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December 2017

December 17, 2017

Thank You Crackers and Grape Juice!

When I first met Jason Micheli in the fall of 1996 at UVA's First Year...

December 13, 2016

Decolonizing Christianity with Alicia Crosby and AnaYelsi Velasco-Sanchez

Today on Crackers and Grape Juice, we shared an interview I did with Alicia Crosby and...

September 2016

September 06, 2016

Satan, Beyonce, and Jesus the Problematic Fave

This week on Crackers and Grape Juice, I talked with one of my favorite people...

August 2016

August 24, 2016

Is Jesus the only way to God?

This week's Crackers and Grape Juice episode addressed the question "Is Jesus the only way...

August 21, 2016

My conversation with Shane Blackshear

A couple of weeks ago in Austin, I got to talk about my book on...

August 16, 2016

What is the gospel?

In our latest podcast on Crackers & Grape Juice, we respond to the question in...

July 2016

July 30, 2016

Emily Joy’s poetic heart

Emily Joy was my final Wild Goose interview. She grew up in a homeschooling fundamentalist...

July 29, 2016

Bec Cranford: tattooed Pentecostal wonder-woman

I'm continuing to play catch up on my Wild Goose interviews for Crackers and Grape...

July 28, 2016

Brandan Robertson’s rich nomadic spirituality

I've gotten way behind in sharing my Wild Goose interviews on the Crackers and Grape...

July 21, 2016

Sarah Heath’s contagious love

If you're a super nerdy Methodist and you know about the production Chuck Knows Church, you...

June 2016

June 08, 2016

Does God ordain suffering to save people from being Calvinist?

My title is intended to troll my Calvinist friend Derek and distract him from working...

June 11, 2014

Pentecost: God’s rebellion (#sermon #podcast)

This past Sunday, I preached about the way that Pentecost represents God's rebellion against his...

June 03, 2014

The sea of wrath and the island of mercy (sermon podcast)

For the past several years, I've been working with a metaphor that I originally got...

May 2014

May 14, 2014

Buried in baptism, raised in faith (#sermon #podcast)

This past weekend, I preached on the way that Jesus' cross renews us in two...

May 12, 2014

Reconciled in his fleshly body (#sermon #podcast)

I've gotten a little behind on my sermon podcasts again. This one is from two...

May 04, 2014

Rescued from the power of darkness (#sermon #podcast)

At our LifeSign contemporary worship service, our post-Easter sermon series "Resurrected" is a journey through...

April 2014

April 09, 2014

Caesar or the tortured king? (#sermon #podcast)

In one of Jesus' famous parables, he says, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's; give...

April 01, 2014

Nothing outside you can make you unclean

In week four of LifeSign's "Jesus vs. the Pharisees" series, we look at a key...

March 2014

March 24, 2014

“Do you see this woman?” (Jesus’ outrageous response to an inappropriate foot massage) #sermon #podcast

Let's say you're a rabbi in 1st century Palestine, and you've heard of this really...

March 19, 2014

“The Sabbath was made for humanity” (#sermon #podcast)

Our LifeSign "Jesus vs. the Pharisees" sermon series continued last weekend with their debate about...

March 12, 2014

“I desire mercy not sacrifice” (#sermon #podcast)

I've decided to keep the sermon podcast going for Lent. We are doing a sermon...

March 05, 2014

Wrestling with sex (#sermon #podcast)

This was the final sermon of our Wrestling series a couple of weekends ago. We...

February 2014

February 23, 2014

Wrestling with heaven and hell (last weekend’s #sermon #podcast)

I keep on getting busy and forgetting to post my sermon podcasts. Last weekend, for...

February 11, 2014

What makes God mad? My hard heart.

This weekend, I had the perfect setup for a stereotypical social justice Christian sermon. I...

February 04, 2014

Wrestling with disappointment (#sermon #podcast)

Sometimes we get burned when we think we're doing the right thing. This happened to...

January 2014

January 27, 2014

Wrestling with original sin (#sermon #podcast)

A week ago Sunday evening, we looked at the story of Adam and Eve as...

January 26, 2014

I am the bread of life (#sermon #podcast)

Last Sunday morning, I preached on Jesus' statement "I am the bread of life." I...

January 16, 2014

Wrestling with the Bible (#sermon #podcast)

Last weekend, I preached on wrestling with the Bible. We looked at the Tower of...

January 06, 2014

“I am who I am” (#sermon #podcast)

In my sermon this weekend, I preached about Moses' encounter with God at the burning...

December 2013

December 23, 2013

Delight in the fear of the Lord

I keep on forgetting to post my sermon podcasts. Isaiah 11 says that the messiah's...

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