Date | Title | Series | ||
January 5 | A Ruler from Bethlehem | (Doug McMunn, guest preacher) | mp3 | Video |
January 12 | Maker of Heaven and Earth | The God of Old | mp3 | Video |
January 19 | I Am | The God of Old | mp3 | Video |
January 26 | God of the Oppressed | The God of Old | mp3 | Video |
February 2 | God of Law | The God of Old | mp3 | Video |
February 9 | Is God Violent? | The God of Old | mp3 | Video |
February 16 | A God Who Speaks | The God of Old | mp3 | Video |
February 23 | God of Grace | The God of Old | mp3 | Video |
March 2 | Wrestling with God | The God of Old | mp3 | Video |
March 9 | Into the Wilderness | mp3 | Video | |
March 16 | Born Again | mp3 | Video | |
March 23 | Is There Enough? | mp3 | Video | |
March 30 | (Lindsay Conrad, guest preacher) | mp3 | Video | |
April 6 | What Does God REALLY Want? | (Rick Peters, guest preacher) | mp3 | |
April 13 (Palm Sunday) | Jesus Was Left-Handed | mp3 | Video | |
April 17 (Maundy Thursday) | Love One Another | mp3 | Video | |
April 18 (Good Friday) | It Is Un-Finished | (Tom Hawkins, guest preacher) | mp3 | Video |
April 20 (Easter Sunday) | The Joy and Fear of Easter | mp3 | Video | |
April 27 | Fishing with Jesus | Bethany Peerbolte preaching | mp3 | Video |
May 4 | Not at the Table! | Dispatches to the Church in Exile | mp3 | Video |
May 11 | Functional Families | Dispatches to the Church in Exile | mp3 | Video |
May 18 | The Omnivore's Dilemma | Dispatches to the Church in Exile | mp3 | Video |
May 25 | Who's in Charge Here? | Dispatches to the Church in Exile | mp3 | Video |
June 1 | Hopefully | Dispatches to the Church in Exile | mp3 | Video |
June 8 (Pentecost) | The Only Thing That Counts | Dispatches to the Church in Exile | mp3 | Video |
June 15 | It's All Greek to Me | The Parables of Jesus | mp3 | Video |
June 22 | The Prodigal Father | The Parables of Jesus | mp3 | Video |
June 29 | Pouting at the Party | The Parables of Jesus | mp3 | Video |
July 6 | All In | The Parables of Jesus | mp3 | Video |
July 13 | What Is the Chief End of Man? | (Dave Mihocko, guest preacher) | mp3 | Video |
July 20 | God's Courtroom | Bethany Peerbolte preaching | mp3 | Video |
July 27 | Unless You Forgive | The Parables of Jesus | mp3 | Video |
August 3 | Saying and Doing | The Parables of Jesus | mp3 | Video |
August 17 | A Meal as Mad as a Hatter's | The Parables of Jesus | mp3 | Video |
August 24 | Always Be Prepared | The Parables of Jesus | mp3 | Video |
August 31 | Go and Do Likewise | The Parables of Jesus | mp3 | Video |
September 7 | Micah: The Illusion of Safety | Thus Says the Lord (The Minor Prophets) | mp3 | Video |
September 14 | Amos: The Day of the Lord | Thus Says the Lord (The Minor Prophets) | mp3 | Video |
September 21 | Hosea: Relentless Love | Thus Says the Lord (The Minor Prophets) | mp3 | Video |
September 28 | Habakkuk: Waiting for an Answer | Thus Says the Lord (The Minor Prophets) | mp3 | Video |
October 5 | Malachi: Pointing the Way | Thus Says the Lord (The Minor Prophets) | mp3 | Video |
October 12 | Persecution, Kingdom, Endurance | The World of the End (Revelation) | mp3 | Video |
October 19 | Everything Is Connected to Everything | (Clint Cozier, guest preacher) | mp3 | Video |
October 26 | Worthy Is the Lamb | The World of the End (Revelation) | mp3 | |
November 2 | The Four Horsemen | The World of the End (Revelation) | mp3 | Video |
November 9 | The Mark of the Beast | The World of the End (Revelation) | mp3 | |
November 16 | Armageddon | The World of the End (Revelation) | mp3 | Video |
November 23 | The World of the End | The World of the End (Revelation) | mp3 | Video |
November 30 | Waiting | A Light Is Dawning | mp3 | Video |
December 7 | Expecting | A Light Is Dawning | mp3 | Video |
December 14 | Hoping | A Light Is Dawning | mp3 | Video |
December 21 | Living | A Light Is Dawning | mp3 | Video |
December 24 (Christmas Eve) | Seeing | A Light Is Dawning | mp3 | Video |
December 28 | God in a Trough | mp3 | Video |
Sermons
Enigma
There are stories about Jesus that we love to hear and to tell—stories of surprising compassion and radical love—and then there are those stories that don’t jibe with Jesus as we ordinarily imagine him. These stories present Jesus in a way that can be difficult for us to incorporate into the larger...
Home for the Holidays
Each of the four Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John—approaches the story of Jesus in a unique way and with a different purpose and audience in mind. Entering into the world that each of these storytellers creates is like walking into someone’s home and encountering sights, sounds, and smells...
Ephesians: Salvation for Service
The Apostle Paul’s letter to the church at Ephesus is less anchored in the actual circumstances of a particular faith community than some of Paul’s other letters are. Instead, Ephesians reads almost like a sermon, with Paul hitting head-on some of the most important theological issues of the early...
Holy Habits
Devout Christians have long sought after something called “holiness.” We have misunderstood this pursuit as a striving toward perfection, which is obviously out of our reach in this life. Holiness is better understood as spiritual strength or fortitude, and our spirits are not made strong...
Upside Down
Life in the midst of a global pandemic is not at all what we have come to expect it to be. In fact, it feels in some very significant ways that the world itself has been turned upside-down. This is disorienting and disconcerting. It changes our outlook, our actions, and our relationships. And it...
Grace in the Wilderness
The prophet Jeremiah declares that the people of God "found grace in the wilderness" (Jer. 31:2). Although Israel's years of wandering were filled with challenges, the wilderness was where God shaped them and where God's abundant grace was made manifest to them. We are living through our own kind...
Origins
Before the particular history of the people of Israel begins in earnest with God’s call to Abraham in Genesis 12, there is another history—a prehistory. The stories of Genesis 1-11 which make up this prehistory are origin stories: stories that invite us to think about why the world is the way that...
Last Words
When the four gospel accounts are combined, Jesus speaks seven times from the cross, commonly referred to as the "Seven Last Words" of Christ. During the weeks of Lent we take a careful look at these important sayings of Jesus, spoken in his dying moments. In so many ways, they distill not only...
20/20 Vision
Jesus said, "The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light" (Matt. 6:22). At the start of a new year and a new decade, it's a good time to get our (spiritual) vision checked. Are we seeing things clearly, or has our vision been blurred, blocked, or...
(Not Yet) Advent
"Advent" means arrival, and in the life of the church Advent marks a very special arrival: that of the Christ child, born to a poor family in a rural backwater of the Roman Empire. But the fact that Jesus has already arrived is only half of the story—the "already" of Advent is balanced by a deep...