Category: Sermons

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

  • Our Secret Super Power

    Our Secret Super Power

    We are participating in the reimagining of sainthood and of our place in the world. And yet, the reason behind it remains the same.

  • Love all the way down

    Love all the way down

    There’s a thing we miss about the great commandment: to love God and our neighbors as ourselves. And that is that we are made of love.

  • Living the Dream

    Living the Dream

    In our rush to live in a just world, we may find ourselves preventing the very means of making things just — that we are called to this.

  • Actual Love

    Actual Love

    The dark parable Jesus tells challenges us, not to learn what to do, but to recall and do what we’ve already learned from him.

  • The Grace of Courage

    The Grace of Courage

    A parable of wickedness told to the wicked creates a challenge for people of faith who seek to do good — it is a call to good courage.

  • Love is Living Art

    Love is Living Art

    In his exploration of authority, Jesus confronts those confronting him, and reveals a way of being in the world that can save us all.

  • Liberating Economics — the restorative love of Jesus in action

    Liberating Economics — the restorative love of Jesus in action

    In the parable of the laborers in the vineyard, Jesus offers us a chance to look at our relationships completely differently: with generosity.

  • Forgiveness is the given

    Forgiveness is the given

    Our brains start with the wrong presumption. Forgiveness, not punishment, is the starting place for dealing with our neighbors.