

Blessing Those Close to the Kingdom
A sermon on Matthew 5:1-12. [for an audio recording of this sermon, click here . Photo by Elsa Gonzalez on Unsplash.com ] It’s been a few years, so I am wondering if anyone here today remembers when we did a one-sitting reading of the whole Gospel of Matthew here at Abiding Peace? (Don’t worry, I’m not going to quiz you about themes, or narrative structure or anything. I just wanted to jog your memory about why it might be important to sometimes take a couple of hours to re


Tweaking the Formula of a Christmas Love Story
A Christmas Eve sermon on Luke 2:1-14 [for an audio recording of this sermon, click here. Photo by Chad Madden on Unsplash.] Throughout...


Fear, Love, and Holy Disruption
A sermon on Matthew 1:18-25. [For an audio recording of this sermon, click here. Photo by Majestic Lukas on Unsplash.com] Last week, we...


Holy Disruption and the Upside-Down Kingdom
A sermon on Luke 1:46-55. [ for an audio recording of this semon, click here. Photo by Trevin Rudy on Unsplash] I had an interesting...


Repentance and Holy Disruption
A sermon on Matthew 3:1-12 [for an audio recording of this sermon, click here. Photo by Brandon Hoogenboom on Unsplash.] I have never...
Breathing Meditation
[Meditation drawing on readings from Genesis 1:1-5, and Isaiah 40:1-5] Just as God began the forming work of creation by breathing over...


Holy Questions
A sermon on Matthew 24:36-44. [for sermon audio recording, click here. Photo by Hans-Peter Gauster on Unsplash] This past Sunday, during...




