Could the Ten Commandments be the secret to a better life and a better world?

Based on the Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds in Matthew 13, we pose the question: “what is wheat supposed to do?”

Jesus calls us, his disciples to have an ache that is soul-deep for the world outside the church.

Based on the promises in Jeremiah 33:14-16, we begin this Advent season in expectation and hope, crying, “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel!”

Based on Ezekiel 34:11-24, what does it mean to live under the reign of a king, and a shepherd king at that?

Based on Matthew 6:24-34, Jesus’ teaching about not worrying begins with the source of much of our anxiety: the worship of wealth rather than God.

Based on Deuteronomy 6:1-9 and the book The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, this sermon looks at the ways we practice “paranoid parenting.” Instead of preparing the road for our children, we need to prepare our children … Continue reading Episode Twenty-Five – Preparing the Child for the Road →

Isaiah 55 asks us why we spend our money on that which is not bread while the true bread is offered to us for free.  There is a feast going on, a great party to which we are invited.  Why would we not want to come?

What is your basic approach to life, and to change?  Is your default reaction a quick “No!” or an excuse as to why things should stay the same?  Or are you open to changes that help us grow closer to being the people God is calling us to be?

On All Saints Sunday, we are called to remember that we are united with those who have gone before us into the kingdom of heaven, even as we are to be the Church Militant, actively and aggressively engaged in showing the world a foretaste of that kingdom.