<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Pastor Sarah Stadler &#8211; ESPERANZA LUTHERAN CHURCH</title>
	<atom:link href="https://myesperanza.org/sermon-speaker/pastor-sarah-stadler/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>https://myesperanza.org</link>
	<description>Creating authentic connections and a deep sense of belonging as a Christ-centered community</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:35:01 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en-US</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>
	hourly	</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>
	1	</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0</generator>

<image>
	<url>https://myesperanza.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/favicon-100x100.ico</url>
	<title>Pastor Sarah Stadler &#8211; ESPERANZA LUTHERAN CHURCH</title>
	<link>https://myesperanza.org</link>
	<width>32</width>
	<height>32</height>
</image> 
<site xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">179730447</site>	<item>
		<title>Healing is Possible</title>
		<link>https://myesperanza.org/sermons/healing-is-possible/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Stadler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
				<guid isPermaLink="false">https://myesperanza.org/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=41729</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Epiphany 4B2024Mark 1:21-28 In today’s gospel, Jesus and the newly-called disciples enter the synagogue in Capernaum, apparently on the sabbath, so that Jesus can teach there. Suddenly, a man with an unclean spirit confronts Jesus asking Jesus why he is &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">41729</post-id>	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Caught by Jesus</title>
		<link>https://myesperanza.org/sermons/caught-by-jesus/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Stadler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2024 06:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<guid isPermaLink="false">https://myesperanza.org/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=41675</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Epiphany 3B2024Mark 1:14-20 Today, Jesus catches his first disciples, Andrew and Peter. He observes them casting a fishing net into the sea, and Jesus says: “Follow me, and I will make you fish for people.” So often, I have read &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">41675</post-id>	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Straight Out of Nazareth</title>
		<link>https://myesperanza.org/sermons/straight-out-of-nazareth/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Stadler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2024 19:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<guid isPermaLink="false">https://myesperanza.org/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=41629</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Epiphany 2B2024John 1:43-51 Herb Chilstrom, the first presiding bishop of the ELCA, joined my home congregation when I was in high school. Since my father was one of the pastors of my home congregation in our small Minnesota town, Pelican &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">41629</post-id>	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Beloved Child</title>
		<link>https://myesperanza.org/sermons/beloved-child/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Stadler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2024 23:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
				<guid isPermaLink="false">https://myesperanza.org/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=41562</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Baptism of Christ B2024Mark 1:4-11 The gospels of Matthew and Luke both include Christmas stories, tales of Joseph and Mary, angels and shepherds. The gospel of John tells the most ancient of Christmas stories: In the beginning was the word &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">41562</post-id>	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Treasure &#038; Ponder</title>
		<link>https://myesperanza.org/sermons/treasure-ponder/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Stadler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2023 21:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
				<guid isPermaLink="false">https://myesperanza.org/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=41497</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Christmas 1B2023Lessons &#38; Carols Near the end of the Christmas story, after Jesus is born, after the shepherds receive the good news of great joy from the angels, after the shepherds go with haste to find Mary, Joseph, and Jesus, &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">41497</post-id>	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Love’s Austere &#038; Lonely Offices</title>
		<link>https://myesperanza.org/sermons/loves-austere-lonely-offices/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Stadler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Dec 2023 06:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<guid isPermaLink="false">https://myesperanza.org/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=41446</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve B2023Luke 2:1-20 Poet Robert Hayden writes in his poem “Those Winter Sundays”: Sundays too my father got up earlyand put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,then with cracked hands that achedfrom labor in the weekday weather madebanked &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">41446</post-id>	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Trusting God in the New &#038; Unknown</title>
		<link>https://myesperanza.org/sermons/trusting-god-in-the-new-unknown/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Stadler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2023 18:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
				<guid isPermaLink="false">https://myesperanza.org/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=41440</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Advent 4B2023Luke 1:26-38 In 1998, with both me and my sister in college, my parents opened themselves up to the possibility of a new call for my dad who was serving as an ELCA pastor in a small town in &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">41440</post-id>	</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Good News of the Prince of Peace</title>
		<link>https://myesperanza.org/sermons/the-good-news-of-the-prince-of-peace/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Stadler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2023 21:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<guid isPermaLink="false">https://myesperanza.org/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=41381</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Advent 2B2023 Mark 1:1-8 The first verse of Mark’s gospel states: The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Of course, because this is one of the gospels from the Bible, it makes complete sense &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">41381</post-id>	</item>
		<item>
		<title>God Come Down</title>
		<link>https://myesperanza.org/sermons/god-come-down/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Stadler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2023 21:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<guid isPermaLink="false">https://myesperanza.org/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=41378</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Advent 1B2023 Isaiah 64:1-9, Mark 13:24-37 Here they are, the people of Israel, after the Babylonian Exile, towards the end of Old Testament history. They are back in Jerusalem after decades of slavery, religious and cultural desolation, and despair. All &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">41378</post-id>	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Keep Awake</title>
		<link>https://myesperanza.org/sermons/keep-awake/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Stadler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2023 20:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<guid isPermaLink="false">https://myesperanza.org/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=41164</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Pentecost 24A2023 Matthew 25:1-13 Today, Jesus tells the disciples a parable, describing the kingdom of heaven. Because upon first glance it appears to be a terrifying parable, I invite us to consider it in 3D. I need 10 bridesmaids, one &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">41164</post-id>	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Blessed Are We</title>
		<link>https://myesperanza.org/sermons/blessed-are-we/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Stadler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2023 20:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
				<guid isPermaLink="false">https://myesperanza.org/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=41052</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[All Saints Sunday A2023 Matthew 5:1-9 Every Sunday and most weekdays as I made my way from the church parking lot to my office at Grace Lutheran Church, I would encounter people waiting for programs to start, people waiting to &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">41052</post-id>	</item>
		<item>
		<title>A Future Filled with Hope</title>
		<link>https://myesperanza.org/sermons/a-future-filled-with-hope/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Stadler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2023 20:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<guid isPermaLink="false">https://myesperanza.org/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=40918</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Reformation A 2023 Joint Sermon: Pastor Sarah Stadler &#38; Judi Wold, Seminary Student Sarah: Judi, thanks so much for preaching with me today on this Reformation Sunday. Judi: It’s great to be here on such an important day in the &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">40918</post-id>	</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
