• 02.23.25 • The Paradox of Grace • John 9:35-41
    Feb 25 2025

    In this sermon we talk about the “what would you do?” moments, the miracle of a blind man, how the Pharisees wanted to control the narrative of grace, how Jesus wants to change the way we imagine the God, and the paradox of grace.

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    30 mins
  • 02.16.25 • Grace and Karma • John 1:14, 18; 20:21
    Feb 18 2025

    In this sermon we talk grace, karma, a U2 song, the third step of recovery, why grace doesn’t let us off the hook (with some help from The Magnificat), and what happens when I get cut off driving down Wilshire.

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    34 mins
  • 02.09.25 • Made For Grace • Hebrews 1:1-4
    Feb 18 2025

    In this sermon we talk about grace, Bert and I (and how people from Maine give directions), the difference between telling God’s story beginning at Genesis 3 versus Genesis 1-2, Saint Maximos the Confessor (and how the incarnation was always the plan regardless of Sin), and how we are made for grace.

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    36 mins
  • 02.02.25 • Prevenient Grace for Everyone • Ephesians 2:1-10
    Feb 4 2025

    In this sermon we begin a series looking at the word grace. We look at how easily we can become comfortable with it forgetting what made it wonderful in the first place. We focus specifically on God’s prevenient grace (with a little help from Juan Valdez and Conchita) and how God is everywhere and always giving the gift of the divine presence, which is grace (with a little help again from Flannery O’Connor).

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    33 mins
  • 01.26.25 • The Jesus Horse • Matthew 5:1-12
    Jan 30 2025

    In this sermon Tim Olson (giest speaker) talks about what it means to put the moral cart before the Jesus horse and how we need to find a better way, namely that Jesus meets us where we're at first and then calls us to imitate him. It's about grace versus legalism, or about learning how to love Jesus first in order to then understand what it might mean to imitate him.

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    33 mins
  • 01.19.25 • What We Do • Matthew 16:13-19
    Jan 21 2025

    In this sermon Tim Olson (guest speaker) helps us imagine a church that focuses not on what we do not but what we should do instead as followers of Jesus.

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    23 mins
  • 01.12.25 • More to the Story • Matthew 27:45-46; Psalm 22
    Jan 21 2025

    In this sermon Tim Olson (guest speaker) talks about the more to the story of God we might be missing.

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    29 mins
  • 01.05.25 • Word(s) Made Flesh • John 1:1-18
    Jan 21 2025

    In this sermon we meditate on the great prologue of John’s gospel, what it has to do with wisdom, and what it might mean to incarnate as a church the things God cares about.

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    30 mins