Sermons from 2026 (Page 2)

If you have ever been caught in a strong Midwest summer thunderstorm, you will understand just how much water is able to come down from the sky at one time, and it is terrifying. If you lived in Iowa in a house at the bottom of a large hill, you will also learn that inches of rain falling in a short amount of time doesn’t soak into the ground, but will instead find its…

When I moved away from home for college, I went only four hours north of my parents’ house. I was far enough away that visits weren’t spontaneous, but still close enough so that I could go home for breaks and my dad could bring me my winter jacket when I accidentally left it at home one unseasonably warm Thanksgiving. After I graduated, I moved in the opposite direction…

I have to admit that I really enjoy watching people try to debate Scripture with pastors. Not because I believe that pastors can know all things on the topic and are never wrong, because this certainly isn’t the case, but because it is interesting to see the ways that people will try to remove Scripture from its context in order to make a point. This is often the case…

One of the things I love about the Seattle Aquarium is their conservation work and their education on the One World Ocean. We were taught about the four different oceans in school, although they have now changed the number in recent years to five, and it always felt like they were these distinct and separate bodies of water. In reality, our ocean is one large,…