Biblical Text: Matthew 15:21-28 Full Sermon Draft The text is the Canaanite woman’s request. In a week of Nazis and violence it would have been harder to pick a better text. The sermon explores the relationship between Christ and Tribe … Continue reading →

Biblical Text: Matthew 14:22-33 Full Sermon Draft Recording note: I had to rerecord the lessons, but the sermon is live. It is a skinny recording this week, sans the music, for that remix reason. The point of a church is … Continue reading →

Text: Matthew 14:13-21 Full Sermon Draft After the last month of parables, today’s text was a shift to miracles. But the feeding miracles are almost a category of their own. The way I categorize miracles is typically: healings, nature or … Continue reading →

Biblical Text: Matthew 13:44-52 Full Sermon Draft The text is the conclusion of the parable sermon. It encompasses three parables, the treasure in the field, the pearl of great price and the net. In this preaching I’m, resting almost exclusively … Continue reading →

Biblical Text: Matthew 13:24-43 Full Sermon Draft Parables and the purpose of the parables have in the last couple of generations of interpreters have had two dramatically different purposes. In the hippy era, the parables were these nice earthy stories … Continue reading →

Biblical Text: Matthew 11:25-30 Full Sermon Draft Ever felt that everything was going to crap? That something you had invested all your hopes in was coming up snake-eyes? That moment in the ministry of Jesus is what this sermon is … Continue reading →

Biblical Text: Matthew 10:34-42 Full Sermon Draft This is the completion of the reading of the Jesus’ missionary discourse or sermon on mission. The sermon is full of striking images, but this section has one of the most striking. “Don’t … Continue reading →

Biblical Text: Matthew 10:21-33 Full Sermon Draft As we start the long green season the readings have dropped us into the Missionary Discourse. That is a fancy way of saying Jesus’ sermon on sharing the faith. We read the start … Continue reading →

Biblical Text: Matthew 9:35-10:8 Full Sermon Draft Did I ever tell you how wimpy I think our modern translators are? By wimpy I largely mean they are representatives of their class and training. If the choice is between a gritty … Continue reading →

Text: Matthew 28:16-20, Athanasian Creed Full Sermon Draft Trinity Sunday is the one Sunday a year that I feel free to talk a little pure theology. It is not that my sermons other Sundays are theology free, they couldn’t be … Continue reading →