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What is forgiveness? And what is faith? In Luke 17:1-10, Jesus teaches his disciples that faith (of any size) is able to do the impossible task of forgiving.

This sermon, based on the first ten verses of Luke 17, was preached at Grace of God Lutheran on October 5, 2025 (the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost).

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Thanks for listening again to the Meaningless Podcast! In this episode, Pastor Tim and Ian discuss Ecclesiastes chapter 3.

This chapter of Ecclesiastes reminds us that there's a proper time and place for everything that happens. War has a proper time; so does peace. Laughing has a proper time; so do tears. How do we know when that is? Solomon learned those lessons from careful reflection on life, coupled with a readiness to hear from God in his Word.

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This sermon, based on Revelation 12:7-12, was preached for the Festival of St. Michael and All Angels, observed at Grace of God Lutheran on the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (September 28, 2025). The accompanying readings were Luke 10:17-20 and 2 Kings 6:8-17.

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This sermon, based on 1 Timothy 6:6-11 and 17-19, was preached at Grace of God Lutheran on September 21, 2025 (the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost).

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This sermon, based on Luke 15:1-10, was preached at Grace of God Lutheran on September 14, 2025.

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Here on 'The Meaningless Podcast' Pastor Tim and Ian dive into selections from each chapter of Ecclesiastes from a Confessional Lutheran perspective.

Sometimes we find ourselves cast adrift in a storm of chaos and uncertainty in our everyday lives; sometimes we our make indulging our desires part of our own personality; and sometimes we use the sins of others to justify the guilt our own.

We frantically rush back and forth, day and night, rain or shine, to find meaning, purpose, identity - a raison d'etre if you will - but to what avail? Can we ever actually know?

Trapped in this postmodern fog of celebrity, political and social media grey noise, many of us have lost sight of our created meaning and purpose. Not knowing this we lash out: we become enraged, yet apathetic, but the result is always the same - anxiety, anger, loneliness, despair. Is this the only worth of our lives, what society dictates: power, fame, wealth, status, looks etc.? Or is there a deeper, more profound, God given meaning to our existence?

King Solomon had it all: wine, women, wealth, palaces and gardens, courtiers and musicians, sumptuous feasts and banquets. But when the time came where he has sensed, tasted, touched and tested the limits of his mind and body he came to the same conclusions that many us have after struggling through an almost seemingly impossible task: it's all utterly meaningless. But is this really the conclusion that Solomon came to?

While neither of us are experts by any means, we hope that our conversations can shed some illumination on some of these questions, so that we might take a peek into what our created purposes and callings might be. Every Thursday, we'll take a stick to the branches of the ever abundant pear tree that is the Holy Scriptures, and through the lens of the Lutheran doctrine of vocation, ask the question:

"What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun?"

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Here on 'The Meaningless Podcast' Pastor Tim and Ian dive into selections from each chapter of Ecclesiastes from a Confessional Lutheran perspective.

Sometimes we find ourselves cast adrift in a storm of chaos and uncertainty in our everyday lives; sometimes we our make indulging our desires part of our own personality; and sometimes we use the sins of others to justify the guilt our own.

We frantically rush back and forth, day and night, rain or shine, to find meaning, purpose, identity - a raison d'etre if you will - but to what avail? Can we ever actually know?

Trapped in this postmodern fog of celebrity, political and social media grey noise, many of us have lost sight of our created meaning and purpose. Not knowing this we lash out: we become enraged, yet apathetic, but the result is always the same - anxiety, anger, loneliness, despair. Is this the only worth of our lives, what society dictates: power, fame, wealth, status, looks etc.? Or is there a deeper, more profound, God given meaning to our existence?

While neither of us are experts by any means, we hope that our conversations can shed some illumination on some of these questions, so that we might take a peek into what our created purposes and callings might be. Every Thursday, we'll take a stick to the branches of the ever abundant pear tree that is the Holy Scriptures, and through the lens of the Lutheran doctrine of vocation, ask the question:

"What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun?"

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This sermon, based on Luke 14:25-35, was preached at grace of God Lutheran on September 7, 2025. The accompanying readings were selections from Deuteronomy 30 and from Paul's letter to Philemon.

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Intro music is “What Words Can't Describe” by Vlad Gluschenko, at soundcloud.com/vgl9.