The Treadweary Podcast

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. 1 Samuel 3:1-11 Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord under Eli. The word of the Lord was rare in those days; visions were not widespread. At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his room; the lamp...

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. Thanks be to you, Lord Jesus Christ, most merciful redeemer, for the countless blessings and benefits you give. May we know you more clearly, love you more dearly, and follow you more nearly, day by day praising you, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, no...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for Baptism of Our Lord Sunday - January 10, 2021; Mark 1:4-11

Send us Fan Mail Merry Christmas! A sermon for Christmas Eve, 2020. 

Send us Fan Mail Jesus asked Simon if he loves him more than once. But I wonder, do we? Do we love him more than these? Do we have any affection for him? Do we just like him? Join us as we conclude our study of John's Gospel with a look at that interaction on the beach between Simon Peter and his Savior.

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 3rd Sunday in Advent - John 1:6-8, 19-28

Send us Fan Mail Christ integral work is one of interruption and surprise as we think we go about our normal daily work. But what of the moments in which we are called to gather in worship or when Christ reveals himself in Word and Sacrament? As we begin John 21, may we see in these resurrection encounters the call of God upon sinners to excitement at thought of seeing Jesus.

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the Thanksgiving Eve Service, 2020 - 2 Corinthians 9:6-15

Send us Fan Mail In the midst of our fear and anxiety, our worries about today and tomorrow, the Jesus we need is the Jesus of the cross. The Jesus who comes to deniers, abandoners, and doubters is the Jesus we need to have. He is the one that speaks peace to us when we feel we are at war.

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for Christ the King Sunday - Matthew 25:31-46; Psalm 95; Ezekiel 34

Send us Fan Mail The Jesus of the empty tomb was a purposeful Jesus who is not only missing from the tomb, but one who made his bed before he left. All of this so you know that the tomb is empty on purpose. This is the Jesus that is to be proclaimed, to be seen in the surprising, to be begged for and one who calls us by name. The same one who sends us out to proclaim him and seek him.

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 24th Sunday after Pentecost - Matthew 25:14-30; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost - Matthew 25:1-13; Jeremiah 31:31-33; Ezekiel 11:17-20; 1 Kings 19:1-8 ; Romans 5:3-8

Send us Fan Mail Christ goes forth outside the camp to bear our sin and die for us. How might this kind of Jesus, who walks willingly to death, branded as the King of the Jews while he chokes on his own saliva, give us new birth to revive us in the midst of a dying world?

Send us Fan Mail We hear the people (Us) crying out "Crucify him!...We have no King but Caesar!", and in those cries we hear our confession. A confession that we need this kind a King. This kind of Lord. We need a crucified and dead Jesus more than we need a Caesar, or even ourselves. And so in the words that we so hate to hear come from the mouths of Christ's opponents (US!!!), we...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for All Saints Day - Matthew 5:1-12

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for Reformation Sunday 2020 - John 8:31-36

Send us Fan Mail The lengths that Christ goes to redeem you are not small. The steps that seem to get in the way. The sinners and sin that seem to try and hold off, and propel, this plan. Yet, Christ is stalwart for you and sees his word fulfilled. Join us as we finish up John 18 with Christ before Pilate.

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 20th Sunday after Pentecost - Matthew 22:15-22

Send us Fan Mail Often the worst of our sins need to be sinned for us to truly know Christ. Explore with us this Peter that we think we know here in John 18. How his denial is what defines him, and is what should define a disciple in many ways. Because in being a denier, often then the Jesus I deny is the Jesus I need.

Send us Fan Mail When Christ goes to the garden, he goes to meet us in all our attempts to silence him, bind him, and kill him. The way John details the arrest and trial of Jesus gifts to us so much symbolism of his work for us. Join us as we begin our journey to Calvary in John 18. Seeing how the cross becomes central to our worship when it defies our attempts to replace it.

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 18th Sunday after Pentecost - Philippians 3:4b-14; Isaiah 5:1-11; Matthew 21:33-46

Send us Fan Mail Christ's prayer for the disciples, for the church, and for you, is a model for us on what worship and prayer can and should look like. A call for unity in his name. A name that is a crucified name. A name that is connected to a life that reminds us that the life we think we have in ourselves is nonexistent. Join us as we look at John 17, Christ's prayer that he makes bef...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 17th Sunday after Pentecost - Philippians 2:1-13

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 16th Sunday after Pentecost - Matthew 20:1-16