In this sermon we continue our series looking at the seven things Jesus says from the cross before he dies. We consider the person of Mary in John’s gospel, what she has to do with Eve and Abraham, and how she is always reminding us to do whatever the crucified one tells us to do.

In this sermon we continue our series looking at the seven things Jesus says from the cross before he dies. We consider a passage from Wendell Berry’s book Jayber Crow, how people used to keep memory, what’s been lost of memory in the modern world, how that affects us, a poem by Mary Oliver who gives us an image of God’s lively memory, and what it means to be remembered by God.

In this sermon we begin a new series looking at the seven things Jesus says from the cross before he dies. We talk about all the ways “they” do not know what they are doing, what it means to encounter Jesus on the wrong side of the cross first, and a 2008 Coen Brothers film called Burn After Reading.

In this sermon we hear the gospel again on Ash Wednesday, that though we are dust there is hope in the crucified Christ raised from the dead. We consider what the treasures of our hearts are through a painting by Carl Spitzweg, the story of Zacchaeus, and what it means to wear the ashes.

In this sermon we talk about Jesus’s transfiguration, John Wesley, and the means of grace.

In this sermon we talk about the “what would you do?” moments, the miracle of a blind man, how the Pharisees wanted to control the narrative of grace, how Jesus wants to change the way we imagine the God, and the paradox of grace.

In this sermon we talk grace, karma, a U2 song, the third step of recovery, why grace doesn’t let us off the hook (with some help from The Magnificat), and what happens when I get cut off driving down Wilshire.

In this sermon we talk about grace, Bert and I (and how people from Maine give directions), the difference between telling God’s story beginning at Genesis 3 versus Genesis 1-2, Saint Maximos the Confessor (and how the incarnation was always the plan regardless of Sin), and how we are made for grace.