

Freedom in the Truth About Ourselves
A sermon on John 8:31-36 and Romans 3:19-28. [For an audio recording of this sermon, click here. Photo by Basil James on Unsplash.] I recently ran across a thought-provoking quote from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s non-fiction series The Gulag Archipelago. The Russian writer draws on his own personal experience as a Gulag prisoner, as well as interviews and research from various sources for an examination of the awful ways that human beings can treat one another, and from that ex


Touching Our Enemy's Trigger Hand
A sermon on Luke 6:27-38 [An audio recording of this sermon is available here] “Love your enemies.” Three words that are, somehow, both...


The Offensive, Healing Kingdom
Sermon on Matthew 15:10-28 Today’s gospel reading offers us two different scenes, and the lectionary actually gives preachers the choice...


Growing Among the Weeds
Sermon on Matt. 13: 24-30, 36-43 (as well as Isaiah 44:6-8; Psalm 86:11-17, and Romans 8:12-25) My children have both been going through...




