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I was on the radio this morning talking to probably about 3 listeners who tuned into KFUO-AM out of St. Louis, MO. KFUO is the radio station that is owned and operated by our church body, and they do this show called “His Time” that looks at readings from the Daily Lectionary [pdf] of the LCMS.…
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…
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…
Being a Lutheran means celebrating the Reformation, but many of us have gotten sloppy in our Reformation celebrations. Martin Luther himself said that the life of a Christian is a life of repentance. So this Reformation, University Lutheran challenges you to repent of some of those old Lutheran myths and to celebrate the Reformation 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 this Season and Series: About this coming Sunday:15th Sunday After Pentecost – Retake – We begin a new series called #selfie in which we consider ourselves in the moment, how…
The coming week we’re going to be starting a new sermon series called #selfie. It’s going to be all about taking a look at ourselves and how we display who we are to the world around us. I came up with the idea the other day while I was walking through the Publix parking lot…
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 this coming Sunday: 11th Sunday After Pentecost – Bread that Lasts – Eternity is a concept that we deal with as Christians. We believe in an eternal God who…
From Pastor Jay Girl!!!! In Jeremiah 1:5, God comes to Jeremiah and says, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” We’ve found out that we’re having a girl – but God didn’t find that out, He…
Sundays and Rehearsal Dinners This summer is sort of a summer of love here at University Lutheran, or at least it is for me. I’ve had more than my usual amount of weddings and premarital counseling to perform, and later on today, I’m going to be doing the rehearsal and going to the rehearsal dinner…