Harrowing Of Hell

Category: Human Identity & Purpose

Good Trouble and the Intertwined Field

Sermon | July 19, 2026

To watch, please click here. Another seed parable?  Why, yes!  Today’s text follows last week’s Parable of the Sower, and next week you will hear the Parable of the Mustard Seed.  Jesus loves seed metaphors.  If you will recall, in Kelli’s sermon on the Parable of the Sower, we learned of the extravagant, relentless love

A Place to Land our Longing

Sermon | May 10, 2026

To watch the sermon click here. There was a moment in the history of this city that reflects something true about the human soul… and maybe even gives us some insight into how to respond to the economic and political turmoil that spins around Seattle today. It was the late 1980s. Boeing had just laid

Hope in the depths

Sermon | April 3, 2026

To watch the sermon click here, ‘The bad thing is never the last thing. But today…is about the bad thing. What do we do with a faith that promises resurrection… when we are standing at the cross? From the cross, Jesus says, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” If ever there were

There is no Cure for Being Human

Sermon | March 15, 2026

To watch the sermon click here. In many ways, we have been trained to think like attorneys. Who’s guilty and who’s innocent? Who is lying? Who has the authority to make decisions? Who is right and who is wrong? A courtroom posture can feel like moral seriousness, but it can also lead us to a

Mystery, not Magic: A Super Bowl Sermon

Sermon | February 8, 2026

To watch the sermon click here. Two Sundays ago, and I don’t want to be judgy about this, but two Sundays ago, some of you skipped Evensong to stay home and watch the Seattle Seahawks play the Los Angeles Rams. I’m not sure who you are, because I wasn’t here, but I do know that

Light Returning: God With Us in the Dark

Sermon | December 21, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. Last summer, my family drove down to Mt St Helens to hike the Ape Caves. The Ape Caves include one of the longest lava tubes in North America clocking in at 2.5 miles long. To hike through this cave, you have to bring several sources of light as well

Angels who show up for us

Sermon | August 31, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. The New Testament book we know as “Hebrews” is kind of a mystery. It used to be commonplace to introduce a reading from it with the form, “The Letter of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews.” But now scholars generally agree that: First, it wasn’t written by Paul. Second,

You’re gonna have to Serve Somebody

Sermon | June 29, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. “For freedom Christ has set us free.” That’s the opening line in the Epistle today. There’s many ways to think about this. Bob Dylan gives us one of them in his song, You Gotta Serve Somebody. It goes like this: You may be an ambassador to England or France.