Scripture
5 sermons in the archive.
You'll see how the long, messy history of failed human kings in the Old Testament wasn't a detour in God's plan but the very thing that makes the promise of a different kind of king, one who won't crush the weakest reed, so striking and so specific.
You'll see how Isaiah's vision of a sovereign, unshakeable God speaks directly to the moments when human leadership fails you, and what it means to respond to a king who cleanses rather than condemns.
You'll hear why Isaiah frames God's disappointment with Israel as both a love song and a courtroom case, and what it means that God's response to covenant-breaking is grief before it is judgment.
You'll hear a direct answer to why Jesus, who had nothing to repent of, submitted to baptism, and come away with a fresh sense of what your own baptism (or a future one) actually means: that God knows your name and claims you as his own.
You'll hear why sincere devotion to God always turns outward toward people who are hurting, and what it looks like when religious practice becomes a way of avoiding that responsibility rather than fulfilling it.