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Sermons with Reverend Killjoy

by Andrew Tengwall

Sermons by Rev. Andrew Tengwall, an interim pastor currently serving Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, Minnesota

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  1. Episode 486: Sermon Audio for Sunday August 30th, 2026, Lectionary 22 / 14th Sunday after Pentecost A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 22, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Romans 12:9-21. On the day Christus Victor voted to call Rev. Sarah Fike to be their next pastor, I got to explain the power…

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  2. Episode 485: Sermon Audio for Sunday August 23rd, 2026, Lectionary 21 / 13th Sunday after Pentecost A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 21, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Exodus 1:8--2:10. This was a very fun sermon in which I got to help prepare the congregation for their first woman pastor in…

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  3. Episode 484: Sermon Audio for Sunday August 16th, 2026, Lectionary 20 / 12th Sunday after Pentecost A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 20, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Matthew 15:10-28 In this one I talked about seeing one of my favorite musicians and what his thoroughly un-religious perspective...

  4. Episode 483: Sermon Audio for Sunday August 9th, 2026, Lectionary 19 / 11th Sunday after Pentecost A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 19, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Matthew 14:22-33. This sermon begins with the announcement that Christus Victor has a Final Candidate to be the next pastor…

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  5. Episode 482: Sermon for Sunday August 2nd, Lectionary 18 / 10th Sunday after Pentecost A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 18, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Genesis 32:22-31 and Matthew 14:13-21. What's in a name?

  6. Episode 481: Sermon for Sunday July 26th 2026, Lectionary 17 / 9th Sunday after Pentecost A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 17, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Romans 8:26-39. As I always say, Romans is where our theology comes from, more or less. This is the best part of Romans, so listen...

  7. Episode 480: Sermon for Sunday July 19th 2026, Lectionary 16 / 8th Sunday after Pentecost A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 16, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Genesis 28:10-19a. While fleeing his brother, Jacob falls asleep in a seemingly-random place and sees a staircase leading to the...

  8. Episode 479: Sermon for Sunday July 5th 2026, Lectionary 14 / 6th Sunday after Pentecost A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 14, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Romans 7:15-25a, also Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30. In honor of the United States Semiquincentennial, I dug into these challenging...

  9. Episode 478: Sermon for Sunday Jun 28th 2026, Lectionary 13 / 5th Sunday after Pentecost A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 13, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. The lectionary's Semicontinuous First Lessons giveth and taketh away. Abraham tries to obey God's command to sacrifice his son Isaac, and the...

  10. Episode 477: Sermon for Sunday June 21st, Lectionary 12 / 4th Sunday after Pentecost A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 12, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Today's very challenging Gospel lesson throws the US holiday of Fathers' Day into stark relief, and this sermon is a whole lot of wrestling...

  11. Episode 476: Sermon for Sunday June 7th, Lectionary 10 / 2nd Sunday after Pentecost A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Second Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 10, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Today we celebrated our two graduating high school seniors, and our first lesson from Genesis 12, the Semicontinuous lectionary reading, was...

  12. Episode 475: Sermon 5/31/2026, Holy Trinity Sunday A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for Holy Trinity Sunday, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: 2 Corinthians 13:11-13. For our third consecutive Cake Sunday (Sundays in which something happens in worship worthy of celebrating with cake), we celebrated a...

  13. Episode 474: Sermon for Sunday May 24th, 2026, Day of Pentecost A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Day of Pentecost, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Acts 2:1-21. On this Pentecost Sunday we celebrated the baptism of a young adult, and we talked about the various ways the Holy Spirit acts among us.

  14. Episode 473: Sermon for Sunday May 17th, 2026, 7th Sunday of Easter A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Seventh Sunday of Easter, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: John 17:1-11. "Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one.” Eternal life is not about…

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  15. Episode 472: Sermon for Sunday May 10th, 2026, 6th Sunday of Easter A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: John 14:15-21. "I will send you another Advocate." Jesus' first discussion of the Holy Spirit in John's Gospel leads me down many interesting paths that...

  16. Episode 471: Sermon for Sunday May 3rd, 2026, Fifth Sunday of Easter A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: John 14:1-14. "Do not let your hearts be troubled." As Christus Victor moves forward in its transitional process, we can learn from Jesus' own…

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  17. Episode 470: Sermon April 26th, 2026, 4th Sunday of Easter A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Ezekiel 34:7-15 and 1 Peter 2:19-25. With timely news about Christus Victor's Ministry Site Profile, these lessons give us an opportunity to reflect on...

  18. Episode 469: Sermon April 19th, 2026. Third Sunday of Easter A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Third Sunday of Easter, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Luke 24:13-35. My favorite story in the whole Bible inspired me to tell a few stories of my own, before dropping into talk about the power of the...

  19. Episode 468: Sermon April 12th, 2026, Second Sunday of Easter A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Second Sunday of Easter, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Exodus 15:1-11, 19-21. The new Provisional First Reading for the Revised Common Lectionary presented me with a challenge for my first day back from...

  20. Episode 467: Sermon April 5th 2026, Easter Sunday

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for Easter Sunday, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Matthew 28:1-10. It's Easter Sunday. There were 250 people there. We had a good time. Christ is risen. You can't fix him.

  21. Episode 466: Sermon April 2nd 2026, Maundy Thursday

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for Maundy Thursday. Scripture: John 13:1-17, 31b-35. It's Maundy Thursday, and we did foot-washing for the first time in possibly the history of this congregation, so I got to talk about it .

  22. Episode 465: Sermon for March 29th, 2026 Palm Sunday A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for Palm Sunday, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Matthew 21:1-11. Finally back after weeks of guest preachers and awful weather, this sermon about Jesus' palm procession into Jerusalem got into the way we try to…

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  23. Episode 464: Sermon March 8th 2026, Third Sunday of Lent A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Third Sunday of Lent, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: John 4:5-42. On International Women's Day, we get the famous story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well. I tell about a couple of the women...

  24. Episode 463: Sermon Audio March 1st, 2026. Second Sunday of Lent A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Second Sunday of Lent, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Genesis 12:1-4a. In this one I talked about some of the origins of my historic distrust of organized religion, reignited by the latest religion-flavored...

  25. Episode 462: Sermon February 22nd, 2026, First Sunday of Lent A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the First Sunday of Lent, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Matthew 4:1-11. I am so excited that I found this audio recording, which seemed to have disappeared immediately after I recorded and tried to upload it....

  26. Episode 461: Sermon February 1, 2026, part 2

    Part Two of sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31, Matthew 5:1-12. My friend and former professor Mary Solberg's book, "A Church Undone," helps us to remain wary…

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  27. Episode 460: Sermon February 1, 2026, part 1

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31, Matthew 5:1-12. My friend and former professor Mary Solberg's book, "A Church Undone," helps us to remain wary of allowing...

  28. Episode 459: Sermon Sunday January 25th, 2026. Third Sunday after Epiphany A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Third Sunday after Epiphany, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: Matthew 4:12-23. In which we talk explicitly about the human rights abuses currently being perpetrated in Minnesota by federal agents. Did you know...

  29. Episode 458: Sunday January 18th, Second Sunday after Epiphany A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Second Sunday after Epiphany, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: John 1:29-42. Considering the current ongoing federal occupation of the Twin Cities, I think I kept is pretty straight by talking about theology…

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  30. Episode 457: Sermon Sunday January 4th, 2026.

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN for the Second Sunday of Christmas, Revised Common Lectionary Year A. Scripture: John 1:1-18. This one gets a little rambly but has some things to say about paradox and ambiguity.

  31. Episode 456: Sermon for Christmas Eve 2025,

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN. Scripture: Luke 2:1-20. You've heard this one before. The story, at least. What new thing can God do with this Christmas story? What new thing can God do with us?

  32. Episode 455: Sermon Sunday December 21st, Advent 4A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN. Scripture: Matthew 1:18-25. This sermon includes my 2025 Pop Culture Year in Review around talking about Joseph who is almost the star of Matthew's version of this story.

  33. Episode 454: Sermon Sunday December 14th, 2025. Advent 3A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN. Scripture: Matthew 11:2-11, Luke 1:46b-55. From Isaiah to Mary to John the Baptist, we have so many expectations of who Jesus is and what he means for us. How do we live out the values we share with Jesus?

  34. Episode 453: Sermon Sunday December 7th, 2025. Advent 2A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN. Scripture: Isaiah 11:1-10. Who is Jesse, and what are all these tree metaphors about? In this season of Advent, what are we really waiting for?

  35. Episode 452: Clip of Sermon Thanksgiving C 11.26.2025

    Trying something new: here is a clip of my sermon from Thanksgiving Eve. What will happen? Will I ever do this again?

  36. Episode 451: Sermon Sunday November 30th 2025: First Sunday of Advent A

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN. Scripture: Isaiah 2:1-5, Matthew 24:36-44. Welcome to a new church year and a new opportunity to make fun of "the rapture" while keeping hope alive for this world God loves.

  37. Episode 450: Sermon Wednesday November 26th 2025: Thanksgiving Eve C

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN. Scripture: Deuteronomy 26:1-11. This Deuteronomy reading is one of my very favorites, with its ritualized first fruits giving and its "A wandering Aramean was my ancestor" profession of faith. So it was easy to tie many of my...

  38. Episode 449: Sermon Audio Sunday November 23rd, Reign of Christ C

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN. Scripture: Luke 23:33-43. Jesus on the cross is a great place to start talking about stewardship commitment Sunday, right? With a side of anti-fascist holy day history, what could be better?

  39. Episode 448: Sermon Sunday November 9th 2025, Lectionary 32 C RCL

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN. Scripture: Luke 20:27-38, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17. A short sermon this week to talk about the difference between cleverness and wisdom, and knowing when to trust in God.

  40. Episode 447: Sermon November 2nd 2025, All Saints Sunday C

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN. Scripture: Luke 6:17-31. What is a saint? What does it mean to be a saint? How does one become a saint? Why is Jesus blessing and woe-ing people, and why are we loving our enemies? Lots of good questions today, and maybe a few...

  41. Episode 446: Sermon October 26th, 2025. Reformation Sunday

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN. Scripture: John 8:31-36. This week, with confirmation of four young people, one of whom was baptized earlier in our gathering, it was time to talk about Christian freedom, the freedom God offers us through the life, death, and...

  42. Episode 445: Sermon October 19th, Lectionary 29 C

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN. Scripture: Genesis 32:22-31, 2 Timothy 3:14--4:5. Jumping off of 2 Timothy's famous declaration that "all scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching" and other uses, we dug into the iconic story of Jacob wrestling with...

  43. Episode 444: Sermon October 5th, 2025, Lectionary 27C

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN. Scripture: Habakkuk 1:1-4, 2:1-4. This sermon highlighted the previous day's installation of Rev. Yehiel Curry as Presiding Bishop of the ELCA. This lesson from Habakkuk always reminds me to lift up my head and watch for the...

  44. Episode 443: Sermon September 28, 2025, Lectionary 26C

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN. Scripture: Amos 6:1a, 4-7, Psalm 146, 1 Timothy 6:6-19, Luke 16:19-31. Jesus talks about money, so we talk about money, part two. All four scriptures carry the same theme, that we should trust in God rather than in wealth.

  45. Episode 442: Sermon 15th Sunday after Pentecost C, September 21, 2025

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN. Scripture: Luke 6:1-13, Amos 8:4-7. Jesus talks about money, so we talk about money. You don't have to like it.

  46. Episode 441: Sermon for Holy Cross Sunday, September 14th 2025

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:18-24. Today I told a cute story about when my son was young, then talked about the symbolism of the cross across history. Who has used it, and how? What does it mean to you to display a cross now?

  47. Episode 440: Sermon 13th Sunday after Pentecost C, September 7th 2025

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN. Scripture: Luke 14:25-33. In worship today we changed a number of things: moved our new chairs for the first time away from being the pattern of the old pews, creating a new center aisle. We also began implementing a new...

  48. Episode 439: Sermon 12th Sunday after Pentecost C, August 24th 2025

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN. Scripture: Luke 13:10-17. This one was a lot about the congregation itself, Christus Victor in Apple Valley, and about our upcoming Fall Festival and how we welcome people. Also some good themes about what makes this church - or...

  49. Episode 438: Sermon 10th Sunday after Pentecost C, August 17th 2025

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN. Scripture: Luke 12:49-56. Jesus says he comes to bring division, because he is trying to divide the people away from the unhealthy patterns that have come to govern their lives.

  50. Episode 437: Sermon 9th Sunday after Pentecost C, August 10th 2025

    Sermon audio at Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, MN. Scripture: Luke 12:32-40. After missing last week's sermon audio due to technical difficulties / operator error, we're back this week with some good old fashioned stewardship talk, including a hopefully-humorous diatribe about…

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Sermons by Rev. Andrew Tengwall, an interim pastor currently serving Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, Minnesota

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