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

Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 33, Revised Common Lectionary Year BWith our final Mark reading of the lectionary year, we find the disciples still failing to follow Jesus faithfully, and Jesus still making promises that God will reward our faith even as the sky seems to be falling around us. 

All Saints Sunday, Revised Common Lectionary Year BRevelation 21:1-6aAt the end of our Bible, God promises to make all things new. Death and mourning and crying and pain remain with us, even as God promises they will be no more. We trust in God's promise.

Lectionary 30, Revised Common Lectionary Year B - 22nd Sunday after PentecostMark 10:46-52When Jesus restores sight to Bartimaeus, we learn both about Jesus and about an unlikely paragon of faith and prayer. 

Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 28, RCL Lectionary Year BMark 10:17-31The rich man asks what he must do to inherit eternal life. Jesus tells him to sell everything before returning to follow Jesus. What is possible and what is impossible in following Jesus? 

Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 25, RCL Lectionary Year BMark 9:30-37Jesus tells his friends what will happen to him, and they ignore him and instead argue which of them is the greatest. 

Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 23, RCL Lectionary Year BIsaiah 35, James 2:1-17Do not fear! How do we develop a healthy relationship with fear while following Jesus? 

Lectionary 29BMark 10:35-45After Jesus again tells of his impending arrest, suffering, death, and resurrection, James and John ask a stupid question of Jesus. Jesus talks about leadership as servanthood and about points us toward the truth of freedom in Christ. 

Joshua 24:1-18. Lectionary 21B. Joshua asks God's people to renew their covenant with God before entering the promised land.

Luke 1:46-55, text for Feast of Mary, Mother of Our Lord

John 6:24-35, on the occasion of a baptism

7th Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 15B Mark 6:14-29. On the story of the death of John the Baptist.

Sixth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 14, Revised Common Lectionary Year B Mark 6:1-13Jesus offers abundance to a community and a world bent on seeing scarcity. Finally catching up on a few months of sermons now that my tech issues are resolved. 

Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 26, RCL Year BMark 9:38-50What a messy Gospel lesson today! What will Jesus need to say or do to make people finally understand that they (we) need to care about one another? 

Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 24, Revised Common Lectionary Year BMark 8:27-38What did it mean for Jesus to be the Messiah? What does it mean for us to follow him? Here at Hope Church right now, we have a unique opportunity to take up our cross and follow. 

Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 24, Revised Common Lectionary Year BMark 8:27-38What did it mean for Jesus to be the Messiah? What does it mean for us to follow him? Here at Hope Church right now, we have a unique opportunity to take up our cross and follow. 

Fourth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 13, Lectionary Year BPsalm 30On this first day back in worship together, in person, in our building, with a baptism and Eucharist, what better scripture to convey the breadth of our feelings than Psalm 30? 

Third Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 11, Lectionary Year BMark 4:26-34Jesus' parables of seeds growing into plants don't tell us how God's beloved community grows, but they do tell us that if we trust in God, we will see that growth.

Second Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 10, Lectionary Year BMark 3:20-35As demonstrated in today's challenging scriptures from Mark's Gospel and from Genesis, evil and division and mutual enmity break our relationships with each other and with God. But that's not the whole of our story in Jesus.

Holy Trinity Sunday, Lectionary Year BIsaiah 6:1-8Isaiah's ministry was formed and informed by the trauma of a king's death, war, and a terrifying holy vision. This famous call of Isaiah looks different in light of the collective trauma we have experienced over the past year, and we may be able to see ourselves in this story in a new way.

Pentecost, Lectionary Year BRomans 8:22-27The Holy Spirit brings us hope, binds us together, and intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words.