Why pastors? - Audio
Pastor 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.
Jun 06, 2017•15 min
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A multigenerational Jesus Centered Community of Scripture, Faith, and Grace located on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL
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How does it feel to be your own god? - Audio
We talk about worship, God, and David Foster Wallace - the danger of being the center of your own universe.
May 21, 2017•18 min
What is the best thing about Church? - Audio
We talk about forgiveness and how it is the “Think Different” of the Church.
May 14, 2017•15 min
When do you have communion? - Audio
We 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.
May 07, 2017•13 min
Which one of you is church? - Audio
We talk about the second mark of the Church, the Baptized people, and how it takes people to make a church.
Apr 30, 2017•18 min
Where are your scars? - Audio
We start a sermon series about the Seven Marks of the Church with the mark of suffering, or "possession of the holy cross".
Apr 23, 2017•15 min
What is inside? - Audio
It'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.
Apr 16, 2017•15 min
Who answers the call - Audio
We 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.
Apr 09, 2017•6 min
Does God love pizza? - Audio
We 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.
Apr 02, 2017•12 min
What have we forgotten? - Audio
We 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.
Mar 26, 2017•16 min
Are you changing the subject? - Audio
Today 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.
Mar 19, 2017•13 min
Is it over yet? - Audio
When 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.
Mar 12, 2017•14 min
Religion, Irreligion, or the Gospel - Audio
We 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.
Mar 12, 2017•20 min
What is transfiguration? - Audio
Pastor 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.
Mar 12, 2017•15 min
What are you receiving? - Audio
What 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.
Feb 19, 2017•14 min
What are you giving to God? - Audio
Today 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.
Feb 12, 2017•14 min
What Super Bowl Ad Do You Remember? - Audio
It'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."
Feb 05, 2017•17 min
How do you pray? - Audio
When 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
Jan 29, 2017•15 min
Are you looking for Easter eggs? - Audio
The 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.
Jan 22, 2017•15 min
Who really wants a commandment? - Audio
Today 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 in the ...
Jan 15, 2017•15 min
Do you hear an echo? - Audio
Catching 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.
Jan 08, 2017•14 min
what kind of person are you becoming - Audio
A multigenerational Jesus Centered Community of Scripture, Faith, and Grace located on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL
Nov 22, 2016•14 min
What if the world ended tomorrow? - Audio
A multigenerational Jesus Centered Community of Scripture, Faith, and Grace located on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL
Nov 22, 2016•18 min
where is your center? - Audio
A multigenerational Jesus Centered Community of Scripture, Faith, and Grace located on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL
Nov 22, 2016•12 min
Can you endure? - Audio
A multigenerational Jesus Centered Community of Scripture, Faith, and Grace located on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL
Oct 18, 2016•12 min
how old is your faith? - Audio
About 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.
Aug 16, 2016•21 min
What choice do you have? - Audio
About 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.
Jun 27, 2016•17 min
what is your name? - Audio
About 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.
Jun 22, 2016•19 min
Do you curse? - Audio
About 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.
Jun 22, 2016•12 min
What do you go back to? - Audio
About Third Sunday after Pentecost - There is no escaping the theme of death vs life when reading these readings this week. We are called to look at the death that our sin deserves, but also to the life which Christ offers us through the justification of our souls by His suffering and death. We are called to consider that our natural lives are worth nothing, but that our lives that are found in Christ are worth everything because of the surpassing worth of His sacrifice for us.
Jun 22, 2016•18 min
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