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St. Paul Podcast
A vibrant faith community in Davenport, Iowa, St. Paul Lutheran Church runs a ministry that reaches across the country and outreach commitments that extend around the world.
Episodes
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Dynamic deeds of power, 9.29.2024
Sara Olson-Smith preaches on small actions. Deeds of power are far and varied and it’s not just the big stuff; giving cups of water or pudding. All of those…
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Little Bird and Jesus with the woman at the well
On today's very hot episode, Jesus and the disciples could use some water. Jesus meets a woman at the well and the woman realizes that Jesus has a different…
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Season after Pentecost, The Bible for Worship
Mark shows Jesus dramatically countering several obstacles to life in God's kingdom that Mark's community was facing. Preaching text: Mark 9:38-50 Bible for…
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—∞…, 9.22.2024
Mark Niethammer preaches on lines, squiggles, and dots. God sees the world like a preschooler talking about their drawings. Where we may see what appears to be…
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Little Bird and Jesus with Philip and Nathanael
Little Bird shares a yummy treat with a new friend under a fig tree in today's episode. I wonder who that friend could be?! Don't forget: Little Bird needs…
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Season after Pentecost, The Bible for Worship
Looking ahead to Jesus' suffering and addressing the disciples' misplaced aspirations, Mark makes clear that servanthood is the shape of leadership and caring…
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Endless grace, 9.15.2024
Mac Mullins preaches on grace. We want to define what salvation, redemption, and transcendence look like. We want and desire assurance and our anxieties…
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Little Bird and Jesus Season 3: Little Bird and Jesus make a new friend
Whoa, podcast friends! It's been a whole summer since we've last been together! We hope you've had lots of exciting adventures over the summer. Our favorite…
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Season after Pentecost, The Bible for Worship
At the center of Mark's gospel stands the central question: who is Jesus? Mark answers for the new era in which the community finds itself, offsetting…
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Persistence, 9.8.2024
Mark Niethammer preaches on the mercy of God. Not everyone in the Bible, especially women, has a name. But these unnamed people have stories to tell, pain to…
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Season after Pentecost, The Bible for Worship
In a pair of stories about Jesus' power to heal, Mark reorients the community toward a wider world and more encompassing gospel than they had ever imagined…
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Carrying faith with you, 9.1.2024
Katy Warren reflects on faith. When was the last time you looked in the mirror? How often do we think about what we saw in the mirror after stepping away and…
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Season after Pentecost, The Bible for Worship
The author of the letter of James, as part of introducing this letter, emphasizes that knowing salvation by the word has a purpose – to care for orphans…
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From scarcity to enough, 8.25.2024
Mark Niethammer preaches on ‘enough.’ We tend to see, to notice, the things we don’t have. If we fall into the pit of ‘there is never enough,’ we forget to…
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Season after Pentecost, The Bible for Worship
The account of Jesus' first public encounter in John's gospel comprises all the themes of that gospel, showing in story what was already announced in poetry…
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Comfort food, 8.18.2024
Sara Olson-Smith preaches on the power of comfort food. One of the miracles of being human is that our bodies remember. Not just our heads remember but our…
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Season after Pentecost, The Bible for Worship
John shows Jesus redirecting people's attention away from spectacle to the persistent, reliable work of God in sustaining and nourishing communities in every…
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We aren't always..., 8.11.2024
Amy Current, Bishop of the Southeast Iowa Synod, preaches on humanity. We are all humans created by God and we are set free to live our lives. We often come up…
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Season after Pentecost, The Bible for Worship
The writer of Ephesians grounds life together in community in truthfulness and thoughtful restraint, showing those to be echoes of God's saving love for us…
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We had hoped, 8.4.2024
Mark Niethammer preaches on hope. We have all hoped. When we have hoped and things have not turned out how we wanted them to, we must live in that grief. But…
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Emptying ourselves, 7.28.2024
Mac Mullins preaches on being grounded in faith. When left to our devices, our hearts and desires tend to remain focused on ourselves, on our own wants and…
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Season after Pentecost, The Bible for Worship
In a dramatic story set on the evening of Easter day, Luke addresses crucial questions for every Christian community that lives after the resurrection…
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Season after Pentecost, The Bible for Worship
Near the end of the first century CE, a follower of Paul affirms the good news that the wide diversity of the Ephesians' community holds together in unity as a…
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Making time for compassion, 7.21.2024
Katy Warren preaches on compassion. Compassion is the ability to tend to someone’s needs, to take time away from our own agendas and though it’s rarely…
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Season after Pentecost, The Bible for Worship
In Mark's Gospel Jesus stitches together different communities, showing that our oneness as people of God makes it possible to live in our differences with…
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A powerful force, 7.14.2024
Max Franks preaches on the power of love. Even if you believe and have faith that can move mountains, it doesn’t matter if you do not have love. When the fear…
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Season after Pentecost, The Bible for Worship
The example of biblial Israel's ancestors and heroes, living in the embrace of God's faithful promise, is called "faith," and it models the stance that…
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Signs of the kingdom, 7.7.2024
Peter A. Pettit preaches on God's vision. The promised kingdom doesn’t depend on any groups of special people. It depends on whoever lives for the kingdom…
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Season after Pentecost, The Bible for Worship
Mark's story of Jesus in his hometown reassures Mark's community about their own mission, that even without Jesus they have God's power of the gospel for…
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Remembering forward, 6.30.2024
Katy Warren preaches on memories. Our memories from the past inform how we approach the future or even in the present. Memories shift our perspective, moving…
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Lessons from a whirlwind, 6.23.2024
Sara Olson-Smith preaches on uncertainty. It’s uncertainty that is often the hardest part of the challenges of our lives. Being human is often about finding…
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Season after Pentecost, The Bible for Worship
The poet voices unwavering confidence in God from the depths of heartache and despair, recalling God's steadfast love and mercy even as present circumstances…
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Foot of this tree, 6.16.2024
Mac Mullins preaches on broken trust. God’s vision and understanding of trust differs from that of human beings. Our fears and anxieties don’t place a lot of…
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Season after Pentecost, The Bible for Worship
God's voice speaks "from the whirlwind," testifying to God's presence within the worst of life's circumstances and assuring Job and us that the mastery over…
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Season after Pentecost, The Bible for Worship
The prophet Ezekiel announces God's promise to go one better than any earthly rulers, restoring the people to their homeland and blessing them with abundant…
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Non-negotiables of faith, 6.9.2024
Peter W. Marty preaches, during his final Sunday at St. Paul, on the essentials of Christian living. Resume virtues are the skills and achievements that may…
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Season after Pentecost, The Bible for Worship
The apostle Paul reminds his congregation in Galatia that life and hope depend entirely on God's faithfulness to the relationship that God has created with…
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To be known, 6.2.2024
Katy Warren preaches on knowing. We often talk about knowing someone or something but there is a broad spectrum of what knowing implies. What is known about…
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Season after Pentecost, The Bible for Worship
Approaching God with a fervent plea, the psalmist acknowledges just how many ways there are that God knows them, and in that vulnerability entrusts the plea to…
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The blessing in between, 5.26.2024
Max Franks preaches on change. We all find ourselves at different times between chapters in life. These are the spaces between what has been and what is to…
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Groans and sighs, 5.19.2024
Peter W. Marty preaches on prayer. It can be hard to figure out what to pray. Many of us are focused on receiving some answers. That’s why we pray. We should…
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Season after Pentecost, The Bible for Worship
Leading a desperate community after catastrophe into new ways to be God's people, Mark emphasizes reaching out and settling in for an indefinite future…
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Day of Pentecost, The Bible for Worship
The apostle Paul reminds the community in Rome that they have the "first fruits" of the Spirit as both the guarantee of God's promises and the gifts and…
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Dancing through fears, 5.12.2024
Sara Olson-Smith preaches on connectedness. When faced with something scary, our friendships and our community matters. When are are afraid of things, imagined…
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All means all, 5.5.2024
Peter W. Marty preaches on boundaries. We shape our lives around social distinctions and cultural affinities that we’re often barely even aware of. We segment…
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Seventh Sunday of Easter, The Bible for Worship
In Jesus' final prayer, John reminds the community that God has given them all that they need to be protected from the seductions and corruptions of the world…
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Sixth Sunday of Easter, The Bible for Worship
Luke, the author of Acts, depicts a key step in his program of gospel expansion – the realization that the Holy Spirit works in many ways throughout the world…
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The opposite of love is..., 4.28.2024
Peter W. Marty preaches on love. Perfect love casts out fear. What is perfect love? We probably accumulate more failures in the love department than in other…
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Fifth Sunday of Easter, The Bible for Worship
John reminds the Jesus community that they are outgrowths of Jesus' love and power; when they hold fast to Jesus and his words, "abide" in them, they stay on…
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A parent's heart, 4.21.2024
Katy Warren preaches on the boundaries of God’s love. We’ve spent too long debating who will be included or excluded from Heaven. God, who loves us with a…
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Fourth Sunday of Easter, The Bible for Worship
The author of Acts shows Peter dramatically reassuring the Acts community that the name of Jesus is enough for their future life. Preaching text: Acts 4:5-12…
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Broiled fish on the menu, 4.14.2024
Peter W. Marty preaches on food. Where would we be without food? It doesn’t matter what you eat, every meal is sacramental. If the disciples were looking for…
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Third Sunday of Easter, The Bible for Worship
Luke charts post-Easter life for all followers of Jesus in a story about Jesus with disciples after the Resurrection. Preaching text: Luke 24: 36b-48 Bible for…
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Missing out, 4.7.2024
Mac Mullins preaches on the fear of missing out. Fear is one of those things that can so quickly and easily encircle us and fill us up. Deep down fear tells us…
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Second Sunday of Easter, The Bible for Worship
John uses an encounter between the disciples and the resurrected Jesus to reassure his community that they have everything they need to follow Jesus, even…
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Little Bird and Jesus: Little Bird and Jesus in the garden
Happy Easter, podcast listeners! A particularly amazing thing happens in today’s episode. Little Bird’s best friend Jesus died just three days ago and while…
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Easter Sunday, 3.31.2024
Peter W. Marty preaches on Easter Sunday. Take a moment to see how Easter can change your life or how you look at life. We get to take the spirit of Jesus…
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Easter Sunday, The Bible for Worship
Mark shows the community that God's presence continues to lead them beyond death and the devastation of hope into a promised future. Preaching text: Mark…
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Enthusiasm and sacrifice make a life, 3.24.2024
Peter W. Marty preaches on enthusiasm and self-sacrifice. Sacrifice is something you give, not something that is given up. This is not a burden, it’s a…
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Little Bird and Jesus: Little Bird and Jesus on Golgatha
Today’s episode is a sad one. There are some scary and hard things but there is also lots of good and love. Our story begins on the same evening as the Last…