"Peace" Tagged Sermons
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…
Let’s Be Still by The Head and the Heart
In this sermon, Emily Morrison draws our attention toward the theme of being still before God in the song “Let’s be still” by The Head and the Heart.
Subversive Peace
This is the first message in a new teaching series, exploring the letter to the church at Rome, written by the apostle Paul/Saul. In this message, Pastor T. C. introduces the series and explains why reading Romans “backwards” helps keep the theology of the letter in its social and ecclesial contexts, as well as making it more easily applicable in our contemporary contexts.