University Lutheran

Who have you failed to include? - We talk a little bit about who we fail to include into the kingdom of God, why we fail to include them, and how God sets our mistakes right. Isaiah 56: 1, 6-8 | Psalm 67 | Romans 11 | Matthew 15: 21-28

We start our series "God of the Goofs" by talking about Peter and his failed "water walk" and finds Jesus rescuing him - something showing him, and us, who Jesus really is.

We talk about hunger and how we are both fed and given the responsibility to feed others with the gifts of God's Kingdom.

What are you worth? We talk about your worth to God and how our worth is always based in what Christ has done for us.

We celebrate our first reopening Sunday with an appropriate talk about the Parable of the Weeds of the Field.

We talk about our good king Jesus

We talk about when we need to bring bad news, and how Jesus really is good news. 

We talk about how our language ties us to things, and how we are tied to the Law and to the Gospel as Christians.

We consider what it means to be God's people, His royal priesthood, His holy nation, His beloved disciples - even when we don't get everything done on our to-do list

We talk about the Trinity and authority

What is your favorite cliche? We talk about the cliches of the Christian faith and of our sinful lives and how Jesus brings comfort through all of those things.

We talk about what it is that makes us feel really alive and how Jesus, the Good Shepherd, brings us real life as He puts His own on the line for us.

We talk about what fears we're responding to and how they help us to understand responding to God.

Join us as we answer the question "What do you feel exiled from?" and how the Gospel is good news for us in our times of exile.

We are Easter people. And while this doesn't "feel like" Easter, that doesn't matter. Easter is a fact. Easter is a movement. Easter conquers. Christ has risen! He has Risen Indeed! Alleluia!

We continue our series about who we are in relation to certain Biblical characters, in relation to our fellow disciples, and in relation to Jesus. Today we talk about Lazarus and how his entombment shows us our own (during quarantine and out), and how Jesus calls us out into true life. 

We talk about Jesus healing the man born blind in John 9 and how we might be looking at the world a little differently now, and how Jesus' work in our lives helps us see the world differently.

We talk about how Jesus walked into a situation that was normally marked by "social distancing" but that He disregarded the anxiety and connected with the woman at the well.

We talk about the best song in the world, the faith that we have in Jesus Christ.

We start the Sundays of Lent and a new sermon series called "In Relation To" where we examine the non-disciple characters in Matthew's Gospel and look at what they tell us about being disciples, starting today with the big bad guy himself, Satan

Readings for Lent 1 A: Genesis 3:1–21;Psalm 32:1–7;Romans 5:12–19;Matthew 4:1–11

Readings for Ash Wednesday 2020: Joel 2:12–19;Psalm 51;2 Corinthians 5:20–6:10;Matthew 6:1–21

What is the hardest thing to give up? We explore that question as it relates to Lent, spiritual practices, and our own tendencies to try to justify ourselves.

We talk about how Jesus ramps up the Law and how that is good news for us because it means that we can only get salvation from Him and not from our works.

We talk about how Jesus is the "product" of Christianity and how we are called to give our lives for Him.