Pentecost Sunday is an opportunity for Jesus-disciples to turn once again toward God and ask for God’s Spirit to fill us, empower us, and send us. In this message, Pastor T. C. will focus on the nature of the “power” Jesus-disciples receive from God, the receptive posture necessary, how to know we are being caught…
Der Lor has held ministry and worship leadership roles at two large churches in Wisconsin. As a pastor and theologian, Der loves learning about the contextual nature of theology and its implications for God’s ethnically diverse people. As a worship leader, Der loves ushering God’s diverse people together in Christ and pointing them back to their…
God’s redemptive mission began in earnest through the covenant cut with Abraham and his family who will become Israel. God was restoring the blessing and calling given to humanity in the beginning. God was restoring the shalom, the right-relatedness between God and humanity and between peoples. Right-relatedness was restored between Abraham and God through Abraham’s…
The fourth sermon in the “Swimming Lessons” teaching series entitled “The Rise of Babylon,” this message presents an interpretation of the “Tower of Babel” story in Genesis chapter 11 as the genesis of empire and cultural captivity. This message challenges viewers to examine the ways we capitulate or participate in cultural captivity. How many times…
The third message in the “Swimming Lessons” series builds upon the previous two, by continuing to chart the descent of human culture into greater and greater brokenness. In this message, Pastor T. C. shows how human culture disintegrated from the original “Garden Culture” to Cain killing his brother Abel. But, the shattering of shalom isn’t…