Scripture
26 sermons in the archive.
You'll hear what the single Greek word Jesus spoke from the cross actually meant to the people standing there, and why it means the guilt you carry has already been settled, not by anything you can do, but by what was finished that afternoon.
You'll examine the different kinds of blindness in John 9, from the disciples' rush to judgment to the Pharisees' refusal to accept what's right in front of them, and come away with a sharper question: what are you failing to see in the people around you?
You'll come away understanding why John opens his Gospel with a Greek philosophical term, and why the claim that 'the Word became flesh' would have stunned both Jewish and Greek audiences in a way no angel-and-manger story could.
You'll come away understanding why the church bears a particular responsibility to oppose antisemitism, and what you can actually say or do when you encounter it in everyday life.
You'll see how the same impulse that made Thomas demand to touch Jesus' wounds shows up today when strangers interrogate disabled people in parking lots, and what a resurrection faith actually asks of you instead.
You'll hear why the same human blindness that kept first-century people from recognizing Jesus in person is still at work in you today, and what it looks like to actively receive rather than reject him in ordinary life.
You'll hear why Jesus refused to be only a problem-solver for immediate needs, and what it means that the same God who fed thousands in a field also came to satisfy the hunger that no meal, achievement, or relief can touch.
You'll hear why the Christian experience of 'choosing' faith may be only part of the story, and what it means to consider that the Spirit was working in your life long before you were aware of it.
You'll hear what Jesus actually promised the Holy Spirit would do, spelled out in one of Scripture's most specific passages on the subject, and why that list matters for the ongoing journey of figuring out what you believe.
You'll come away with a clearer picture of what it actually means to live as a Christian in a world that doesn't share your values: not by retreating from it, not by fighting it, but by loving it the way God does, at real cost to yourself.
You'll hear how the freedom celebrated on the Fourth of July barely scratches the surface of the freedom Jesus is actually offering, and what it looks like to honestly reckon with the blind spots that keep us settling for less.
You'll see how Thomas — far from being a failure of faith — models exactly what it looks like to bring your hardest questions to Jesus and find him already waiting there to meet you.
You'll hear why Jesus deliberately withheld things from his closest followers, and what that pattern of being broken down and rebuilt means for the challenges you sense God is preparing you for right now.
You'll see how a single miraculous meal points past itself to something Jesus calls the true bread from heaven, and what it means that he identifies that bread as himself.
You'll hear how Mary of Bethany, alone among those closest to Jesus, actually listened to what he said about his own death and acted on it, and what her example asks of you about emotional availability, sacrifice, and knowing when to break with what's expected.
You'll see why real cultural change in a church requires examining and sacrificing deeply held values, not just adding new programs, and how Jesus modeled exactly that kind of disruptive, leveling love at a dinner table.
You'll hear why lasting personal change can't come from moving cities, reinventing your appearance, or trying harder — and how the water-to-wine miracle points to the kind of transformation that actually reaches the core of who you are.
You'll hear a close reading of John 11 that argues Jesus wasn't just grieving at Lazarus's tomb but was angry, and what that fury aimed at death itself means for how you understand the resurrection.
You'll hear why Nicodemus came to Jesus under cover of night, and what his mix of curiosity and shame has to do with the parts of yourself you're not sure God can actually forgive.
You'll come away with a sharper picture of what Jesus actually meant by friendship, why his definition was radical in its own time, and what it might cost you to live it out now.
You'll hear why being part of Jesus's flock isn't passive, and how to tell the difference between a true call and an attack dressed up as one, whether from outside pressure or familiar voices you've long trusted.
You'll hear why the resurrection is more than a historical claim, and how the reality of it can hold you steady when a diagnosis, a loss, or your own mortality makes the future feel terrifying.
You'll hear why the opening verses of John's Gospel are not just a poetic prologue but a claim that God has always chosen to move toward chaos rather than away from it, and what that means for the darkest places in your own life and in the lives of people you love.
You'll hear why John the Baptist matters beyond being a footnote to Christmas, and walk away with a concrete question: what's cluttering the road through your own heart that makes it hard to receive what Advent is actually about?
You'll hear why Jesus told his closest friends not to be afraid on the worst night of their lives, and how that same promise speaks directly to whatever is keeping you anxious or grieving right now.
You'll hear how a single word cut through Mary Magdalene's grief and confusion on the first Easter morning, and what it means that Jesus calls each person by name rather than through argument or explanation.