Love Part 1: God and Neighbor
On August 5th, Kristen and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary. Since we’re in the grip of a global pandemic, it wasn’t the celebration we had envisioned or have been saving for....
Prophetic Tasks: Telling the Truth in a Society That Lives in Illusion
All parents have certain stories they tell about their children. I certainly have stories I tell about mine. One of the stories my mom tells about me involves my first trip to...
Prophetic Tasks: Grieving in a Society That Practices Denial
This sermon (or a reasonable facsimile) was preached on Sunday, October 20, 2019 at Kingsway Baptist Church. The texts are Lamentations 1:1-6; 3:19-26 and Matthew 5:1-10.
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Riding Off Into the Sunrise
This sermon (or a reasonable facsimile) was preached on the Sunday after Easter, April 8, 2018, at Kingsway Baptist Church. The texts are 1 John 1:1 – 2:2 and Luke 24:13-35. (One is from the...
Go and Do Likewise
A version of this sermon was preached on Sunday, July 10, 2016, at Kingsway Baptist Church in Toronto. The Scripture readings are Amos 7.7-13 and Luke 10.25-37
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Hitting the Road
A version of this sermon was preached on March 20, 2016 (Palm Sunday) at the First Baptist Church of Hyattsville. The Scripture readings were Psalm 118.1-2, 19-29 and Luke 19.28-40.
Making Peace
A version of this sermon was preached at the First Baptist Church of Hyattsville on Sunday, December 6, 2015. The Scripture texts were Malachi 3.1-4 and Luke 1.67-79. Accompanying the biblical texts was a reading...
All Sides of the Sea
A version of this post was my sermon on Sunday, June 28. The texts are Mark 5.21-43 (NRSV) and 1 Thessalonians 3.1-13 (NRSV). It is the third in a five-part sermon series on First Thessalonians.
The Long Walk of Love: Remembering Nelson Mandela
The world in memorializing Nelson Mandela today in Johannesburg. As a personal tribute, I am posting the condensed text of a sermon I preached back in April that uses his life as...
Peter’s Dream. Martin’s Dream. God’s Dream.
This is the text of the sermon I delivered on Sunday, August 25, 2013. I offer it here today (with slight modifications) in honor of the 50th anniversary of the March on...
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A Church of Love VS A Love of Church
Frederick Douglas had some strong things to say about the church, so does Todd. If the church is going to be the body Christ calls it to be, then its members need to stop playing dress-up and clothe themselves in Christ. The proof and the truth is...
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