Exodus: God and His Judgment

Exodus: God and His Judgment

A Sermon Based on Exodus 7:14-24

God’s judgment often makes people feel queasy, but should it? This sermon addresses the queasiness middle/upper-class Americans feel with the judgment of God by examining who God is and his judgment in detail. Is it rash or quick? This sermon shows that God’s judgment is slow and patient. Is it arbitrary, over-done, or cruel? This sermon shows that God’s judgment is always true and right and good. How can it be diverted? We can’t divert it, but God can. This sermon shows how God has.

Eternally Redeemed

Eternally Redeemed

A Sermon Based on Ruth 4:1-12

There are many, many legal details in this scene of Ruth. It is difficult to wade through. There are so many details that it can be appealing to focus on the lower story here - the story of a biblical beauty and a biblical prince who end up together, but there is a higher story here and a greater magic that we have to see.  Right here in this Scripture we get to see divine love. Who knew legal details could be so saving? Listen in!

Your Pain, God's Grief

Your Pain, God's Grief

A Sermon Based on Isaiah 64:1-8

God wants us to be spiritually authentic about our lives. He wants us to joy to the heights when times are good. He also wants us to express our pain when we feel grief. Our culture doesn't agree. Our culture urges us to live spiritually plastic lives - to push down our very real feelings of pain. This sermon explains though that it's not just culture that stops us from feeling the very real pain in our lives - from truly lamenting what's broken in them. There is something far more profound going in us that stops us from doing it. BUT once we do react - once we do allow ourselves to feel the pain of our broken hearts God uses that lament to begin to break open our hearts in a brand new way: with HOPE.

Finding the NEW You

The Second Sermon in a Series Called NEW Based on 1 Corinthians 1:26-31

We're better off thinking less about ourselves. How do we do that? How do we forget ourselves so we can love others? Here's God's take on building identity - God's take on Christian psychology.