Guerrilla Christianity

Guerrilla Christianity

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Guerrilla Christianity episodes

  • S10E16: Debts Are Tossed (Having Words with Jesus pt. 3)

    Sermon #516

    As we continue to look at what it means to be a disciple of Christ, we come to a particularly difficult passage, one of the so-called "hard sayings" of Jesus.  On the surface, it seems that Jesus may be suggesting that the disciples act dishonestly when dealing with worldly issues.  Yet when we probe deeper and look at the passage in its proper context, we see that what is in view here is to use the resources that God gives to us - which can often be colored in dishonest gain - to bring others to repentance and faith in Christ, that we may build an eternal kingdom, rather than a temporal one that we will leave behind when we die.  It is a difficult passage and a challenging message.

    Luke 16:1-13

    Recorded at Hudson UMC on September 19, 2022 (original September 18 recording unusable)

    S.D.G.

    42 min
  • S10E15: Creating from Chaos (Season of Creation pt. 3)

    Sermon #355

    (This series from 2019 has previously not been published)

    When we are in a time of chaos - a natural disaster, some financial crisis - it's hard to imagine anything good coming from it.  Yet time and time again we see that destruction is not the final word for God.  Where some may see an end, God sees a beginning.  It was that way in Jeremiah's time, when the Babylonian armies were about to sweep in and destroy Jerusalem and Judah, taking the Israelites away to exile.  Yet God promised through Jeremiah that out of the chaos would come a new creation.  We see this happening in our own lives as well, and God will continue to bring creation out of chaos again.

    Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28

    Recorded at Hudson UMC on September 15, 2019 (Previously unpublished)

    S.D.G.

    28 min
  • S10E14: Life and Death in Creation (Season of Creation pt. 2)

    Sermon #354

    (This series from 2019 has previously not been published)

    In today's reading from Jeremiah, God leads Jeremiah to the potter's house where he witnesses the potter smashing a pot that displeased him and remaking it into something else.  It's a picture of how God transforms us through a process called Sanctification.  God is our creator, and just like the pot cannot complain to the potter, so we cannot complain to our creator when he demands of us loyalty and faith.  Yet we continue in our sin to separate ourselves from him, and all the time he continues to call to us to turn from our sin and return to him, in an action called repentance.  

    Jeremiah 18:1-11

    Recorded at Ebenezer UMC on September 8, 2019 (Previously unpublished)

    27 min
  • S10E13: Caring for Creation (Season of Creation pt. 1)

    Sermon #353

    (This series from 2019 has previously not been published)

    We're beginning a new series based in Jeremiah called "Season of Creation."  As the Summer winds down and we begin to slip comfortably into Fall, we are reminded of our own mortality and our estrangement from God.  Indeed, Jeremiah reminds the people (by way of God's word) that they have been trying to do things on their own rather than relying upon God, and that is a very bad plan indeed.  God calls all of creation to testify and judge the people of Judah, and in the end they are found wanting.  Let this be a reminder to us that God is the source of living water, and we ought not to rely upon cracked cisterns of our own making to quench our spiritual thirst.

    Jeremiah 2:4-13

    Recorded at Hudson UMC on September 1, 2019 (Previously unpublished)

    S.D.G.

    32 min
  • S10E12: Finding the Lost (Having Words with Jesus pt. 2)

    Sermon #515

    As we continue to look at what discipleship demands of us, we come to the realization that as disciples, we are commissioned to make other disciples.  And part of that commission is knowing that the world is lost, that everywhere we look there are lost souls in need of being found.  Jesus told three parables in Luke 15 that describe lost things that are found.  But what lies at the root of this truth is, all of us are lost without God, and none of us are seeking him - it is God that seeks us, and we, the church, are his lamp to draw the lost out of darkness.

    Luke 15:1-10

    Recorded at Ebenezer UMC on September 11, 2022

    S.D.G.

    33 min
  • S10E11: Counting the Cost (Having Words with Jesus pt. 1)

    Sermon #514

    We're starting a new series in the book of Luke called "Having Words with Jesus," and the focus of the series will be on what it means to be a disciple of Jesus.  Before we begin our journey, though, we first need to take stock of our lives and decide if we are willing or even able to submit ourselves to the life that Jesus calls us to.  We need to count the cost of discipleship to determine if we are able to follow through.  But Gd gives to us all we need in order to follow him; we only need to be willing to make him the primary relationship in our lives, over every earthly relationship and over every possession.  We need to be able to put to death our old nature and be raised again in Christ.  Can you do that?  Then let's begin our journey and follow hard after Christ, who gave his all for us.

    Luke 14:25-33

    Recorded at Hudson UMC on September 4, 2022

    S.D.G.

    37 min

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