Through Blind Eyes | Disruptive Faith

John 9:8-18

Lent 2

March 1, 2026

Rev. Teer Hardy

Lent exposes the places where we resist the gospel, not because we hate Jesus but because we fear what his healing will rearrange.

And here is the quiet mercy: Jesus is not threatened by the Pharisees’ suspicion or undone by their division. He keeps healing. He keeps revealing.

All of that to say, if Lent unsettles you, if it disrupts patterns or pride, that may not be failure. It may be sight.

And better to be a little destabilized by grace than perfectly stable in the dark.

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Through Blind Eyes | Lent Begins in the Dark

John 9:1-7

Lent 1

February 22, 2026

Rev. Teer Hardy

Lent does not begin in the dark because God delights in confusion, but because trust is formed there. The blind man is seen before he sees. Grace precedes understanding. The call precedes clarity. That means the same is true for you. You might feel half-seeing or spiritually muddy. You may feel uncertain about what the season will bring. But you have seen, and you have been told to go.

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You Don’t Have to Wash Your Ash

Matthew 6:1–6, 16–21

Ash Wednesday

February 18, 2026

Rev. Teer Hardy

Ash Wednesday is about telling the truth in front of God.

And here is the truth:

We do not need to be cleaned up before we are loved.

We do not need to be impressive before we are forgiven.

We do not need to scrub away our failures before we are welcomed.

We are already washed.

Not with water alone, but with grace.

Not with our discipline, but with Christ’s mercy.

Not with our righteousness, but with Christ’s.

The ash on your forehead is not a badge of spiritual achievement. It is a confession. It says, “I am not who I pretend to be.

And God answers, “I know. And I love you anyway.”

Amen.

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The Glory

Does what happens on the mountain stay on the mountain?

Matthew 17:1-9

Transfiguration Sunday

February 15, 2026

Rev. Teer Hardy

The season of Epiphany does not conclude with instruction. The Now What? of the season is not “come down the mountain.” It ends with revelation.

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Now What? | Spirit Over Spectacle

1 Corinthians 2:1-16

February 8, 2026

Rev. Teer Hardy

The Spirit does not wait until we get this right.

The Spirit does not arrive once we are finally wise enough, faithful enough, or qualified enough.

The Spirit is already given.

Which means your worth is not pending. Your belonging is not conditional. Your place in God’s life is not something you achieve.

“We have received the Spirit,” Paul says. “We have the mind of Christ.”

Not because we earned it. Not because we mastered anything. But because God, in sheer grace, has chosen to dwell with us.

That is real power. And that is very good news. Amen.

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Jesus is Not Your Mascot

“When being right becomes more important than being faithful.”

1 Corinthians 1:10-18

Third Sunday after the Epiphany

January 25, 2026

Rev. Teer Hardy

Unity is not the prize we earn for good behavior. It is a gift Christ gives to people who keep trying to live as if they belong to someone else.

That’s what makes Paul’s question so sharp: “Has Christ been divided?”Because what Paul is really exposing is this: Christ has already made us one, and we keep trying to unmake it. We keep taking the body Christ has joined together and pulling it apart with our allegiances, ideologies, and egos.

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Now What? | Grace Has Already Been Given

“Once grace is a fact, delay becomes a problem.”

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Second Sunday after the Epiphany

January 18, 2026

Rev. Teer Hardy

Remember the tense:

God has already claimed them.God has already gifted them.God has already bound them to Christ.

God has already claimed you.God has already gifted you.God has already bound them to you.

Which means their lives must catch up to what God has already said is true. Delay does not stop the Kingdom of God from being fully realized, but it does distort how we participate in it.

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“Exposed and Beloved”

January 11, 2026

Matthew 3:13-17

Baptism of the Lord

Rev. Teer Hardy

The Gospel is not that we are less violent than we feared. It is that God does not abandon us when the truth about us is revealed. God meets us there. Claims us there. Names us there.

For those who have been baptized, remembering your baptism is not sentimentality. It is identity when exposure comes. When the headlines shatter our illusions. When fear tempts us to harden our hearts. When we realize how fragile love really is.

Your baptism says there is a deeper word spoken over you. One you did not earn. One you cannot undo.

And if you have not been baptized, hear this clearly. This is not a demand. God has already stepped into the water. Baptism is not the moment God begins to love you. It is the moment your life is publicly named as already belonging to God.

Baptism does not protect us from the world.

It prepares us for it.

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Foolishness Found in the Mess

January 4, 2026

Matthew 2:1-12

Epiphany

Rev. Teer Hardy

So the question Epiphany leaves us with is not, “Are we insiders or outsiders?”

The question is far more tender than that.

When God speaks, will we explain it or follow it?

Because the good news is this.

God is not finished.

Not with the church.

Not with the world.

God is not finished revealing the fullness of God’s grace—often in places we do not expect, through people and ways we do not anticipate, in forms that look foolish until they save us.

The Magi find Christ in the mess, not because the mess disappears, but because God chooses to be found there.

And by grace, so can we.

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“A Weary World Still Rejoices”

Isaiah 9:2-7

Luke 2:1-20

Christmas Eve

Rev. Teer Hardy

Rejoicing might look like showing up at church on a Wednesday night when it would have been easier to stay home.It might look like singing words you are not sure you fully believe yet.It might look like holding a candle and trusting that a small light is enough for now.

The joy of Christmas is not measured by volume. It is measured by presence.

And tonight, God is present.

In a few moments, we will sing Silent Night and hold light in our hands. Not because the darkness is gone, but because it has been met.

The weary still world rejoices, not because the night is over, but because God is with us tonight and every night to come. God is with you.

Amen.

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