Following the attack on a Texas church last week, I feel the need to take an interlude from my current sermon series.
Tag: Jesus
In Remembrance of our Savior
Throughout the course of this presidential campaign I have grown more and more distressed at the state of Christian political involvement in the United States. From Evangelicals abandoning their decades long assertion only moral people were acceptable as candidate for office to Progressive Christians willing to spread rumor and innuendo because it supports their vision…
Subversion
Below is an edited version of my sermon for this Sunday, focusing on Matthew 5:5-6. It’s in passages like the Beatitudes in which we see how much Jesus’ teaching undermines popular truth. We live in a society which views a desire to wield power as a worthy calling. This understanding also acknowledges sacrifices of both…
In the Light
This is an edited manuscript for my sermon on John 3:14-21. It was originally entitled, “Lifted Up.” For this post I’m renaming it, “In the Light” as that better reflects the content. Jesus expresses God’s desire for the world and is it very simple and straight-forward. God loves the world so much that he sent…
Three Days
This is an edited transcript of my sermon on John 2:13-22, entitled “Three Days.” In the text you’ll see the phrase “the Jews” a number of times, this reflects the voice of John’s Gospel in which “the Jews” refers specifically to the Jewish leadership which opposed Jesus during his Earthly ministry, not to the Jewish…
