Is Psalm 9 about us, Adam and Eve, or Jesus? As the taco commercial says, “why not both?” God granted humanity dominion over creation, but Jesus had to come down and do it right after the fall.

How does God preserve, refine, purify Christians?

In this reading, Jesus annihilates human understandings of power.

Only you can prevent forest fires. How great a forest is burned by a small fire. And that fire is the tongue.

We always like to think we’re the ones at the table, not the ones begging for scraps. Are Jesus’ gospel words always for us?

Above all else guard your heart! But didn’t Jesus say that things that come out of your heart are what defile the person?

You were created to do something and you are different from others who were also created to do another thing. Fall into your place in the body of Christ, the Bride of Christ.

Today we learn about the visitation of Mary. The entirety of salvation history and the language of the psalms and prophets were woven into Mary’s Magnificat, as all those things weave together as Christ’s human nature is woven together in the womb.

In this sermon we engage with Elijah and his story that may sound familiar to us: being driven into isolation and sinful desire because we feel all alone. Jesus, the Bread of Life, calls us out of that through faith in him and new life practiced in the Church community.

What if I don’t want what God gives me because it’s the same thing? What if I want something different, new, and exciting? Well, you and many others feel this way. Jesus calls you out of that toxic way of thinking. The ultimate “dopamine detox.”