Harrowing Of Hell

Category: Parables

The Alignment Problem

Sermon | September 20, 2026

To watch, please click here. By the time I had passed through college, then graduate school for an MBA and seminary for a master of divinity, I was pretty good at school. A’s were part of my identity. Not because I was the smartest kid in the class, but because I had mastered studying for

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

Seeds of Reckless Love

Sermon | July 12, 2026

To watch the sermon, click here. When I was a teenager, I loved reading magazines. Each month I would get Tiger Beat, and Teen, and Seventeen, and Young Miss, and Mademoiselle…some of you might remember those. I would pore over them. You could tear out some of the pages and they’d unfold into one big

Mercy: The Operating Principle of God’s Kingdom

Sermon | October 26, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. So, we have two men. Both are at the temple. Both are praying. One’s a tax collector; the other a Pharisee. What they have in common is that they’re at the temple, which means they’re working under a shared assumption: that God exists, that God is powerful, that God

Shrewdness is a Channel for Surprising Grace

Sermon | September 21, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. “The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly.” (Luke 16:8) Really, Jesus? This is the advice you give us in this parable? Are we to commend those who are dishonest? The world does this all the time, but isn’t that wrong? Why would Jesus hold up

Be Merciful as God is Merciful

Sermon | July 13, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. There are many attributes of God. There is omnipotence — God is all-powerful. There is omniscience — God is all-knowing. There is holiness — God is fully present, complete, in all places, at all times. There is love (agape love) — unconditional, steadfast love that binds all things together.

Don’t Worry, Be Thankful!

Sermon | November 28, 2024

To watch the sermon click here. I love to read, and I love to travel. In fact, I love to read while I travel. While I enjoy holding a real book in my hands, I also appreciate using my phone as a Kindle when I’m on an airplane. It saves space, lets me read in