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June 2014

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

Jesus vs the Pharisees: A Debate on Holiness (my Lenten sermon series)

One of the most important and often neglected threads of the gospel stories of Jesus...

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...

December 12, 2013

Gatekeepers or groundskeepers of God’s house?

Hope you've been having a wonderful Advent. I've gotten backed up in sharing my sermon...

November 2013

November 23, 2013

Are you a pilgrim or a tourist? (Hebrews 11:8-16) #sermon #podcast

Growing up in the church, I would often hear the phrase, "We're just pilgrims passing...

November 03, 2013

Locusts vs. prophets (a sermon on Joel 2)

Last weekend, I preached on the passage from Joel that Peter quoted in his famous...

October 2013

October 27, 2013

Sowing God’s new covenant (Reformation Sunday sermon podcast)

I'm a week behind on sharing my sermon podcast, but it actually seems to go...

October 19, 2013

“Seek the welfare of the city to which I’ve sent you” (sermon transcript + #podcast)

Last Sunday was week two of our sermon series "By the rivers of Babylon: how...

October 17, 2013

Singing songs of Zion in Babylon

For the month of October, our LifeSign service at Burke United Methodist Church is journeying...

October 03, 2013

The God who wants us to be gifts (agape love) #sermon #podcast

If you do right in order to be right, you're doing it for the wrong...

October 02, 2013

The God who wants us to stay thirsty

Eros is an exasperatingly paradoxical kind of love. It is most fulfilled by being perpetually...

September 2013

September 25, 2013

The God who wants us to be friends #sermon #podcast

For the second weekend of our sermon series "Love Actually," we talked about philia, the...

September 19, 2013

C.S. Lewis talks about erotic love

This weekend, Burke United Methodist Church will continue in our sermon series on the four...