Sermons

To read John’s gospel is to engage in a faithful process.  To read John’s gospel is to hear confirmation that Jesus lived and dwelled and still lives and dwells among us.  To read John’s gospel is to hear how the story transformed and still transforms the lives of others.  And to read John’s gospel is to place ourselves into the story, to be people who experience the presence of God.

This is today’s good news. Jesus is still at our tables. And the love of Jesus is still palpable.  And whether we are floundering in the desert, or lost in a proof text, or even experiencing our first caffeine headache brought on by Lenten adventures; Jesus is waiting for us there.  Jesus is there to tell us that when we come to tables, we needn’t seek power; we needn’t demonstrate the miraculous; we needn’t worry about our status; or hoard the crumbs of our manna.  Because Christ’s Table, God’s table is enough.  It’s big enough for every person, and every experience. and every season. 

Because here’s the truth: God transfigures, y’all. God reminds us to listen. And God resurrects, y’all. God makes new life out of tired seasons. And God’s future, Christ’s return is certain, no matter how foggy we are on the details or the timing. In the coming Lenten season, as we fumble with dim candles in darkness, may we experience Spirit-filled prophecies that allow the morning star, the light-bearer, to arise within our hearts. And may we experience God’s transfiguration, resurrection, and future for ourselves.

God is unbounded. Every created being exudes the beauty and possibility of God. Language, expression, and worship that does not reflect the depth of this scope is an injustice and an affront to all we hold dear. God cannot be love, God cannot be reflected in all of us, if God is reduced to a white, warrior, king, subservient to broken systems. When we refuse to be intentional in our language, whether consciously or not, we darken the light of others, and we sully the salt of others.

Millbrook Baptist Church, if we’re gonna be the people Christ calls us to be; if we’re gonna we’re live into the blessedness and happiness God freely offers us; we have stop choosing to live in kingdoms contorted and maligned by Caesar’s falsehood, and start choosing to live in a kin-dom wholly constructed in God’s truth. God loves us. God is our source. God gives us our value. God longs for God’s world to once more be God’ world. And God longs for each of us to be part of such a world.

Rethinking Repentance Bob Stillerman Third Sunday after Epiphany Matthew 4:12-23 Sermon Text: Rethinking Repentance Matthew 4.12-23 1-25-2026 Matthew 4: 12-23 4:12 Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee. 4:13 He left Nazareth and made his home in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali, 4:14 […]