The Lord of Life Lutheran Church Sermon Podcast

What is broken in our world? Are we broken? In this week’s message Pastor Paul reminds us that Jesus names the brokenness and that we are called to name it and respond by providing hope.

 

 

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Jesus weeps. The resurrection is real. But death has a smell and it stinks and we need to know what to do when death enters our circle.

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It’s Reformation Sunday and we commemorate the work of Martin Luther to reform the church. On this day we also celebrate with our confirmands who affirm their faith in Jesus Christ.

John’s Gospel reading shares the story of Jesus’ interaction with other Jewish leaders, a debate about what is truth and what is freedom are the result. Martin Luther shared plenty on this topic and today’s sermon is a walk through what truth and freedom mean today.

 

 

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A well-to-do young man comes to Jesus and asks, “What must I do to inherit eternal life?”

We tend to think of ourselves as “get it done” people in the United States, so perhaps we can understand the young man’s question of Jesus. What’s strange is that there isn’t anything we can DO to gain God’s love or eternal life.

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Why are we called to serve others? Is Jesus really trying to teach us something about ourselves? In the reading for the day and in the parable of the sheep and goats, we learn something about what it means to have power and to use power to choose to serve.

 

 

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Sermon series built on a theme developed by Adam Hamilton who holds the copyright for the media contents.

In part two of our series, Pastor Paul looks at the way that we measure our lives, often, by the stuff we have, and suggests an alternative measure, how and what we give.

 

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How will you measure your life? In part one of this three week series, Pastor Paul looks at the Parable of the Sower to learn something about how we measure our life and how God will measure our life. We are called to LOVE (even if we don’t like) and we are called to sow seeds with our life. How will you measure your life? By who and how you love.

 

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Jesus is a radical Savior who does radical stuff. Too often we lose the context of Jesus’ choices and examples. In today’s reading, Jesus takes a child in his arms as an example of what greatness looks like, but why did he do so? Follow along with this message by Pastor Paul to learn more.

 

 

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What kinds of claims do we make about Jesus? Are we afraid to make a claim at all? Is our faith so private and personal that we don’t want to share it? Or are we afraid we have too many questions to be the person to share who Jesus is? All this and more in this week’s sermon from Pastor Paul.

 

 

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In our gospel reading for this day, Jesus encounters a woman, an outsider, and is moved by her passionate plea to change his mind about her request to save her daughter. In this message, we hear about that story and about the ways in which we might, too, need to change or be changed. All while giving thanks that God does change God’s mind about what we deserve as sinners.

 

 

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