The Good News Sparks Joy and Belonging

Steve Lindsley Acts 8: 26-40 (Selected Verses)   Shannon Kershner, a seminary classmate and current pastor of Central Presbyterian in Atlanta, once began a sermon with a question: who or what informs where you belong? It’s that question that lies at the heart of our...

What Should Offend Us

Steve Lindsley Matthew 21: 12-17 (Selected Verses) Siblings in Christ, I have a question for you this morning: what offends you? What are things that happen to you, with you, at you, or around you that cause you to become outraged, incensed, aggrieved? What offends...

Start Small

Ryan Atkinson John 6:1-15 (Selected Verses) Has your faith ever been challenged? I mean, your back is against the wall, and you have run out of options, and you don’t know what to do or where to turn. You’ve done all that you know to do, and as far as you...

When the Answer is “No”

Steve Lindsley 2 Samuel 7: 1-14 (Selected Verses) When I was fourteen years old, I thought for certain that I was going to get an electric guitar for Christmas. I mean, in my mind, it wasn’t a matter of “if,” it was “when” – and that “when” was going to be Christmas...

Stay Salty

Ryan Atkinson Isaiah 58:1-9A Matthew 5:13-20 (Selected Verses) Our language, as well as all languages of humanity, is made up of dozens upon dozens of sayings that can mean different things to different people and span generations of time. They can be “as clear as a...

A Wild Goose and a Raptor

Steve Lindsley Acts 2: 1-20 (Selected Verses) Methodist minister Dave Faulker tells the story of a pastor visiting a children’s Sunday school class one morning. They’d been learning about the Trinity that month. Tell me what you’ve learned so far, he asks. Who’s the...