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Matthew 16:13-20 (NRSVue) Sermon for August 23, 2026 Don’t skip the first half of verse 13. It’s the part we always rush past to get to the good line, the question; “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” We want to get there fast, because that’s the question with the theology in…
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Matthew 15:21–28 (NRSVue) Sermon for August 16, 2026 So, a woman comes running toward Jesus, shouting. That’s how this story starts, if you follow the action instead of the geography. This is a Canaanite woman, on her own turf, chasing down a rabbi from another people’s religion, because she’s heard he can help her daughter.…
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Sermon for August 9th, 2026 Matthew 14:22-33 (NRSVUE) There’s a book that came out a while back called If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat. Good title. Catchy. And it captured, better than almost anything else out there, how most of us have been taught to read…
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Sermon for August 2, 2026 Matthew 14:13-21 (NRSVUE) John the Baptist is dead. He’s dead because a teenage girl danced well at a party, and a drunk, morally bankrupt king made a stupid promise he was too proud to break. John’s head ends up on a serving tray, carried out like the next course at…
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Sermon for July 19, 2026 – Matthew 1:18-25 Alright, let’s start with a confession. Preaching this text in July feels a little strange, right? I mean, there’s no decorated tree up here on stage with me. Nobody’s fighting over parking because their cousin is in town. The kids aren’t dressed like shepherds. It’s a hundred…
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A Sermon on Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 Picture the scene. Jesus walks down to the shore of the Seas of Galilee, probably looking for a little room to breathe, and the crowd follows him anyway. It happens so often in Matthew that you start to wonder if Jesus ever got five minutes alone. This time the…
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Matthew 11:16–19, 25–30 (NRSVUE) | July 5, 2025 There is a moment in this passage where you can almost hear the exhaustion in Jesus’s voice. Not defeat… Jesus is never defeated, but the particular weariness that comes from doing the right thing, and watching people find a reason to dismiss it anyway. He has just…
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Sent: The Prayer You Have to Live Matthew 9:35–10:8 (NRSVUE) I’m convinced Jesus is tired. You can feel it in the text. He has been going town to town, village to village… teaching, preaching, healing. Matthew gives us this sweeping summary in 9:35 that sounds almost like a travelogue: “Jesus went about all the cities…
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What He Sees in You Matthew 9:9–13, 18–26 (NRSVUE) ——— There’s a kind of day most of us know well. You wake up with a plan. Maybe a short list, maybe a long one. You’ve got things to do, people to see, problems to solve. And then, somewhere around 9 a.m., the day starts making…
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Sermon based on Acts 2:1-21 There is a question tucked in the middle of this story that I want to pull out and hold up for us, because it is the question everything else hangs on in this story. A crowd gathers outside a house in Jerusalem. They hear wind they can’t explain. They see…
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