Sermons
Sermons preached in a context, but written for people of all sorts and conditions.
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Lead with Love
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9 min read
We want Jesus to teach us how to love like it takes a methodology or more faith than we have. Instead, Jesus shows how that misses the point. Jesus and the teaching of uncommon forgivenessProper 22CLuke 17:1-10 We jump into the story with the apostles shouting “Increase our faith!” It makes it all sound random.…
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Unbound Grace
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8 min read
The parable reveals how blind the rich man is to reality. And in reading it, Jesus hopes we won’t continue to share the same delusion.
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Bad Economics
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8 min read
Jesus keeps teaching us about the limits of transactional thinking — and the life-giving beauty of sacrifice in his way of love.
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Being Lost and Being Found
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8 min read
The question isn’t what is lost or who is looking. These parables aren’t about the lost, but what it is to participate in losing and finding.
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Hate as an unlikely virtue
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8 min read
Jesus keeps defying expectations. In the midst of great celebrity, he now defies the low expectations the followers have for themselves.
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Revising the Guest List
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9 min read
Jesus is a terrible guest at your dinner party. While you’re worrying about who’s going to show up, he’s inviting everyone in. Jesus and the art of the dinner partyProper 17C | Luke 14:1,7-14 When I was young, I loved sleepovers. This was the real political currency of junior high school. Whose house you went…