Sermons with Reverend Killjoy

First Sunday of Advent, Lectionary Year B

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.

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?

23rd Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year A

Amos 5:18-24

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

Also, I failed to stop this recording in time, but am too 2020 to edit the recording for you, so you can just stop it when the sermon ends.

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.

Reformation Sunday

The freedom we receive in Christ is freedom to love and serve our neighbors.

Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year A

Matthew 22:15-22

Give to God what is God's. Easier said than done, because our relationship to government is complicated as followers of Jesus.

Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year A

Matthew 22:1-14
Isaiah 25:1-9

One of Jesus' most frightening parables, paired with one of Isaiah's most beautiful visions for the Reign of God: somehow this helps me understand why people in power may need not be afraid of those they oppress.

Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year A

Matthew 21:33-46

We have reached the time of the church year when our Gospel lessons tell of Jesus in the temple. Tensions are high as Jesus makes his final public arguments about the kingdom of God.

Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year A

Ezekiel 18:1-4, 24-32

Ezekiel's message to God's people during the time of exile speaks to how we can respond today to our history and current circumstances. This week those circumstances included the charges against the killer of Breonna Taylor, the ongoing pandemic, Rev. Lenny Duncan's call for reparations in the ELCA.

Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year A

Matthew 21:1-16

Are you envious because God is generous? Jesus and Jonah show us who God is.