Tag: Trust
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A Betrayable Life – A Sermon on John 13:21-32 For Wednesday In Holy Week
It’s easy and tempting to look at today’s gospel (John 13:21-32) and cast Jesus as the victim and Judas as the villain. It seems to be the usual interpretation. Maybe that’s a projection of our own experience of being betrayed. We feel like the victim. But Jesus never cast himself as the victim. He doesn’t Read more
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It’s A Question Of Consistency – A Sermon On Luke 4:14-21
One of the things I’ve always tried to be with you is consistent. I want who you get on Sunday to be who you get on Monday, Tuesday, the day after, and the one after that. I want what you see in and hear from me to be consistent with the gospel week after week. Read more
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Protection From Myself – A Sermon On Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20 and Matthew 21:33-46
Let’s start with a pop quiz about the ten commandments (Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20). Here’s why I started with those questions. Over the last twenty years or so there have been several polls about the ten commandments. They all found that the vast majority of Americans support the public display of the commandments but only Read more
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Faith and the Storms of Life
35On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” 36And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. 37A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the Read more
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Certain or Faithful?
I am generally wary of people who seem too certain in their faith. Some might say I am equivocal or unwilling to make a commitment. Others might say I have fallen into relativism and that if I had more faith I would be certain. Or maybe it is jealousy; certainty has never really been my Read more
Interrupting the Silence 