Category: Sermons

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

  • With Stones: God’s Replacement Theory

    With Stones: God’s Replacement Theory

    John the Baptist gives us a rebuke of white replacement theory. Because the point is always about doing good.

  • Living into the consequence of living

    Living into the consequence of living

    In the John the Baptizer, we encounter the very revelation of God. An encounter we have to recognize is also with us.

  • Signs of Hope

    Signs of Hope

    Jesus invites us to turn the story around. The signs we see aren’t omens of bad things, but as signs of hope.

  • Better Than a King

    Better Than a King

    Christians have long called Jesus their king as a way of describing his place. The trouble is just how much that limits him.

  • Keeping the Plot

    Keeping the Plot

    What the Little Apocalypse of Mark reveals about following Jesus – and why we’re scared to learn the truth about ourselves.

  • The Art of Unbinding

    The Art of Unbinding

    Jesus doesn’t simply raise Lazarus from the dead. He commands those who love him to also unbind him and let him go.

  • Not Far From the Kingdom

    Not Far From the Kingdom

    The Greatest Commandment doesn’t answer a question: it responds to it. Which makes this a story of embodied love.

  • He has a name

    He has a name

    In the story of Bartimaeus, we encounter the limitations of our vision while Jesus invites us in to a new way of seeing.