Sermons

Healing Our Pain

Healing, redemption, and restoration are not simply things we enjoy as individuals. God is all about the community. When God heals us totally that includes our relationships wit...

Healing the Whole Person

God is not a service provider. As a result he is not interested in only healing a foot, curing cancer, or any other one-off act. God is about restoring all […]

Things that Prevent Healing

Divine healing isn’t magic. We do not wield Jesus’s name like an incantation, guaranteeing a prescribed result. Healing is a part of our relationship, rooted in the grand story ...

It Actually is a New World

Jesus has been raised from the dead so everything is changed. The old rules no longer apply—a whole new world has begun.

Good Friday

Taking time to focus on the cross is absolutely necessary because it is here that we see God’s love for us most clearly.

Sources of Illness

All illness results from sin, but not all illness is because of sin, and certainly not all illness is sin. Part of the context for understanding divine healing is to […]

Healing is the Work of the Church

If we’ve put divine healing in it’s proper context, then it is clear that divine healing isn’t not just an internal blessing for God’s people. Rather, healing is a gift […]

Theology of Divine Healing

There are two extremes to avoid in this topic: that God always heals and that God never heals. However, we cannot look at healing in and of itself. The act […]

Happily Ever After

When things end well it isn’t because we’ve earned with our devotion, anymore than we earned hardship by our wickedness. Blessing is a gift of God which he desires to […]

Benefit of the Doubt

From our vantage point and limited understanding, it can be very difficult to know just what God is doing. So, it’s important that we don’t jump to a negative conclusion. [&hell...

Dark Night of the Soul

Some times it can feel as if we have stepped through Alice’s looking glass. As a result up seems to be down and down, up. In that place even God […]

No Contest

How does our human wisdom compare to God’s own wisdom? No contest. In comparison our wisdom is foolishness. That doesn’t stop us from critiquing and criticizing God himself. If ...

Friends Like These

The church is a community meant to love and comfort each other, particularly in difficult times. Too often we mean well but hurt each other all the same. How should […]

Once Upon a Time

Are people blessed because they are righteous? Or, are they righteous because they are blessed? Paradoxically, blessing comes through suffering, but that doesn’t always make it ...

Evangelism and Direction

We can often assume that if people are interested in ‘what we’ve got’ they can come to us to share it. That is one of the reasons we focus on […]

Evangelism and Discipleship

One classic struggle for the church has been getting people to pursue discipleship. This has grown out of the way we have framed the good news: we have gotten people […]

Evangelism and the Holy Spirit

We can get caught up in methods and strategies of how to make people believe us and become like us. And, if we’re honest, we have used some methods that […]

Evangelism and the Church

The church is not a building of concrete and steel. Rather, the church is a redeemed people who form an alternative community to the rest of the world. We have […]

Evangelism and the Gospel

When we use the language of evangelism, we know that we are called to share the good news (gospel). But, what is the good news? Many have been taught that […]

Finding Epiphany in 2019!