TagForgiveness
Not Simply A Transaction
New Day Sermon Pentecost 17 It’s budget season! We budget all the time, but some things God simply doesn’t want you to budget…
Words of Power
TRADITIONAL SERMON — EASTER 2 Words have power. Even in a world like ours where words are vomited across every single communication platform that exists in far greater volume than ever before. Amazingly, our regular misuse of our words has not diminished their inherent potency. If I say something like “TOM!” … I immediately have…
“Did You Happen to Find Your Keys?”
There’s a set of keys offered to us in today’s gospel text that we (and the disciples) are challenged to find: the key to knowing peace rather than fear, the key to being able to trust another person, and the key to offering forgiveness. Finding the keys to discipleship is a necessary step in our quest to travel down the road.
Ashes
God is great at teaching through paradoxes, things that at first, seem totally absurd. Jesus does his best to explain how they are true. The contradictory proposition of Ash Wednesday is how ashes not only cleanse, but prepare space to light a new fire.
Repentance Made Visible
Toxic Thoughts
New Day Sermon pentecost 15 We’re often focused on keeping the toxins out, but what about the toxic stuff from within? What do we do with that toxic stuff?!
Jesus Christ Superstar Revisited
Do You Walk the Walk?
New Day Sermon Pentecost 17 Are you disappointed in others when they don’t follow through on what they said they would do? Do you ever do the same? Tune in for a consideration on how Jesus responds as our Savior, to shame and disappointment.
What is forgiveness?
New Day Sermon Pentecost 15 As Christians, we speak about it all the time, and we know we should do it, but what really is forgiveness?