Pastor Eric's Podcast
Religion & Spirituality Podcas
Small town sermons on the Gospel, God's law, and the power of Grace. Eric Damon is pastor of Grace Lutheran in Manorville, PA and Emmanuel Heilman in Ford City, PA. Both are member churches of the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America). These are Sunday sermons
Location:
United States
Description:
Small town sermons on the Gospel, God's law, and the power of Grace. Eric Damon is pastor of Grace Lutheran in Manorville, PA and Emmanuel Heilman in Ford City, PA. Both are member churches of the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America). These are Sunday sermons
Language:
English
Episodes
22nd Sunday after Pentecost
10/20/2024
Mark 10:35-45
In today's text Jesus says the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve. This sermon takes a closer look at the nature of serving.
Duración:00:12:38
18th Sunday after Pentecost. September 22, 2024
9/22/2024
Mark 9: 30-37
When Jesus puts a small child among him and says that whover welcomes one such as this welcomes him, he is challenging a predominate social assumption. This sermon takes a closer look at what he might be challenging
Duración:00:09:57
16th Sunday after Pentecost. September 8, 2024
9/8/2024
Mark 7:24-37
When the Syrophoenician woman comes to Jesus, she has nothing to offer him. She is begging, and this sermon looks at how that compares to the Church and our worship.
Duración:00:10:43
15th Sunday after Pentecost. Semptember 1, 2024
9/1/2024
Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
While it is important to make a clear distinction between God's Law and Human traditions, this sermon looks at how even arbitrary human traditions can be good and useful.
Duración:00:12:33
14th Sunday after Pentecost. August 25, 2024
8/25/2024
John 6:56-69
This is the last week of the bread discourse and this sermon takes a look at one more unlikely voice for Eucharist. This one compares a small childs reaction to a sermon with the disciples reaction to Jesus's command, and sometimes I don't know is an acceptable response.
Duración:00:13:19
13th Sunday after Pentecost. August 18, 2024
8/18/2024
John 6:51-58
In what has turned into an improptu sermon series on unlikely voices for Eucharist, this sermon looks at what the Bob Marley Song "I Shot the Sheriff" might have in common with Jesus's claim that anyone who doesn't eat the flesh of the Son of Man has no life within them.
Duración:00:10:07
12th Sunday after Pentecost. August 11, 2024
8/11/2024
John 6:35:41-51
While Jesus is declaring himself to be the "bread of life" he also calls him self "bread from heaven," comparing himself to Manna. This sermon looks at how the Uecharistic feast sustains us on our journey in this world.
Duración:00:11:36
11th Sunday after Pentecost. August 4 2024
8/4/2024
John 6:24-35
This sermon is an argument for the case to retain our sense of wonder and mysticism regarding the Eucharist. It also brings up skateboarding legend Rodney Mullen.
Duración:00:11:34
10th Sunday after Pentecost. July 28, 2024.
7/28/2024
John 6:1-15
When Jesus feeds 5,000 with 5 loaves and two fish it's not just a magic trick. It's a revelation of reality. This sermon asks what difference it would make if we believed that.
Duración:00:14:47
8th Sunday after Pentecost. July 14, 2024
7/14/2024
Amos 7:7-15
This sermon looks at a basic object lesson (children's sermon) God gives the prophet amos about a plumb line, and what it says about what can go wrong if we lose sight of the true standard against which we must measure what is Holy.
Duración:00:17:01
7th Sunday after Pentecost. July 6, 2024
7/7/2024
Mark 6:1-13
When Jesus preaches in his hometown, his neighbors are unable to recognize his holiness. This sermon discusses the importance of recognizing what is holy in the ordinary.
Duración:00:12:50
6th Sunday after Pentecost
6/30/2024
Mark 5:21-43
This Sermon Looks at Jesus healing Jairus and an unnamed woman and what this might say about our cultures relationship to Jesus while it's relationship to church undeniably changes.
Duración:00:11:56
5th Sunday after Pentecost
6/23/2024
Mark 4:35-41 (Job 38:1-11)
The story of Jesus calming the storm is so common that even people who don't know the story refer to it in idioms. This sermon compares it to the reading from Job and asks what it means when a person keeps faith but the storm doesn't become calm.
Duración:00:11:06
3rd Sunday after Pentecost. June 9, 2024
6/9/2024
Genesis 3:8-15
Today's reading takes place after the part of the story which most folks would identify as Original Sin. This sermon looks at what that assumption means and what it might mean to change the location of "original sin to this point just a bit later
Duración:00:10:01
Holy Trinity Sunday. May 26, 2024
5/26/2024
Romans 8:12-17
This sermon looks at verse 15 and what it means to not fall back in to fear. It asks how we can be debtors and free, both said in this reading, at the same time.
Duración:00:11:26
Day of Pentecost. May 19, 2024
5/20/2024
John 15:26-27;16:4b-15
Pentecost is a celeberation of the Church's birthday. It is a celebration of when the Holy Spirit arrived and breathed life into the gathering of saints. This sermon looks at what the Holy spirit is, and more importantly what Jesus says it will do.
Duración:00:11:33
7th Sunday of Easter. May 12, 2024
5/12/2024
John 17:6-19
Mother's day is not a Christian holiday, but this sermon does use it combined with a gospel reading of Jesus praying as an excuse to share a story about praying for a mother.
Duración:00:13:28
Cebration of the Mass. May 3, 2024
5/3/2024
Mark 14:17-25
This week's podcast is less of a sermon than a discussion of Lutheran theology of the meal. This was part of a celebration of the mass with sending of communion to the gatherings of Grace and Emmanuel Luitheran churches this Sunday.
Duración:00:10:03
5th Sunday of Easter. April 27, 2024
4/27/2024
John 15:1-8
In today's passage Jesus says that those who do not abide in him cannot bear fruit. This sermon looks at the difference between reading that in a prescriptive and descriptive sense. There is perhaps more hope in hearing it as a description and promise.
Duración:00:10:41
4th Sunday of Easter
4/21/2024
John 10:11-18
When Jesus says the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep, it doesn't make sense without the context of the events that come later. This sermon looks at what that context could mean for the current state of the institutional church.
Duración:00:10:28