Category: Sermons

Sermons preached in a context, but written for people of all sorts and conditions.

  • Becoming Great

    Becoming Great

    As we continue to explore God’s challenge to our desires for power, we add Jesus’s invitation to compare God’s dreams to our own behavior.

  • Our responsibility to the whole  human family

    Our responsibility to the whole human family

    Jesus pushes us on the theological convictions we take for granted—and invites us to develop a greater trust in our common work together.

  • Being Alive

    Being Alive

    We know Sabbath as the day we’re supposed to take off from work. But the expectation is way more important than a day off.

  • The simple faith

    The simple faith

    The Trinity is a famously difficult concept for people to get. But that is only because we make it way harder on ourselves to begin with.

  • More than a Show

    More than a Show

    Pentecost is a spectacle of power and grace. Our response to it can be shallow; which means we miss its true revolutionary message.

  • Live Differently

    Live Differently

    Jesus asks his followers to live differently: from what they know, from their families, and from the world around them.

  • Trust in Love

    Trust in Love

    In the Ascension, we are invited to reflect on the departure of Jesus from his disciples, and why it is that we always hate goodbyes.

  • The Root of Joy

    The Root of Joy

    Jesus describes the foundation of God’s dream like a chain of love in which we share love and in it, find the root of joy in life.