In this sermon, Pastor T. C. teaches on the kind of community God is forming in Christ—a community of misfits. Jesus didn’t gather the best and brightest, he gathered the overlooked and underestimated. Jesus did this to demonstrate the nearness of God’s Kingdom to all, not just the religious elite. In fact, God’s election has…
In this sermon, Pastor T. C. kicks off a new teaching series called “The Church as Forged Family.” We’ll look at what a strange story in the Gospel has to show us about the kind of movement Jesus began.
In this message, Pastor T. C. preaches on Jesus’s baptism and wilderness temptation (Mark 1), belovedness, and observing Lent. Like Jesus, we are grounded in our belovedness, against which no weapon can prosper.
What does it mean to “Prepare the way for the Lord”? That’s a phrase from Isaiah 40 associated with John the Forerunner in Mark 1. John is shown to be the voice crying out in the wilderness to prepare the way for the Lord. But how? Well, Isaiah says that “Every valley shall be raised…
Pastor T. C. kicks off the “Those Who Dream” teaching series for the seasons of Advent, Christmastide, and Epiphany. In this homily, the theme of Hope is explored in the context of keeping awake to God’s work in the dark.