Family stuff is never simple.

Even the most loving families, even people who you know are there for you, who you know deep in your gut love you like crazy and have your back, can sometimes make it clear—very clear—that they don’t understand you...

... There is a wedding. This is a consistent, powerful image Jesus used often, to tell us what the kingdom of God would be like. The kingdom of heaven—not that pie in the sky, in the bye and bye heaven, but heaven as it unfolds on earth when we start to live the gospel with every breath we take. The reign of God looks like a joyful feast, a feast celebrating love, and union, and unity....

A Sermon on Matthew 22:1-14

A Sermon on Matthew 20:1-16

A Meditation on Matthew 8:5-13.

A Sermon on Matthew 18:15-35.

Matthew 18:1-6.

A sermon on Matthew 16:24-7:8.

A sermon on Matthew 6:24-35.

A sermon on Matthew 3:1-17.

A sermon on Matthew 2:13-23.