Why did God command Israel to “choose life” and then promise them they would fail and go into exile. In this sermon, we look at how the Law was ultimately not about moralism, but mercy, unpacking how Christ and the Cross fulfill the Law, turning the threat of death into a hopeful promise of rescue, return and life. 

Examining Luke 14:7-14 (and a little bit of Ecclesiasticus 10), we look at the problem of the arrogant pride of the self-righteous—whether ancient Pharisees or us today—and see how God's love and redemption are for sinners and all those who simply admit they cannot earn His grace.

We explore how Bartholomew—despite having only his name recorded in Scripture—personifies in the absence of his own story the dying to self and living wholly for Christ that is the mark of a faithful disciple.

We explore how this one faithful Jewish teenage girl somehow becomes the embodiment in Luke for the “restoration of Zion” in and as “the fullness of time,” when salvation is born of her, a woman, and how she is—in that— the first Christian and a figure of all Christians.

We conclude our sermon series on Colossians by exploring how Paul understands family and household relationships as our mirror of our life in Christ, calling us all—husbands, wives, children, slaves, and masters—to serve one another with Christ-like love and self-sacrificial obedience, reflecting the greater household of God, the Church. 

Our sermon series continues into Colossians 3, exploring what Paul means when he says that our old selves have died and our true new lives are hidden with Christ in God. How does that make us want to live differently now in light of the day coming when that new life will be fully revealed.

Our sermon series continues into Colossians 2, looking at Paul’s warning against mistaking religious practices and philosophies—the “shadows”—for the true “substance,” which is Christ Himself. 

We begin a short sermon series on Colossians, looking at how Paul in the first chapter sees creation and redemption blurring together in Christ, through whom all is reconciled to God.

The Rev. Dr. Canon Bill Henry, Canon to the Ordinary of the ACNA Diocese of Pittsburgh, explores the ramifications of Galatians 6.

We explore Peter and Paul as two faces of the Cross-shaped Christian life: Peter embodying failure met with forgiveness and a restored following of Christ; Paul exemplifying the life poured out as a witness to Christ’s sacrifice.