What is salvation? Perhaps you’ve heard of salvation as fire insurance against a toxic human condition and an angry God? Despite centuries of mischaracterization, the Apostle Paul communicates something different. Salvation opens the door to […]

Have you forgotten? Have you taken the time to notice? God loves you. God comes to us in the vulnerability of a newborn babe. God patiently waits for us to open our eyes and hearts […]

Listen to this sermon from the second week of Advent, when we focus on peace.

Faith gives us hope. Then hope opens the door to more good, which strengthens faith.

As we prepare to celebrate the coming of Christ, what does it mean to be “justified by faith”? Why did it matter to Paul? What does it mean to us?

God wants us to see where we fall short. Acknowledgement is the beginning of new possibilities as we become conscious of our sin.

You are walking scripture. What is the verse your life is expressing? This sermon is an invitation to humility, grace, and faithfulness.

Paul’s rhetorical style is to use people’s judgement to trap them — like the prophet Nathan — and thereby to lead them out of judgement and into self-awareness and repentance.

Do you have a church community where you are growing as a person? Where people help you live out your values, and challenge you to expand your heart to new dimensions? Where people encourage your […]

Many things seem difficult or hopeless in our world. One of the hardest is our human intransignce in persisting with harmful behavior. Jesus Christ opens up new possibilities heretofore unexperienced and perhaps even unimagined.