Posts with the category “suffering-and-hope”

From the Sermon delivered on March 22, 2026 | Jesus' Creative Power & Glory The wedding at Cana is one of the most familiar stories in the Gospels, and one of the most misread. It is not primarily a story about hospitality or abundance or Jesus showing up when the party runs out of wine. It is a sign — John's word, not a modern one — and signs, by definition, point beyond themselves to something g...  Read More

From the Sermon delivered on March 15, 2026 | Follow Me Knowing Jesus — really knowing him — doesn't always feel the way you thought it would. If you came to faith with certain hopes attached, and those hopes have gone quiet or gone sideways, you are not alone in that. In John 1:43–51, a skeptic named Nathaniel encounters Jesus for the first time and raises a question that many people in this city...  Read More

From the Sermon delivered on February 8, 2026 | The God Who Helps There's a moment that happens to most of us in this city — maybe on the subway, maybe staring at the ceiling at 2 a.m. — when we realize that knowing what to do and actually being able to do it are two very different things. You know you should let it go. You know the bills are covered. You know, logically, that everything is going ...  Read More

From the Sermon delivered on February 1, 2026 | Who Is This Man? There's a question a lot of us carry quietly into a new week — not the kind you'd ask at a dinner party, but the kind that surfaces at 6 a.m. when the alarm goes off and the weight of everything settles back onto your chest before you've even put your feet on the floor. Does anyone actually know what this feels like? The Christian an...  Read More