Every audio sermon week across the years we have — a filled cell is a week with an upload, darker blue means richer topics. A steady weekly cadence shows as a solid band across years.
LessMore·no upload·known, not transcribed
Each cell is one week · darker blue = richer topics (clean, sermon-only audio scores higher) · pale = thin, faint = no upload · gold outline = known, not yet transcribed · red outline = broken/failed file · uploaded in 29 of 147 weeks across the span (20%).
How this church compares
Against other lutheran and against every sermon on the site. Signals are approximate and grow more reliable as more of the archive is scored.
●this church┃peer average┃site average
Emotional rangenoticeably wider
Its sermons travel noticeably wider in feeling than a typical peer congregation, and noticeably wider than the site overall.
site avg 0.12
narrowerpeer avgwider
Emotional intensitysomewhat higher
The peaks run somewhat higher than peers, about the same than the site.
site avg 0.64
lowerpeer avghigher
Dynamic deliverynoticeably higher
In the voice itself, energy runs noticeably higher than peers, somewhat higher than the site.
site avg 0.45
lowerpeer avghigher
Among lutheran churches with enough scored sermons, it ranks #3 of 15 for emotional range.
On the words themselves, it leans toward the vocabulary of another tradition.
“And then those 40 years of wandering in the wilderness is the time of this earthly sojourn or pilgrimage between the great deliverance and the final…”
Bible & ExpositionThe Kingdom of GodSermon on the Mount / Beatitudes
“And she would make unbelievable believable cakes and special baked items at Thanksgiving and Christmas, and she'd always take it to the Moltmann's am…”
Crucifixion & AtonementPrayer & DevotionThe Church Fathers
“See, like you just saying that it makes me wonder like how often even you know in our weekly preaching right to back to the preacher thing like we pr…”
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of Lutheran sites
This church
Economic justice & mutual aid
12%
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LGBTQ+ affirming
10%
Radical hospitality & accessibility
10%
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Anti-racism / racial justice
5%
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Creation care / climate
5%
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Children & youth
71%
Online worship
51%
Small groups
49%
Financial & governance transparency
12%
Child safety policy
3%
Languages / interpretation
3%
Website & sermons online
This church: site, no sermons — like 16% of Lutheran churches.
Audio + videoAudio onlyVideo onlySite, no sermonsBlocked / timeoutDead or hijackedNo website
Website completeness, all churches: a rough score of how complete and easy-to-navigate the church’s own website is.
Among the 3,012 churches with a readable, rated website (scores of 0 and 100 left out), this one scores higher than about 58%.
Values stated, within Lutheran churches: how many of the 29 values we track each church’s website states. This one states 6 — ahead of 82% of Lutheran churches (the typical one states 3).
What their website says
Justice & social positions
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Anti-racism / racial justicesourceI am a proud boy, boasting of my white supremacy.
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Radical hospitality & accessibilitysource"Can anyone forbid water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?" Peter’s rhetorical question displays the radical hospitality of the gospel.
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Creation care / climatesourceBut we may well ponder in its light whether our looming darkness in America is a God-sent thorn in the flesh, to humble us by showing us anew our inescapable creaturely vulnerability to awaken new scandalous faith in the particularity of Jesus Have we as a nation been humbled by the great recession, costly endless war, the pandemic, political polarization, inflation, climate change, lawlessness, the authoritarian temptations?
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Economic justice & mutual aidsourceSt Paul points us to the One who commands such faith, but also gives to us this very courageous faith which he demands: For you know the generous act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.
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Not found on the pages we checked: LGBTQ+ affirming, Open to people of all faiths, Immigrant & refugee welcoming
Belonging & practical
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Not found on the pages we checked: Children & youth, Languages / interpretation, Online worship, Small groups
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