Sermons
Sermons preached in a context, but written for people of all sorts and conditions.
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Jesus offers a pattern for working toward reconciliation that is deceptively simple. He invites us to keep striving for reconciliation.
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The first thing we need to realize is that this story isn’t about Peter. The second is that our story, therefore, isn’t really about us.
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The question of Jesus’s identity reveals more about the disciples and what they are being called into than it does about who Jesus is.
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The first problem is that we cast the Bible as prescriptive. The second is that we cast ourselves with the very same objectification.
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The blessing passes from Abraham to Isaac to Esau to Jacob, and causes so much conflict, we ought to consider it isn’t a reward.
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Scripture isn’t just a collection of things people are told to believe. They are narratives with characters and events for us to explore.