In this sermon we look at a controversial and theologically demanding story. We read it through the lens of the ancient world in order to see how God is moving to change the narrative of what they thought they knew. We are challenged to see how God is rewriting the story of creation in Jesus.

In this sermon Wil Ryland explores the connections between Jesus' baptism and crucifixion and what it has to do with how we see everything.

In this sermon we reflect on the story of Abraham’s call, of what it means to be way in over our heads, how God put’s God’s own reputation on the line for the sake of creation’s restoration, and a story about how a bunch of strangers made a lonely man not feel so lonely.

In this sermon we look at an array of passages in order to reflect on how the ancient Hebrew people came to reflect on the relationship between God and creation. We talk about what these passages tell us about God, about humanity, and about how stories functioned for them not to capture events in history but in order to say something true about God for all time. 

In this sermon we look at the struggle of creation to live into the fullness of life, the drama of desire, a Rilke poem, and the worst thing we can do as humans.

In this sermon we talk about human vocation, God speaking, the nones, the mega-church mentality, competing cultural liturgies, and the reason for our existence. 

In this sermon we start a new series called Origin Stories. We look at the first creation in Genesis not in terms of its relationship to scientific theories about the beginning of all things, but as a story Israel wrote down in exile to be a symbol of stability in a time of great instability. 

In this sermon we explore through the story of Jonah the gift and necessity of coming to the end of your self, resigned into the darkness of a whale's belly, as the only way of dealing with the monsters that lurk beneath the surface of our souls. 

In this sermon we look at Jesus’ words in Matthew 6 in terms of what it means to be people of substance, people whose insides match up with their outsides, where our motivation and actions are aligned and we are living authentically. 

In this sermon look at the story of Peter. Through him we see an image of the soul’s journey of calling, adventure, risk, testing, failure, and homecoming.