Sermon: Cultivating Contentment

“Cultivating Contentment”
(November 15, 2009) Too often, we buy into the idea that something– money, success, stuff, food, can fill the empty feeling inside us. The truth is that we will always have a sense of being incomplete without the deep peace of God, the One for whom we yearn. Perhaps our feeling of discontent [...]

Sermon: Crumbs of Grace

“Crumbs of Grace”
(September 6, 2009) We discover in this passage–one of my favorites!– something wonderful about God’s grace: that it is poured out even and especially on those most broken, most desperate, most in need of blessing. We also discover something true about ourselves and who we are to be as a church: we are [...]

Sermon: “Measuring what we don’t have”

“Measuring what we don’t have”
(July 26, 2009) Like the people of Israel, wandering in the desert, like the disciples of Jesus, trying to feed a multitude with a handful of bread and a couple fish, we are slow to believe that God’s abundance will be enough for us. We live instead in a mindset [...]

Sermon: Fools and Fools for God

“Fools and Fools for God”
(July 12, 2009) David goes all out, dancing his heart out for God. Some thought he looked a little foolish, perhaps, but Paul reminds us that God uses that which is foolish to accomplish divine purposes. Are we ready to go all out, to live our faith out loud without [...]

Sermon: Feeling the Tug

“Feeling the Tug”
(June 28, 2009) Jesus took notice of a woman in incredible pain who was reaching out to him. He felt her tug on the edge of his garment, and turned to offer grace and blessing, completing her healing. Who are the people who are reaching out to us in their pain? In the [...]

Sermon: What do you Know?

“What do you Know?”
(January 25, 2009) When Jesus calls the disciples, he calls them to what they know–fishing–but applied in a new way for God’s work in the world. So it is with us; God calls us through the gifts and passions and blessings we have. I share my own call story as an example [...]

Sermon: Super Savior

“Super Savior”
( August 3, 2008 ) Jesus tells us that we can do the works he has done and even greater things, but how are we to understand this? How can you and I actually do the work of Christ as the Body of Christ in the world? (Matthew 14:13-21 and John 14:7-14)

Sermon: Lessons in What Not to Do

“Lessons in What Not to Do”
( June 29, 2008 ) Does God give us permission to question, to debate, to dialogue about the words we believe come from God? I believe so. I believe God tells us this strange and disturbing story to teach us that we must always question words that condone violence, even– [...]

Sermon: Enough for Today

“Enough for Today”
( June 1, 2008 ) Our culture teaches us (and we believe) that we must have more in order to be happy, but Jesus teaches that God’s blessing is enough. (Matthew 6:24-34)

Seekers at the Tomb: Mary Magdalene

“Seekers at the Tomb: Mary Magdalene”
( Easter Sunday, March 23, 2008 ) Be sure to listen to the four previous monologues as well!
In place of a sermon, we presented five monologues of people close to Joshua– that’s Jesus for you Greek speakers. Each responds to the resurrection with their own joy and their own fears [...]