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Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 22, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Romans 12:9-21. On the day Christus Victor voted to call Rev. Sarah Fike to be their next pastor, I got to explain the power of "y'all."

Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 21, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Exodus 1:8--2:10. This was a very fun sermon in which I got to help prepare the congregation for their first woman pastor in a lead role. The lectionary story of the women who facilitated the birth and growth of Moses was perfect for this.

Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 20, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Matthew 15:10-28 In this one I talked about seeing one of my favorite musicians and what his thoroughly un-religious perspective has shown me about Jesus.

Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 19, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Matthew 14:22-33. This sermon begins with the announcement that Christus Victor has a Final Candidate to be the next pastor, and then I talked about preparing for that new reality.

Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 18, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Genesis 32:22-31 and Matthew 14:13-21. What's in a name?

Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 17, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Romans 8:26-39. As I always say, Romans is where our theology comes from, more or less. This is the best part of Romans, so listen up.

Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 16, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Genesis 28:10-19a. While fleeing his brother, Jacob falls asleep in a seemingly-random place and sees a staircase leading to the heavens. Sometimes we experience God where we don't expect it.

Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 14, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Romans 7:15-25a, also Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30. In honor of the United States Semiquincentennial, I dug into these challenging lessons to try and make some sense of where we are and what we can learn from scripture. Romans 7:15-25a

Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 13, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. The lectionary's Semicontinuous First Lessons giveth and taketh away. Abraham tries to obey God's command to sacrifice his son Isaac, and the world has wrestled with this story ever since.

Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 12, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Today's very challenging Gospel lesson throws the US holiday of Fathers' Day into stark relief, and this sermon is a whole lot of wrestling with the hard stuff.

Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Second Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 10, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Today we celebrated our two graduating high school seniors, and our first lesson from Genesis 12, the Semicontinuous lectionary reading, was just right. God calls Abram to leave the land of his parents and receive God's blessing to become a blessing for others.

Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for Holy Trinity Sunday, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: 2 Corinthians 13:11-13. For our third consecutive Cake Sunday (Sundays in which something happens in worship worthy of celebrating with cake), we celebrated a wedding vow renewal for a 40th anniversary. Considering that their first wedding was just over lunch with a judge, and they never had their ring tattoos blessed, this one felt somewhat authentic! And who knew that Holy Trinity Sunday would provide the perfect New Testament lesson for a wedding? This one was a lot of fun.

Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Day of Pentecost, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Acts 2:1-21. On this Pentecost Sunday we celebrated the baptism of a young adult, and we talked about the various ways the Holy Spirit acts among us.

Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Seventh Sunday of Easter, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: John 17:1-11. "Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one.” Eternal life is not about living forever; it's about living fully right now.

Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: John 14:15-21. "I will send you another Advocate." Jesus' first discussion of the Holy Spirit in John's Gospel leads me down many interesting paths that all wind up right here at my job in the last week.