bishop for Congregational and Leadership Excellence of the North/West Lower Michigan Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is ideally suited to bring us  Good News from Jesus' declaration in today's reading from John's Gospel. And as ever, she does bring it.

Sermon Audio 4/24/2016, Fifth Sunday of Easter

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo 

Fifth Sunday of Easter, Lectionary Year C

Revelation 21:1-6 

"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life." Faithful and confounding and enormously talented, Prince has a lot to teach us about my very favorite thing in the Bible, the vision of the Holy City in Revelation. 

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Sermon Audio 4/17/2016, Fourth Sunday of Easter C

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo 

Fourth Sunday of Easter, Lectionary Year C

Acts 9:36-43 

Tabitha, AKA Dorcas, is the only woman in the New Testament to explicitly be called a disciple." This got me thinking about all the faithful women who follow Jesus at Lutheran Church of the Savior. 

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Sermon Audio 4/10/2016, Third Sunday of Easter C

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo

Third Sunday of Easter, Lectionary Year C

John 21:1-19 

"Follow me." With these words, Jesus invites Peter - and all of us - into new life. It may not be the life we expected. 

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Sermon Audio 4/6/2016, Commemoration of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (transferred)

St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Kalamazoo MI

Commemoration of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (April 9, transferred)

Romans 6:3-11

Bonus sermon: Today I was blessed with the opportunity to preach and preside at midweek Eucharist at St. Luke's Episcopal Church. Always a wonderful worship experience, whether I am leading or sitting in the back row. 

Not a lot of original thought from me in this sermon, instead favoring heavy quotations from the apostle Paul, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Rev. Dr. Robert Saler, all of whom know better than me how to talk about following Jesus in this world. 

Sermon Audio 4/3/2016, Easter 2C

Lutheran Church of the Savior, Kalamazoo 

Second Sunday of Easter, Lectionary Year C

Revelation 1:4-8

God's love is more powerful than human kings or human cultures or even that most human thing of all, death. Revelation draws us to that love as God's future for us.

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