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We talk about how God has included us into His family, into His mission, and how He does that despite our sins of omission and the things that we don’t do – forgiving them and renewing us. Sermon Scripture: Luke 4:16–30 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was…
Pink Candle Sunday, the third Sunday of Advent, also called Gaudete Sunday is a Sunday that is all about joy – so we talk about the joy that we are given by Christ, what gets in the way of our joy, and our Baptisms. Sermon Scripture: Luke 7:18–35 The disciples of John reported all these…
We talk transcendence vs immanence and how God brings us a world that is both transcendent and immanent through the gift of Holy Baptism. Sermon Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:13–18 Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also…
This Sunday the readings are about the Sabbath, but Sabbath is really just resting in God’s Word. We talk about how we find our rest in God’s Word, a part of that Word being our Baptisms, and PJ explains what he used to do with pastors that went a little long. Sermon Scripture: Deuteronomy 5:12–15 “‘Observe…
We kick off our series “My Name is Baptized” with the celebration of Holy Trinity, which of course means the Athanasian Creed. We talk about fine china and our Baptisms, ownership and inheritance. Sermon Scripture: John 3:1–17 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to…
We celebrate the Baptism of little Eleanor Anne and talk about what we believe about God’s prophetic Word in Baptism. Sermon Scripture: Mark 1:21–28 And they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching. And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had…
We begin our sermon series, Concordia, about the Book of Concord and the fundamental beliefs of Lutherans by talking about the three ecumenical creeds at what it means to be “catholic” along with all other people who are baptized into Christ’s name. Sermon Text: Matthew 28:16-20 The Great Commission [16] Now the eleven disciples went to…
Today we baptized little Isaac and talked about how we can sometimes get confused about subjects and objects in our understanding of God – hint hint, the subject is always Jesus. Sermon based on: John 4:5-30 [5] So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to…
It’s Super Bowl Sunday! It’s also the 5th Sunday after Epiphany and we’re talking about Baptism at University Lutheran. Today we talk about Baptism and the concept of “remembering your Baptism” and why it might be better to say “remember that you have been Baptized.”
Today we talked about the 10 commandments and what it means to have 10 commandments. We couched that especially in the understanding of what it means to be commanded to Baptize Taylor Andrew Jordan, who was Baptized right after the sermon in the worship service. You’ll hear about Pastor Jay’s past as a “Party Captain”…