Sermons
Sermons preached in a context, but written for people of all sorts and conditions.
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To Soften Our Hearts
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8 min read
As followers of Jesus, we are comfortable with the idea of the Good News as work. Less so with what that means for our lives.
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Choosing to Avoid
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9 min read
In the disturbing story of John the Baptizer’s death, we are invited to see the power in creating a delusion of false helplessness.
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Choosing to Live
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9 min read
When Jesus is stymied in his hometown, we may be tempted to hear their stubbornness as rational, rather than what it is: delusional.
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Our own healing hands
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5 min read
The most difficult part of this week’s gospel isn’t the healings Jesus makes possible so much as what the healings mean for us.
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There must be something I should be doing.
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4 min read
When Jesus and the disciples are caught out in a storm, it is telling how they respond. And more importantly how they don’t.
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Becoming Great
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8 min read
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.