Posts with the category “weekly-sermons”

From the Sermon delivered on March 29, 2026 | Jesus Cleanses the Temple When good things quietly crowd God out of our lives, intimacy with God doesn't die dramatically — it just slowly goes cold. That's the real problem Jesus addresses when he walks into the temple in John 2: not outright wickedness, but displacement. Not obvious idolatry, but legitimate things occupying illegitimate places.Pastor...  Read More

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 8, 2026 | Come and See There's a particular kind of loneliness that doesn't always show up on our radars: it’s the loneliness of knowing a lot about someone and still feeling like you don't really know them at all. Knowing Jesus personally isn't about accumulating the right theology or showing up to the right services. According to the Gospel of John, it's someth...  Read More

From the Sermon delivered on March 1, 2026 | Behold the Lamb of God A few weeks before he died, actor James Van Der Beek said something most of us quietly dread having to face. He had been diagnosed with cancer — thin, exhausted, alone in an apartment — and found himself staring down a question he'd spent his adult life avoiding: Who am I, if I'm not any of the things I've built? Jesus, the Lamb o...  Read More

From the Sermon delivered on February 22, 2026 | The God Who Speaks For Himself There's a particular kind of loneliness that Manhattan specializes in. You can be surrounded by eight million people on the subway, in your building, on the sidewalk outside your door — and still feel profoundly unknown. Known by no one. Seen by no one. Just another face moving through the city.Most of us have learned ...  Read More

From the Sermon delivered on February 15, 2026 | Propitiation Propitiation meaning, at its simplest, is this: Jesus Christ became our high priest, took the full weight of human guilt before God, and resolved it — not managed it, not minimized it, but removed it entirely. Most of us have never used that word out loud, but if you have ever carried guilt that self-awareness could not fix, that time h...  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