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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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Ascension Blessings, 5.29.2022
Pastor Sara Olson-Smith preaches on the ascension of our Lord. God has a plan for bringing about God’s way of love in this world. Jesus was part of this plan…
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What are you waiting for?! 5.22.2022
Pastor Peter W. Marty preaches on wholeness. Do you want to be made whole? Do you want to take the steps necessary to make you whole? We all live with…
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Fifth Sunday after Easter, Worship: 5.15.2022
Pastor Katy Warren preaches on Revelation and all things becoming new. “See, I am making all things new.” God is constantly at work making new joy or restoring…
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Fourth Sunday after Easter, Worship: 5.8.2022
Pastor Peter W. Marty preaches on Psalm 23. Trusting our lives to God, who is capable of planting a deep internal peace within us, a God who doesn’t disappear…
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Third Sunday after Easter, Worship: 5.1.2022
Pastor Sara Olson-Smith preaches on love and the different ways in which it is spoken to each other. Jesus’ love language is about making a way when there is…
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Sunday after Easter, Worship: 4.24.2022
Pastor Megan Eide preaches on the questions and doubts we often face in our faith journey. Making observations, forming questions, and gathering evidence are…
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Easter Sunday, Worship: 4.17.2022
Pastor Peter W. Marty preaches on Easter Sunday. Life is stronger than death and despair is not permanent. While none of us know exactly what resurrection will…
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Palm Sunday, Worship: 4.10.2022
Pastor Peter W. Marty preaches on Luke. God cares about the quality of our lives, the depth of our lives, the scope of our lives. The passion for important…
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Fifth Sunday in Lent, Worship: 4.3.2022
Pastor Sara Olson-Smith preaches on the last days of loved ones. When our loved ones are dying, our whole world shrinks to focus on them, they are the center…
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Fourth Sunday in Lent, Worship: 3.27.2022
Pastor Katy Warren preaches on the story of the prodigal son. We are vulnerable when we love someone else; a child, parent, spouse, friend, family pet. When…
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Third Sunday in Lent, Worship: 3.20.2022
Pastor Peter W. Marty preaches on Isaiah and the poetry of prophets. Poet Jane Kenyon “It is to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth in such a…
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Second Sunday in Lent, Worship: 3.13.2022
Pastor Katy Warren preaches on Genesis and placing trust in God to guide us where we’re meant to go. Trust takes courage. God is willing to take a risk in…
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First Sunday in Lent, Worship: 3.6.2022
Pastor Sara Olson-Smith preaches on Luke and remaining sustained during wilderness moments, holding on to faith, hope, courage. Staying grounded in faith…
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Transfiguration of our Lord, Worship: 2.27.2022
Peter W. Marty preaches on Exodus. After coming down from the mountaintop, Moses’ face was luminescent, radiant with everything that constituted the fullness…
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Seventh Sunday after Epiphany, Worship: 2.20.2022
Katy Warren preaches on Luke Chapter 6 and the Golden Rule. It can be easy to ignore the commandment to ‘Love your enemies’ when it feels like you don’t have…
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Sixth Sunday after Epiphany, Worship: 2.13.2022
Pastor Sara Olson-Smith preaches Luke’s Gospel. For those of us who are worn down from living too long with too little, who are hollowed out by hunger, or who…
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Fifth Sunday after Epiphany, Worship: 2.6.2022
Pastor Peter W. Marty preaches on grace. “By the grace of God, I am what I am and it is God’s grace that has been shown to me that has not gone to waste.” God…
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Fourth Sunday after Epiphany, Worship: 1.30.2022
Pastor Katy Warren preaches on 1 Corinthians and love. Sometimes love looks like wedding gowns, tuxedos, flowers, and a great big party, and other times, love…
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Third Sunday of Epiphany, Worship: 1.23.2022
Pastor Peter Pettit preaches on Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. There are always reasons for discontent, embarrassment, and frustration about our…
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Second Sunday of Epiphany, Worship: 1.16.2022
Pastor Peter Marty preaches on John 2. Pastor Marty explores the helping of others and the mission of the church. Reflecting on Martin Luther King Jr.’s words…
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Baptism of our Lord, Worship: 1.9.2022
Pastor Peter Marty preaches on the third chapter of St. Luke and the baptism of Jesus. “I have called you by name, you are precious in my sight, and I love…
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Second Sunday of Christmas, Worship: 1.2.2022
Peter W. Marty preaches on Ephesians. We are the adopted children of God and God as our adoptive parent. “Do not think the point of life is just to set goals…
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Christmas at St. Paul, Worship: 12.24.2021
Peter W. Marty preaches on this special Christmas edition of the St. Paul podcast. The Christmas story tells us that the things that count are human and deeply…
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Fourth Sunday of Advent, Worship: 12.19.2021
Sara Olson-Smith preaches on Luke chapter 1 and Mary’s visit to her cousin Elizabeth and the song of Mary and Elizabeth. Our collective memory can be our…
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Third Sunday of Advent, Worship: 12.12.2021
Peter W. Marty preaches on Isaiah chapter 12. Salvation is the name for Christian hope. Hope is what allows us to overcome despair, for some to wage a…
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Second Sunday of Advent, Worship: 12.5.2021
Katy Warren preaches on the first chapter of the gospel of Luke and the song Zechariah sings just days after his son John was born. Pastor Warren reflects on…
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First Sunday of Advent, Worship: 11.28.2021
Peter W. Marty preaches on the first Sunday of Advent. Be on your guard so you aren’t avoiding or wasting your true purpose. Stand tall, keep your head up…
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Reign of Christ, Worship: 11.21.2021
Katy Warren preaches on the celebration of the final Sunday in the church calendar, the Sunday prior to the beginning of Advent. It is a day of reflection on…
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Joy Sunday, Worship: 11.14.2021
Peter W. Marty preaches about grace. Consider your life during the sermon, what good luck and breaks have you had in your life? The good fortune and chance…
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All Saints, Worship: 11.7.2021
Sara Olson-Smith preaches during All Saints from John Chapter 11. Pastor Olson-Smith preaches about taking a threshold pause as a spiritual practice, stopping…
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Season After Pentecost, Worship: 10.31.2021
Peter W. Marty preaches from the book of Romans from the Apostle Paul. In Christ Jesus, we get to trust that all will be right in the center of life, even when…
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Season After Pentecost, Worship: 10.24.2021
Peter W. Marty preaches from the book of Mark Chapter 10 and shares about establishing habits and practices that shape who we are, including our faith. When…
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Season After Pentecost, Worship: 10.17.2021
Katy Warren preaches on Mark Chapter 10 beginning with verse 35. Pastor Katy reflects on the thought that if Jesus is the answer, what is the question? Is it…
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Season After Pentecost, Worship: 10.10.2021
Peter W. Marty preaches on St. Mark’s Gospel Chapter 10. We can have huge resources but can be missing something vitally in us. What about the things we cannot…
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Season After Pentecost, Worship: 10.3.2021
Katy Warren preaches about the story of Job and bad days. Sometimes there is no justification as to why sometimes we have bad days. “Who has decided to walk…
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Season After Pentecost, Worship: 9.26.2021
There are few things in our lives that hold more power than words. The conversations we share, the stories we tell, and the ideas we express all influence our…
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Season After Pentecost, Worship: 9.19.2021
There is something very human about our desire to measure ourselves against other people. To compare and compete, to see who's bigger, better, best. Jesus'…
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Season After Pentecost, Worship: 9.12.2021
The mouth figures prominently in scripture as the organ with which we sing, praise, and bless God. In this episode, Peter W. Marty looks at our individual…
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Season After Pentecost, Worship: 9.5.2021
When it comes to preferences, think about all the things you favor in a given day. Pastor Katy Warren preaches that when it comes to matters of faith, the…
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Season After Pentecost, Worship: 8.29.2021
Pastor Peter W. Marty preaches on the importance of commandments and their interpretation - especially to a religious and moral life. Living out God's…
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Season After Pentecost, Worship: 8.22.2021
Pastor Sara Olson-Smith preaches on moving and living with intention to make us come alive with meaning, purpose, and joy. As the school year begins, we have a…
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Season After Pentecost, Worship: 8.15.2021
Pastor Peter A. Pettit preaches John 6:51-59. The first of seven “I am” sayings and how God relates to the world and people through Jesus. “I am the living…
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Season After Pentecost, Worship: 8.8.2021
Pastor Peter W. Marty preaches on character and personality. You are not your reputation, your possessions, or your skill set but are in fact your character…
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Season After Pentecost, Worship: 8.1.2021
Pastor Sara Olson-Smith preaches on growth during the Season after Pentecost. We are a forest of faith that helps nurture us and grow into a deeper love of God…
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Season After Pentecost, Worship: 7.25.2021
During the Season after Pentecost, Pastor Peter W. Marty preaches on hunger and the anxieties surrounding scarcity with a reading from 2 Kings 4:42-44…
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Season After Pentecost, Worship: 7.18.2021
During the Season after Pentecost, Pastor Katy Warren preaches on resetting your life through the words of Mark. At some point, everyone is in need of a reset…
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Season After Pentecost, Podcast Worship: 7.11.2021
In Pastor Hayden’s final service, he talks about what makes an experience formative. Hayden speaks about his experiences over the last two years in the…
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Season after Pentecost; Worship: 6.27.2021
Season after Pentecost, Katy Warren preaches during the concluding online worship service. God’s love shows up, again and again, every morning without fail…
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Season after Pentecost, Worship: 6.20.2021
During the Season after Pentecost, Pastor Peter W. Marty preaches on weathering storms and approaching each other just as we are. God leads us into storms and…
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Season after Pentecost, Worship: 6.13.2021
During the Season after Pentecost, Peter W. Marty preaches on how we unintentionally see the world through our own experiences which can sometimes lead to…
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Season After Pentecost, Worship: 6.6.2021
Pastor Hayden Kvamme preaches on the Apostle Paul and resurrection moments in our lives and what makes life good even during our darkest times. Pastor Hayden…
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Season After Pentecost, Worship: 5.30.2021
Season after Pentecost, Pastor Peter W. Marty preaches on Moses and the ten commandments. We reflect on the word Sabbath and the importance of rest. Pastor…
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Day of Pentecost, Worship: 5.23.2021
On the Day of Pentecost, Pastor Sara Olson-Smith preaches on Romans Chapter 8 about The Holy Spirit and expanding our metaphors for the Holy Spirit. “This…
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Seventh Sunday of Easter: Worship, 5.16.21
On the seventh Sunday of Easter, Peter A. Pettit preaches. "Your blessing, O Lord, is in your very name, your name above all other names. Your name speaks…
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The Sixth Sunday of Easter Worship, 5.9.2021
On the sixth Sunday of Easter, Peter W. Marty preaches on the Scripture of John regarding love and friendship. A very special goodbye to our wonderful Destiny…
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Fifth Sunday of Easter: Worship, 5.2.2021
On the Fifth Sunday of Easter, Hayden Kvamme preaches. "May your whole life be nurtured and filled by the resurrection joy of Jesus our Lord, and may God's…
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Fourth Sunday of Easter: Worship, 4.25.2021
On the Fourth Sunday of Easter, Pastor Sara Olson-Smith preaches. "As you step with courage into these new days- go in the care and keeping our Good Shepherd…
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Third Sunday of Easter: Worship, 4.18.2021
Pastor Peter A. Pettit preaches on the Third Sunday of Easter. "As we move on through this Easter season, living out our Easter lives and the newness that God…
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Second Sunday of Easter: Worship, 4.11.2021
Peter Marty preaches on the Second Sunday of Easter. "May the Lord help us all discover that we are not what we own, but we are what we have been given, and we…
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Easter Sunday: Worship, 4.4.2021
Peter Marty preaches on Easter Sunday. "Without God emptying out a grave one morning, and resurrecting a lifeless corpse in the process, there would be no New…