Our Saviour’s Lutheran, Lincoln: Recent Episodes

Tobi White

Our Saviour’s is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Listen to weekly sermons by Pastor Tobi White.

What’s the difference between healing and curing?

What are your demons, and how do you live with them? What lies do they tell you? God knows the truth.

Why would disciples leave everything to follow Jesus?

Why Jesus was baptized and why that leads to our repentance.

Waiting in Advent

God meets us where we are and loves us into who we can be.

It’s not what we thought it was.

Reimagining wealth, justice, and life.

Don’t feel saved? Try releasing what you’re holding onto.

When facts don’t tell the whole truth.

Why do all authoritarian men of parables get linked to God?

When our words and actions give different messages, God does a new thing for us.

The difference between fairness and justice.

Which god will you serve—the god of prosperity and ease or the God of the resurrection?

What does grace really cost us?

When fear reigns, violence isn’t far behind.

The kingdom of heaven is like a virus?

What are your demons and how does meet you in the midst?

Wisdom is not the same as knowledge. Where is wisdom to be found?

The Woman at the Well as told by Rachel Held Evans in her book, “Inspired”

Don’t wait to live until you’re where you want to be. Live now.

We are all in the midst of conversion.

Either we all breathe or we all die.

While the Pharaohs of this world act in the crazy fear that hangs on scarcity, God’s people are called to Holy Fear non of hope and love.

What do you see when you look at a child of God?

When grief moves people to action.

What is the good news when what we hoped for never happens?

When the unimaginable happens, God continues to weave us into something new.

Friday’s fears can’t stop God’s Sunday promise. Christ is risen!

Remembering Christ is more than thinking about Jesus but experiencing him through community and communion.

Who do we welcome into Jerusalem—the one who promises nothing will change or the one calls us to come and die?

Faith is about wrestling with the questions, not finding the answers.

Jesus doesn’t just cure but does the hard thing of raising us to new life.

Relationships become holy when we become more like Christ.

What do you see and what do you refuse to see? Christ has come to reveal God to the world.

What are the smells you associate with God and healing?

Though we find ourselves in the wilderness today, Jesus comes to meet us and fills us with Living Water.

All are called to make the ordinary holy.

Letting go of what we think we know about God to learn to love what God loves.

God makes all things holy.

The devil tempts with Jesus with what is reasonable—but what will not save or serve.

The church is to be the most honest place in town—time to confess.

Jesus comes down the mountain to serve.

We sing for those who cannot sing and who have been silenced.

Jesus calls us out of tribalism to make us one.

Why are you here?

Do we know the difference between justice and judgment? God will show us.

No one has seen God—except through you.

How beautiful are the feet—even without the pedicure.

Is good news really for everyone?

When the unexpected happens, where is God?

You are whole and you are holy.

What does living simply and putting an end to war have in common?

The future can be scary, but we are God’s children.

How to respond to hate.

I do not think it means what you think it means.

Set free to live without fear.

We have enough faith, but how do we put it into action?

Have we sold our future for 30 pieces of silver?

When the storms rage, we respond with faith, not fear.

Is our goal to tame the wilderness or let it tame us?

Taking care of the ocean and the world’s water.

When more come to the banquet, we add another leaf.

Jesus reorient us to the real purpose of Sabbath.

Before life comes death.

How we wait determines how we experience Jesus’ return. Are you ready?

We too often use people and love money. What would the opposite look like.

What do we expect from prayer and why do we bother?

What do we expect from prayer, and why do we bother?

You don’t have to abandon your work to focus on God.

Luke 9:51-62–Jesus challenges would-be followers to leave everything to follow him. Really?!

Pastoral intern Jason Davis preaches about the Gerasene demoniac and the sins of his community—about restoration to wholeness and our response when it happens to us.

God makes us whole through diversity, not in spite of it.

How do we speak the language of God?

Acts 16–Paul and Silas in prison. What imprisons you?

Do you want to be made well?

God tells us to make no distinction between them and us.

You just can’t reason with unreasonable people—and God doesn’t even try.

Deacon Intern Kellie shares her own faith struggles and invites us to ask the hard questions.

In the midst of Friday thinking, God puts a ‘but’ in, inviting us into Sunday living.

God invites us into living the kind of love he practiced.

What are the things that make for peace?

How can you be content in all things?

Campaign message for commitment weekend—guest preacher, Pastor Dana Peterson.

Challenged to explore a Living Faith, we do more than think about God.

Luke 13:1-9 is a tough text. Listen at your own risk. 🤔

Jesus compares himself to a mother hen. Is that the best he can do?

God’s grace is the abundant harvest for our abundant generosity.

Jesus’ temptations are indicative of ours—hunger for food, power, comfort. But he doesn’t take the easy route.

Guest Pastor Dana Peterson helps us kick off our capital campaign with a message about God’s abundance.

The sermon in the Plain from Luke delivers both blessings and woes. What do we do when we fall into the ‘woe’ column?

Do not be afraid

What does live look like?