Category: Sermons

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

  • Looking for Jesus

    Looking for Jesus

    In the resurrection story, we get an Easter image as confounding as it is hopeful.

  • Revealing the way of death

    Revealing the way of death

    Luke makes it clear Jesus doesn’t “deserve” the crucifixion. Not only to maintain Jesus’s innocence but prove the moral corruption of execution.

  • Before they walk in

    Before they walk in

    In Luke 19, we get a disturbing image that casts Jesus in a whole new light.

  • Too Good

    Too Good

    Many of us come to religion to learn how to be good. But it is this pursuit, to be the most good, which leads us to do the greatest harm. making the question about being right leads us to do wrongLent 5C |Luke 15, John 12:1-8 It never occurred to me the story would end…

  • Being There

    Being There

    This morning’s lectionary is full of conflict and confusion, but Paul and Jesus are both compelling us to see that we’re the ones creating it.

  • Facing Foxes

    Facing Foxes

    Jesus invites us into a new world of mercy based in nonviolent relationships and we’d rather kill it.

  • Hunger

    Hunger

    In Jesus’s temptation in the wilderness, we get a picture of resistance bigger than willpower and faith. A resistance to becoming powerful at all. Resisting temptation and power with JesusLent 1C | Luke 4:1-13 He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished. It was a traditional practice…

  • About the Food

    About the Food

    We mistake the purpose of ashes – our symbol of mortality – for only being about death. They are also an invitation to life.