The sermon explores Jesus teaching on how to cope with evil.  The church, to its great disgrace, hasn't followed his advice on many occasions.  The sermon suggests way we are able to do so.

This sermon explores hinderances to the word of God taking root in us and bringing forth the abundance of God Kingdom of peace and justice.  We explore the good soil, the hard packed path, stones in the field and thorns that choke the the new grown seeds. 

The sermon recording starts a bit into the sermon.  The sermon began with a discussion of good soil as freshly turned Kansas earth with its life giving aroma.  Then we explore how a group of youth from Olathe, Kansas advocated for a life that is alcohol and drug free.  The story was share by Janine Gracy who is the director of the Johnson county Regional Prevention Center at the Kansas citizen's committee I chaired last week.

This sermon explore Jesus' teaching in Matthew 11 about how he lives and teaches a wisdom from God, we in turn as his disciples are called to respond to the gospel by pursuing wisdom in our own lives.   We also explore a couple of spiritual practices. 

This sermon explore Jesus' words to his disciples, "Those who welcome you welcome me, and those who welcome me welcome the one who sent me.  We explore the metaphor of our inner lives as a soul home. Together our "soul homes" join to form soul neighborhoods..

This sermon explores the striking relationship between our immune system which resists disease and our "faith" system which helps us resist sin and its devastating consequences in our society.

This sermon explores Jesus' call to Matthew from a "tax table" to a a Table of Grace.  Apologies to listeners - there is a bit of the sermon missing .. technical difficulties. 

Jesus teaches at least three lessons this day:

God Provides!

 

Don't Worry!

 

Pray!

 

The sermon explore the analogy of Google-Map with Scripture as our map to life.  The doctrine of the Trinity is our legend to that map and our journey which has the Kingdom of God as a destination and the gospel of Jesus Christ as our means to reach the Kingdom.

We explore how Jesus' prayer with his disciples on the night in which he was betrayed strikes to the heart of the chaos at the heart of the youth culture today...

The sermon explores our partnership with God as a way of achieving the impossible dream..