Sermons

Don't hold back the promises that come to pass daily.  Don't hold back on extending the love and grace we have received to others. 

Who has power and how do they wield it?  And the follow up question is like it: What forms of power do we choose and why? 

The season of Lent offers us a time to sweep away all that once kept our relationship with God being as transparent as it could.  We have the opportunity to have to clear away and take inventory so that we are prepared for the new.

What happens? Exactly what you think would happen: people stop being polite and start getting real. So where does that leave us as followers of Jesus today? Maybe that from which we most want to turn away deserves our focus, at least briefly?

We cannot continue to follow the directions that we desire without regard to others.  We must re-orient ourselves and re-focus our lives to be in closer relationship with God and neighbor.  

We are reminded of the unbroken promises that God has made to us.  Promises that remind us of God's love and mercy. 

Lent is the time of "covenant review", raising the question of how each party has kept their end of the promise.  Has God upheld God's end of the promise to always love us and be with us?  Have we kept our end of the promise to follow and serve? 

Because nothing that Peter and his friends do or see or hear or say makes any sense.

especially for 21st century sophisticates such as ourselves:  What do we make of miracles? And what is the deal with all those dang demons?? Also, why should we even bother to care about such things nowadays?? 

We are invited to go "behind the scenes" to view the power and authority of God through Jesus Christ in a way that shows us love, grace and hope as the true meaning and view of what "power" and "authority" really are.