Sermon Synopsis: “Nothing will hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain, for as the waters fill the sea, so the earth will be filled…

Sermon Synopsis:  The prophets had a universal moral vision. They understood that right and wrong applied to every nation.  But they saved their sternest rebukes…

Sermon Synopsis:  The message of Revelation portrays God as a globalist, or at least as an inveterate internationalist.  There is no national or ethnic preference—no…

Sermon Synopsis:  The prophets were frequently strident and harsh in their denunciations of evil.  They were not always winsome.  Still, we listen to their words…

Sermon Synopsis:  God calls us to witness to His loving salvation.  We are responsible for the mission, but we are not responsible for the response…

Sermon Synopsis:  Sometimes our place—our calling, our duty—is to quiet ourselves, to remember our place as beloved children in the kingdom of heaven, the household…

Sermon Synopsis:  Abraham and Job are famous for being both fabulously wealthy and wonderfully magnanimous—like God.  Most of us have some measure of wealth, some…

Sermon Synopsis:  Abraham was a wanderer, a nomad with no settled place.  His descendants were foreigners in Egypt, never fully assimilated.  Still, Abraham and his…

Sermon Synopsis:  Our national documents give voice to exalted ideals—all are created equal, liberty and justice for all, “Give me your tired, your poor, your…

Sermon Synopsis:  Life is rarely picture perfect.  Surrounded by Covid, political division, and the virus of racism that is plaguing our country, it seems hard…

Sermon Synopsis:  A religious scholar asked Jesus, “What’s the greatest commandment?” When Jesus answered, “Love God and love your neighbor,” the scholar, making his won…

Sermon Synopsis:  Power—the ability to compel others to yield—always stands under the moral judgment of legitimate authority.  Even God’s power is constrained by the moral…