What does it mean to live a life of radical truth telling? What does it mean for our yes to mean yes and our no to mean no?
Sermon Notes – 3 March 2019, Matthew 5:33-37: Sacred Swearing
Meaningful Engagement: My Ongoing Wrestle with How and When to Engage with Incidents, Issues and Online outrage.
It has been a terribly confusing week on the internet, well for me personally anyway, and I suspect for a few others judging by the plethora of “what have we learned articles” that I am unnecessarily adding to, and I am once again really wrestling with how and when to engage issues and how and when to leave them well alone.
Sermon Notes – 25 November 2018 – Blessed are the Persecuted (Matthew 5:10-12)
We are very quick to point out how we don’t want to be jerks for Jesus, but then we just default to being cowards vaguely associated with Christ. Those aren’t our only two options.
Sermon Notes – 7 October 2018 – Blessed are the Poor in Spirit: Matthew 5:3
God meets with people right at the end of their ropes. He stands to meet us right at the end of the runway of our own capabilities and self-assuredness.
Sermon Notes – 28 October 2018 – Stay Thirsty (Matthew 5:6)
This week we reach a beatitude that at first seems to make no sense. It seems to make no sense because it again flies in the face of the common wisdom of that day and the common wisdom of today. But, it also seems self-defeating and borderline contradictory as a statement. In essence, Jesus is going to say that the dissatisfied will be the most satisfied.
Sermon Notes – 2 September 2018 – We Love the Church (Vision Series)
“There’s nobody who doesn’t have problems with the church, because there’s sin in the church. But there’s no other place to be a Christian…” – E Peterson.
Sermon Notes – 5 August 2018 – Matthew 3:13-17
The Baptism of Jesus shows us what total submission and surrender looks like. The Baptism of Jesus shows us what Jesus will do to secure our righteousness. The Baptism of Jesus shows us what the perfect, loving community of the Trinity is like.
Sermon Notes – 14 January 2018 – Surprising Suffering (1 Peter 4:12-14)
In essence, the text contains a warning from Peter to the church that they shouldn't be surprised when they are rejected and persecuted for the sake of Christ, and in fact they should rejoice in that form of suffering.
Sermon Notes – Solus Christus – 22 October 2017
In this sermon, I covered the concept of Solus Christus (Christ Alone). I felt like I was holding a candle up to the sun.
