Sermons with Reverend Killjoy

Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Ezekiel 34:7-15 and 1 Peter 2:19-25. With timely news about Christus Victor's Ministry Site Profile, these lessons give us an opportunity to reflect on what it means to be a faithful leader. 

Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Third Sunday of Easter, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Luke 24:13-35. My favorite story in the whole Bible inspired me to tell a few stories of my own, before dropping into talk about the power of the Eucharist. 

Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Second Sunday of Easter, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Exodus 15:1-11, 19-21. The new Provisional First Reading for the Revised Common Lectionary presented me with a challenge for my first day back from vacation. On war and peace and what it is we're truly celebrating this Easter season. 

 Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for Easter Sunday, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Matthew 28:1-10. It's Easter Sunday. There were 250 people there. We had a good time. Christ is risen. You can't fix him. 

Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for Maundy Thursday. Scripture: John 13:1-17, 31b-35. It's Maundy Thursday, and we did foot-washing for the first time in possibly the history of this congregation, so I got to talk about it .

Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for Palm Sunday, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Matthew 21:1-11. Finally back after weeks of guest preachers and awful weather, this sermon about Jesus' palm procession into Jerusalem got into the way we try to limit Jesus with our expectations. Luckily Jesus did what he knew was right, for God and for us. 

Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Third Sunday of Lent, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: John 4:5-42. On International Women's Day, we get the famous story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well. I tell about a couple of the women whose faith has shaped my own, and then I talked about how the Samaritan woman was an example to too-often-hapless Jesus' disciples. 

Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Second Sunday of Lent, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Genesis 12:1-4a. In this one I talked about some of the origins of my historic distrust of organized religion, reignited by the latest religion-flavored war the US started in the Middle East. 

Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the First Sunday of Lent, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Matthew 4:1-11. I am so excited that I found this audio recording, which seemed to have disappeared immediately after I recorded and tried to upload it. Nonetheless here it is, so you get to hear my shorter sermon for the day of our annual congregational meeting. We talked about temptation and responsibility, and how we find ourselves with each. 

Part Two of sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31, Matthew 5:1-12. My friend and former professor Mary Solberg's book, "A Church Undone," helps us to remain wary of allowing ideology to replace our faith in the Jesus of the Bible with faith in power and violence. 

This is the conclusion of the sermon, because this website is being dumb and I'm in a hurry.