In a moment marked by anger, division, and confusion, Dominic Jackson turns to the words of Jesus in Matthew 5 and asks a deeper question: what if the problem isn’t just what’s happening around us—but something beneath it? Through a striking contrast between the “way of the kingdom” and the “way of the empire,” this sermon invites us to reconsider how we respond to injustice, conflict, and cultural tension. Are we being formed more by power, outrage, and control—or by the upside-down vision of Jesus in the Beatitudes?

Dominic explains how the kingdom of God doesn’t advance through force, domination, or even winning—it moves through humility, mercy, peacemaking, and self-giving love. In a world that often looks like empire, this is an invitation to become people who embody a radically different way.