Lutheran Church Of The Savior Sermon Podcast With Rev. Andrew Tengwall

Luke 2:1-20Christmas Eve, Lectionary Year CThis is the world God loves, and God knows this world needs God's love.

Matthew 2:1-12EpiphanyHow will we respond to the gift of love God has given us in Jesus Christ?

Luke 1:39-55Fourth Sunday of Advent, Lectionary Year CGod chooses the least-expected people to be his servants. Bonus references to The Hobbit (I still haven't seen the new movie) and The Avengers (Oh, I've seen movie one a few times).

Luke 3:7-18Third Sunday of Advent, Lectionary Year CTwo days ago, our nation experienced the tragedy of the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. How can our Advent lessons, from John the Baptist to all the rejoicing in Zephaniah and Philippians, speak to the emptiness we feel after this?

Luke 3.1-6Second Sunday of Advent, Lectionary Year CJohn the Baptist and the politics of forgiveness

Luke 21:25-36First Sunday of Advent, Lectionary Year CLots of scary-sounding apocalyptic imagery in today's Gospel lesson. Something, indeed, is coming. Today begins a new church year, in which we'll be hearing primarily from the Gospel of Luke. Listen to this sermon to hear how I suspect that Luke's Gospel was written by Doctor Who.

Revelation 1:4b-8Christ the King, Lectionary Year BHow is the new Sufjan Stevens Christmas album, Silver and Gold, like the book of Revelation? http://music.sufjan.com/album/silver-goldRevelation is full of crazy, challenging, shocking, beautiful images of a powerful, loving God. The truth of Revelation is not the fact of math, as much as I love math, but is the truth of poetry. Revelation offers a great opportunity to see the God from a new angle.

Matthew 6:25-33Thanksgiving Eve, Lectionary Year BWorry, thankfulness, and the Kingdom of God.

Mark 13:1-825th Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year BThe Temple in Jerusalem will be destroyed, which seems like the end of the world to Jesus' disciples.

Coming Out Sunday 2010This was during the height of the bullying / teen suicide epidemic that spawned the It Gets Better Project and so much more cultural awareness about gay, perceived-as-gay, or just plain different teens. Luke 17:11-1820th Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year CThe audio quality may be even worse on this one than usual, as I was using a relatively ancient digital recorder.

Mark 12:38-44 / 1 Kings 17:8-2424th Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year BStewardship Commitment SundayTwo poor widowsWe give because we trust what God will do with our gifts.

Revelation 21:1-6All Saints Sunday, Lectionary Year BGod's Love Is Strong as DeathThis recording is missing the first minute or so of the sermon, but hopefully you can catch up pretty quickly. As I recall, you probably didn't miss much.

John 8:31-36Reformation SundayThe Truth is that God is Love

Mark 9:38-5018th Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year BUsDoctor Who, Brother Ali, Libya

Mark 9:30-3717th Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year BQuestions