Augustana Podcasts

Guest Preacher: Rachel Larson. Preaching Text: John 9.

Faith Conversation with Intern Pastor Nathan Adu-Gyamfi and Jorja Gale. Text: John 4:5-42

Guest Preacher: Pastor Lindsey (Bulger) Bina. Preaching Text: John 4:5-15, 27-28a, 39.

Sermon Title: The Shadow of Isolation. Preacher: Pastor Intern Nathan Adu-Gyamfi. Preaching Text: John 4:5-42. Today’s Gospel brings us to a quiet place outside a Samaritan town, where Jesus sits beside an ordinary well. What begins as a simple conversation about water becomes a life-changing encounter with the living God. At that well, a woman who came alone and burdened discovers that Christ alr...

Guest Preacher: Pastor Beth (Wilkie) Horsch. Text: John 3:1-17.

Faith Conversation with Deaconess Claire Schoepp and Pastor Rachel Tune. Text: John 3:1-17

Faith Conversation with Deacon Stephanie Anderson with Lucy Bock. Text: Matthew 4:1-11.

Preacher: Pastor Andrea Roske-Metcalfe. Preaching Text: Matthew 4:1-11.

Sermon Title: The Shadow of Doubt. Preacher: Deacon Stephanie Anderson. Preaching Text: John 3:1-17. Today we meet Nicodemus, who comes to Jesus under the cover of night. He is a leader, a teacher, a faithful person - and yet he is searching. He carries questions he feels he cannot ask in the daylight. We may know something about that kind of night; what it is to believe and still wonder, to trust...

Sermon Title: The Shadow of Excess. Preacher: Pastor Jason Bryan-Wegner. Preaching Text: Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21. Ash Wednesday marks a season of repentance and renewal. We follow Christ toward Jerusalem, where he passes from death to life, and remember that it is through this path that Christ makes us new. We begin Lent by acknowledging our need for repentance and for God’s mercy. Tonight, you will...

Sermon Title: The Shadow of Adversity. Preacher: Pastor Jason Bryan-Wegner. Preaching Text: Matthew 4:1-11. We begin a new worship series called Out of the Shadows this week. Throughout the gospels, Jesus finds people who have been pushed into the shadows - by religion, by relationship, by community expectations, or by their own fears. Jesus brings them into the light with compassion and truth. In...

Sermon Title: Called to Rest: Remember the Sabbath. Preacher: Pastor Intern Nathan Adu-Gyamfi. Preaching Text: Exodus 24:12-18 & Matthew 17:1-9. Today we gather at the turning point of the church year—where glory is revealed, where the mountain gives way to the valley, and where Jesus invites us not to escape the world, but to be strengthened for what lies ahead. The Transfiguration reminds us...

Sermon Title: Called to Action. Preacher: Pastor Jason Bryan-Wegner. Preaching Text: Isaiah 58:2-23 & Matthew 5:13-20. One of Augustana’s values is “Worship is the heart of our life together.” Worship centers us in Christ and unites us in God’s good news and saving work. Yet, worship is not the completion of faith. It’s only the beginning. We worship so that our lives are shaped by Christ that...

Sermon Title: What Is Good? Preacher: Pastor Jason Bryan-Wegner. Preaching Text: Micah 6:1-8 & Matthew 5:1-12. Our Epiphany series, “Glory Revealed” continues today with a look at both a prophetic word from Micah, and some of the most familiar and beloved words from Jesus. Both voices invite us to reflect more deeply on how our worship of God shapes the rest of our lives. As we bring all that...

Sermon Title: Carrying the Light. Preacher: Deacon Stephanie Anderson. Preaching Text: Matthew 4:12-23. In the season after Epiphany, we are listening for how God’s glory is revealed, not in spectacle alone, but in light that guides, calls, and sends. Today’s scriptures proclaim a God who meets fear with courage and ordinary lives with holy purpose. As Jesus begins his ministry and calls his first...

Sermon Title: What Are You Looking For? Preacher: Pastor Jason Bryan-Wegner. Preaching Text: John 1:35-42. As we move deeper into the season after Epiphany, we explore the glory God reveals among us. God’s glory often looks like invitation, deeper relationship, and changed perspectives because of the light and presence of Christ in our lives. We pray that as we worship together today, God’s light...

Sermon Title: Back to Jordan. Preacher: Intern Pastor Nathan Adu-Gyamfi. Preaching Text: Matthew 3:13-17. Today we gather to remember and celebrate the baptism of our Lord and to remember our own. At the Jordan River, God meets us not at the end of the journey, but at the beginning. Baptism reminds us that God’s grace comes before our striving, and that God names us beloved even before the road ah...

Sermon Title: What Is Your "Another Way"? Preacher: Intern Pastor Nathan Adu-Gyamfi. Preaching Text: Matthew 2:13-23. Today we gather to celebrate Christmas—the good news that God meets us not in perfect conditions, but right in the middle of fear, uncertainty, and longing. In the Christmas story, those who encountered the Christ child did not return the same way they came—they went home by anothe...

Sermon Title: God Doesn't Wait. Preacher: Pastor Jason Bryan-Wegner. Preaching Text: Luke 2:1-20. Merry Christmas! We pray that you experience the wonder and holiness of our Savior's birth in worship today.

Sermon Title: Home By Another Way. Preacher: Deacon Stephanie Anderson. Preaching Text: Matthew 2:1-12. Merry Christmas! Today we celebrate the light of Christ revealed to the world – a light that drew the Magi from afar and led them not only to Bethlehem, but onto a new way forward. Epiphany reminds us that encountering Christ changes our direction, inviting us to trust God’s leading even when it...

Sermon Title: A Stubborn Hope. Preacher: Deacon Stephanie Anderson. Preaching Text: Isaiah 11:1-10. Welcome to Augustana’s midweek Advent worship. We pause this evening to listen for the stirring of God’s Spirit and the song that still turns the world upside down. As Mary once sang of a God who lifts the lowly and fills the hungry with good things, we join her and dare to wonder: Is the world abou...

Sermon Title: Interrupted by Grace. Preacher: Deacon Stephanie Anderson. Preaching Text: Matthew 1:18-25. Welcome to worship in this season of holy anticipation. Our Advent theme, The Time Is Now, invites us to pay attention to the places where God’s promise presses into the present moment. Today we hear Matthew’s account of Jesus’ birth from Joseph’s perspective – a story of disruption, courage,...

Sermon Title: The Time is Now: Prepare the Way! Preacher: Pastor Jason Bryan-Wegner. Preaching Text: Matthew 3:1-12. Our Advent series “The Time is Now” reminds us of the urgency of faith. It doesn’t require us to have everything figured out, or to never doubt. But Advent holds the promise that God is near and because of that we are changed, even now.

Sermon Title: The New World Order. Preacher: Intern Pastor Nathan Adu-Gyamfi. Preaching Text: Isaiah 2:1-5. Welcome to Augustana’s midweek Advent worship. We pause this evening to listen for the stirring of God’s Spirit and the song that still turns the world upside down. As Mary once sang of a God who lifts the lowly and fills the hungry with good things, we join her and dare to wonder: Is the wo...

Sermon Title: At the Far shores of Galilee. Preacher: Intern Pastor Nathan Adu-Gyamfi. Preaching Text: John 6:25-35. As a grateful people, we lift our hearts in thanksgiving to the God who has carried us through another year. As we worship, we remember that thanksgiving is not simply a day on the calendar — it is a posture of the heart. It turns us toward the One who sustains us, centers us again...