Sermons
Sermons preached in a context, but written for people of all sorts and conditions.
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Why Jesus tells us to love our enemies
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10 min read
In commanding his disciples to love everybody, Jesus is pushing us to reject the thinking we think is natural, obvious, required of us.
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Blessed by default
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8 min read
The damning truth of it is that so many Christians reject Jesus’s approach to blessing. It’s not a competition, but a co-op.
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The true freedom of love
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9 min read
The modern understanding of evangelism is off. It is selfish and embraces our individualism while Jesus invites us into common love.
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Every opportunity to love
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9 min read
The Presentation of Our Lord at the temple offers us another opportunity to witness others’ response to faith, to embody it with hope.
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Why we’re afraid to listen
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9 min read
In proclaiming the year of the Lord’s favor, Jesus invites us to see, not an ideal future, but an actual, present command for life.
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Graced to see grace
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9 min read
It is the servants who witness the miracle, not the guests. The ones who are invited to do the work, to participate in sharing God’s grace.