"Open Up" Tagged Sermons
WHEN WE’RE RUNNING OUT OF HOPE, GOD IS AT WORK
Matthew 11:1-11, Isaiah 43:19-21(NRSV) At this point in the Gospel of Matthew, John the Baptist is no longer the courageous prophet crying out in the wilderness, but he is now a prisoner of conscience held by Herod for inciting a rebellion, this new religious “movement” that was threatening the authority of the empire. John has been silenced, and in his despair, he pleads with the disciples to ask Jesus the following question: “Are you the one who is to come, or…
DEEP COMMITMENTS: FRESH EXPRESSIONS OF CHURCH
Acts 2:42-47 In his sermon “On Visiting the Sick”, John Wesley teaches that mercy/reaching in love is not an optional Christian activity but an essential part of discipleship/growing in faith. He roots this conviction in Matthew 25, arguing that Jesus identifies himself with people who suffer—those who are sick, poor, imprisoned, or marginalized. For Wesley, ministry with the vulnerable is a means of grace: a pathway through which God forms the heart, deepens compassion, and keeps the believer grounded in…
Genesis
This week we begin at the beginning in both the Hebrew Scriptures (Genesis) and the New Covenant (The Gospel of John). Diana Butler Bass contends that our understanding of God and Jesus in the role of Creator (i.e., Genesis as the original act of creation and as a dynamic creative process that extends throughout history) is drifting away from the dominant theology of top-down, vertical institutions that describe God as the “majestic, transcendent, all-powerful, heavenly Father, Lord, and King” to…
Transfiguration
We welcome guest Rev. Linda Loessberg-Zahl for the message today. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI Streaming #094804
