Sep 22, 2020
In this sermon we focus on the way of the cross. We see this theme as central in this chapter. We consider how on this side of 2000 + years it’s easy to forget how strange it was for the Messiah to say that he will suffer and die. We explore the two responses of Peter in this moment as the ongoing responses of the...
Sep 11, 2020
In this sermon we focused on the story of the Canaanite woman. Here we see a Jesus we are not used to, a seemingly offensive Jesus acting from his privilege against this woman from another culture. We explore the possibility that maybe in this moment Jesus is doing the redemptive work of overcoming his social...
Sep 2, 2020
In this sermon we compared the difference between competition and compassion as two different ways of seeing the world. One is based on fear. The other is based on faith. We did this by looking at three different stories that Matthew pairs together in this chapter and considered how they each relate to one...