Category: Sermons

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

  • Getting Found

    Getting Found

    Zacchaeus wants to see! But to see, he needs to be vulnerable enough to be seen. The key is that he’s already found.

  • Feeling Justified

    Feeling Justified

    Being good and doing good. We usually make it a debate. And then marching orders. Above them, though, is mercy.

  • Is there any faith?

    Is there any faith?

    Jesus tells stories that engage our assumptions; and drive us to consider what it is that we’re really avoiding.

  • The In-Between

    The In-Between

    In healing ten people with leprosy in the borderlands between Samaria and Galilee, Jesus offers us a way to see life anew.

  • Shifting Perspective

    Shifting Perspective

    Jesus invites his disciples to look beyond the power, the expectations, and the culture to see what God is doing.

  • Breaking Chasms

    Breaking Chasms

    The key to the parable is the chasm: the one between God and wealth: and how we are all called to break it apart.

  • The Rich Man, Manager, God, and Wealth (Proper 20C)

    The Rich Man, Manager, God, and Wealth (Proper 20C)

    In this week’s gospel, Jesus tells a parable about a rich man who is going to fire a manager. Of course there’s more to it.

  • Complexity and Clarity

    Complexity and Clarity

    In Jesus’s teaching for Proper 20C, we get a vision of complexity that leads to clarity. It isn’t one or the other.