Jesus lays out what it looks like to forgive as we ought to forgive. In his trying examples, he highlights all the de-escalation we can do much more easily.
As we continue our theme of Merely Christian, we look at what Jesus says about people who reassure themselves that they are good people because they are, at least, better…
The Psalmist reminds us that the first step toward reconciliation and the work of building God's world together is repenting of our sin. In America, to build the nation we…
Jesus's sermon on the mount includes Christianity's most famous prayer. As we pray it, think about what it says about what we need to build the sovereign realm of God…
As the church and minister prepare to go on sabbatical, Paul exhorts us to be assured of God's love, because God loved us and came in the form of Jesus…
One of the amazing predictions Jesus makes is that, in our church life, we're going to sin against one another. The question is whether than sin is an invitation to…
Joseph's brothers did some pretty bad things to him. But he was able to get away from their injury, spend time with God, and be healed (and it didn't hurt…
What if Jesus came not only to heal, but to remind us that suffering and purity are not connected? What does it look like if we understand that maybe someone's…
The Bible contains many different kinds of stories. In this transition between the Bible as prehistory and the Bible as history, the parental relationship of God to God's children is…
Following on our previous sermons reminding us that we do not know the full story of anything we see, and that we should not be afraid of lifting up our…
Jesus gives us incredible power to choose the life we will live forever. We have the power to define our community. But with that comes the responsibility to forgive extravagantly…
Remember, an eye for an eye is a restriction on escalation. It is to remind us that no matter how angry we are, there are limits to the punishments people…
