Sermons & Worship from March 2025

Practicing Freedom: Humility—The Posture of Freedom

Scripture: Romans 12:2 The Apostle Paul’s words call us out of what is and into what could be. Paul summons us to become a community that does not mirror the violence, domination, and injustice of the world, but dares to live a different way—the way of Jesus. This is the heartbeat of the Anabaptist tradition: a church not conformed to the world’s logic of power and coercion, but a people transformed by love, by mercy, and by courageous peace. This…

The Wisdom to See; the Courage to Heal

A Sermon on Unity, Wisdom, and the Hubris of Our Age Scripture: Proverbs 11:2; James 3:17; Luke 4:18-19 I have been meditating on Romans 12:2 for the past several days as I think about what I have prepared for today. Romans 12:2 says that we should not conform to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of our minds. The local church is a living organism that is called NOT to assimilate into Empire, or into…

Gathered to Be Sent, Expanding the Sacred

Scripture: Acts 2:42-47 (The Early Church) & Matthew 28:16-20 (The Great Commission) The story we have before us today has been used in a way that has negatively impacted the Church. The Great Commission was taken literally and empires were created in the name of Christianity. Christianity has become a stumbling block in the West. The acceleration of White Christian Nationalism has now bubbled up in such a serious manner that we need to talk frankly about what it means…