Pastor Chris Brademeyer’s Podcast
This podcast consists of the sermons and thoughts of Pastor Chris Brademeyer, a Lutheran Pastor (LCMS) from North Dakota.
Episodes
Mary arose and went with haste. That is how our Gospel reading begins. She had just received the announcement from the angel Gabriel: that she, though a virgin, would conceive and bear the Son of the Most High. She asked, “How can this be?” and the angel pointed her to a sign: her elderly relative Elizabeth had conceived in her old age. “For nothing will be impossible with God.”
St. Peter and St. Paul are two names known to every Christian, or, at least, should be. After our Lord Jesus, these two men are among the most important figures in the history of the Christian Church. Such is their importance that these two men were given the title “pillars of the Church,” due to their strong faith and great work of preaching the Gospel to multitudes of people.
On today’s episode of 3 Padres and a Shepherd, we’re talking about the "Office of the Keys." What are these keys? What do they open? What do they close? While this topic may seem abstract, it is much more practical than one might expect!
The birth of John the Baptist is not just a heartwarming story about an elderly couple finally receiving the child they always longed for. It is a loud and mighty thunderclap of God's mercy breaking four hundred years of prophetic silence. It is the opening act of salvation history’s final chapter. And it is a reminder that God's promises may seem delayed, but they are never denied.
Zechariah, once silenced for his unbelief, now fi...
There’s an old saying: “Seeing is believing.” But in today’s Gospel lesson, Jesus flips that completely on its head. A man begs for a miracle from beyond the grave to convince his family to repent and Abraham says, “They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.” In other words, if the Word of God, the Holy Scriptures, won’t convince them, nothing will.
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Why is it necessary for our salvation to believe in the Holy Trinity as the One True God? It is sadly common today that doctrine, teaching from the Bible, is dismissed as unnecessary. It is not uncommon for those of us who care about what the Bible says about God to be dismissed as being legalistic, unloving, uncaring, and the like. Truth is set up as an opposition to love; indeed, it is seen as opposed to love in many situations.
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Dear friends in Christ, today we lay to rest a dear woman, a sister in Christ, a grandmother, mother, and friend: Janice Wagner. And this is a day marked by a number of mixed emotions. There are remembrances about her life: her time as a teacher, her love of her family, and her deep Christian faith. And with all of this is a grief, a sense of loss, that, as St. Paul notes, is characterized for ...
Today marks the Feast of Pentecost, one of the principle and most important celebrations in our liturgical, that is church, calendar. This day commemorates that giving of the Holy Spirit to the Christian Church. And as you may have noticed in the last few weeks, we have spent some time working through readings in John’s Gospel that focus on Christ’s o...
We human beings are prone to overestimating our own abilities. Specifically, I mean in spiritual matters. That is to say, individual humans may be prone to self-doubt in skill, ability, competency, social abilities, and the like, but even relatively un-confident people tend to be rather assured of their own spiritual knowledge and insights. Now, this is not necessarily a bad thing if the spirit...
It is unfortunate that the Feast of the Ascension is seen as such a minor thing in the eyes of many Christians. This day commemorates the great, historical reality of our Lord’s return to the right hand of His Father, that is, to His being returned to the heavenly realm of His Father and seated therein with all power and authority of the Father. In other words, Jesus went back to that great heav...
Our Gospel reading today records Jesus speaking to His disciples about what is to come. He’s preparing them for His departure, that is, His arrest, crucifixion, resurrection, and ultimately, His ascension. And in the middle of this emotional farewell, Jesus says something that must have sounded absolutely strange to them: “It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the He...
“A little while, and you will see me no longer; and again a little while, and you will see me.” These words were spoken by our Lord Jesus at the Last Supper, on the very night He was betrayed by Judas into death. While it is easy enough for us to catch what He is referencing, that is, His death and resurrection, it was rather more confusing for the Twelve who originally heard this saying of the ...
There’s something deeply comforting about the image of a Jesus as a Shepherd. Maybe that’s why the Twenty-Third Psalm is one of the most beloved passages in all of Scripture: “The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want.” It brings to mind green pastures, quiet waters, safety, and peace. But Jesus doesn’t just call Himself a shepherd. He calls Himself the Good Shepherd. And then He says something...
On that first Easter evening, the disciples were hiding behind locked doors. The tomb was, and is, empty. The women were saying, “He is risen!” And yet fear had the upper hand. They were afraid of the Jews, afraid of what the future held, afraid that they might be the next to be strung up on a cross. They doubted the Resurrection and the promise of the Lord. And so they were afraid.
Early in the morning, before the sun had fully risen, Mary Magdalene walked in grief to the tomb. Her heart was broken. Her hope, buried. Her world, shattered. The man who had delivered her from darkness, the one who had healed her, taught with truth and authority, loved her in spite of her sin, and forgave her was gone. She came to that solemn place, the to...
Good Friday is a day of contrasts. Light and darkness. Justice and injustice. Life and death. Victory and defeat. Tonight we heard the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to St. John. We heard the details of our Lord’s betrayal, His suffering, and His death. And among the many people in that record of the history of our salvation, Peter, Pilate, the Roman soldiers, Mary, John, one figure...
There are some things in life that are so sacred, so weighty, so important that they demand reverence and careful attention. Standing at the bedside of a dying loved one, holding a newborn child, witnessing the vows of marriage; these are things that we instinctively know should not be treated casually. They are important. So important, in fact, that someone who is glib, irreverent, or careless...
Luke records our Lord’s first words while hanging on the cross, “Father, forgiven them, for they do not know what they do.” Even in the midst of His agony and suffering, He declares absolution; He pronounces the forgiveness of sins upon those who crucified Him.
Though He declares that everyone is forgiven and that He receives the wages for our sins, no matt...
If you’ve ever stood before a locked door that you desperately needed to get through, one for which you cannot find the key, you know the feeling: the frustration of being kept from what’s on the other side. It is easy is such situations to be helpless, frustrated, and to feel powerless. This is the condition of us human beings before God. We are barred from Paradise. We cannot open the door; we are unable to enter the presence of ...
Christ our Lord said, “And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” The evangelist then tells us that Jesus did this so as to show us by what kind of death Jesus was going to die. To be lifted up is to be exalted, to be honored and praised by man.
And Jesus will be exalted, but only in jest. But Jesus also knew that His lifting up would not be in vain. And Jesus told His disciples that when He is lif...
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