In this sermon was talk about what many have been feeling in this pandemic season, which is isolation and loneliness. We talk about loneliness as having to do with human connection in various ways, but also in our having a sense of our own worthiness to love and be loved. We find hope and good news in this image of Jesus as the good shepherd who seeks us out and calls us to seek out the lonely as well.

In this sermon we consider why the bodily resurrection of Jesus matters so much. With the deaths of Daunte Wright and Adam Toledo in mind, as well ongoing mass shootings in American culture, we consider what it means to be drawn into a new kind of future with bodies being made fit for the new creation. 

In this sermon, we read the story of Thomas through the lens of grief. We consider that part of what it means to be sent as Jesus was sent is to show up in solidarity with others, showing our wounds and saying that we get it. In this kind of vulnerability, the final word becomes possible. Peace.

In this sermon we look at the cliffhanger ending of Mark’s gospel considering the tension between past and future, the empty tomb and the promise that Jesus will meet them in Galilee, and what means for us to walk out of our own tombs into a future made possible because of Jesus’ resurrection. And this with a healthy dose of the Shawshank Redemption to help us imagine it. 

In this sermon we reflect on what Jesus’ so-called triumphal entry means, particularly the symbolism of him riding into Jerusalem on a donkey. We draw on the Alexamenos Graffito to consider how the ancient church flipped the satirical image of a donkey and embraced it as a badge of honor.

In this sermon look at what it means for Jesus to say that his hour has come, what that hour means, what it has to do with the arrival of some gentiles at the passover, and how the crucified body of Jesus, a body broken, porous, not intact, not holding it all together, whose insides commingle with its outsides becomes a means of grace for all such that the old boundaries of exclusion are relativized in light of it and a new future is made possible for all because of it.

In this sermon look at what it means for Jesus to say that the Son of Man must be lifted up, how God challenges our assumptions about what we think we know, and the qualitative (versus quantitative) aspect of how God so loved the world, as well as a few other things in this famous passage in John’s gospel. 

In this sermon we explore through the story of Jesus' transfiguration our expectations of God versus the reality of God.

In this sermon Nick Clarke, with a little help from Mumford and Sons, takes us into the scriptures about Lent, baptism, death, resurrection, and what it means to know that we, with Jesus, are beloved.