The Treadweary Podcast

Send us Fan Mail A sermon for the 5th Sunday of Easter - John 14:1-14

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for Good Shepherd Sunday (4th Sunday of Easter) - John 10:1-10; Psalm 23

Send us Fan Mail Christ comes and we run to him knowing that even in our anger that comes through the pain of this life, we know that he is the resurrection and the life. Martha is a very honest person. She comes to Christ out of anger and yet knows he is different than any other person who has come to her in the midst of tragedy. Her brother is dead. Really dead. What can Jesus do? Well, join us...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus, speaking of Lazarus and his death, says, I rejoice on account of you, in order that you might believe.  As Jesus goes to raise Lazarus, he makes known to the disciples his purpose of his work. He speaks to them of falling asleep. He tells them that Lazarus' illness does not exist for the sake of death, but for the sake of the glory of God. As we read this account of th...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 3rd Sunday of Easter - April 26, 2020 The Disciples on the road to Emmaus - Luke 24; plus Deuteronomy 6, Habakkuk 3

Send us Fan Mail Christ comes speaking as the Son of God to us, calling to us as sheep to follow, but we often refuse him because we don't want him. Join us as we complete our study of John 10. Jesus is making clear who he is to the religious leadership and they don't want him as he is. That doesn't stop Jesus from telling them and begging for faith to come. Host  Pastor Carleton Sm...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for Easter Sunday  - April 12, 2020

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for Maundy Thursday - April 9, 2020

Send us Fan Mail The work of the Good Shepherd is an electing work, a calling work, that begins and ends with a laying down and a taking up. In John 10, Jesus continues his discourse of the blind seeing, and the seeing becoming blind, but he does it in a very weird way. He calls his sheep, they hear his voice and he does it all through this laying down of himself for the sake of taking it up again...

Send us Fan Mail Christ speaks in his Word to open our ears to see him and follow. Have you ever wondered why we are so obsessed with removing preaching from the landscape of the church? It often gets relegated to an interruption of some great music, or gets painted as a angry sweaty guy in a three-piece suit yelling that you are going to hell. When, in fact, it is God's work of making worshi...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the Fifth Sunday in Lent - John 11, Ezekiel 37

Send us Fan Mail Blind that we may see, seeing that we may become blind. The working of Christ to open our eyes to him and close them to ourselves. Join us as we venture into John 9, all of John 9, to explore the healing of a man born blind. How is this healing on the Sabbath again connected to our worship? What are these works of God by Christ doing for us even to this day? There seems a necessit...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 4th Sunday in Lent - John 9, 1 Samuel 16, Ephesians 5

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 3rd Sunday in Lent - John 4

Send us Fan Mail As worshipers we are in need of regular resurrection, that Christ might gift himself to us regularly in order that we might know him more. As those who gather weekly around the Word and the Sacrament, as worshipers, how often is our worship about what we get out of it. What our desires are for a better life or emotional fervor, but in Christ we are handed the life we need coming f...

Send us Fan Mail The word of God comes to us as Jesus to remove from us our expectations and assumptions. When Jesus comes into the world as the Light it needs, his words speak to us in ways often confusing and jolting. Caught in the dark, we have the light shine in our ears. Our call as Christians is to listen. To hear. What do we hear at our times of worship and life to have Christ speak to us?...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 2nd Sunday in Lent - John 3:1-17, Genesis 4:1-5, Romans 4:1-17

Send us Fan Mail How often it is that we try to catch our Jesus in a trick so he might not be the Jesus we need. Enter into John 8 with us as we discuss the woman caught in adultery. How she is brought in all her shame to Christ, only to have him bring the rescue she needs without any condemnation.  Host  Pastor Carleton Smee Production Carleton Smee (Producer and Editor) Music provided by Gargoyl...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the Fifth Sunday in Lent - Genesis 3:1-21; Matthew 4:1-11

Send us Fan Mail The confusion that Jesus can bring to us is often the power of the Spirit we need to confound our personal wisdom to find in our Jesus the power and wisdom we need. Join us as we conclude John 7 to hear of all the confusion around our Jesus. So many heard and saw but did not understand. Might his word be for us the life we need to grant us the truth of his appearing for our salvat...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for Transfiguration Sunday - Matthew 17:1-9

Send us Fan Mail The work of a teacher is to teach that which he has learned from his Teacher. Join us as we dig into John 7 looking at everything from theological education, to the Law, to the "glow-ray" of being a "teacher" versus what Christ brings as THE Teacher. How God works so contrary to our thinking as to not seek glory like one seeking popularity, but as one who is gl...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 6th Sunday after Epiphany or Sexagesima Sunday - Matthew 5:20-37

Send us Fan Mail The word of God comes to us in Christ speaking to us words of life and salvation wrapped in a flesh and blood broken and shed for you. Join us as we conclude John 6 by looking at the conclusion of the incredible church shrinkage sermon that Jesus makes here. Is there a time in which the Word has offended us? Should we see that as a good thing? Yes and Yes. Host  Pastor Carleton Sm...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 5th Sunday after Epiphany (Septuagesima) - Matthew 5:13-20; Isaiah 58; 1 Corinthians 2