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"All of life is rehearsing the world we dream about....We are the ones we've been waiting for."

In this episode of That'll Preach Jim Kast-Keat talks with Jacqui Lewis about the sermon she is preaching at Middle Collegiate Church on Sunday, April 17, 2016.

"I think the best way to discover who we are is by discovering who God is. And we discover a God who is with the poor and the oppressed and the marginalized and we realize that we should be that kind of person too."

In this episode of That'll Preach Jacqui Lewis talks with Jim Kast-Keat about sermon ideas for Acts 9:1-6, the text being preached on April 10 at Middle Collegiate Church.

"When acts of terror happen in the world it's easy for me to tend to despair, it's easy to sit in that place of 'here's another attack.' But if we're placing our energy in the God who was and is and is to come, I think we get a little veneer of protection. Not protection that keeps us from hurting but protection that helps us to get up and keep going."

In this episode of That'll Preach Jacqui Lewis talks with Adriene Thorne about the sermon she is preaching on April 3, the first Sunday after Easter, at Middle Collegiate Church.

"The sermon is the ongoing experience of the Word that keeps becoming flesh."

In this episode of That'll Preach members of the Middle Church Pub Theology group reflects on the seven last words of Jesus for our annual Sermon Slam.

Contributors: Nicole Marie Edine, Deb Williams, Pam Edgar, Starr Austin, Adam Gonnerman, Jim Kast-Keat, Klaudia Gorska, Jairo Mata, Ishamel Houston-Jones.

Music: YEYEY

"You are the resurrection when you feed the people and care for the people and when you march for justice and when you hug somebody you were just mad at, when you forgive, when you behave on behalf of God, the love that God calls us to -- you are the resurrection."

In this episode of That'll Preach Jim Kast-Keat talks with Jacqui Lewis about the sermon she is preaching on Easter at Middle Collegiate Church.

"How do people find a way to do something about it or feel like they can star in the drama in which we're bending the moral arc of the universe towards justice? I want people to feel that they have agency to enter the scene and agency to change our minds, to feel like agents as opposed to puppets."

In this episode of That'll Preach Jim Kast-Keat talks with Jacqui Lewis about the Palm Sunday worship celebration and the sermon she is preaching on Sunday, March 20 at Middle Collegiate Church.

"Jesus is just like, 'Y'all come on and be just like you are. It's cool for me.' The extravagant offering of the perfume is such a fragrant offering that it overcomes the stench of death."

In this episode of That'll Preach Jim Kast-Keat talks with Jacqui Lewis about the sermon she is preaching on Sunday, March 13 at Middle Collegiate Church.

You can watch clips from Just Faith at http://www.jacquijlewis.com/justfaith.

"God is still speaking in this book that we love. And we're all theologians interpreting this word, this living, breathing word. And every time we crack open this book it's got something to say to us, it's got something tasty and delicious, it's never old, it's never stale, it's never static."

In this episode of That'll Preach Jacqui Lewis and Jim Kast-Keat talk with Adriene Thorne about the sermon she is preaching on Sunday, March 6 at Middle Collegiate Church.

To find out more about Adriene Thorne and Middle Collegiate Church, visit www.middlechurch.org.

"There is an unnatural law of racism, of white supremacy, of white privilege. This law has become a wall and we can't get to peace until we break down this wall."

In this episode of That'll Preach Jim Kast-Keat talks with Jacqui Lewis about the sermon she is preaching on Sunday, February 28 at Middle Collegiate Church.

You can find out more about the Revolutionary Love conference at MiddleProject.org.

"Words create worlds. A sermon comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable."

In this episode of That'll Preach Jacqui Lewis talks with Jim Kast-Keat about his approach to writing and delivering a sermon.

To find out more about Jim Kast-Keat and Middle Collegiate Church, visit http://www.middlechurch.org.