Sermons

For centuries, Christians have made this a text about what they have to do in order to get into heaven. In the process, all they have...

Our calling is to serve not to be served, to draw attention to God not to ourselves, and to empower others rather than have power over...

But the ashes are only phase one. First, we acknowledge our need for grace, then phase two is about embracing it and being transformed by...

We are uneasy talking about our faith, not wanting to appear foolish or be associated with the kind of Christians who proselytize in ways...

Fleshy people, Paul insisted, are the kind of people who get jealous of one another and quarrel and compete with each other, whereas...

We need real community because that is where God calls us to live out our faith. Western Christians especially tend to forget this....

Worship that is pure ritual, unattached to the way we live and the choices we make is not worship at all, according to the prophet. Rev....

The fact that God is focused on these people in pain and need means that we should be too. These are the people who need our justice work...

Our new identity in Christ is to be “God’s beloved.” That’s effectively what is stamped on our foreheads in baptism. “You are beloved to...

Science answers the “how” questions of life, and religion answers the “why.” Together, they expand both our wonder and our understanding...