Sermons

The Book of Revelation is protest literature from the underdogs. It’s written to Christians who are being told their kingdom is nothing compared to the Kingdom of Caesar, and they need to bow down and submit. Caesar’s kingdom is the earthly powers or forces that are...

God as wrestler – someone who chooses to meet us when we are stuck, who chooses to keep grappling with us until something changes inside us for the better. None of us would dream that image up for God, and yet it is in Scripture, and it was Jacob’s lived experience. I...

Jacob is one of the few people in the Bible where we get a good long look at his actions, and his character. He is hardly a great role model, and yet he is shown to us, warts and all. Scripture does not airbrush him into looking good. I find it a great comfort and a...

Rebekah in Genesis 24 is an ultra-competent, confident young woman, ready to accept marriage to Isaac. God had promised Abraham and Sarah land, their own child, and blessings to the whole world through their descendants. Twenty years of not getting pregnant would have...

There are many times when we forget or aren’t ready to hear about the resurrection. Remembering the promise of new life changes things. It changes how we look at events. It changes how we feel about things. It helps us get through grief, despair or crippling anxiety....

Genesis 24 is the longest chapter in Genesis. It explains why - to the great consternation of her family- a competent, beautiful, strong, self-assured young woman steps out to the city well and returns 2 hours later, wearing a gold nose ring and two massive bracelets,...

This scripture tells of Jesus letting go his safe place in heaven, to become one of us, and to continue the journey downwards, into being a servant, and suffering death for us. Then he was lifted up, out of death, and into the highest place of all, with everyone, in...

Will you trust me? Genesis 22:1-19. God asks Abraham to sacrifice his beloved son. After many long years, the promised son has been born. The promises that God gave Abraham and Sarah are becoming more real: land, their own child, and a blessing to all humankind...

Sarah, Abraham, Hagar, and Laughing Boy. Genesis 15-21. Looking at a lot of complicated hurts, plus a happy ending (of sorts). Abraham and Sarah received three great promises from God: land, their own child and that the whole earth would be blessed through them. All...