Sermons
Sermons preached in a context, but written for people of all sorts and conditions.
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Jesus’s Temptation in the Wilderness isn’t just a story of the power of evil or Jesus’s personal experience of it, but the very corruptive nature of power.
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Ash Wednesday invites us to confront both life and death, reconciliation and condemnation, hope and despair and dare ourselves to not look away.
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Mountain Talk — Command and Love In a Time of Fear
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9 min read
The story around the Transfiguration helps us better understand what is being said up that mountain — and what it all means for us.
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Just a Little Bit Better — on the low bar of faith
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9 min read
In describing the path before them, Jesus offers metaphors of salt and light to inspire us, but the least we can do is not be total jerks.
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Blessing is an Invitation to Build Something Better
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9 min read
In the Beatitudes, we find ourselves pushing against our own priorities, against the priorities the world pushes upon us, to divide us, despise us.
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Transcendent, Beautiful — the call to follow Jesus
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9 min read
Jesus calls disciples with metaphor; an invitation that draws them into something beyond themselves, their history, and even their understanding.