The Stewardship Resource Database

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  • Author: Rev. Jay Rudi is a pastor at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, Minneapolis, MN.
  • Updated: 06/24/2008
  • Copyright: Rev. Jay Rudi
Challenge: I Live a Life of Plenty In A World of Poverty

Luke 12:13-21

Jesus recognized that possessions and riches can stifle or even smother growth in the faith.  When they become the focus for our being, our trust in God becomes secondary to how much money we have and to what our net worth is.

Sermon  Sermon
  • Author: The Reverend Harold L. Usgaard, Bishop of the Southeast Minnesota Synod of the ELCA.
  • Updated: 06/24/2008
  • Copyright: The Reverend Harold L. Usgaard, Bishop of the Southeast Minnesota Synod of the ELCA.
Begging

Text: Luke 11:1-13

Notes from a devotional reflection by Bishop Harold Usgaard on October 7 before a gathering of the Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota Leadership circle.

Sermon  Sermon
  • Author: Matthew M. Anderson is from Starbuck, MN and is a senior seminarian at Luther Seminary.  He did his internship at St. Mary Magdalene Lutheran Church, Savage, MN.
  • Updated: 06/24/2008
  • Copyright: Matthew M. Anderson, Email: mmanders@luthersem.edu
Master Looks After Us Now

Matthew 25:14-30 Heb 6:10-12

The following sermon won second prize in the annual Stewardship Sermon Prize conducted by Lutheran Seminary for students on internship.  The prize is designed to enrich and strengthen the practice of stewardship in the church by advocating preaching and teaching that promotes the stewardship for financial resources.

Sermon  Sermon
The Gift

John 1: 10-18

This sermon was preached by Dr. Gordon Braatz on The Sunday after Christmas, December 26, 2004 at Central Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The story is adapted from a more extended story which appears as "The Gift," in John R. Aurelio, Once Upon a Christmas Time, Paulist Press, 1986.

The theme is of the message is "a gift isn't a gift until it is given."

Sermon  Sermon
  • Author: Justin Boeding is a senior seminarian at Luther Seminary.
  • Updated: 06/24/2008
  • Copyright: Jason Boeding
Pay It Forward

This sermon builds on theme of the movie, Pay It Forward. An unexpected good deed is paid forward by doing a good deed for someone else.

Justin reflects, "Unfortunately, this is how we have often thought about stewardship--trying to pay God back...as if we could. Friends in Christ, that is a payment so great we simply cannot make it. And more importantly, that is a payment that God does not demand of us. Instead, God calls us to 'Pay It Forward.'"

This sermon was choosen as one of the top five Luther Seminary intern Stewardship sermons of the year.