Sermons Out of Rural Ministry
Dynamic, contextual sermons from Pastor Josh Ehrler, who serves a small town ELCA Lutheran congregation in Northern Illinois. Sermons are rooted in scripture and reflect the local community, as well as the movements of the wider world. He and his congregation are affirming of LGBTQ+ personhood and live out their baptismal promise to seek (racial, economic, identity, environmental) justice and peace.
Episodes
222 episodes
Beyond this Moment
The reading the week of August 25 2024 closes a three part series on the letter to the Ephesians that sends us to the cosmos. We humans do like a good argument, and our reading with all of its military lingo could be used as a defense for picki...
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Saved by Grace
Our text the week of August 11 2024 is from Ephesians, and bears the promise that grace is a gift, unearned and undeserved. It is a promise so complete and remarkable that we choose not to believe it. We cannot abide by the notion that we are f...
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Don't Have to Earn It
The text for August 4 2024 is an encounter between Jesus and the crowds after he has fed them. So they know what free bread tastes like. No shame in asking again. Jesus points them past the moment to God's promises revealed, and to stories from...
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