SERMONS
"When we submit our lives to what we read
in scripture, we find that we are not being led
to see God in our stories, but our stories in God."
—Eugene Peterson
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Learning How to Pray Like a Child (Again) - Matthew 6:5 - 13
Hannah’s Waiting - 1 Samuel 1 - 2
The Beautiful Necessity of Reflection - Isaiah 44:19
When Grave Cloths Become Swaddling Bands - John 16:20 - 22
Love is Not Easily Offended - 2 Samuel 16:5 - 14
David: The Discerning Fugitive - 1 Samuel 24, 26
Three Marks of a Life that Belongs to God - John 17:14 - 18
Being with Jesus - Navigating our Resistance to God’s Love - Luke 5:1 - 11
Palm Sunday - Luke 19:36-40, 22:21-30, 31-61
Labor of Love - 2 Thessalonians 3
The Lord’s Return - 1 Thessalonians 4:11 - 18
Let Your Gentleness be Known to All - Philippians 4:2 - 7
Bearing Witness to a Pilgrim Way - Hebrews 11:8 - 10
Hospitality - John 13:1, 4 - 5
Honoring our Limitations as a Spiritual Practice - Luke 4:42 - 44
The Jailer’s Baptism - Acts 16:23 - 34
El Deah - The God Who Knows - 1 Samuel 10 - 18
The Way to Gethsemane - Matthew 26:36 - 44
The Way to the Jordan - Matthew 3:13 - 17
Letter to the Church at Pergamum - Revelation 2:12 - 17
Presence - John 1:1 - 6, 9, 14
Taking the Long View - Isaiah 9:1 - 7
Reading and Praying the Psalms - Psalm 10
God the All-Vulnerable - Matthew 26:36 - 39
Sabbath - Rest - Deuteronomy 5:12 - 15
Packing for the Journey - Ruth 1:6 - 19
The Spiritual Practice of Secrecy - Matthew 6:1 - 6
Salt of the Earth, Light of the World - Matthew 5:13 - 16
Learning to Wait - Isaiah 11:1 - 4
Under the Shadow of His Wings - Matthew 23:37
Like A Tree Planted by Streams of Water - Psalm 1:1 - 3
The Gift of Celibacy and Singleness - Matthew 19:3 - 4, 10 - 12
Philip and the Ethiopian - Acts 8:26 - 40
The Early Church - Acts 2:42 - 47, 4:32 - 37
Do You Have God's Heart? - Jonah 4
Waking Up to God's Delight - Psalm 139
A Tale of Two Kingdoms - John 18:28 - 19:16
Called to Be A Metaphor - John 13
Devotion to Prayer - Colossians 4:2 - 6
Complete in Christ - Colossians 2:8 - 15
Lamentation
God's Plan vs. Our Plan - John 4:43 - 54
The Word Made Flesh - John 1:14
Meditations
A Misunderstood Gift (Lent 2024)
Un-distracting Ourselves from Our Need for God (Lent 2024)
Shaped Through Waiting (Advent 2023)
The Lifter of My Head (Lent 2023)
Clarity in the Wilderness (Lent 2023)
God Became Human (Advent 2022)
Living the Tension Between Faith & Doubt (Advent 2022)
Welcoming Others as Christ Welcomes Us (Advent 2022)
The Mountain of the Lord (Advent 2022)
The Bottle of Perfume (Lent 2022)
Confronting our Tendency to Judge (Lent 2022)
Simplicity’s Invitation (Lent 2022)
Encountering our Enemies in the Wilderness (Lent 2022)
The Power of Blessing (Advent 2021)
The End of Judgment (Advent 2021)
Yielding to God’s Will at Gethsemane - (Lent 2021)
Disillusionment & Hope on the Road to Jerusalem (Lent 2021)
Going with Jesus to the Mountain (Lent 2021)
Trusting God in the Wilderness (Lent 2021)