Episodes
Monday Sep 25, 2017
Faith in Practice: How to Pray
Monday Sep 25, 2017
Monday Sep 25, 2017
In this sermon, I walk through the Lord's Prayer not as a prayer that we should pray all the time but as an outline for prayer that Jesus used to teach his disciples how to pray.
Friday Sep 22, 2017
Faith in Practice: How to Read and Study the Bible
Friday Sep 22, 2017
Friday Sep 22, 2017
In this longer sermon I give a crash course on how to read and study the Bible. I also talk along the way about the tools you need for good Bible study. There is also a handout for this sermon in pictures below.
Wednesday Sep 13, 2017
Faith in Practice: What is the Bible
Wednesday Sep 13, 2017
Wednesday Sep 13, 2017
In this sermon, I continue to talk about the need to put faith in practice by talking about the Bible. I argue that it is not an instruction book, but a library of people's relationships with God. I use the story of Jonah to show how arguing about it can often lead us to miss the point.
Thursday Sep 07, 2017
Faith in Practice: Belong, Believe, Behave
Thursday Sep 07, 2017
Thursday Sep 07, 2017
In this series, I am taking a look at how we practice our faith, particularly in Bible study and prayer. In this starting sermon, I take a look at how we make a mistake by defining our faith as a belief system instead of a relationship to which we belong and behaviors to support that belonging. Our theology/beliefs give language to our experiences of God, and trying to talk of our beliefs without an actual experience of God is harmful to our faith.
I am indebted to Diana Butler Bass and her book Christianity After Religion for the concept of the reversale of Belong, Behave, and Believe.