“Bear with us, God” – Waiting in Hope with Romans 8
We live in the space between promise and fulfillment, the “already but not yet” of God’s dream for the world. Romans 8 invites you to see the waiting not as wasted time, but as God making room inside you for something bigger than yourself.
The Truest Thing About You: Grace, the Ego, and Your True Self
We spend so much of our lives running from fear and reaching for easy answers, certain that we are our failures and never quite enough. This is an invitation to awaken to a deeper truth: the Spirit of God already dwells in you, and you are beloved.
Surrender to Win: Finding Grace in Our Powerlessness
There are few passages in scripture more honest than Paul’s confession in Romans 7 — “I do the very thing I hate.” This is a reflection on powerlessness, surrender, and the strange grace that meets you not when you have it all together, but when you finally admit you cannot save yourself.
Breathing In Grace: The Living Language of Belonging
So much of religion teaches us a dead language — the grammar of earning, proving, and fear. This is an invitation to unlearn it and remember the living language God spoke over you before you could earn a thing: that you already belong.
The Ego Nap: Dying to the False Self So Love Can Rise
What if the spiritual life doesn’t ask you to become a better, bigger version of yourself, but to let that self go entirely? This is an invitation into the ego nap, the daily practice of releasing the illusion that the world revolves around you, so that love can rise in its place.
Hope Against Hope
When the facts in front of you offer every reason to give up, faith invites you into the space between what is and what could be. This is where hope lives, not as private optimism but as something you carry together in community.
Stepping Into the River: Baptism, Grace, and the Sacred Yes
Baptism isn’t a finish line. It’s the moment you stop standing on the shore and step into a river of grace that has been flowing all along, carrying you toward belonging, community, and a life shaped by yes.
Letting Go of the Ego: How the Spirit Sets Us Free
When the ego tries to hold everything together through control and fear, it leads to a kind of death we know all too well — anxiety, isolation, and the constant feeling that we are not enough. This Lenten reflection invites you to loosen your grip and trust the spirit that is already alive in you.
Strength in Broken Places: Finding Courage Through Our Scars
Our wounds are not what define us, but they are proof that we have lived, loved, and survived. This sermon invites you to stop hiding your scars and instead open them to a community where love does the healing.
When Death Becomes a Dance: Finding Hope in Life’s Terminal Case
You don’t have to be protected from pain to be held by God — love sustains you in all things, even as it shields you from nothing. This Lenten reflection on Psalm 121 invites you to discover what is truly yours to keep, and why the wound itself might be the very medicine you’ve been searching for.