Sermon Audio 12/24/2020, Christmas Eve

Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul

(gathered via Zoom for live online worship)

Second Sunday of Advent, Lectionary Year B

Luke 2:1-20

Is this the best Christmas ever? 

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Sermon Audio 12/20/2020, 4th Sunday of Advent B

 Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul

(gathered via Zoom for live online worship)

 

Second Sunday of Advent, Lectionary Year B

Luke 1:26-55

 

Mary's conversation with the angel and the song she sings in response to her conversation with her cousin Elizabeth are among the most powerful witnesses of what it means when God intervenes in our world.

 

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Sermon Audio 12/6/2020, Second Sunday of Advent A

 Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul

(gathered via Zoom for live online worship)

 

Second Sunday of Advent, Lectionary Year B

 

Isaiah 40:1-11

God's word of comfort to the people exiled in Babylon can be a powerful word to us today.

 

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Sermon Audio 11/29/2020, 1st Sunday of Advent A

Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul

(gathered via Zoom for live online worship)

 

Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year A

 

Isaiah 64:1-9

 

A new church year starts with a bang, as Isaiah begs, challenges, reminds, wheedles, cajoles, and otherwise engages God in conversation about what God can do for God's people in their time of need.

 

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Sermon Audio 11/15/2020, 24th Sunday after Pentecost A

 Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul

(gathered via Zoom for live online worship)

 

Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year A

 

1 Thessalonians 5:1-11

 

What can we say about these times? More importantly, how can we spend this time in faithfulness to Jesus?

 

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Sermon Audio 11/8/2020, 23rd Sunday after Pentecost A

 Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul

(gathered via Zoom for live online worship)

 

Twenty-ThirdSunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year A

 

Amos 5:18-24

 

What a week to hear Amos' prophetic cry that justice should roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. 

Also, I failed to stop my recording at the end of the sermon this week, so it's not as long as listed here. My apologies. Running our entire Zoom worship off my laptop while leading it is not in any way a sustainable plan. 

 

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Sermon Audio 11/1/2020, All Saints A

 Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul

(gathered via Zoom for live online worship)

All Saints Sunday, Lectionary Year A

 

Matthew 5:1-12

 

In his famous and powerful teaching known as the Beatitudes, Jesus teaches us the values by which we can live in harmony with one another and with God. The news during this election season throws those values into stark relief, and we see that they are so much more than niceness or pleasant platitudes.

 

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