Sermon: Surprising Teaching
Scripture is filled with glimpses of God and what God desires of us and from us, but we will never truly understand the mind of God. We get one of those glimpse...
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Sermon: Good News, Good Ways
I will ask each of us next time we are going to say something, stop and ask, is this something Jesus would approve of? Am I showing love in what I am saying? A...
Sermon: Extravagant Sign
What I like about this story is that it is about abundance, an abundance of grace and abundance of love. In Christ, all of our imperfections are removed through...
Sermon: Affirmed by Love
I am a simple theologian that weighs everything by the simple principle of love. Is what I am doing showing love to God and love to neighbor or is it harming. ...
Christmas Eve Sermon: We Have Seen a Great Light
And this is a story about love, radical love, love that knows no class system or status, the love that God has for each one of us just the way we are. This love...
Sermon: Moving with Mary’s Song
... the Christmas story is not only about the birth of a tiny baby that would change the world, but it is also the story of a defiant young girl standing the pu...
Sermon: Sign of Things to Come
The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah. In those days and at tha...
Sermon: Praise the Holy One
This past Wednesday evening I met with the search committee for the first meeting. The search committee, as you know, is tasked with finding my replacement. I a...
Sermon: Risk and Restoration
This morning we come face to face and have to deal with, two very different stories presented to us from the Gospel of Mark. On the one hand, we have the...
Sermon: Take Heart
This was not the sermon I intended to preach yesterday but, due to the events of the past week, I rewrote my sermon. This is just the text, and I added some wor...