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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Does God want you to be prepared? - Audio
November 19, 2017 20:05 - 14 minutes - 3.32 MBWe talk today about the somewhat confusing parable of the talents and ask the question if God wants us to be prepared.
What did we forget? - Audio
October 29, 2017 18:42 - 15 minutes - 3.45 MBWe celebrate(?) the 500th anniversary of the Reformation by talking about our freedom in Christ, and what it means to be people whose hearts are shaped by that freedom.
Are you a rule breaker? - Audio
October 29, 2017 18:40 - 14 minutes - 3.4 MBWe talk about the greatest commandment, rule breaking, and what it means to be a Christian.
Where is your invite? - Audio
October 15, 2017 19:04 - 11 minutes - 2.71 MBWe talk about the parable of the wedding banquet and who the mysterious guest is who gets kicked out of the party.
What kind of renter are you? - Audio
October 08, 2017 17:58 - 15 minutes - 3.58 MBWe talk about our status as people who rent, but not own our bodies, but that God owns our bodies and even gave His Son for them.
Do you want to get even? - Audio
September 24, 2017 17:48 - 14 minutes - 3.24 MBDo you really want to get even? Or do you want to get ahead? How does God’s Word and Sacrament deal with us at a level that is the same for all of us?
What are you owed? - Audio
September 17, 2017 17:39 - 17 minutes - 3.96 MBWhat are we owed? That's the question that we're tackling, today, and how what we are owed might be distinct from what we owe God.
Are you ready for this? - Audio
September 10, 2017 17:03 - 13 minutes - 3.17 MBSermon before Hurricane Irma. Receive the peace. Share the peace. Repeat.
Is there a cross on you? - Audio
September 03, 2017 19:37 - 15 minutes - 3.66 MBToday in our series about Law and Gospel, we talk about how we apply Law and Gospel to ourselves, and how to take the Law and Gospel we find it Scripture and make it our own.
How do you get good? - Audio
August 27, 2017 18:56 - 16 minutes - 3.88 MBWe start off our LawGospel sermon series by talking about what makes us good and righteous.
What is YOUR statue? - Audio
August 20, 2017 19:03 - 12 minutes - 2.75 MBToday we talk about the obvious fact that we are not in the Resurrection yet with an eye towards how great that day that Jesus Christ has won for us on the cross.
Where are you looking? - Audio
August 13, 2017 18:02 - 13 minutes - 3.05 MBWhere do you look when you get in trouble? Do you look up? Do you look down? What does where you look tell you about what you're looking for? We talk today about Peter walking on the water and the meaning of the blue field in Luther's Rose symbol.
What is a flower worth? - Audio
August 06, 2017 20:50 - 13 minutes - 3.19 MBWe talk about the inestimable value of Christ's salvation won for us on the Cross which gives us joy like no other thing can.
Is your heart pickled? - Audio
July 30, 2017 19:04 - 14 minutes - 3.26 MBWe talk about how God rescues our hearts from the salt and brine of the sinful world, and what the "heart" in Luther's Seal is all about.
What is your sign? - Audio
July 23, 2017 18:41 - 11 minutes - 2.71 MBToday we start a new sermon series called the Rose about the most enduring symbol of the Lutheran faith. At the center of this Rose, and at the center of our faith, you will find the Cross.
Are you especially child like? - Audio
July 09, 2017 18:57 - 13 minutes - 3.2 MBThis classic "University Lutheran question" gets at the notion of what Jesus is getting at when He calls His disciples "little children".
Who can you trust? - Audio
July 02, 2017 19:03 - 17 minutes - 4.03 MBWe talk about who we can trust, the "Treatise Against the Power and Primacy of the Pope" and how Jesus is ultimately more trustworthy than even we ourselves are.
Where is God in your failure? - Audio
June 25, 2017 18:52 - 15 minutes - 3.45 MBWe continue our Concordia series talking about those times when we encounter failure and how to see God working in the midst of those things.
What do your subscriptions say about you? - Audio
June 18, 2017 18:54 - 16 minutes - 3.8 MBWe continue our "Concordia" series about the Book of Concord talking about the Augsburg Confession, Exodus 19, and what it means to "subscribe".
Are you catholic? - Audio
June 11, 2017 19:07 - 12 minutes - 2.9 MBWe begin our sermon series, Concordia, about the Book of Concord and the fundamental beliefs of Lutherans by talking about the three ecumenical creeds at what it means to be "catholic" along with all other people who are baptized into Christ's name.
What is the word? - Audio
June 06, 2017 14:41 - 15 minutes - 3.53 MBWe talk about our final mark of the Church, the Word, and how it is the thing that drives all of what we do as Church - both corporately and individually.
Why pastors? - Audio
June 06, 2017 14:33 - 15 minutes - 3.53 MBPastor Jay talks about the somewhat awkward topic of his own job and how the Office of the Holy Ministry (of pastor) is a mark of the Church.
How does it feel to be your own god? - Audio
May 21, 2017 18:05 - 18 minutes - 4.22 MBWe talk about worship, God, and David Foster Wallace - the danger of being the center of your own universe.
What is the best thing about Church? - Audio
May 14, 2017 19:05 - 14 minutes - 3.41 MBWe talk about forgiveness and how it is the “Think Different” of the Church.
When do you have communion? - Audio
May 07, 2017 20:53 - 13 minutes - 3.08 MBWe continue to talk about the marks of the Church, especially today with the confirmation of Kirstie, we look to the mark of the Lord’s Supper.
Which one of you is church? - Audio
April 30, 2017 18:26 - 17 minutes - 4.09 MBWe talk about the second mark of the Church, the Baptized people, and how it takes people to make a church.
Where are your scars? - Audio
April 23, 2017 20:45 - 15 minutes - 3.49 MBWe start a sermon series about the Seven Marks of the Church with the mark of suffering, or "possession of the holy cross".
What is inside? - Audio
April 16, 2017 19:35 - 15 minutes - 3.45 MBIt's Easter! And we're talking about being Sinner/Saints and what a Resurrected Jesus has to do about this duality that we have in our lives.
Who answers the call - Audio
April 09, 2017 18:30 - 6 minutes - 1.42 MBWe talk about the word Hosanna and how it engages us in the paradox of Holy Week, which is the same paradox of Sinner and Saint.
Does God love pizza? - Audio
April 02, 2017 20:40 - 12 minutes - 2.82 MBWe finish our "Theology of the Cross" series with the final thesis of the theology of the cross, which is all about how God creates what He loves, as opposed to how we can only love what we can experience - and somehow, pizza comes up.
What have we forgotten? - Audio
March 26, 2017 18:57 - 16 minutes - 3.73 MBWe talk about Jesus and the blind man who was healed, but mostly about how Jesus goes beyond the categories and equations that we try to fit Him into.
Are you changing the subject? - Audio
March 19, 2017 21:08 - 13 minutes - 3.08 MBToday we baptized little Isaac and talked about how we can sometimes get confused about subjects and objects in our understanding of God - hint hint, the subject is always Jesus.
Is it over yet? - Audio
March 12, 2017 18:02 - 14 minutes - 3.29 MBWhen God asks us to have faith in something, He is telling us that whatever that is, that we should consider it as already done. We talk about how this applies to our life of faith and the time of our lives.
Religion, Irreligion, or the Gospel - Audio
March 12, 2017 17:56 - 20 minutes - 4.68 MBWe start off our series about the Theology of the Cross talking about the ways that we try to attain righteousness, or becoming a good person, and how that can't be about our religion or our irreligion, but about a third way called the Gospel.
What is transfiguration? - Audio
March 12, 2017 17:45 - 14 minutes - 3.42 MBPastor Ken Chitwood from First Lutheran in Gainesville FL ends our “echoes” sermon series on the catechism by talking about transfiguration and the table of duties found in Martin Luther’s Small Catechism.
What are you receiving? - Audio
February 19, 2017 20:53 - 13 minutes - 3.17 MBWhat are we eating? We’re normally so conscious of what we put in our mouths, that it only makes sense to wonder about what is “in” communion. We take a look at what God’s Word tells us about what is present in this meal – as well as what the meal takes away.
What are you giving to God? - Audio
February 12, 2017 20:37 - 14 minutes - 3.3 MBToday at University Lutheran we’re continuing our series on the 6 basics of Christianity (the 6 chief parts of the Small Catechism), and we also confirmed the faith of Josiah Miller. We talked about what God wants us to give Him, particularly how God wants us to give Him our sins so that He might forgive them.
What Super Bowl Ad Do You Remember? - Audio
February 05, 2017 20:30 - 16 minutes - 3.87 MBIt's Super Bowl Sunday! It's also the 5th Sunday after Epiphany and we're talking about Baptism at University Lutheran. Today we talk about Baptism and the concept of "remembering your Baptism" and why it might be better to say "remember that you have been Baptized."
How do you pray? - Audio
January 29, 2017 22:02 - 15 minutes - 3.49 MBWhen we think about all of the things that God could listen to, it's amazing that He promises to listen to our prayers. We talk about the grace that God shows us in the promise to hear us, and the grace that He shows us in giving us
Are you looking for Easter eggs? - Audio
January 22, 2017 21:10 - 14 minutes - 3.35 MBThe Disney corporation is famous for putting “Easter eggs” – things hidden to create joy in those who find them – in their animated movies. Today Pastor Jay talks about an “Easter egg” that he found in Exodus 3, and how the story of God contained in the Creed and in Scripture is the best Easter egg of all.
Who really wants a commandment? - Audio
January 15, 2017 21:37 - 15 minutes - 3.46 MBToday we talked about the 10 commandments and what it means to have 10 commandments. We couched that especially in the understanding of what it means to be commanded to Baptize Taylor Andrew Jordan, who was Baptized right after the sermon in the worship service. You’ll hear about Pastor Jay’s past as a “Party Captain” and what that taught him about management and what that learning taught him about who God is and what it means to have a God who gives us commands – both the commands found ...
Do you hear an echo? - Audio
January 08, 2017 21:15 - 14 minutes - 3.27 MBCatching up with posting some older sermons - We celebrate Pastor Jay's second daughter's baptism along with the celebration of Baptism of Our Lord - and we start a new series talking about this book called a catechism.
what kind of person are you becoming - Audio
November 22, 2016 18:30 - 14 minutes - 3.3 MBA multigenerational Jesus Centered Community of Scripture, Faith, and Grace located on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL
What if the world ended tomorrow? - Audio
November 22, 2016 18:29 - 17 minutes - 4.04 MBA multigenerational Jesus Centered Community of Scripture, Faith, and Grace located on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL
where is your center? - Audio
November 22, 2016 18:29 - 11 minutes - 2.73 MBA multigenerational Jesus Centered Community of Scripture, Faith, and Grace located on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL
Can you endure? - Audio
October 18, 2016 19:31 - 12 minutes - 2.86 MBA multigenerational Jesus Centered Community of Scripture, Faith, and Grace located on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL
how old is your faith? - Audio
August 16, 2016 19:00 - 21 minutes - 4.89 MBAbout the 12th Sunday After Pentecost: We begin our exploration into Vintage Faith with the stories of the first human beings and how their stories led to them choosing God when it wasn’t popular to do so. Nonetheless, the people in the Genesis account followed in faith and lived according to God’s design and plan.
What choice do you have? - Audio
June 27, 2016 20:26 - 16 minutes - 3.78 MBAbout the 6th Sunday after Pentecost: There is a predominant theme of discipleship and calling in these readings. Twice we hear the story of the demands of following as a disciple, first in 1 Kings and then in Luke. The Psalm gives us words to consider as we offer ourselves as disciples to God. Paul in Galatians outlines how we are to walk by the Spirit in the midst of our discipleship.
what is your name? - Audio
June 22, 2016 20:23 - 18 minutes - 4.25 MBAbout the fifth Sunday after Pentecost: The readings for this Sunday all include an element of God’s saving work. He promises that He will save some out of the judgment in Isaiah 65, the Psalmist in Psalm 3 cries out for God to arise and save, and in Luke 8, we read a story of a man who is saved from demons. This all ties with the salvation that we have in faith that Paul is speaking about in Galatians 3.
Do you curse? - Audio
June 22, 2016 20:08 - 12 minutes - 2.84 MBAbout 4th Sunday after Pentecost: Sin plays a big role in the theme of this day's readings, but so does forgiveness. The readings show that no matter the sin, the solution is always the same - the justifying work of Jesus Christ, not the Law which cannot utterly defeat sin, but only justification.