I’m currently taking some training from the Ambassadors of Reconciliation, a Lutheran group that trains all different kinds of churches and organizations how to resolve conflict. One of the things that we have been talking about quite a bit is that the church has dropped the ball in one specific area – we haven’t taught…
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University Lutheran routinely records and puts the sermon from Sunday online both at the University Lutheran website and at universitylutheran.sermon.net (where you can point your podcast app to automatically subscribe to our sermons). Since we started doing this, it has afforded me (Pastor Jay), the opportunity to listen to my own sermons for a second…
Living the Lectionary is a weekly devotional tool intended to give you ideas for living out the Word of God that we encounter on Sundays in worship. ABOUT THE WEEK STARTING May 1st: THE SIXTH WEEK OF EASTER Ask and it shall be given. Law: Jesus says something striking in the Gospel lesson, “until now you have…
Living the Lectionary is a weekly devotional tool intended to give you ideas for living out the Word of God that we encounter on Sundays in worship. ABOUT THE WEEK STARTING APRIL 24TH: THE FIFTH WEEK OF EASTER The Old and the New. Law: The Gospel is presented as a “new” thing, or something that we…
Living the Lectionary is a weekly devotional tool intended to give you ideas for living out the Word of God that we encounter on Sundays in worship. ABOUT THE WEEK STARTING April 17th: The Fourth Week of Easter The Lamb who is the Shepherd. Law: The Bible repeatedly describes the people of God as needing a…
Living the Lectionary is a weekly devotional tool intended to give you ideas for living out the Word of God that we encounter on Sundays in worship. ABOUT THE WEEK STARTING April 10th: THE Second Week of Easter God’s choice and the Worthy. Law: None of the people whom God chooses are worthy of the honor of…
Living the Lectionary is a weekly devotional tool intended to give you ideas for living out the Word of God that we encounter on Sundays in worship. ABOUT THE WEEK STARTING MARCH 13: THE FIFTH WEEK OF LENT Jesus begins to walk toward Jerusalem. Law: The old ways of relating to God through the temple and…
Living the Lectionary is a weekly devotional tool intended to give you ideas for living out the Word of God that we encounter on Sundays in worship. ABOUT THE WEEK STARTING MARCH 6: THE FOURTH WEEK OF LENT God reconciles a wayward world to Himself. Law: We are sinful human beings. This is evidenced in clear…
Pixar just released another trailer for the release of “Finding Dory”, slated to appear in theaters this June. From what you can see, the plot line is basically that all of the sudden Dory, the memory-plagued co-star of “Finding Nemo”, remembers something. And for Dory, remembering something, anything, is a big deal. It causes her to go…
Living the Lectionary is a weekly devotional tool intended to give you ideas for living out the Word of God that we encounter on Sundays in worship. ABOUT THE WEEK STARTING FEBRUARY 28th: THE THIRD WEEK OF LENT God’s call to repent is both good news and bad, but still it is mostly good. Law: It is…