{"podcast":{"title":"Sermons - Rev. Nicholas Schultz","slug":"sermons-rev-nicholas-schultz-7029251","podcast_index_feed_id":7029251,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/974211.rss","website_url":"https://revschultz.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/974211/0630836400c47e3e90bfe1a6f0265abe.jpg","author":"Pastor Nicholas Schultz","episode_count":235,"summary":"Weekly Sermons from Our Redeemer Lutheran Church","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sermons-rev-nicholas-schultz-7029251"},"episode":{"title":"God's Word: The Voice that Calls Us Back","slug":"god-s-word-the-voice-that-calls-us-back","published_at":"2026-03-03T18:41:13+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sermons-rev-nicholas-schultz-7029251/god-s-word-the-voice-that-calls-us-back","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sermons-rev-nicholas-schultz-7029251","url":"https://revschultz.substack.com/p/gods-word-the-voice-that-calls-us","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/189795602/c867d7e384b6c7c97ac685e6205b5042.mp3","summary":"This is the first message of our Midweek Lenten Series: God’s Gifts for God’s People. The Scripture Readings for this message are: Isaiah 55:6-11; Romans 10:14-17; and John 6:60-66. You can read them below. Isaiah 55:6–11 (ESV) 6 “Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10 “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, 11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. Romans 10:14–17 (ESV) 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?” 17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. John 6:60–66 (ESV) The Words of Eternal Life 60 When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” 61 But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling abo…","meta_description":"This is the first message of our Midweek Lenten Series: God’s Gifts for God’s People. The Scripture Readings for this message are: Isaiah 55:6-11; Romans…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":869,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sermons-rev-nicholas-schultz-7029251/episodes/god-s-word-the-voice-that-calls-us-back/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sermons-rev-nicholas-schultz-7029251/god-s-word-the-voice-that-calls-us-back.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}