Choosing the Narrow Way | More Than a Quality Sermon

“From soundbites to surrender”

August 31, 2025

Matthew 7:24-29

Rev. Teer Hardy

The Sermon on the Mount only makes sense if Jesus Christ really did conquer sin and death. If He is still in the grave, then sure, treat His words like inspirational wall art. But if He is risen, if He is alive, then His words are not optional. They are the blueprint for life on resurrection ground.

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Choosing the Narrow Way | Sunday Best, Counterfeit Faith

“Why Jesus isn’t fooled by our religious résumés”

August 24, 2025

Matthew 7:21-23

Rev. Teer Hardy

And here is the Good News: The One who warns us is also the One who knows us. The Judge is also the Savior. The same Jesus who said, “Depart from me,” also promises, “I will never leave or forsake you.”

Our hope is not in how loudly we can shout “Lord, Lord.” It is not in the mighty works we like to show off. It is not in how we behave or how clever we think we are. Our hope is in the One who knows, claims, and holds us.

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Choosing the Narrow Way | The Golden Rule in a Good Friday World

"The Rule We Can’t Keep—and the Love That Keeps Us"

August 4, 2025

Matthew 7:12

Rev. Teer Hardy

The gospel is not fairness. It is mercy.

It is not “treat others how they treat you.”

It is Jesus on the cross saying, “Father, forgive them.

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Choosing the Narrow Way | Knock, knock. Who’s there? Grace.

July 27, 2025

Matthew 7:7-11

Rev. Teer Hardy

Perhaps the best prayer we can offer today sounds like knuckles hitting the wood. The rhythm of our pleading. The hollow echo of the hallway outside the closed door.

But resurrection means the knocking is never in vain.

We do not knock on the door of a stranger. We knock on the door of the One who knows our name. Who hears before we speak. Who has already rolled the stone away.

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Choosing the Narrow Way | A Log in Your Eye

“Double Halos and Dirty Mirrors”

July 13, 2025

Matthew 7:1-5

Rev. Teer Hardy

The way is narrow because it asks something hard of us: to love before we correct, to confess before we critique, to see others through the lens of grace before we try to fix them through the lens of the Law.

We do not see clearly because we are right. We can see because we have been seen and forgiven. Because we are loved by the One who had every right to judge us harshly and instead chose grace.

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Practicing Resurrection | More Than Enough

July 7, 2025

Matthew 6:25-34

Rev. Teer Hardy

So, if you are carrying anxiety this morning, not as an abstract idea but in tight shoulders and sleepless nights, here is the Good News:

The One who raised Jesus Christ from the dead has not abandoned you.

You are not alone.

You do not have to hold the world together. That job is already taken.

So, stop.

Breathe.

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Practicing Resurrection | Drowning in Treasure

“Jesus Isn’t Against Success. He’s Just Asking a Better Question.”

June 29, 2025

Matthew 6:19-24

Third Sunday After Pentecost

Rev. Teer Hardy

Jesus is not mad at you for having wealth; he’s just tired of seeing it break your heart.

So here is the invitation again: “Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” The question is not what do you own. The question is, what owns you?

And if the answer is not Jesus, then it might be time to let some things go, not because you’re being punished, but because God wants to set you free.

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Practicing Resurrection | Drop the Mask. Wash Your Face.

June 22, 2025

Matthew 6:16-18

Season After Pentecost

Rev. Teer Hardy

We’ve swapped out the mask of indifference for the mask of self-righteousness. We’ve dressed up our ego and religious clothing and called it faithfulness. That still is just a mask. And the father who sees in secret wants more than that.

And that is the reward: The Father sees in secret. Not the praise of people or the illusion of control. The quiet, sustaining truth that God already knows you and loves you anyway. That, friends, is grace.

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Practicing Resurrection | Folded, Bowed, and Closed.

Matthew 6:5-15

June 15, 2025

Trinity Sunday

Rev. Teer Hardy

Because Christ is risen,Because Christ is ascended,Our prayers are not flung into the void.

They are gathered into the life of God.

So:

Don’t pray like God is far away.Don’t pray like no one’s listening.Don’t pray like someone auditioning for a part.

Pray like the tomb is empty.Pray like the Son is alive.Pray like someone who’s already been heard.

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Resurrection Discipleship | This is Not About You (Thank God)

“Pentecost, Inclusion, and the Quiet Power of Resurrection Generosity”

June 8, 2025

Acts 2:1-21and Matthew 6:1-4

Pentecost

Rev. Teer Hardy

Pentecost was already inclusive before we got around to recognizing it. God was already including the lost, erased, and invisible. The one's history forgot. The people the Church has too often pushed to the margins, the ones we struggle to understand. God brought all of them into the story.

So yes, we can celebrate Pride Month throughout June. And yes, it matters deeply because the Church (capital C) and The United Methodist Church has done immeasurable harm to the LGBTQ+ community. That harm must be named, confessed, and repented of. But we must also say this plainly: Inclusion is not a seasonal offering. It is God's default setting, and as Christ's body, inclusivity is an inherent part of the church's nature.

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