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
“They had nothing to eat.” Simple words to convey a simple reality. Food is an essential part of life in this world. Indeed, if we go too long without nourishment, we will become faint. With enough time we will eventually expire. This reality is simple because it is so immediate. Infants know hunger as well as adults. Thankfully, many, if not most of us here this morning, have not ha...
Jesus says that He has not come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. Not an iota, not a dot, not a single stroke of a single letter of these holy texts will pass away until all is fulfilled. He does not explain them away or minimize them, in fact He intensifies them. It is not enough, says the Lord, to withhold your hand from striking in anger. You must also restrain your speech and even your tho...
Dear friends in Christ, today we have set before us the task of laying to rest our dear sister Esther Orn. She was, and is, a great and precious gift to you from God the Father, shown that you have made it a point to come here today to see this done. That is to say, it is normal and right to mourn someone that God has put into our lives. Even though this world of ours would tell us that there i...
In episode 17 of the 3P1S Podcast, we're diving into a topic that's not just science fiction anymore: transhumanism. It's the idea that through technology—genetics, AI, cybernetics—we can surpass our human limitations. But what does this mean for our understanding of humanity, the body, sin, and salvation?
Picture the scene: Jesus standing on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, the crowd pressing in, hungry to hear the Word of God. He steps into Peter’s boat, pushes out a bit, and from that humble fishing vessel preaches to the masses. Then, He tells Peter to do something absurd: “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” Peter is tired. He’s fished all night and caught nothing. But...
Before us stands a simple yet profound truth: God desires the salvation of every sinner. Our Lord Jesus says that He came to seek and to save the lost. And that includes you and me. Left to ourselves, we are indeed lost in sin, sorrow, suffering, and death. We are misled by the foolishness of this world and trapped in the limits of our own broken lives. No one enjoys being lost, and yet it is ou...
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.
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