Category: Sermons

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

  • Believing Anyway

    Believing Anyway

    This gospel, while centering around Thomas, is mistaken for a treatise on unbelief rather than what belief looks like.

  • Holy Week Homilies

    Holy Week Homilies

    Through Holy Week and Easter, the church engages in a process of corporate remembering. These homilies try to help with that.

  • Go Slow

    Go Slow

    For Easter, we contrast a ridiculous footrace with Mary being there. She witnesses the resurrection they miss.

  • Showing Up

    Showing Up

    This dynamic of showing up and doing because it’s the thing is at the heart of the gospel and Easter itself.

  • Blame and Purpose

    Blame and Purpose

    The place of the crucifixion in our public imagination is as an act of consequence or violation rather than revelation.

  • A Holy Week

    A Holy Week

    The challenge of dealing with all of Holy Week in a single Sunday is that we can’t. So we don’t even try. Which is a mistake.

  • Unbind Them

    Unbind Them

    The focus of Lazarus’s resurrection story is witnessing the glory of God. The heart, then, is found in how Mary responds.

  • Avoiding Pain

    Avoiding Pain

    This story is less about the miracle of giving sight to the blind, but the way the leaders avoid seeing grace.