University Lutheran
700 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsA multigenerational Jesus Centered Community of Scripture, Faith, and Grace located on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL
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Episodes
What have you stopped? - Missio Dei - Audio
January 27, 2019 20:12 - 15 minutes - 10.9 MBWe talk about how God has included us into His family, into His mission, and how He does that despite our sins of omission and the things that we don't do - forgiving them and renewing us.
What are your expectations? - Missio Dei - Audio
January 20, 2019 21:06 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBWe talk about our expectations and God's expectations and how those things come together in our readings, especially the reading that we have from the Gospel of John where Jesus turns water into wine.
Is your view blocked? - Missio Dei - Audio
January 13, 2019 19:09 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBWhat do you have trouble seeing around? That's the big question that we talk about today as we look at the story of Jesus' baptism from the Gospel of Luke and all of the things that needed clarity, and how our lives can benefit from God's clarity as well as we think about our vocations.
What do you do while you wait? - Christmas Calling - Audio
December 30, 2018 18:19 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBWe finish up the Christmas season and our "Christmas Calling" series talking about Simeon, waiting, and how the promise of the Resurrection changes our waiting.
Is this Christmas? - Christmas Calling - Audio
December 28, 2018 18:18 - 16 minutes - 11.3 MBIt's Christmas Eve! But does it really "feel like" Christmas to us? We talk about the desperation and desolation that can happen, and how to identify a good place to say "this is Christmas."
Are you honorable? - Christmas Calling - Audio
December 23, 2018 20:51 - 17 minutes - 12.1 MBWe talk about what it means for us to be honored by God in the sacrifice of His Son, and how His honor beats back our shame.
What is joy? - Christmas Calling - Audio
December 18, 2018 21:40 - 16 minutes - 11 MBPink Candle Sunday, the third Sunday of Advent, also called Gaudete Sunday is a Sunday that is all about joy - so we talk about the joy that we are given by Christ, what gets in the way of our joy, and our Baptisms.
What is your job? - Christmas Calling - Audio
December 09, 2018 20:36 - 16 minutes - 11.6 MBWe move into the second sermon of our "Christmas Calling" series talking about vocation and how John the Baptist clarifies the vocations of the people around him, how our vocations are clarified, and how Jesus' vocation was ultimately clear - saving us from sin.
Who do you work for? - Christmas Calling - Audio
December 03, 2018 00:38 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBWe kick off both our Annual Focus (Called by the Gospel) and our Advent sermon series (Christmas Calling) with a sermon that really looks at a small line from Jeremiah 33 - "This is the name by which it shall be called, 'The Lord is our Righteousness'" and how that relates to our vocations.
This again? - Communion of Saints - Audio
November 25, 2018 18:36 - 17 minutes - 11.8 MBWe finish up not only our "Communion of Saints" series but the entire "We are the Body" annual focus with a repeated Gospel reading from Mark where we talk about being God's household, and how being in the house is good news.
Are you afraid you'll be disappointed? - Communion of Saints - Audio
November 18, 2018 19:48 - 17 minutes - 11.8 MBWe count down to the 2nd to last Sunday of the Church year and start looking beyond our own lives to heaven and the Resurrection by asking ourselves some tough questions about our expectations for the afterlife and what God promises us.
Are you depleted? - Communion of Saints - Audio
November 11, 2018 19:22 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MBWe talk about the widows of 1 Kings and Mark 12 and what it means for us to be forgiven and renewed by a Jesus whose forgiveness for us is everlasting.
What makes a saint? - Communion of Saints - All Saints Sunday - Audio
November 04, 2018 19:53 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBIn the second sermon in our "Communion of Saints" series about the 3rd article of the Creed and the Holy Spirit's work in the Church - we talk about All Saints Day and comforting and our mourning with our experience of the beatitudes.
Who do you dress like? - In One Body - Audio
September 02, 2018 19:20 - 14 minutes - 10.3 MBWe end our "In One Body" series by talking about the armor of God in Ephesians 6, and end talking about something that most people seem to miss in the reading.
Who loves you? - In One Body - Audio
August 26, 2018 19:04 - 17 minutes - 11.9 MBWe continue our "In One Body" series by talking about a reading from Ephesians that is considered offensive to many people, but we dive into it and look at what it means for us to be Christians, husbands, wives, and single persons.
What is the best advice you've gotten? - Audio
August 19, 2018 19:08 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBToday we talked about wisdom and advice, and how God's best piece of advice isn't advice at all, but is the wisdom of the Cross that says "you are forgiven".
Are you having an out of body experience - In One Body - Audio
August 12, 2018 21:42 - 16 minutes - 11.7 MBWe talk about what it means to be a part of the Body by talking about how it is like theft when we don't function as our place in the Body.
Is your head in the clouds? - In One Body - Audio
August 05, 2018 18:52 - 15 minutes - 11 MBWe talk about the Ascension, what God has given us in terms of responsibilities to serve others in the Church, and how it is a clear sign of His love for us that He trusts us with His Church.
How are we related? - In One Body - Audio
July 29, 2018 21:32 - 15 minutes - 10.9 MBWe continue our “In One Body” series, a walk through Ephesians, by talking about how we are all placed in the same family by God, and how that is a present tense reality for us.
Who is your team? - In One Body - Audio
July 22, 2018 19:18 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBHatfields, McCoys, Noles, Gators, Canes, Republicans, Democrats, etc etc. We separate ourselves in all sorts of ways, but the amazing thing about the Gospel is how being covered in the Blood of Jesus means that we're all together - at least in terms of our sins and forgiveness.
What is your preferred pronoun? - In One Body - Audio
July 15, 2018 19:52 - 15 minutes - 11 MBToday we start a new series based on the book of Ephesians called "In One Body" by looking at the pronouns and the communal nature of the Body of Christ that Paul is pointing churches to, both in early and later history.
Did Jesus Fail? - Audio
July 08, 2018 19:49 - 15 minutes - 10.5 MB"We pay a lot of attention to our failure," but do we pay attention to sin and righteousness? We talk about Jesus' "failure" to do a great work in His hometown and how winning and losing, succeeding and failing, is not the same as righteousness and sin.
What can't you let go of? - Audio
July 01, 2018 19:37 - 14 minutes - 10.1 MBWe talk about faithfulness and how God shows His faithfulness to us.
What is beneath the surface? - My Name is Baptized - Audio
June 10, 2018 19:55 - 12 minutes - 8.88 MBWe talk transcendence vs immanence and how God brings us a world that is both transcendent and immanent through the gift of Holy Baptism.
How long is a good sermon? - My Name is Baptized - Audio
June 03, 2018 19:28 - 14 minutes - 10.1 MBThis Sunday the readings are about the Sabbath, but Sabbath is really just resting in God's Word. We talk about how we find our rest in God's Word, a part of that Word being our Baptisms, and PJ explains what he used to do with pastors that went a little long.
What have you inherited? - My Name is Baptized - Audio
May 27, 2018 18:46 - 13 minutes - 9.27 MBWe kick off our series "My Name is Baptized" with the celebration of Holy Trinity, which of course means the Athanasian Creed. We talk about fine china and our Baptisms, ownership and inheritance.
How big is a first grade desk? - Signs of Life - Audio
May 20, 2018 21:01 - 14 minutes - 9.98 MBWe finish up our "signs of life" series talking about a first grade desk, the Holy Spirit, and growth.
Have you pooped yet? - Signs of Life - Audio
May 13, 2018 18:50 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MBWe continue our "Signs of Life" series talking about something....maybe not so dignified, but important nonetheless.
Whose place did you take? - Signs of Life - Audio
May 06, 2018 21:54 - 13 minutes - 8.97 MBWe talk about "reproduction" and how it matters to us as the Body of Christ.
Did you feel that? - Signs of Life - Audio
April 29, 2018 20:31 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBA multigenerational Jesus Centered Community of Scripture, Faith, and Grace located on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL
Do you need to move? - Signs of Life - Audio
April 22, 2018 19:42 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBWe continue our series on the "Signs of Life" by talking about movement and how Jesus as our good shepherd moves us for our good.
How long can you hold your breath? - Signs of Life - Audio
April 15, 2018 19:36 - 18 minutes - 13 MBWe talk about the Holy Spirit and how respiration is necessary for us as human beings.
What makes your mouth water? - Signs of Life - Audio
April 09, 2018 11:52 - 15 minutes - 20.8 MBWe begin our "Signs of Life" series talking about Thomas and food.
When is an ending not? - the Heart - Audio
April 08, 2018 18:51 - 18 minutes - 4.14 MBWe talk about the strange way that the Easter story is told in Mark, and how it maybe isn’t so strange after all.
Why this way? - Good Friday - the Heart - Audio
March 31, 2018 00:32 - 19 minutes - 4.47 MBWe consider Good Friday together and ask why it had to be this way - why the Cross?
Can you act? - Passion/Palm Sunday - the Heart - Audio
March 26, 2018 00:32 - 9 minutes - 2.14 MBWe start our Holy Week series, the Heart, with Palm/Passion Sunday and the invitation to join Jesus this Holy Week as we consider what the "heart" of the Body of Christ is, the story of His suffering, death, and resurrection.
Do you prefer self serve? - Audio
March 18, 2018 17:28 - 17 minutes - 3.94 MBWe end our "Wounded" series by talking about the wound of service/sacrifice and how we are given the opportunity and the position to serve others.
Are you a rebel? - Wounded - Audio
March 04, 2018 19:51 - 18 minutes - 4.21 MBWe talk about the "wound" of living counterculturally as Jesus' Body in the world in this 3rd week of Lent and our Lenten series "Wounded".
When have you been misunderstood? - Wounded - Audio
February 25, 2018 20:01 - 17 minutes - 4.06 MBWe continue our "Wounded" series with talking about the wound of being misunderstood by the world around us.
What is your biggest temptation? - Wounded - Audio
February 18, 2018 20:03 - 16 minutes - 3.72 MBWhat is your biggest temptation? We start our Wounded series and we talk about what our biggest temptation really is - and that is to see ourselves as alone, not as unified together with the Body of Christ.
What do you need to know? - Audio
February 11, 2018 21:52 - 13 minutes - 3.08 MBIt is Transfiguration Sunday, so we talk about what that experience is like for the disciples, and how every Sunday is a "little Transfiguration" for all of us
What is next? - Audio
February 11, 2018 21:48 - 16 minutes - 3.73 MBWe talk about how Jesus was always moving forward and how that should be a mark of His Church, always moving forward by His invitation
Who is baptizing here? - Audio
February 11, 2018 21:42 - 11 minutes - 2.73 MBWe celebrate Eleanor Anne's baptism while talking about how baptism works and how it relates to God's prophetic word.
What if you couldn't fail? - Audio
January 21, 2018 20:29 - 14 minutes - 3.22 MBToday we talk about our apprehensions in speaking to people about our faith, especially our apprehension of failure, and how Jesus has us covered even in that.
Are you well known? - Audio
January 14, 2018 19:47 - 14 minutes - 3.33 MBWe continue our "Genome" series talking about the attributes of Jesus, that He knows us, and that as such, we can be set free to know other people.
Who are you really? - Audio
January 14, 2018 19:43 - 16 minutes - 3.69 MBWe start off our "Genome" series with a question about who we are when we're Baptized and why Jesus' Baptism matters.
Are you the pink candle? - Audio
December 17, 2017 18:49 - 17 minutes - 4.06 MBWe talk about the commands to rejoice, to pray, and to give thanks – and how those are impossible for us without Christ.
Do you need to repent? - Audio
December 10, 2017 19:10 - 17 minutes - 3.99 MBWe talked about Advent and what it means for us to repent, in addition to confessing our sins and believing in God's forgiveness.
Would you swap bodies? - Audio
December 03, 2017 20:26 - 16 minutes - 3.67 MBWe start off the season of Advent and a new Annual Focus year ("We are the Body") with a talk about what it means for us to "swap bodies" with Jesus and become the Body of Christ, the Church.
What is due? - Audio
November 26, 2017 20:10 - 16 minutes - 3.86 MBWe end the church year by talking about Matthew 25 and how we are called to be the Body of Christ, and why that's a very good thing.