April 26 Sermon: The Shepherd to True Life

June 14: The Freedom to Try

The day before this sermon, Well of Hope held a big and audacious fundraiser for New Beginnings, a congregation that meets inside the Denver women's correctional facility. This sermon was a debrief of that experience, but also an encouragement to explore the compassion and call of Jesus, to embrace vulnerability, and to be freed from our fear of failure. This text is a call to be pulled by compassion, to try things, to have grace with ourselves, and to reimagine "Success".

June 7 Sermon: Matthew's Story

We talk in Church a lot about Jesus' Love and His Way being for all people, but if we are honest, there is always someone we wonder about. Matthew the Tax Collector's story should challenge us to include those people as part of the movement of liberation that we might prefer to leave out. As a tax collector and former lackey to the Empire, Matthew's welcome into the movement of Jesus should stretch us to reconsider who can be included no matter what part of the table we find ourselves at.

May 31: The Trinity (and why it matters)

We are baptized into the Trinity (Creator, Son, Holy Spirit) and sent out to teach and make disciples and baptize other into the Trinity. Often times, a brand of "Coopted Christianity" that takes this sending out seriously looks like strands of Christian Nationalism. We rebuke that. Today we remember that we are baptized into community itself, love, and Mercy. That is who God is and how we try to live.

May 24 Sermon: The Quiet Pentecost

Happy Pentecost everyone. In the bright, flashy, chaotic, and loud world we live in, it can feel impossible to believe that the Holy Spirit can still move and make a difference. Where we usually hear from Acts about the Pentecost, John's Gospel offers a pentecost that ties the Holy Spirits work to the quiet and powerful work of healing. Perhaps it is worth paying attention to this year.

May 10 Sermon: Another Advocate

As we prepare for the Jesus Ascension after Easter, we are promised another Advocate. Someone to walk along side us. We kind of zip right over the top of this, but when we stop and think about that, this is a big deal. It means that Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit are all in the business of being with us and caring for us. It's who God is.