St. Paul Podcast

Peter W. Marty preaches on love. Perfect love casts out fear. What is perfect love? We probably accumulate more failures in the love department than in other areas of our lives. We make a lot of mistakes. We practice love very undependably and imperfectly. What does perfect love look like and can we ever know it? God is love and there is no way to know this God without loving other people. We can talk about God but we cannot know God or enjoy God without love. If the opposite of love is not hatred, then what is it?   

Preaching text: 1 John 4: 7-12, 18-21 

John reminds the Jesus community that they are outgrowths of Jesus' love and power; when they hold fast to Jesus and his words, "abide" in them, they stay on the right side of life and they glorify God.

Preaching text: John 15:1-8

Bible for Worship is a weekly introduction to the scripture passage that is likely to be the basis for the sermon on the following weekend. It correlates with the Revised Common Lectionary as it is used at St. Paul.  With Peter A. Pettit, teaching pastor.

Katy Warren preaches on the boundaries of God’s love. We’ve spent too long debating who will be included or excluded from Heaven. God, who loves us with a parent’s heart, would never want to be far from any of us. God keeps trying to open up the boundaries of God’s love throughout the Old Testament. The ability to know and experience God’s love cannot be contained by any human being.  

Preaching text: Acts 4: 5-12 

 Video link: https://youtu.be/bRbUTfSds0U?si=ngqOXmM8eGxKiG5b 

The author of Acts shows Peter dramatically reassuring the Acts community that the name of Jesus is enough for their future life.

Preaching text: Acts 4:5-12

Bible for Worship is a weekly introduction to the scripture passage that is likely to be the basis for the sermon on the following weekend. It correlates with the Revised Common Lectionary as it is used at St. Paul.  With Peter A. Pettit, teaching pastor.

Peter W. Marty preaches on food. Where would we be without food? It doesn’t matter what you eat, every meal is sacramental. If the disciples were looking for God to be some kind of wispy spiritual being or a metaphor or a ghost, what they get instead is the Lord of Heaven and Earth in the flesh, capable of being hurt and of spilling tears. We must guard against simply intellectualizing our faith. Our bodies are central to faith and nothing speaks to life quite like eating.  

Preaching text: Luke 24: 36b-48 

Luke charts post-Easter life for all followers of Jesus in a story about Jesus with disciples after the Resurrection.

Preaching text: Luke 24: 36b-48

Bible for Worship is a weekly introduction to the scripture passage that is likely to be the basis for the sermon on the following weekend. It correlates with the Revised Common Lectionary as it is used at St. Paul.  With Peter A. Pettit, teaching pastor.

Mac Mullins preaches on the fear of missing out. Fear is one of those things that can so quickly and easily encircle us and fill us up. Deep down fear tells us that we don’t measure up and we just aren’t good enough. There are so many things that are outside of our control, the timing of our faith or our health, these things keep us from living fully together as one whole community of followers of Jesus. It’s not our fault but it still creates a deep longing within us.   

Preaching text: John 20: 19-31

John uses an encounter between the disciples and the resurrected Jesus to reassure his community that they have everything they need to follow Jesus, even though they never met or saw him.

Preaching text: John 20:19-31

Bible for Worship is a weekly introduction to the scripture passage that is likely to be the basis for the sermon on the following weekend. It correlates with the Revised Common Lectionary as it is used at St. Paul.  With Peter A. Pettit, teaching pastor.

Happy Easter, podcast listeners! A particularly amazing thing happens in today’s episode. Little Bird’s best friend Jesus died just three days ago and while she and a few of Jesus’ other friends are getting ready for his burial, some special visitors bring surprising news.
 

Peter W. Marty preaches on Easter Sunday. Take a moment to see how Easter can change your life or how you look at life. We get to take the spirit of Jesus Christ and make some change in this world. The resurrection isn’t simply about getting us to Heaven. It’s more about getting a little bit of Heaven into us; making us better people.  

Preaching text: Mark 16:1-8