Sermons

People are not meant to survive getting out of boats in storms. It’s not a high-survival-rate activity. But then again, people are not meant to survive walking between trees at twenty feet in the air – and yet, here I am.

Freedom, even in our world, hopefully extends beyond not being owned by anyone. Those first people who were freed didn’t immediately transition to lives of prosperity and comfort. In fact, close to two hundred years later, the impact of generations of enslavement is still having an impact on people today.

If God wants the good, why do things go wrong? This was the question the parable of the sower addressed – why did so many people – especially from among God’s own chosen people – not claim the good news of God’s kingdom for themselves? Where was God that this wasn’t going as expected?

Wait…Jesus is going to give us a yoke? What happened to laying down our burdens?

What can this be about?