St Luke’s Sermon Podcast

Palm Sunday Promises - March 28, 2021 - Nora P. Elliott

Palm Sunday is traditionally a day of celebration. Rev. Nora explores how we might authentically embrace the day after a full year of a brutal pandemic and other calamities. 

Inner Repair, Outer Reparations May 21, 2021 Brennan Blue

Following a week of horrific violence, we share a sermon and service focused on repair. We’ll hear the story of Zaccheaus, with its invitation to consider how redistributing our resources can be an important part of the healing process.

Pruning As An Embrace

March 14, 2021 "Pruning As An Embrace" Brennan Blue

A Foundation of Love

Using Texas as a case study to recognize the inherent worth of all people, Rev. Nora offers a call to reflect on the moral foundation of our lives. Do our actions stem from our trauma or ever-present source of transcendent love? 

A Turning From and a Turning Toward

February 28, 2021 by Brennan Blue

Seasons of Balance and the Balance of Seasons

February 21, 2021 by Brennan Blue

The Story Lives Through Us

Rev. Brennan Blue illuminates how reclaiming the uplifting joy of telling our faith stories to those we love is a life-giving practice. 

God is A Boundary

Musician and composer Will Rand discusses the inspiration behind his newest hymn.

Love Thine Enemy?

Christ calls us to “love each other,” but how do we love someone who abuses us? Rev. Nora Elliott delves into this dynamic with some help from the sermon on the mount.

The Era of Redemption

Jesus calls us to be true with our words and Rev. Nora Elliott reflects on this, in dialogue with an older testament prophet, Isaiah, and a modern day poet laureate, Amanda Gorman.