The Lord said, “All right” he is in your power. Just don't kill him.” He covered Job with boils, from his scalp to the soles of his feet. Job took a piece of broken pottery to scratch himself with and sat down in the dust. His wife said to him, “How long will you go…

“A relationship with God can be direct, naive, lively, not the kind adults have which usually takes place in the sphere of rumor.” – R. M. Rilke Text: Revelation 10: 1-3, 8-9 In any sermon titled "Changing the Real Estate," you would naturally expect me to talk about two things -- the way the real…

Texts: The pathos of modern theology is its false humility. For theology, this must be a fatal disease, because once theology surrenders its claim to be a metadiscourse, it cannot any longer articulate the word of the creator God, but is bound to turn into the oracular voice of some finite idol . . If…

Deuteronomy 30:15-20 Luke 14:1-6 As much as it feels absolutely great to be back with you this morning in worship, and to feel healthy and engaged, more engaged than I've been in 6 months, I must say that time away from writing sermons has been really nice.  It's been good to be a pew sitter…

As a ministry student at the University of Chicago Divinity School, I was  bombarded with the idea that theology should be public.  What exactly that meant was part of the great debate, which is still ongoing.  Nevertheless, it seems to me that a church in Michigan, (the Christ Community Church of Spring Lake) is actively…