Aug 27, 2019
In this sermon reflect on Jesus who on the Sabbath healed a woman who had been hunched over for eighteen years. We consider why the synagogue official had a problem with this, why he shouldn’t have had a problem with this, and what it all has to do with Sabbath, which is about way more than taking a day off to crash...
Aug 13, 2019
In this sermon, we talk about the story of fear versus the story of love. Talking our cues from Jesus, we consider what it means not to be afraid. We look at how people prep for the future out of fear, as well as how the story of fear plays out in our culture in so many ways. We consider, instead, our call to prep or to...
Aug 6, 2019
In this sermon we consider our relationship with our stuff. We take our cues from Jesus’ story of the rich man who was never satisfied with what he had, whose wealth and security was defined by things. We consider “The Cultural Mandate” to farm and take care of the creation. With the help of Ecclesiastes, we look...
Aug 2, 2019
This sermon is about prayer. We consider who it was that taught us to pray in our lives. We consider breathing as an image of what Paul means when he say to pray without ceasing. When Jesus teaches them to pray, the heart of his teaching is not about mechanics, but about them realizing the God to whom they are prayer,...