Sermons on Kingdom of God (Page 3)
From Volk to Spoke
In this sermon, Pastor T. C. kicks off a new teaching series on Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Kingdom allegiance. In this election season, polarization and partisanship aren’t the primary problem—injustice is. What we can learn from the Scriptures, the life of Jesus, the of the early church, and the example of Dietrich Bonhoeffer is resistance to injustice and being a faithful witness to the Kingdom of God. This message highlight’s Bonhoeffer transformation from his time in Harlem in 1930. He went…
God Hears the Cries of the Oppressed
As we continue in our teaching series, Loyal-love, and following along with the Revised Common Lectionary, our text this week is from Exodus 3, Moses’s encounter with God in the “Burning Bush.”
Faithful Resistance & Subversive Creativity
In this sermon, Pastor T. C. kicks off a new teaching series from Exodus chapter 1 as we follow along with the Revised Common Lectionary. By joining with hundreds of millions of other Christians around the world, we are seeking to discern what God’s Spirit is saying to the whole church. This message focuses on the faithful resistance and subversive creativity that is highlighted in the story of Moses’s birth. The two Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah demonstrate faithful resistance…
Chemical by Jack Garratt
In this message, Pastor T. C. talks about the themes of idolatry and social injustice. The song for this week is “Chemical” by Jack Garratt, from his album “Phase.”
Spirit and Systems
Continuing in the season of Pentecost, this sermon follows up on the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2, with teaching on how the early church reimagined life together as a multiethnic community, confronted opposition from the broader society, and challenges from within. Two of the challenges from within were some self-interested disciples centering themselves while lying to the Holy Spirit, and ethnic discrimination within the system of food distribution. The Holy Spirit gave the early church the wisdom…