Sermons

Mar 19, 2023
5 min

Healing Your Blindness

“If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.”

Mar 12, 2023
1 min

Go Out of Your Way for Evangelism

The Rev. Chris Craun, Missioner for Thriving Congregations, preached about five ways the gospel taught her about evangelism.

Mar 5, 2023
5 min

Changing the Christian Story

It’s not about being right or correct. It’s not about having worldly power. Those are distractions.

Feb 26, 2023
5 min

Tending to God's Purpose In You

We are not sinful so much as we are distracted from our purpose. Just as Adam and Eve were.

Feb 19, 2023
5 min

Lent: From Distraction to Attention

Lent isn’t about imposing suffering on yourself. It’s about being willing to stop and take in whatever the world brings into our lives.

Feb 12, 2023
6 min

Turning Certainty On Its Head

“You cling to certainty,” Jesus says, “but I’m here to make cracks in all you think you’re sure about.”

Feb 5, 2023
5 min

You Are the Light of the World

What is the point of our faith if it doesn’t change the world?

Jan 29, 2023
9 min

Attention Is Our Prayer

You make this place happen. This little part of the Body of Christ comes to life when you step into the gifts God gave you.

Jan 15, 2023
5 min

Evangelism Is Not A Dirty Word

Whatever life you get, whatever joy is nurtured in your experience of faith, that’s what evangelism is about.

Jan 8, 2023
3 min

The Baptism of Our Lord

Our baptism is our call to bring justice to the nations, to live as the body of Christ in the world.

Jan 1, 2023
4 min

Jesus, Yeshua, Josh: It's All Grace

Grace is where the Jesus who would be crucified and resurrected meets Josh who ate and drank and laughed with friends.

Dec 24, 2022
5 min

God Trusts In Our Goodness

The Word made flesh, arrives utterly helpless, completely dependent on the people around him for his survival.

Dec 18, 2022
1 min

Be with Me, Lord, When I am in Trouble

Lainey Johnston teaches us a prayer: Be with me, Lord, when I am in trouble. Be with me, Lord, I pray.

Dec 11, 2022
5 min

Hope is a Revolutionary Patience

Original sin does not live inside us, it is born through our choices. The great sins of our world were created choice by choice by choice.

Dec 4, 2022
5 min

What We Do Matters To God

What we do matters to God. We can frame it as harsh judgment, or we can frame it as God wanting life for us, and life abundant.

Nov 27, 2022
5 min

Reclaiming Our Suffering

God took our sin and suffering and planted it in the ground, planted it in a womb. Gave it the quiet and darkness it needed to transform.

Nov 20, 2022
3 min

Christ the King

We are all “citizens with the saints” because of our baptism, adopted members of Christ’s royal family.

Nov 13, 2022
5 min

Accountability Is An Act of Love

At its best, at its most loving, holding people accountable tells them that their presence and gifts are essential, that they belong.

Nov 6, 2022
5 min

God Does Not Give Up On Anyone

When we refuse to give up on people, when we refuse to separate justice and love, we practice a greater love.

Oct 30, 2022
2 min

How Wide is Our Forgiveness?

Jesus calls Zaccheus “a son of Abraham,” reminding the people that he is really one of them, too, and no longer an enemy.

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