Archive of "Sermons" Category

• Reflections on Romans 8:31-39

  March 7, 2010 0 Comments

  This morning at The Well we came upon Romans 8:31-39 in our study of the book of Romans. Paul begins this section by saying, “What shall we say about all these things…” Of course, the obvious question here is …

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• Faith for People Who Don’t Like Religion…

  October 14, 2009 1 Comment

  Trying to decide what I think of this interview, some provocative thoughts.

  For example,

  “The problem is that evangelical/fundamentalist faith revolves around two directives: Be successful and evangelize. That leads to bad choices.”

  Probably a lot of good stuff that …

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• Broken Eikons, Being Made New

  September 6, 2009 0 Comments

  We are made in God’s image.

  As eikons of God our role in this world is to point others to what God is like.

  This is our role in this world individually.

  This is our role in this world communally.

  “That’s …

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• The Wait is Over

  December 21, 2008 2 Comments

  This is a short writing i did as I wrote my sermon for this sunday. I turned this into a reflective slideshow which you can view here.

  Immanuel.

  God is with us.

  Wait.

  Stop.

  Listen again…

  Immanuel.

  God is with us.

  God. Is. With. Us.

  Wait.

  God is …

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• Surprised by Scripture

  December 15, 2008 1 Comment

  I never cease to be amazed at how scripture surprises me. Over the last two years we’ve preached through Exodus, Acts and now we’re finishing up Ephesians.

  Each of these books (especially Exodus and Acts) have had some …

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• Pastors and Devotions.

  September 22, 2008 4 Comments

  I am sitting here doing some study / preliminary work on my sermon for this weekend. We’ve starting the book of Ephesians and I’m taking in Ephesians 1:3-10. Its a quite a full passage and I’m looking forward …

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• The Narrative of the Kingdom and Witness?

  September 16, 2008 0 Comments

  This past week we finished up our nine month journey through the book of Acts together at The Well. I had the privileged of preaching and summarizing the whole thing up this weekend.

  Part of my sermon was on how challenging …

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• Are You Rioting with the Suburban Mob?

  July 2, 2008 23 Comments

  Okay, its been about a half a week since I’ve been back from Zambia. I’ve not done much deep writing around the trip because there is so much in my head that I am just trying to sort it …

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• William Willimon on Acts 5

  February 21, 2008 4 Comments

  I am preaching the ever dreaded passage on the death of Ananias and Sapphira this week: Acts 5:1-11.

  At the risk of giving away some of the big points of my sermon on sunday, let me share this quote from …

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• Leadership in Acts 2?

  January 18, 2008 6 Comments

  I’ve been studying Acts 2:42-47 for the past week. I’m realizing that I could preach this passage 20 weeks straight and wouldn’t run out of material. So, I am trying to narrow my sermon down to the thing …

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• God is Here. Let it Rock Your World.

  December 10, 2007 1 Comment

  This is my sermon manuscript from Sunday, December 10. I had the daunting task of preaching Exodus 35-40 this week. While the text looked to be a bore, it turned out to be a very, very fun text …

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