Tag: Matthew


  • Authority’s Purpose

    Authority’s Purpose

    In our culture, authority is often the thing that intrudes on our personal liberty. But it’s also what calls us into growth.

  • Everyday Potluck Miracles

    What if feeding a crowd wasn’t the only problem that could be solved, as Jesus did, by approaching it with humility?

  • Wheat and Weeds

    Wheat and Weeds

    Don’t trample what is good in going after the bad. Don’t place your focus on the evil, because you can’t destroy and cultivate at the same time.

  • What Soil? What Seed?

    The seeds sown in our nation’s history have brought a complicated harvest. In light of what is now being reaped, what will we sow? How will we tend to the soil?

  • The Fourth and Fifth of July

    A contradiction at the the heart of our nation’s founding still troubles our nation’s soul. It is time to stay still with the pain that lives within our bodies so that we may begin the long process of putting it down.

  • AI and the Stories We Tell

    It’s time to question the stories we are told about artificial intelligence.

  • Shrewd as a Snake, Inoffensive as a Dove

    Jesus sends the disciples into the world with this commencement speech, telling them to love wherever they go, and to stay alive. It’s rarely easy advice, which is why we need community.

  • Tempter In Chief

    Tempter In Chief

    The locker room celebration after the Men’s Hockey gold medal game illustrates how Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness shows up in our own lives today.

  • Bright Lights

    Bright Lights

    Image via Head Topics A Sermon on Matthew 17:1-9by Rev. Chris Bohnhoff Will you pray with me? God of infinity, God of endless diversity, we thank you for creation, whose web holds an honored place for each beloved being. Hold us in your light, we pray, and reveal the wisdom held in our sacred stories…

  • Fulfilling the Law

    Fulfilling the Law

    Just as salt’s nature is to be salty, our human nature is to show mercy to those in need. When we do, God’s law is fulfilled.