Sermons
Sermons preached in a context, but written for people of all sorts and conditions.
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Welcome to Lent
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9 min read
Lent, that season before Easter, is known for abstaining and fasting. But it is more than that. It’s a learning lab with a deadline. Lent as a 40-Day Love ChallengeAsh Wednesday | Matthew 6:1-6,16-21 Today is the first day of Lent. Like many Christians, all over the world, I got up and focused on devotion.…
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A New World
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9 min read
The Transfiguration comes as a strange interlude. But its brevity reveals its true purpose is to reorient the disciples to their new journey.
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In My Backyard
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9 min read
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus pushes us to examine our place and our sense of community in an atomized and dysfunctional world.
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In the Mix
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8 min read
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus invites us to see how they are already blessed by God to be the way the kin-dom comes into the world.
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We Are Called Disciples
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9 min read
In Matthew 4, we see how Jesus redefines discipleship in light of power and the greatest threat to all of humanity: the desire for supremacy.
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Beyond Baptism
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8 min read
In John 1:29-42, we have an alternative call story–one that opens up the possibility that Jesus came to offer different leadership.