What Jesus Saw from the Cross: Jesus on the Cross

In this sermon I take a look at the paradox that for Christians maturity actually means becoming childlike. I distinguish this from being childish and from how the world defines maturity. The sermon is light and short to fit the occasion. The children of the church led worship including reading the scripture from Matthew 18:1-6. They even led children's songs for the hymns. It was very fun and this sermon was written to fit with and accentuate our childlike worship service.

1 Feb 201614min

In this sermon I take a look at the paradox that in God's kingdom small is big and the trivial is often important.

26 Jan 201620min

This sermon is much more specific to my own congregation. In it, I take a look at where we are as a church and what issues we are facing as we try to be a church in the world today. I also announce good new about our capital campaign and invite everyone to a celebratory dinner.

22 Jan 201619min

Here I being a new series on Paradoxes of the faith. The series is inspired by the book Paradoxes for Living by N. Graham Standish. In this first sermon I introduce paradoxes and look at Luke 9:23-25.

13 Jan 201623min

As we come into a New Year, I reflect on how we as Christians should approach our plans. Do we wait for God or do we set goals and plan our lives? I talk about 4 kinds of people in the world- driftwood, docked boats, motor boats, and sail boats. As Christians we should be sail boats--setting goals and following the wind of the Spirit.

6 Jan 201626min

In this sermon I look at the power and importance of church music including carols, hymns, and praise music. I begin with why God's presence in the Bible is accompanied with singing and then move into why singing and music is so important to our faith.

28 Dec 201517min

There are 2 things I have never noticed about the story of the shepherds.  1.) The angel are not shiny. It is the glory of the Lord that shines.  2.) The angel does not tell them to go to see the Bible. The angel just tells   them where to find the baby an they decide to go.  in this sermon, I unpack these 2 insights and suggest that they point to 2 related thing that people long for--the glory of God and a sense of wonder.

23 Dec 201521min

Here I continue my sermon series on what we really long for. In this sermon I take a look at COMFORT. The sermon is left a little open ended because it set up an experience where church members decorated a tree with ornaments memorializing family and friends that are not with them for Christmas.

16 Dec 201522min