Sermons on Shalom

City on a Hill

10/13/2024
T. C. Moore
Church, politics, power, Shalom
Matthew

This week’s sermon continued our exploration of Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount, focusing on the metaphor of being the “light of the world” and a “city on a hill” (Matthew 5:14). Pastor highlighted the historical appropriation of this metaphor by figures like John Winthrop and U.S. presidents, including Reagan and JFK, to frame America as…

Missions

02/06/2023
T. C. Moore
Evangelism, Kingdom of God, Missions, Shalom, Sin
Jeremiah, Luke

In this sermon, Pastor T. C. explores the problematic concept of “missions” and reframes it as God’s dream for the world to restore Shalom. God tells Israel to “seek the peace of the city” in Jeremiah 29—and that city was Babylon. What if the mission Jesus sends his disciples on was never about “conversion” but about…