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Sermons with Reverend KilljoyTrinity Lutheran Church Lindstrom MN Sermon Audio 12/4/2022Second Sunday of Advent Revised Common Lectionary Year AMatthew 3:1-12On my first Sunday in my new gig as Interim Senior Pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church in Lindstrom, MN, I got to compare myself favorably to John the Baptist and connect our interim time to the season of Advent. 2022-12-0612 min
Sermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Closing Worship Sermon Audio 10/30/2022Reformation Sunday, Revised Common LectionaryPsalm 46On this Reformation Sunday, Hope Lutheran Church held our final worship together. Joined by loved ones and friends old and new, we shared the good news together. Here is the sermon that was part of our celebration. 2022-10-3012 min
Sermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 10/30/2022Lectionary 30 / 20th Sunday after Pentecost, Revised Common Lectionary CLuke 18:9-14The prayers of the Pharisee and the tax collector can tell us a lot about ourselves and how we relate to God and one another. 2022-10-2417 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 10/16/2022Lectionary 29 / 19th Sunday after Pentecost, Revised Common Lectionary Year CLuke 18:1-18Jesus' reassurance to his followers to not lose heart can be as helpful to us today as it was when he first told them this parable about the persistent woman. 2022-10-1612 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 10/9/2022Lectionary 28 / 18th Sunday after Pentecost, Revised Common Lectionary Year CLuke 17:11-19In this sermon immediately prior to the special congregational meeting in which Hope Lutheran Church voted to close and dissolve our congregation and give away our remaining funds, the story of Jesus healing ten men with skin disease helps us remember how thankfulness stands at the heart of the choices we are making. 2022-10-1117 min
Sermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 9/18/2022Lectionary 25 / 15th Sunday after Pentecost, Revised Common Lectionary Year CLuke 16:1-13Jesus' enigmatic parable about a manager, a rich man, and some debtors provides an unexpectedly helpful lens for making sense of the ongoing changes to our congregation. 2022-09-1819 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 9/11/2022Lectionary 24 / 14th Sunday after Pentecost, Revised Common Lectionary Year C Luke 15:1-10Jesus' stories of the lost sheep and the lost coin remind us of the basics. 2022-09-1211 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 9/4/202213th Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 23, Revised Common Lectionary Year CLuke 14:25-33When Jesus scares us with stark exhortations, we remember that the church moves forward by death and resurrection2022-09-0417 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 8/28/2022Luke 14:1, 7-14This week's lectionary readings spoke directly to our national conversation about debt. It's not easy to follow Jesus in an unfair world striving for fairness. 2022-08-2920 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 8/14/2022Lectionary 20 / 10th Sunday after Pentecost, Revised Common Lectionary Year CLuke 12:49-56Jesus was not nice. 2022-08-1417 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 7/31/2022Lectionary 18, 8th Sunday after Pentecost, Revised Common Lectionary Year CLuke 12:12-21Why does Jesus talk about money so much? Why do we talk about money so much? 2022-08-1415 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 7/17/2022Lectionary 16 / 6th Sunday after Pentecost, Revised Common Lectionary Year CColossians 1:15-28Jesus is Christ of the whole world2022-08-1420 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 7/10/2022Lectionary 15 / 5th Sunday after Pentecost, Revised Common Lectionary Year CLuke 10:25-37What must I do to inherit eternal life? How did this question lead to Jesus' parable of the Good Samaritan?2022-08-1419 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 7/3/2022Lectionary 14 / 4th Sunday after Pentecost, Revised Common Lectionary Year CLuke 10:1-11, 16-20A sermon for this day2022-08-1417 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 6/26/2022Hope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 6/26/2022Third Sunday after Pentecost, Revised Common Lectionary Year CGalatians 5:1, 13-25Sometimes the news of the day frames the way we need to share the gospel. Freedom and bodily autonomy and loving our neighbor. It's a lot. 2022-06-2621 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 6/19/2022Second Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year CLuke 8:26-39On this Juneteenth Hope joined with our new host congregation Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church to commemorate this day and to look at our Gospel story of demonic forces and freedom. What can we learn from the man possessed by demons? What can we learn from the rest of the Gerasenes whose region Jesus is visiting? 2022-06-2019 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 6/5/2022Pentecost, Lectionary Year CRomans 8:14-17We are all adopted as children of God and heirs to all that God has given Jesus. So take heart, even though nothing is easy for so many. 2022-06-0517 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 5/29/2022Seventh Sunday of Easter, Lectionary Year CPsalm 97In the midst of evil and pain and so much cause for lament, we boldly proclaim our trust in God, whose power rests on justice and righteousness.2022-06-0116 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 5/22/2022Sixth Sunday of Easter, Lectionary Year CActs 16:9-15Paul and Lydia and the beginnings of the Macedonian church at Philippi provide us with a fantastic set of models for our own churches and ministries today. 2022-06-0115 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 5/15/2022Fifth Sunday of Easter, Lectionary Year CActs 11:1-18In today's lesson from Acts, Peter asks the excellent question, "Who was I, that I could hinder God?" Let this question be good news for you as we seek to follow Jesus in these complex times. 2022-06-0119 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 5/1/2021Third Sunday of Easter, Revised Common Lectionary Year CJohn 21:1-19Pastor Andrew is back again to reflect on Jesus' final visit to his disciples in John's Gospel. 2022-05-0114 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 4/24/2021Second Sunday of Easter, Revised Common Lectionary Year CJohn 20:19-31Pastoral Intern Per Halaas returns on the Sunday after Easter to tell us about Jesus' visit to Thomas and the rest of his disciples. 2022-05-0116 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 4/17/2021Easter Sunday, Revised Common Lectionary Year CLuke 24:1-12Pastor Andrew returns to preach our first Sunday in our new space, the chapel at Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church on Arcade and Larpenteur. Resurrection looks different this year. 2022-05-0114 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 4/14/2022Maundy Thursday, Revised Common LectionaryJohn 13:1-17, 31b-35For our final worship gathering in our historic building, Pastoral Intern Per Halaas preached on John's pivotal story of Jesus' last night with his friends. 2022-05-0111 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 4/10/2022Palm Sunday, Revised Common Lectionary Year COn the 100th anniversary of our first worship service at Hope Lutheran Church (April 9th, 1921), our Saint Paul Area Synod Bishop Patricia Lull brought this word to a packed house gathered to celebrate the anniversary on our last Sunday in our historic space at 1340 Hazel Street N. 2022-05-0114 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 4/3/2021Fifth Sunday of Lent, Revised Common Lectionary Year CJohn 12:1-8This story of Mary washing Jesus' feet is the last thing before Jesus enters Jerusalem on Palm Sunday in John's Gospel. What can we learn from her in this last week before our big Palm Sunday at Hope Church? 2022-04-0316 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 3/27/2021Fourth Sunday of Lent, Revised Common Lectionary Year C2 Corinthians 5.16-21 God is making all things new, even the brothers from the story we call the Prodigal Son. 2022-04-0314 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 3/20/2022Third Sunday of Lent, Revised Common Lectionary Year CIsaiah 55:1-9The great feast of God's grace is an ideal scriptural reference for this Sunday celebrating the end of Hope and Good Samaritan churches sharing our space and our lives these past seven years. 2022-03-2000 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 3/13/2022Second Sunday of Lent, Revised Common Lectionary Year CGenesis 15:1-12, 17-18God's promise of descendants to Abraham is also a promise to Hope Church today. 2022-03-1415 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 3/6/2022First Sunday of Lent, Revised Common Lectionary Year CLuke 4:1-13In this opportune time, what are we to do? 2022-03-0616 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 3/2/2022Ash Wednesday, Revised Common Lectionary Year CJoel 2:1-2, 12-17As we return to God amid so much turmoil this Lent, what are the spiritual practices we will engage in to ground ourselves? 2022-03-0614 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 2/20/2022Seventh Sunday after Epiphany, Revised Common Lectionary Year CLuke 6:27-382022-03-0617 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 2/13/2022Sixth Sunday after Epiphany, Revised Common Lectionary Year CJeremiah 17:5-10Trees. If I preach about trees, does that mean I've been too immersed in re-reading Lord of the Rings? Trees remain a powerful symbol of life and renewal. 2022-03-0617 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 2/6/2022Fifth Sunday after Epiphany, Revised Common Lectionary Year C Luke 5:1-11Jesus' disciples left everything and followed him. They trusted in Jesus rather than in what they had known or relied on before.2022-03-0617 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 1/30/2022Fourth Sunday after Epiphany, Revised Common Lectionary Year C1 Corinthians 13:1-13Paul's famous lesson about love is a model for the life of the church together. 2022-01-3112 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 1/23/2022Third Sunday after Epiphany, Revised Common Lectionary Year CA sermon focused on "today" based on Jesus' proclamation that "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing" takes a different direction when the day is dramatically changed by tragic news. 2022-01-2418 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 1/16/2022Second Sunday after Epiphany, Revised Common Lectionary Year CJohn 2:1-11In the rituals we share as Christians, God uses ordinary things to do the extraordinary.2022-01-2411 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 1/9/2022Baptism of Our Lord, Revised Common Lectionary Year CIsaiah 43:1-7We have a wide variety of ways to think about baptism. In the end baptism is what we need it to be. 2022-01-2419 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 12/12/2021Third Sunday of Advent, Revised Common Lectionary Year CLuke 3:7-18We don't talk about money in church nearly as much as people talk about it in the Bible, so today let's do that, like John the Baptist does in our Gospel lesson. 2021-12-1217 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 12/5/2021Second Sunday of Advent, Revised Common Lectionary Year CLuke 1:68-79Zechariah's song at the birth of his son John casts a vision for how we can join in the journey of God's work in our world. 2021-12-0517 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 11/28/2021First Sunday of Advent, Revised Common Lectionary Year CLuke 21:25-361 Thessalonians 3:9-13How do we wait for the Day of the Lord? We raise up our heads and tell the truth, in love and gratefulness. 2021-11-2816 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 11/21/2021Reign of Christ Sunday, RCL Lectionary Year BJohn 18:33-37Revelation 1:4b-8Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14The eternal cosmic Christ, angels and thrones and fire and the battle between good and evil is all part of the story the church tells this time of year. We can also remember that all these grand narratives come down to the actual lives of actual people whom God loves. 2021-11-2822 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 11/14/2021Twenty-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. 2021-11-1417 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 11/7/2021All 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.2021-11-0716 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 10/24/2021Lectionary 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. 2021-11-0717 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 10/10/2021Twentieth 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? 2021-10-1916 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 9/19/2021Seventeenth 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. 2021-10-1915 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 9/5/2021Fifteenth 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? 2021-10-1913 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 10/17/2021Lectionary 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. 2021-10-1917 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 8/22/2021Joshua 24:1-18. Lectionary 21B. Joshua asks God's people to renew their covenant with God before entering the promised land.2021-09-2915 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 8/15/2021Luke 1:46-55, text for Feast of Mary, Mother of Our Lord2021-09-2918 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 8/1/2021John 6:24-35, on the occasion of a baptism2021-09-2910 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 7/11/20217th Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 15B
Mark 6:14-29. On the story of the death of John the Baptist.2021-09-2916 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 7/4/2021Sixth 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. 2021-09-2914 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 9/26/2021Eighteenth 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? 2021-09-2616 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 9/12/2021Sixteenth 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. 2021-09-1421 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 9/12/2021Sixteenth 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. 2021-09-1421 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 6/27/2021Fourth 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? 2021-06-2912 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 6/13/2021Third 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.2021-06-1317 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 6/6/2021Second 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.2021-06-0622 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 5/30/3031Holy 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.2021-05-3018 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 5/23/2021Pentecost, Lectionary Year BRomans 8:22-27The Holy Spirit brings us hope, binds us together, and intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words.2021-05-2314 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 5/2/2021Fifth Sunday of Easter, Lectionary Year B1 John 4:7-21God is love. What does this mean for us? How do we love one another?2021-05-0218 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 4/25/2021Fourth Sunday of Easter, Lectionary Year B1 John 3:16-24Our second lesson from First John gives us a powerful vision of what it can look like to live out the love of God we have received in Jesus. How can the lessons of that community so long ago shape our church's faithful response today?2021-04-2516 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 4/18/2021Third Sunday of Easter, Lectionary Year BLuke 24:36b-48"You are witnesses of these things." Jesus' words to his disciples look different after all we have witnessed in our community and our nation this week.2021-04-1814 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 4/4/2021Easter Sunday, Lectionary Year BJohn 20:1-18Death is real, and so is resurrection. You are not alone.2021-04-0415 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 4.1.2021Maundy ThursdayJohn 13:1-35Jesus' last evening with his disciples is filled with important moments. It is a night that weighs heavily on followers of Jesus, but we are not alone in carrying that weight.2021-04-0415 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 3/28/2021Palm Sunday / Sunday of the PassionMark 15:1-39As we enter this Holy Week with Jesus' entry into Jerusalem and the story of his death, we can leave our expectations behind.2021-03-2813 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 3/21/2021Fifth Sunday of Lent, Lectionary Year BJohn 12:20-33Jesus' heart is grieved in today's lesson as he tries again to explain his impending death and resurrection, this time only days before it occurs. As we lament anti-Asian racism and violence, we recognize this story of grief, death, and resurrection.2021-03-2118 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 3/14/2021Fourth Sunday of Lent, Lectionary Year BEphesians 2:1-10Today's lesson from Ephesians gives us a clear and concise description of the power of God's grace in our lives.2021-03-1416 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 2/28/2021Second Sunday of Lent, Lectionary Year BMark 8:31-38Just as Jesus died and rose again, his body on earth - the church - lives into God's future through death and resurrection.2021-02-2812 minSermons with Reverend KilljoySaint Paul Eastside Collaborative Lent Wednesday Worship Week One, 2/24/2021Hope, Our Redeemer, Grace, and Arlington Hills Lutheran Churches in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Mark 1:9-15This four-minute reflection on Jesus' time in the wilderness focuses on the curious detail that "he was with the wild beasts." What was that about?2021-02-2804 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 2/21/2021First Sunday of Lent, Lectionary Year BGenesis 9:8-17God's covenant with Noah and all animals serves as an early indication of God's unending grace.2021-02-2114 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 2/17/2021Ash WednesdayMark 6:1-6, 16-21Ash Wednesday feels different on Zoom. This year we incorporated the imposition of ashes and also an anointing into a unique two-part sermon-and-ritual.2021-02-1816 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 2/14/2021Transfiguration Sunday, Lectionary Year BMark 9:2-9No matter how far we have felt from the mountaintop this past year, Jesus is here with us. He came down from the mountain for us. 2021-02-1418 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 2/7/2021Fifth Sunday after Epiphany, Lectionary Year BMark 1:29-39In our Gospel story today, after Jesus heals many and casts out demons at Peter's house, Peter tells Jesus "everyone is searching for you." Today, again, everyone is searching for something. How can we be the body of Christ for one another in times like these?2021-02-0716 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 1.31.2021Fourth Sunday after Epiphany, Lectionary Year BMark 1:21-28Paul says don't eat meat! I haven't had meat since 2001. Ha! Just kidding. The decisions we make do affect others, and our faith calls us to act with responsibility toward our neighbors. 2021-02-0718 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 1/24/2021Third Sunday after Epiphany, Lectionary Year BMark 1:14-20Jesus begins his public ministry in Mark's Gospel with the bold declaration that the time has been fulfilled. In the 100th year of our congregation, Hope Lutheran, we will be looking to God's fulfillment of time and what God will be doing next.2021-01-2414 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 1/10/2021Baptism of Our Lord, Lectionary Year BMark 1:4-11In light of the cross and the noose erected on the grounds of our nation's Capitol building this week, we looked into Dr. James Cone's The Cross and the Lynching Tree to help us make sense of Christianity in America today before diving back into the baptism and repentance of our scripture for today.2021-01-1025 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 1/3/2021Second Sunday of Christmas, Lectionary Year BJohn 1:10-18We begin a new year with the Word made flesh and all that it means for us.2021-01-0312 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 12/24/2020Christmas EveLuke 2:1-20Is this the best Christmas ever?2020-12-2913 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 12/20/2020Fourth Sunday of Advent, Lectionary Year ALuke 1:26-55Mary's conversation with the angel and the song she sings in response to her conversation with her cousin Elizabeth are among the most powerful witnesses of what it means when God intervenes in our world.2020-12-2019 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 12/6/2020Second Sunday of Advent, Lectionary Year BIsaiah 40:1-11God's word of comfort to the people exiled to Babylon can be a powerful word to us today.2020-12-0615 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 11/29/2020First Sunday of Advent, Lectionary Year BIsaiah 64:1-9A new church year starts with a bang, as Isaiah begs, challenges, reminds, wheedles, cajoles, and otherwise engages God in conversation about what God can do for God's people in their time of need.2020-11-2922 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 11/15/2020Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year A1 Thessalonians 5:1-11What can we say about these times? More importantly, how can we spend this time in faithfulness to Jesus?2020-11-1519 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio, 11/8/202023rd Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year AAmos 5:18-24What a week for us to hear Amos' cry that justice should roll down like rivers and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Also, I failed to stop this recording in time, but am too 2020 to edit the recording for you, so you can just stop it when the sermon ends.2020-11-0921 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 11/1/2020All Saints Sunday, Lectionary Year AMatthew 5:1-12In his famous and powerful teaching known as the Beatitudes, Jesus teaches us the values by which we can live in harmony with one another and with God. The news during this election season throws those values into stark relief, and we see that they are so much more than niceness or pleasant platitudes.2020-11-0121 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 10/25/2020Reformation SundayThe freedom we receive in Christ is freedom to love and serve our neighbors.2020-10-2514 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 10/18/2020Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year AMatthew 22:15-22Give to God what is God's. Easier said than done, because our relationship to government is complicated as followers of Jesus.2020-10-1820 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 10/11/2020Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year AMatthew 22:1-14Isaiah 25:1-9One of Jesus' most frightening parables, paired with one of Isaiah's most beautiful visions for the Reign of God: somehow this helps me understand why people in power may need not be afraid of those they oppress.2020-10-1118 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 10.4.2020Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year AMatthew 21:33-46We have reached the time of the church year when our Gospel lessons tell of Jesus in the temple. Tensions are high as Jesus makes his final public arguments about the kingdom of God.2020-10-0418 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 9/27/2020Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year AEzekiel 18:1-4, 24-32Ezekiel's message to God's people during the time of exile speaks to how we can respond today to our history and current circumstances. This week those circumstances included the charges against the killer of Breonna Taylor, the ongoing pandemic, Rev. Lenny Duncan's call for reparations in the ELCA.2020-09-2720 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 9/20/2020Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year AMatthew 21:1-16Are you envious because God is generous? Jesus and Jonah show us who God is.2020-09-2016 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 9/13/2020Fifteenth Sunday of Pentecost, Lectionary Year ARomans 14:1-12There is more than one way to follow Jesus, more than one practice that is faithful.2020-09-2016 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 9/6/2020Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year ARomans 13:8-14Matthew 18:15-20Today we hear from Jesus and Paul how to live together.2020-09-0614 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 8.30.2020Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year AJeremiah 15:15-21 Romans 12:9-21 Matthew 16:21-28 Our guest preacher for this week, Shelby Condray, is a renaissance man in San Diego with a theological degree from Boston University and a passion for justice as an expression of the Gospel. His reflections on the shooting of Jacob Blake and the deaths of other Black and brown people at the hands of the state intersect with the prophetic words of Jeremiah, Paul, and Jesus to weave a powerful image of what it means for us to take...2020-08-3127 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 8/23/2020Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year AThe transformation we experience in Jesus includes a renewed relationship with God, with our neighbors, and with our own bodies.2020-08-2315 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 8/16/2020Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year AMatthew 15:1-28The compassion of Jesus and the Caananite woman's persistence offer us models for how to engage in God's work in our lives.2020-08-2312 minSermons with Reverend KilljoyHope Lutheran Church Sermon Audio 8/9/2020Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary Year AMatthew 14:13-21Psalm 85: 8-13God promises good for us, and Jesus offers us a model for caring for ourselves in preparation for caring for others.2020-08-0916 minSermons with Reverend KilljoySpecial Episode: Fiery Furnace reading from DanielGreat Vigil of EasterDaniel 3:1-29For the third year in a row, Pastor Andrew's dramatic reading of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace, with full audience participation. Enjoy!This is but one reason you should come to the Vigil, the best church of the year.2017-04-1610 min