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What is the Point of Christmas?

If I’ve heard them once, I’ve heard them hundreds of times. ‘Put the Christ back in Christmas.’ ‘Jesus is the reason for the season.’ But this is, and let’s be honest, bumper sticker theology. What do I mean by that? I mean that it’s a short phrase meant to have great meaning to insiders and […]

Making Room In Our Hearts for God

It isn’t always easy to make room in our lives for self care, or doing the right thing, or the healthy habits we want to adopt, or even (yes) making room in our hearts for God. You’d think the best thing to do would be easy, and yet… And in the bible, too, people struggled […]

Being Happy in Difficult Times

Welp, we’re in difficult times, alright. And you know, it really is okay to just sit down and cry. It’s okay to grieve, to rail against the world, to argue with God. We’ve all got feelings and it’s no good to pretend we don’t, to sweep them under the carpet, or to pretend everything is […]

Sometimes the Baby Jesus is Easier

Sometimes we’ve got all the energy in the world to attempt the seemingly impossible bar Jesus sets for us: Love yourself, Love everybody else, all the time, no exceptions, GO. And you know… sometimes it’s just a whole lot easier to love on the Baby Jesus, and it’s approaching that season. So, the sermon is […]

Constant Vigilance!

Sometimes I just want to walk around my apartment yelling CONSTANT VIGILANCE! Yes, it’s a Harry Potter thing. It’s also a Jesus thing. Not that he walked around his corner of the world yelling it, of course, but it was a theme of his – not his most major one, perhaps, but it was in […]

Sheep go to heaven, goats go… WAIT, WHAT?

Sheep go to heaven, goats go to hell, huh? Well, maybe not. Did Jesus really say that? Did he mean it the way we tend to take it, whether or not we like the idea? Spoiler alert: Maybe, and absolutely not. Watch the video to see Sare unpack the metaphor and see if Jesus did […]

Is This the End of the World?

Mm, spoiler alert: no. But really, I’ve had a maybe-not surprising number of questions about this, and since we’re getting to that point in the church year that the readings are, you know, traditionally apocalyptic, I thought it was time to address the issue. Again. So here – have a rather liberal sermon on the […]

Borrowing a Cup of Calm

Borrowing a cup of sugar (do people still do this anymore? As a child I had to run to the neighbors to borrow a cup of sugar for my mother, occasionally) is a heck of a lot easier than borrowing a cup of calm. In fact, calm can only really be borrowed in 1/2 teaspoon […]

How to become a saint

Spoiler alert: Don’t try to be good. Just go ahead and do what you know to be right, without harming anyone else in the process, and despite what all your haters say. Upon such efforts God smiles, yo. If you’re looking for the readings this sermon was based on, you can check them out here.

Remembering to do what we should