Is there Enough to go Around?
The text is Mark 5:21-43 Is there enough to go around? “A great crowd gathered around Jesus.” Somebody once counted as many as five thousand (not including women and children). […]
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Mythbusting: “It all depends on you”
The text is Mark 4:26-34. We’re going to do a little bit of “myth-busting” this morning. And the “myth” we’re going to “bust” today is this: It all depends on […]
Jesus Moved My Cheese
This is what Jesus does: he disturbs the comfortable, he upsets our apple-carts, he scrambles our marbles, topples our Jenga™ towers, and squeezes our toothpaste tubes from the middle. Several years ago, there was a book that came out called Who Moved My Cheese? And the answer is: Jesus.
Jesus moved your cheese. That’s what Jesus does in our lives. The only question left to us is – Are we open to letting Jesus move our cheese? Faith asks – Will you let Jesus disturb you? Will you let him make you uncomfortable?
The Question is the Answer
Sermon for Trinity Sunday. The text is John 3:1-17. Today, the first Sunday after Pentecost, is Trinity Sunday: the holiday in our church calendar when we’re supposed to talk about […]
God is Still Speaking
It’s been interesting to note the dramatic increase in the number of Christian talk radio stations over the last two decades or so. When I was a kid in the […]
The Eye of the Hurricane
“Sometimes God calms the storm. And sometimes God lets the storm rage and calms his child.” I first heard these words from one of my personal heroes: the Rt. Rev. […]
Freezing a Fire, Bottling a River, & Catching the Wind in a Net
God is love. God is a community. God is Trinity. This is the most central teaching of our faith. Everything else we believe is based on it. This is why we are able to say with a straight face that we believe the heart of the universe is love. Coming from anywhere else, that would sound like New Age pop psychology, but we mean it quite seriously. The Trinity is the womb from which the cosmos is born. Everything we see, everything we have, and everything we are has its origin in this network of perfect love.
And love, as we have already noticed, by its very nature, refuses to sit still. Love must be in motion, constantly spilling over its own brim, or else it is not love.
This leads us directly to the next thing Jesus tells us about love:
“As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you”.
Love spills over. Love is a perpetual motion machine. The love that has its source in God’s own being refuses to stay there: it rushes out into the entire universe – continually creating, redeeming, and sustaining it. The entire universe is constantly being soaked, immersed, and flooded with the overflowing love of the Trinity.
The Way of the Good Shepherd
The sermon for the fourth Sunday of Easter. Click here to read the text: John 10:11-18. In this morning’s gospel reading, Jesus presents us with two ways of relating. The […]
Universal Salvation: Drawing ALL people?
Sermon for the Fifth Sunday in Lent The text is John 12:20-33. As promised in the sermon, here are some key biblical passages in favor of both Particularism (God will […]
The Antidote
Sermon for the fourth Sunday in Lent The text is John 3:14-21.
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