Opening with Psalm 46 and beginning a series through Acts on the early church, this message examines Acts 2:42-47, the fellowship of believers after Pentecost who shared everything in common, and what that unrepeatable moment teaches about being the church today.

Marking Pentecost and beginning a series on what it means to be the church, this message turns to Exodus 3 and the burning bush, where God sees the affliction of his enslaved people and acts to deliver them, connecting it to the racial injustice and protests of 2020.

The concluding message in the "Poverty of Spirit" series by Johannes Metz, exploring how recognizing our human limitations becomes the doorway to encountering God, and how to respond to those decisive, awe-filled moments rather than grasping for control.

Continuing the "Poverty of Spirit" series, this message opens with Matthew 6:25-34 on anxiety and explores the "shapes" of human poverty, especially our provisional nature and lack of control over past and future, drawing also on Colossians 4.

Continuing the "Poverty of Spirit" series on Mother's Day, this message revisits the woman caught in adultery (John 8) as a model of poverty of spirit, then turns to Jesus's account of the final judgment in Matthew 25 to show how that posture works out in action.

Opening with Psalm 103 and continuing the "Poverty of Spirit" series, this message examines John 8 and the woman caught in adultery, contrasting the Pharisees' use of the law of Moses as a power scheme with Jesus's response to human frailty and limitation.

Continuing the meditation on poverty of spirit from Johannes Metz, this message centers on Philippians 2, exploring how the infinite God embraced full human frailty and limitation in Jesus, who emptied himself and took the form of a servant.

Preached in the Easter season, this message reflects on human powerlessness and poverty of spirit, drawing on the Beatitudes and Jesus's temptation in the wilderness in Matthew 4, with help from the book "Poverty of Spirit."

An Easter sermon on the empty tomb (Luke 23-24) and Romans 5, 6, and 8, proclaiming that Christ's resurrection means believers will rise too, that God moves first to reconcile us "while we were yet sinners," and that the risen Jesus gathers the reconciled into the family of God.

A Palm Sunday sermon on the triumphal entry (Luke 19), paired with Jesus' Nazareth manifesto (Luke 4), reflecting on uncontainable, genuine emotion toward Jesus and urging hearers to bring their authentic feelings, even anger, to God rather than settling into self-satisfied complacency.