Have you ever been confronted with an idea or a possibility that seemed outrageous – that you may have even laughed at when it was suggested to you? Today’s story from Genesis focuses on Sarah’s response to God when it is suggested that she will bear a...

Today we look at the story of Abram expressing frustration to God, and the strange vision that followed. What we learn from this encounter is that God responds when we are real in prayer. Father John encourages us to talk to God in ways that are raw an...

The story of Noah and the flood occurs early in Genesis as one of a series of vignettes illustrating the impact of the Fall on humanity and the world. This sermon asks the questions of this text from the perspective of a literary analyst – with some ve...

Today’s sermon explores the meaning of the story of the Tower of Babel. Is God against progress? Why would God interrupt the construction of a city and a tower, dividing and scattering people by confounding their languages?

Immediately after the Fall, the Creation story proceeds to illustrate one of the primary results of a broken fellowship with God: broken relationships with one another. The story of Cain and Abel asks us to consider how we respond to those people who t...

What do we make of the final part of the Creation story? It certainly requires us to face a painful truth about ourselves: We are all broken people. But there is hope and grace embedded in this story. In this sermon,

After God ceased creating in the Genesis account, God entered wholly into the joy of that creation – inviting humankind to do the same, and God called this experience “rest.” Later, after the Israelites had learned to survive as slaves for generations ...

Today, Father John begins a new sermon series on the book of Genesis, starting with the Creation story. This story contains practical, insightful wisdom for how we can face the chaos in our daily lives – by responding to it the same way that God respon...

This sermon looks at the nature of love. Sometimes, for love to be expressed authentically it must be expressed extravagantly. The disciples of Jesus had not yet learned this truth, and when an unnamed woman interrupts a dinner party at Simon the Leper...

All of us struggle with areas of our lives where we feel weak. For some of us it can be a profound struggle – perhaps with maintaining a healthy weight, or controlling our anxiety, or being negative and judgmental.