Category: Sermons

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

  • Fearing Freedom

    Fearing Freedom

    This is a story of freedom. And why most of us don’t want it. Because we fear it. And everything it entails.

  • Living Trinity

    Living Trinity

    The Trinity is hard. Understanding it. And living it. But that is precisely what Jesus is inviting us to work out.

  • Student Teaching Grace

    Student Teaching Grace

    Pentecost is a moment of empowerment. But what are we being empowered to do? We often use the confusion to avoid doing anything.

  • We is essential

    We is essential

    Jesus says he came to make us one. Looking around, we can all see that we aren’t. Of course, we could be wrong…

  • The Gift of Peace

    The Gift of Peace

    Jesus leaves the disciples a parting gift: peace. What we still get wrong about it and why pairing it with love is central.

  • Loving is our everything

    Loving is our everything

    Jesus commands us to love. But he doesn’t lay out the rules. It’s our job to figure out what that really means.

  • Life of the Party

    Life of the Party

    The problem is that we think John 10 is about punishing those who don’t follow Jesus. We get it completely wrong.

  • Good Like Peter

    Good Like Peter

    Peter, the Beloved Disciple, and why the way we judge ourselves keeps us from seeing how much we are truly loved.