Sermons
A sermon is a talk. It is a conversation between God and the preacher, the preacher and him/herself, and the preacher and the listener. It is a beautiful, delightful dance of truth, memory, and possibility. Like a dance, a conversation can meander around the room gracefully, all the while leading you to end up right where you started - with a hopeful prayer.
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Figuring Out Faith: Teach Me the Way of Forgiveness
Forgiving someone can feel like an impossible task. In this sermon, I honor our hesitations and talk about what forgiveness is and isn't as we take hope in God. Matthew 18 is our text.
Figuring Our Faith: I'm Fixed Upon It
God provides minimum protection and maximum support in this ever-changing world. Peter doesn't want a fixed faith, but Christ wants him to be fixed by faith. Matthew 16 is our text.
Figuring Out Faith: Praise the Mount of God's Unchanging Love
In Matthew 16 Jesus proclaims, “I will build my church, and the Gates of Hell shall not overcome it!” He makes this declaration in light of his own upcoming death and knowledge of the failures of the disciples. Jesus is fully confident in God’s ability to do good things. We should be too!
Figuring Out Faith: He to Rescue Me From Danger
Matthew 14 teaches that the storm rages and Peter asks to walk with Christ on the water while the disciples remain in the boat. What does faith look like in the storms of life?
The Parable of the Great Banquet
Jesus’ parable of the great banquet in Luke 14 allows us to consider what it means for God to be a host and a guest. God welcomes and invites. Will we receive God as a guest? Likewise, will we extend to God such a generous welcome, and do the same for others?
How Jesus' Surprisingly Scandalous Family Tree is Good News
Though genealogies in the Bible strike us as boring, the family tree of Jesus holds a lot of surprises for us. In Jesus, we see God's faithfulness from generation to generation and a God who shows up often in scandalous situations.
Who’s in the Driver’s Seat Now?
The hardest seat to sit in in life is the passenger seat because it is where we learn to trust God's guidance to get us where we need to be. Can we place trust in God?
Joseph's Fantastic Trust and God's Wonderful Work in Our Life
Joseph and Mary were able to trust God for their present and future because they had been taught about God's faithfulness in the past. This incredible example of faith reminds us that God can lead us even in our confusion and questions.