Sermons

About a week-and-a-half ago, a woman named Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed by police. And we have to talk about that. There’s no getting around it.

John’s going to get fired, of course. You cannot call your congregation a brood of vipers and expect folks to feel the spirit.

When we come to church, do we expect to encounter and experience the love that restores and redeems the world?

We have been waiting for so long. For almost a whole 2020… and even longer.

I like Mary. She’s trouble. She’s good trouble.

I have been wronged by ounces… and I have benefitted from systems that have wronged others by tons.

We live in a world where, far too often, we would rather carry the unbearable burden of our sins and suffer in silence than confess that we are carrying them at all.

It seemed little and sensible at the time. And now there are big, unintended, destructive consequences.

Power does not like prophecy.

Imagine what those people in that terrible city would do to a little girl… standing in a field… plucking petals from a daisy.