Harrowing Of Hell

Category: Calling

You are not your Doubts

Sermon | April 16, 2023

Some years ago, my husband and I took his mother and daughter on the “Europe 101” tour. We visited a bunch of important western European cities, and it was a wonderful trip. My mother-in-law was a deeply devout Baptist lady, the kind of Christian whose faith inspired even the atheists around her. But she was

God is Doing a New Thing

Sermon | May 15, 2022

  There’s a line in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, where the four children have just entered Narnia and are talking to the beavers. And Mr. Beaver says, “Aslan is on the move.” Aslan, of course, is the Christ character, and the children are brought to Narnia to be part of his redemptive

The Repose of Tabitha

Sermon | May 8, 2022

Happy Mothers’ Day. I am no mother, but I know a few, and they have had a major impact on my life. There is Kristin, the mother of my children, and then there is my regular mom, the mother of me, Gracia Conn. And then there’s my sister, Valerie, who’s also a mother. And then

Luck in the Kingdom of God: Barsabbas and Matthias

Sermon | May 16, 2021

So, there they are, Peter and 10 others sitting in Jerusalem waiting for the Holy Spirit to come upon them as Jesus had promised. A few days before they had witnessed the Ascension. There they stood on the top of the Mount of Olives as Jesus materialized into heaven; as his physical being became the

Why We Need the Body of Christ

Sermon | April 25, 2021

Last Sunday we talked about moral blindness. We talked about how moral blindness causes us to have moral blind spots, like driving blind spots, except for our spiritual life, in ways that inhibit our relationships.  We defined moral blindness as: an unconscious barrier produced externally from ourselves, that inhibits us from seeing our actions clearly,

Moral Blindness and Immanuel Kant

Sermon | April 18, 2021

We find ourselves today with Peter and John at Solomon’s portico at the Temple in Jerusalem. They are surrounded by throngs of people who are stunned by their capacity to heal a man crippled from birth. Peter says to the crowd: “This healing was not done in our names, but the name of Jesus… You