Sermons

To watch the video click here Acts 2:1-18 Americans are known around the world for our limited language skills. People who grow up in other countries often know multiple languages, and although they probably have a native language that is most comfortable, they are able to understand other predominate languages. The same would have been true in Jesus’ day and setting. […]

Acts 1:1-14 You can read the sermon below or watch it here: Video This is one of those biblical stories that falls into the category of—what’s the word? Is it miracle? Mystery? Fantasy? It is illogical, certainly. We earthlings are pretty familiar with the concept of gravity, and people do not take their leave by rising

John 14:15-21 You can read the sermon below or watch it here: https://youtu.be/2faSFc65AZk    (Watching/listening is suggested this week because it includes a guided meditation.) This passage from the Gospel According to John is from a portion of scripture that scholars call Jesus’ Farewell Discourse. In this story it is Thursday of Holy Week, the evening

Watch the video of the sermon here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dysQIsCV9pQ Ephesians 2:11-22 Imagine with me that we are members of the early church. We have gathered in the home of one of our members—the largest home because our numbers are increasing. We are all followers of Jesus, but we are not all the same. Far from it. Some

To watch  the video click Here John 10:1-11 I have noticed a change in my preaching recently. I have noticed that I am bored . . . not with the scriptures or with preaching, but with the usual way of interpreting them. I have grown weary of wading through scholarly arguments about obscure theology that may

You can watch a storytelling version of the scripture Here You can watch the sermon Here John 20:1-18 A biblical scholar I read this week said he is always surprised that so many people go to church on Easter. He said it’s really not Christianity 101. Easter is more of an advanced course—something you only understand by

You can watch the video of our Good Friday musical, Hold On to Love, here: https://youtu.be/dIv_c2a32so  

You can watch the storytelling and sermon here: https://youtu.be/G3oIBlVmLgk Matthew 21:1-11 Preachers vary on their approach to this day. For some it has always been and will always be Palm Sunday, and that’s all. But many others are now calling it Palm [slash] Passion Sunday. It used to be—or at least there is the perception that

You can watch the sermon here: https://youtu.be/k1oeq-Sbw8U Mark 11:15-19 You can blame Marvin Ellison for this sermon. OK, not for the sermon, but for the scripture choice. You see, I was meeting with Marvin back in January, and I told him about our Lenten theme, how we would hold on to things rather than give them