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Jews and Christians: The 614th Commandment
Here’s the Sunday sermon from this weekend on Romans 10 (but really Romans 9-11). I say Sunday sermon because Saturday’s sermon was…ahem…a disaster and required massive rethinking. Apologies to all the...
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Enough: A Letter to My Boys
This weekend we continue our sermon series on Adam Hamilton’s book Enough. Here’s an old Father’s Day sermon/letter I wrote to my boys that echoes the very same themes of simplicity and sufficiency in...
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Mark Driscoll in the Hands of an Angry Pastor
Mark Driscoll is in the news (again) for making cringe-inducing comments about women et al (again). Even I have a line so you’ll have to click here to read about his comments on the ‘pu#@%$#@ nation.’...
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Should a Jew Paint the Crucified Christ?
Does God abandon his People, Israel? That’s the question running through the entirety of Paul’s Letter to the Romans. It’s also a question Marc Chagall, a Jew, struggled with in his art during the...
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Jesus: The Neighbor Nobody Wants Next Door
Here’s my final sermon for this summer’s series through Romans. My texts were Romans 12.2, 13.7-11 as well as Mark 10.17-30. I’ll post the audio when it becomes available. “Do not be conformed to this...
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Evangelism Starts with Shutting Your Mouth
Last Sunday two friends from my congregation capped off our summer sermon series by tag-team preaching on Romans 15.18-24. Here is the initial reflection from Marco Santangelo. Presently, Marco is the...
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Glossy, Air-Brushed Christians
This weekend I concluded our Holy Spirit series with a sermon on the fruit of the Spirit as Paul outlines it in Galatians 5. The fruit of the Spirit is, without question, my least favorite scripture....
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Choose Your Own Adventure Sermon
This weekend I concluded our ‘Life Togther’ sermon series by doing the sermon ‘together’ with those gathered for worship. Since Paul’s letter to the Corinthians generally and chapter 12 specifically...
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I Can Do All Things Through (the Body of) Christ
I preached this weekend for the first time in almost a year – since I found out I had Mantle Cell. The warmth of the congregation was overwhelming, including a mortifying standing applause, which more...
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Spitting in Sin’s Face
This past weekend was my official return to Aldersgate after a year on medical leave. Returning meant more to my family and me than we could have anticipated, and we’re grateful for the warm...
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Make the Gospel Great Again
“Do you think there’s anything wrong with the American flag in the sanctuary?” Here’s my sermon this Memorial Day weekend on the Sunday’s lection from Galatians 1.1-12. When I returned initially from...
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God is the Bigger Elvis
(The Harrowing of Hell) Here’s the sermon from this weekend based on the lectionary epistle from Colossians 2.6-15. If you’re receiving this by email, you can find the audio by clicking here....
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Saved by (Dis)Grace
Here’s the sermon from this Sunday’s epistle, 2 Timothy 1.1-8. “Do not be ashamed, then, of the testimony about our Lord, Jesus Christ.” Do not be ashamed, in other words, of the Gospel. The Apostle...
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A Better Way for Christians to Understand Jews
This weekend I (attempted to) unpack Paul’s dense prose in Romans 9-11, the historically fraught section where Paul ponders why the Jewish Messiah has come yet Jews do not recognize him. Here are two...
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Mark Driscoll in the Hands of an Angry Pastor
Our sermon series through Romans landed us in the famous, much-loved passage 8.31-39 this weekend. The audio is here below as well as on the sidebar of the blog. You can download it in iTunes as well...
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