Whose Name, and Whose Image?

"God does not win souls because God likes to win. God wins souls because God has more creating to do." Sermon at Plymouth Park Church of Christ on Ephesians 2:1-10. The Fourth Sunday of Lent; March 18, 2012. Connecting repentance and revival. A consideration of how resurrection returns us to creation with our desires and sense intact. Long wind-up about Target at the beginning.

Sermon: Consumer Desire, Resurrected Love

"Discipleship and mourning are partners." Sermon on Galatians 1:1, 12-25, at Brookline Church of Christ in Brookline, Massachusetts, July 1, 2007. A consideration of discipleship, mourning, and attachment. Especially proud of an embarrassing disclosure herein about my teaching the Elisha-and-the-she-bears to preschoolers.

Sermon: Sweetness and Blood

"Judas reduces relationships to moral transactions. And Judas is a thief." Sermon on John 12:1-8, March 25, 2007, at Brookline Church of Christ in Brookline, Massachusetts. Very personal one for me, as it was the first time I had preached since Lauren and I had left our work at Moran Church of Christ in Moran, Texas. I still like a lot of this one. 

Sermon: Calvinball and Peter Singer

Sermon given at Plymouth Park Church of Christ on July 29, 2012. I try to find a way to talk about collective sin, sloth, and the unique vocation of our little congregation without being too grim. Also, I work in the phrase "lecherous thuggery," which I thought was nice. 

Sermon: That You May Have Power

Relatively brief communion meditation given at Plymouth Park Church of Christ in late November 2012. Same Sunday on which our friend Marti preached; this is unusual broadly speaking because women are typically forbidden from taking the pulpit in Churches of Christ. We do not have a full time female preacher, but our leadership is composed of men and women, so in many ways, this still was just a normal Sunday for us. 

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