Sermons on Isaiah
Peace without Spiritual Bypassing
This week’s Advent message wrestles with the theme of peace—not as an escape from reality but as a profound and embodied hope amid life’s struggles. The sermon critiques “spiritual bypassing,” a harmful practice where spiritual truths are used to suppress or dismiss valid emotions like grief, anger, or fear. This bypassing denies the real pain of injustice and suffering, fostering toxic positivity instead of genuine peace. Drawing from personal experiences and scriptural insights, the sermon highlights how Advent invites us…
Advent – Mighty God & Everlasting Father
In this message, Pastor T. C. explores two of the four “throne names” from Isaiah 9 and their relationship to the strength of vulnerability and God’s reign of justice and righteousness.
Advent – Wonderful Counselor
In this sermon, Pastor Osheta explores the first of four titles for God’s anointed king in Isaiah 9, “Wonderful Counselor.”
Upstream Shalom
In this message, Pastor T. C. connects Roots’ value of shalom (in all four dimensions: God, self, others, world) with confronting the challenge of global warming. We will not prevent the most costly consequences of climate change with individualistic solutions. We need to look ‘upstream’ to systemic solutions.
Breaking the Chains Intro
Lent is a season of the Christian calendar in which we are once again invited to be formed by the pattern of Jesus’s life. In this series we will not only explore the personal application of Lenten practice, but also the corporate application. A framing passage for this series is from Isaiah 58: Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their rebellion and to the descendants of Jacob their sins.…
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