Zion Lutheran Sioux Falls
Episodes
12 episodes
Ninth Sunday After Pentecost
In Deuteronomy, God chooses Israel not because of their own greatness, but purely out of His baseline love and faithfulness to His promise. Romans mirrors this comforting truth, assuring us that our salvation rests entirely on God's active purp...
Eight Sunday After Pentecost
The Parable of the Weeds makes an obvious point: there is both good and evil in the world, and even in the church. Sometimes people lament the “hypocrites” and brokenness found in both, but Jesus says don’t be surprised by this. In ...
Seventh Sunday After Pentecost
Trust, writes the prophet Isaiah, that God’s Word has the power to accomplish His will! “It will not return to me empty but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.” In the Gospel we see that Word i...
Fifth Sunday After Pentecost
A battle has been raging over the centuries between those who ignore the hard truth that we are sinners, hopeless by ourselves, and those who have realized the real good that our Lord has graciously won for us. At the time of Jeremiah, se...
Fourth Sunday After Pentecost
Jesus’ followers are “peculiar” people. Following the path that He has blazed for you means your walk will be “out of step” with a sinful world. Jesus shakes you out of the customary ways of thinking, speaking, and “doing,” inviting us to follo...
Third Sunday After Pentecost
We are the helpless, harassed sheep who foolishly promise we can keep God's Law perfectly (Exodus). Knowing we can't, Christ dies for us while we are still His broken, weak enemies (Romans). Moved by profound compassion, Jesus sends out His Chu...