The Treadweary Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Yes...it is Doubting Thomas...again. Every Sunday after Easter is Doubting Thomas. Maybe because after Easter, with all the pomp and ham we need a Jesus that kicks down the doors of our doubt to be our Lord and God. John 20:19-31 When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesu...

Send us Fan Mail What does it mean to have fellowship with Christ? What is saying when we are told to "walk in the light"?  1 John 1:1-2:2 We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— this life was revealed, and we have seen it and testify to it, and decl...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for Easter Sunday, 2021 (John 20:1-18)

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for Good Friday 2021 (John 19:30)

Send us Fan Mail Thank God it's Friday! On this day we remember the work of God in Christ to finish the "war" between men and God. Today we look at the traditional Epistle text from Hebrews that outlines what God was doing in Jesus on the cross. Hebrews 10:1-25 Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the reality itself of those things, it can never perfec...

Send us Fan Mail What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits to me? That is the question as we come to this psalm to look at the theme of Maundy Thursday.  Psalm 116:12-19 12How shall I repay the Lord   for all the good things God has done for me?  13I will lift the cup of salvation   and call on the name of the Lord.   14I will fulfill my vows to the Lord   in the presence of all God’s p...

Send us Fan Mail On this day we remember the work of the betrayer. Not so that we might demean him but realize that we are him. John 13:21-32 After saying this Jesus was troubled in spirit, and declared, “Very truly, I tell you, one of you will betray me.” The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he was speaking. One of his disciples—the one whom Jesus loved—was reclining next to him...

Send us Fan Mail Here we look at the another text from Isaiah as we make our way through Holy Week. Who is the "servant?" What does he do? Isaiah 49:1-7 Listen to me, O coastlands,     pay attention, you peoples from far away! The Lord called me before I was born,     while I was in my mother’s womb he named me. He made my mouth like a sharp sword,     in the shadow of his hand he hid me...

Send us Fan Mail Join Pastor Carleton as we look some of the texts given to us during Holy Week. This one is the 1st reading for Holy Monday in which we hear about the description of who Christ is, and what God is doing through him. Isaiah 42:1-9 Here is my servant, whom I uphold,     my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon him;     he will bring forth justice to the nations...

Send us Fan Mail Philippians 2:5-11 Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be exploited. Instead he emptied himself by assuming the form of a servant, taking on the likeness of humanity. And when he had come as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death— even to death on a cross...

Send us Fan Mail Versicle Psalm 95 Psalm 40:5-10 Isaiah 7:10-14 Luke 1:26-38 Benedictus Prayer of the Day Pour your grace into our hearts, O God, that we who have known the incarnation of your Son, Jesus Christ, announced by an angel, may by his cross and passion be brought to the glory of his resurrection; for he lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever...

Send us Fan Mail Psalm 31:9-16 Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;     my eye wastes away from grief,     my soul and body also. For my life is spent with sorrow,     and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my misery,     and my bones waste away. I am the scorn of all my adversaries,     a horror to my neighbors, an object of dread to my acquaintances;     those who se...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we will be looking at the traditional texts that have been used for Palm Sunday, especially prior to the 3-year lectionary. The Gospel reading here is the text most often read prior to processing into the sanctuary with palms. It is good to understand Zechariah as it explains the symbolism of the Triumphal Entry of Christ into Jerusalem. Zechariah 9:9-12 Rejoice gr...

Send us Fan Mail Everlasting God, in your endless love for the human race you sent our Lord Jesus Christ to take on our nature and to suffer death on the cross. In your mercy enable us to share in his obedience to your will and in the glorious victory of his resurrection, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.  Amen

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 5th Sunday in Lent (John 12:20-33)

Send us Fan Mail Each weekday we will meditate on a prayer or a reading for the upcoming Sunday as assigned in the ELCA's hymnal. John 12:20-33 Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jes...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for a Mid-Week Lenten Service (Luke 16:13-31)

Send us Fan Mail Each weekday we will meditate on a prayer or a reading for the upcoming Sunday as assigned in the ELCA's hymnal. Hebrews 5:5-10 So also Christ did not glorify himself in becoming a high priest, but was appointed by the one who said to him, “You are my Son,     today I have begotten you”; as he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever,     according to the order o...

Send us Fan Mail Each weekday we will meditate on a prayer or a reading for the upcoming Sunday as assigned in the ELCA's hymnal. Psalm 51:1-12 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love;  in your great compassion blot out my offenses. Wash me through and through from my wickedness, and cleanse me | from my sin. For I know my offenses, and my sin is ever before me. Against you...

Send us Fan Mail Each weekday we will meditate on a prayer or a reading for the upcoming Sunday as assigned in the ELCA's hymnal. Jeremiah 31:31-34 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the lan...

Send us Fan Mail Each weekday we will meditate on a prayer or a reading for the upcoming Sunday as assigned in the ELCA's hymnal. O God, with steadfast love you draw us to yourself, and in mercy you receive our prayers. Strengthen us to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit, that through life and death we may live in your Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you an...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 4th Sunday in Lent (John 3:14-21; Numbers 21:4-9)

Send us Fan Mail Each weekday we will meditate on a prayer or a reading for the upcoming Sunday as assigned in the ELCA's hymnal. John 3:14-21 “Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in h...

Send us Fan Mail Each weekday we will meditate on a prayer or a reading for the upcoming Sunday as assigned in the ELCA's hymnal. Ephesians 2:1-10 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now working in the disobedient. We too all previously lived among them in o...

Send us Fan Mail Each weekday we will meditate on a prayer or a reading for the upcoming Sunday as assigned in the ELCA's hymnal. Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his faithful love endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord proclaim that he has redeemed them from the power of the foe and has gathered them from the lands— from the east and the west, from the nor...