Easter Posts
Jesus’ Life and Martin’s Death
A sermon about the convergence of Dr. King’s assassination and Jesus’ resurrection preached Easter Sunday,...
Jesus People
Texts: Isaiah 25: 6-9, Mark 16: 1-8
This sermon was originally preached Easter Sunday April 6,...
Jesus’ Life and Martin’s Death
This Easter Sunday marks the brightest dawn the world has ever known paired with the...
Riding Off Into the Sunrise
This sermon (or a reasonable facsimile) was preached on the Sunday after Easter, April 8,...
Into the Light
Luke 23.50 – 24.12
When my wife and I first got married, we spent more than...
Smells Like…Lent
The other night I was down in the basement mopping an area of the floor...
The Tomb is Still Empty
Worship services on the Sunday after Easter are typically the lowest attended of the year....
Easter Sermons
Jesus’ Life and Martin’s Death
A sermon about the convergence of Dr. King’s assassination and Jesus’ resurrection preached Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021. The biblical text is Mark 16, a jarring revelation of the discovery of the empty tomb. The sermon examines ways in which Martin Luther King Jr.'s faith shaped his fight for...
What’s Cook’n Jesus?
This sermon was preached on April 26, 2020 as part of a series looking at the post-resurrection stories of the gospels. The text is John 21:1-14. This sermon takes a close look at the ways the gospel writer uses structure and word choice to portray a Jesus who offers...
Go and Teach
The first sermon in a series for the season of Easter that looks at the post-resurrection story of each Gospel. This sermon focuses on the Gospel of Matthew and Jesus as teacher. Discipleship at the feet of Jesus is as much about unlearning as it is about learning.
https://youtu.be/qU90Xayo6mc
