All sermons are messages about the glory of God revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord. They all end at the table of the Lord, yet each begins in a different place and travels a different route. On that journey to the table, we touch on all sorts of topics. In this topical sermon catalog, we just hope to direct you to messages according to those topics. This little catalog is by no means exhaustive, but the best we have for now. (You may also note that sermons can be searched by topical “tags.” We’ve only recently begun to tag messages and the tags are not as accurate as the topics in this catalog.)

The catalog is in alphabetical order.
Sermons that have a (*) are Peter’s picks for most pivotal paradigm poppers.

Sermon Catalog Index

(Click on a topic to jump to the sermons below)

Anger
Apathy
The Atonement (The Cross of Christ)
Baptism
Beauty (the Nature of Goodness)
The Bible and How to Read It
The Body of Christ (Anakephalaio—it may be bigger than you think)
Calling/Ministry
Christmas
Church
Community (Fellowship)
Compassion
Competition (Jealousy)
Confession and Grace
The Covenant
The Curse
Creation and Evolution
Death
Depravity
Depression and Sorrow
Desires and Dreams
Devotional Life
Discipleship
Discipline
Discipline (and the violence of God)
Doubt
The Eternal Fire
The Environment
Epistemology (How We Know)
Ethics
Evangelism (Witnessing to “non-believers” and “believers”)
Evil (What it “is” and what it’s for)
The Existence of God
Failure
Faith (Courage)
Faith (Epistemology, Apologetics)
Faith (Salvation)
Faith (Trust/Surrender)
Fear/Anxiety
Femininity
The Flesh (it may not be what you think)
Forgiveness/Suicide
Forgiveness (and the Unforgivable Sin)
Freedom and Responsibility
Free Will/Sovereignty
Giving/Prosperity (Money!)
God where they “Don’t Know God”
God’s Character
God’s Sovereignty
Greed
Hades (Outer Darkness)
Healing
Heaven
Hearing God’s Voice
“Hell,” The Nature of
Homosexuality
Hope
How to Do God’s Will
Humility
Identity
Immanence of God
Incarnation and Missions
Intimacy
Joy
The Judgment
Judgment (Decision Making)
Justice
Justification
Law/Grace
Leadership
Lord’s Supper (Communion)
Love (The Romance of God)
Love (unconditional)
Love For All (Including the Lost)
Lust
Masculinity
Meaning
Obedience
Old Man/New Man
New Life
Passion/Emotion
Parenting
Politics and Religion
Power (and Love)
Prayer
Prejudice
Pride (The Human Ego)
Prophecy
Reality (Ontology and Epistemology)
Reason/Insanity
Religion/Self Righteousness
Religions/Comparative
Rest
Repentance (Grace that creates Faith)
Sacrifice and Life (Blood Flow)
Salvation
Sanctification/Transformation
The Sanctity of Human Life (Abortion, Poverty, Immigration)
Self-condemnation
Sex and Marriage
Science and Biblical Faith
Seeking
Servanthood
Signs and Wonders
Sin
Slavery
Sorrow
Space-Time and Eternity (2nd Coming of Christ)
Speech
Spiritual Warfare
Success
Suffering
Swearing
Temptation
Terrorism
Thanksgiving
The Tree of Knowledge & Tree of Life
Trials/Tribulation
Ultimate Reconciliation for All (Apokatastasis)
The Unity of All Humanity
Vengeance (God’s, of course)
Vulnerability
The Word of God (will not fail)
Waiting
Worship
The Wrath of God


Sermons that address:

Anger

3-1-20 Mad as Hell (and Happy as Heaven)

Apathy

12-17-17 Laodicea: Pleasant as Hell

The Atonement (The Cross of Christ)

3-18-12 Vengeance and a Winepress. *

3-4-12 One Skin, Two Skin, Three Skin… [Circumcision]

7-22-12 That Thing That Jesus Did on the Cross *

6-3-12 The Father’s Sacrifice and the Blood Thirsty God

3-9-15 The Tree Story

8-23-15 Jesus Envy (Christians Who Crucify Christ) 

8-30-15 The Clothes Make the Man (When Christians Put On Christ) 

4-16-17 Jesus says “Hi”

1-20-19 The Tree in the Middle of the Garden *

7-21-19 Why You Should Fear God *

12-24-20 The Baby Bomb (A Baby in Every Manger)

4-4-21 Prophecy 106 (I Know What You Did Last Friday

4-11-21 Prophecy 107 (Retribution)

12-12-21 Relativity and the Reason That is Right (Christmas)

9-4-22 Mercy On All: The Resurrection of Adam

5-21-23 How Moses Made Decisions (and Decision Made Moses)

5-28-23 Courage (and Where Joshua Found It)

6-25-23 Sensible Giving (and a Whole Lot. of Bull)

12-24-23 I’ll Be Home for Christmas (the Testimony of Old Simeon from the Temple)

8-4-24 Why Jesus Won’t be President

10-20-24 The Judgement: There is Only One

Baptism

7-28-14 Baptism: Get in the Van

Beauty (the Nature of Goodness)

5-6-07 God the Happy Artist

9-25-16 Beauty-Full…But Beasts *

3-5-17 The Beautiful Thing

3-26-17 The Beautiful Thing and How to Do It

7-28-19 Hiding in Plain Sight (Why God Wears Clothes)t

The Bible and How to Read It

3-2-14 How to Read Your Bible [This is similar to 4-25-16]

4-10-16 The Letter

4-17-16 The Story (A Stack of Letters)

4-25-16 His Story in You (Incarnation)

1-12-20 The Devil Quotes the Bible

2-21-21 Prophecy 103 (The Not Boring Heaven)

7-7-24 Scripture (The Gospel and The Cookbook)

The Body of Christ (Anakephalaio—it may be bigger than you think)

10-14-12 Forgiven Forgiver

1-20-13 ONE HOPE and Many Strange Vessels

2-3-13 A Gift to Be Given

2-10-13 BODY BUILDING (Through Dialectical Reasoning)

2-17-13 BODY BUILDING (The Nuts and Bolt

3-3-13 The Cure for Insanity

3-10-13 Theo Logic

2-9-14 Prayer for Proclaiming the Mystery (And How to Have a Heart Attack)

3-11-18 Three Woes and a Great Kindness

3-18-18 To Prophesy the Mystery *

3-10-19 Waiting for Your Song

3-17-19 Our Soul Shouts for Joy

1-26-20 When What’s Wrong is What’s Right

4-12-20 The Corona Virus and the End of Social Distancing (Easter)

10-11-20 What is That to You

9-25-22 Bump

10-30-22 Wake Up (The Apocalypse at Hand)

11-6-22 Pay What You Owe, Sleepy Head

10-29-23 Family Values (the Adam’s)

11-19-23 Signs of Life at the Living Temple (Beautiful Deeds?)

Christmas

12-24-21 Hold the Baby

Church

8-9-15 Our House

11-24-19 Why Go to Church

12-8-19 Envy (How Skipping Church Makes You Stupid)

6-24-22 Why You Don’t Have to “Go to Church)

9-10-23 How the Church Changes the World (Communion on a Sinking Ship)

3-17-24 Turtle Pens and the Power of The Imperishable Seed

Calling/Ministry

5-7-23 The Messiah’s Complex

Community (Fellowship)

4-11-10 The Abundance of Shared Poverty *

6-12-11 Stepford Church

11-2-14 Groups (and why you don’t like this title)

7-10-16 Listen to Rhoda

4-12-20 The Corona Virus and the End of Social Distancing (Easter)

9-12-21 Looking for Superman

9-19-21 The Hidden Blessings of Kryptonite (Looking for Superman II)

Compassion

11-4-12 I’m God and I approve this message 

11-15-15 The Kiss That Blows the Mind *

1-24-16 Lazarus, the Rich Man, and Dr. Evil

11-8-20 Partisan Politics: Three Days in Hell

03-05-23 Jesus Goes to Sodom

Competition (Jealousy)

3-13-16 Jealous… of Jesus

10-9-16 How to Win the Beauty Pageant 

12-8-19 Envy (How Skipping Church Makes You Stupid)

10-11-20 What is That to You

Confession and Grace

5-16-10 Zombies and Vampires: Let Jesus Offend the Hell Out of You

5-23-10 The Monster Trap

5-24-15 Blessed are the Dirtbags

6-28-15 Hell and How to Stay There

5-12-19 How to Become a Mom (Where Babies Come From)

12-24-19 Larry the Sheep Guy and Concept C

8-19-20 Pearls

9-19-21 The Hidden Blessings of Kryptonite (Looking for Superman II)

7-28-24 The Gift in Your Sin

The Covenant

3-29-20 My Favorite Swear Word

The Curse

3-22-20 The Corona Virus and the Blessing of the Curse

Creation and Evolution

2-11-07 The Deepest Story Part 1 *

2-18-07 The Deepest Story Part 2 *

9-15-24 Creation: Did God Lose Control of Time?

Death

4-20-14 Breathe (the day my father died)

2-12-17 Death, Vanity, and the Reaper

7-8-18 The Dead Who Die and Dance

7-15-18 Glory Glory Hallelujah (The Grim Reaper Isn’t Grim)

9-8-19 Where the Hell is God? (the day my mother died)

2-16-20 A Near-Life Experience (for Zombies)

8-13-23 A Most Encouraging Discouraging Story (Ananias and Sapphira)

6-9-24 Why God Kills People

6-16-24 Why God Kills People and Those People Are Not Dead

Depravity

12-14-14 The Wisdom of Grumpy Jesus (and dogs)

Depression and Sorrow

3-9-14 Tears

3-26-17 Depression, Repression, and Expression (The Beautiful Thing III)

8-25-24 The Name of the Promise is Laughter

Desires and Dreams

6-13-10 Wanting to Want What You Don’t Want, But Should Want

9-23-12 Lunatics (or “Why You Exist and Everything is What It Is”) *

12-16-12 Exceedingly Abundantly More Than All We Ask or Think

10-16-16 Dream . . . ing your Life Away

10-30-16 Power To Enjoy (or “The Problem With Cows”)

12-24-18 Welcome to the Hiett

4-28-19 I Shall Not Want

8-11-19 The Kind of Good You Can Taste

1-19-20 The Kingdom and the Crowd

1-28-24 Journey to the Magic Kingdom (Get in the Van)

Devotional Life

1-4-15 The One Necessary Thing

7-23-17 How to Conquer the Promised Land (“Devotion”)

10-1-17 Ephesus and That Loving Feeling

4-7-19 Don’t Just do Something, Sit There

4-17-22 Easter For Me (the Chief of Sinners)

6-30-24 Therefore (The Application)

Discipleship

4-14-13 How to Imitate God *

9-18-22 Therefore…

3-19-23 Wrestling Your Blessing

Discipline

8-28-22 You Can Go to H3!! (The Kindness and Severity of God)

Discipline (and the Violence of God)

8-13-23 A Most Encouraging Discouraging Story (Ananias and Sapphira)

8-20-23 Another Encouraging Discouraging Story (Magicians and Worshipers)

Doubt

8-24-14 Doubt

The Eternal Fire

5-6-12 To Burn and Not Be Burnt *

5-13-12 One Fire *

5-20-12 The Burning Door *

8-3-14 The Spirit in the Fire

6-27-21 Firefall: How Law Becomes Life

Epistemology (How We Know)

10-6-24 The Fall: The Doctrine of Original Ignorance

The Environment

5-20-07 Stare at a Bug

5-15-16 Take a Hike

Ethics

5-12-24 Why Be Good? (Wisdom From a Dumb Ass)

Evangelism (Witnessing to “non-believers” and “believers”)

5-27-07 How to Make a World with Just a Word

6-23-14 The Plentiful Harvest

11-16-14 Don’t Go Tell it on the Mountain

11-23-14 Go Listen on the Mountain (or “The Temptation of Superman’s Girlfriend II”)

5-10-15 Let Your Light So Shine (The Politics of Jesus)

4-23-17 The Great Omission and Commission

9-11-17 American Gods (and how to beat them)

9-18-17 300 (and how they conquered the gods)

2-4-18 What’s So Great About the Great Tribulation? (The Omen)

4-22-18 To Prophesy the Mystery (and Conquer the Beast)

10-21-18 The Word Wins

11-15-20 Partisan Politics: Three Days in Hell (Part 2)

12-13-20 Eureka (A Baby in Every Manger)

12-6-20 Seek (or Christmas in Athens)

7-25-21 The Picture on the Father’s Desk

1-15-23 Seeds of Hope

1-22-23 Seeds of Hope and Where They Grow

9-3-23 The Biblical Strategy for Global Conquest and Limitless Success

9-10-23 How the Church Changes the World (Communion on a Sinking Ship)

11-5-23 How to Rebuild the Temple and Love Your Neighbor

5-19-24 Why Preach the Gospel (Wisdom From a Dumb Ass)

Evil (What it “is” and what it’s for)

3-18-07 The Abyss I

4-1-07 The Abyss II

6-10-18 What Hate is For

9-9-18 The Beast Is Not; So What Am I?

4-7-24 The Adversary (an Alien Encounter)

The Existence of God

1-21-07 Questions Too Big For Any Specialist

10-11-09 The Unreasonable Reason

7-28-19 Hiding in Plain Sight (Why God Wears Clothes)

Failure

5-15-22 When it’s Not Working it’s Working (Nuts)

Faith (Courage)

1-2-11 To Laugh While Drowning

10-21-12 When You Know What the World Doesn’t Know

10-19-14 How to Walk on Water

7-9-17 The Count

1-14-18 How to Conquer the World: The Meaning of Your Scroll

5-21-23 How Moses Made Decisions (and Decision Made Moses)

5-28-23 Courage (and Where Joshua Found It)

Faith (Epistemology, Apologetics)

10-17-21 Faith and “What Can Be Known About God”

Faith (Salvation)

10-19-14 How to Walk on Water

1-11-15 Faith in the Valley of Transfiguration

2-8-15 The Faith that Saves You

9-27-20 To Laugh While Drowning (2020)

5-16-21 How to Do Good (The Perfect Offering)

5-23-21 Take a Walk (with the Unmoved Mover)

10-10-21 Faith

Faith (Trust/Surrender)

7-28-14 Baptism: Get in the Van

1-15-17 Non-Strategic Obedience

9-23-18 The Romance of God (The Death of Fear and the Birth of Faith) *

7-12-20 Psyched Out (and Back In)

1-10-21 Let Go

9-26-21 St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans: Say “Daddy”

2-12-23 Romans 16:17-The End ~ The Mystery

Fear/Anxiety

5-11-14 Why are you afraid?

1-29-17 Caution to the Wind

6-14-17 American Gods (and how to beat them)

10-29-23 Family Values (the Adam’s)

Femininity

9-27-15 Foolish Virgins

5-14-17 God is Even Better Than Your Mom

5-3-20 Perfection (and Infinate Neurosis)

7-12-20 Psyched Out (and Back In)

9-27-20 To Laugh While Drowning (2020)

4-4-21 Prophecy 106 (I Know What You Did Last Friday

The Flesh (It may not be what you think)

6-20-10 River of Life *

12-9-12 To Know your Unknowable Name (You are not your $#!%)  

10-14-18 The Violence of Grace

Forgiveness/Suicide

7-30-23 Peter, Judas, and The Only Way to Die

Forgiveness (and The Unforgivable Sin)

10-14-12 Forgiven Forgiver (and the unforgivable sin)

10-7-12 Forgiven… even before you had a chance to sin

3-10-13 Theo Logic

6-1-14 Jesus Makes a Skylight 

10-5-14 How to Love Much

2-28-16 Stuck on Jackass Hill (Blaspheming the Spirit)

5-31-20 The Father’s Unforgivable Sin

6-14-20 Lead Us Not Into Temptation

6-18-23 What to Get the Man Who Has Everything

1-7-24 Milkmen Gone Sour

Freedom and Responsibility

10-2-10 Blame

9-7-14 The Easy Yoke (How to become irresponsibly responsible)

9-14-14 ReCreational Righteousness (The Easy Yoke 2)

1-25-15 Maturing Into Irresponsibility

7-4-21 Freedom

3-13-22 Happy Slaves and Miserable Despots

Free Will/Sovereignty

3-22-09 God’s Dreams and Our Dreams

6-20-10 River of Life *

2-8-15 The Faith that Saves You

2-14-16 If The God Beats the Hell out of You

4-9-17 The Election

8-6-17 How to Abide in the Promised Land (There’s No Place Like Home)

7-4-21 Freedom

5-29-22 Double Predestination (and the Sacred Sperm)

6-5-22 Double Predestination (Who to Blame?)

7-10-22 Free Will: The Word Imprisoned in Your Heart

7-31-22 Why I Am Likes You: Free Will

9-4-22 Mercy On All: The Resurrection of Adam

4-16-23 The Chosen Unchosen (Seeing the One that Sees You)

7-16-23 Ester: Harlot, Bride, and Mother (“Such a Time as This”)

Giving/Prosperity (Money!)

8-18-13 Your Stewardship of Unrighteousness

2-1-15 How To Not Go Away Sad

12-6-15 How Money Makes You Stupid (and what to do about it)

10-15-17 Smyrna and the Prosperity Gospel

6-25-23 Sensible Giving (and a Whole Lot. of Bull)

God where they “Don’t Know God”

6-10-12 Altars to the Unknown God

12-13-20 Eureka (A Baby in Every Manger)

God’s Character

8-19-07 Who’s Your Daddy? *

3-14-10 If Your Dad Were a Monster *

8-17-14 Not so Good to be the King (Or, Why God is So Uptight About Sin)

1-31-16 The Thing That Made Dr. Evil Repent

2-19-17 What God Wants From You

7-30-07 Who’s Your Daddy? (ASA Conference) *

12-15-19 How to Wish God a Merry Christmas

5-24-20 How to Pray (the Holy Name)

God’s Sovereignty

9-9-12 IF

9-24-17 Waking to the King of Kings

Greed

6-21-20 Treasure Hunt

Hades (Outer Darkness)

8-5-12 The Potter’s Field [Judas] *

9-8-24 Hell: The Imaginary Elephant in the Middle of the Room

Healing

5-4-14 Healing

Heaven

4-29-07 Are We There Yet?

6-14-15 Heaven and How to Find It

12-9-18 “All Things New”: You Can Go Home

12-16-18 Feeling Sexy?

1-13-19 Do You Wanna Go to Heaven?

6-21-20 Treasure Hunt

2-21-21 Prophecy 103: The Not Boring Heaven

2-4-24 The Kingdom in the Van

2-18-24 Repent: The Kingdom is the Van

8-18-24 The Tale of Two Cities and One Party

Hearing God’s Voice

10-24-10 The Voice

2-28-21 Prophecy 104 (The Voice of God and How it Sounds)

“Hell,” The Nature of

9-5-10 Jesus in the Land of Ghosts I (The Light of the World) 

9-12-10 Jesus in the Land of Ghosts II (How He Sets Us Free) 

9-19-10 Jesus in the Land of Ghosts III (I Can Die)

4-8-12 Easter in the Worst of All Places *

5-24-14 Saving Your Bacon and Losing Your Lord

6-28-15 Hell and How to Stay There 

1-31-16 The Thing That Made Dr. Evil Repent

8-28-22 You Can Go to H3!! (The Kindness and Severity of God)

1-14-24 Milkmen Gone Extra Sour (and Satan’s Big “But”)

9-8-24 Hell: The Imaginary Elephant in the Middle of the Room

Homosexuality

10-24-21 The Dishonorable Passion

Hope

2-25-18 Hope in a God Damned World

1-16-22 Hope: Inherit the Cosmos

5-8-22 In This Hope We Are Delivered

12-11-22 Sing To Be Sung

1-15-23 Seeds of Hope

1-22-23 Seeds of Hope and Where They Grow

How to Do God’s Will

5-8-16 Happy Mother’s Day (Doing the Will of God) *

5-20-18 Where Good Things Come From 

3-20-22 Sex Education For Pharisees

Humility

1-13-13 Worthy Walking

12-24-17 Ozzie: The Little Man Behind the Curtain (A Christmas Testimony)

4-1-18 Easter: You Can’t Be Serious

8-9-20 The Sheep in the Wolf in the Sheep’s Clothing

1-9-22 What Becomes of Our Boasting

3-30-24 Fish Naked

Identity (and theosis)

8-14-11 Behold the Man

12-9-12 To Know your Unknowable Name (You are not your $#!%)

3-17-13 Becoming Who You Already Are

3-16-14 Baptism in the Holy Spirit (and a world of temptation)

3-23-14 Fish Stories

12-18-16 Already Approved (Merry Christmas)

11-12-17 Pergamum and Your Name

6-10-18 What Hate is For

6-17-18 How to Conquer the Dragon

8-19-18 At Home in Who You Are

9-9-18 The Beast Is Not; So What Am I?

11-18-18 Thank God for “Me” (The Glorious Appearing…and Disappearing)

6-9-19 The Sanctity of Human Life (And your Life)

8-25-19 The Council of Gods (And Your Super Power)

11-10-19 Moses: The Epic Failure

1-19-20 The Kingdom and the Crowd

8-30-20 The Man Jesus Does Know (“Rock”) 

1-17-21 Great Things for Yourself

8-1-21 The Name You Make and the Name That Makes You

1-30-22 Becoming Super Man

2-6-22 Becoming Super Man II

8-7-22 The Work of the Word (I Know Who You Are)

8-21-22 The Work of the Word (I Know Who We Are)

4-21-24 Forgetting to Remember to Forget and Remember

9-15-24 Creation: Did God Lose Control of Time?

Idolatry

2-24-19 Totems and Temples

Immanence of God

12-24-15 Expecting God in Unexpected Places

4-16-17 Jesus Says “Hi”

Incarnation and Missions

12-24-12 A Redneck Christmas: Concept C

4-15-18 To Prophesy the Mystery II (Meditations on a Cheeseburger) *

12-24-19 Larry the Sheep Guy and Concept C

12-24-20 The Baby Bomb (A Baby in Every Manger)

2-26-23 Jesus Before Jesus

Intimacy

8-9-09 Couldn’t We Just Wear T-shirts? [Circumcision]

8-19-12 The Most Neglected Commandment in The Bible

9-27-15 Foolish Virgins

10-1-17 Ephesus and That Lovin’ Feeling

10-18-20 Foreskins and T-Shirts

Joy

9-18-16 Joy (At the Bottom of the Ladder)

11-13-16 Mirth in The House Of Mourning (Or “Judge Me Jesus!”)

4-1-18 Easter: You Can’t Be Serious

2-17-19 Your Favorite Thing to Do

3-17-19 Our Soul Shouts for Joy

10-27-19 When God Laughs (at you)

11-7-21 The Judgment of God (Is Fun)

8-25-24 The Name of the Promise is Laughter

The Judgment

8-24-08 The Judgment (Revelation 20: 11-15)

4-5-09 The Flaming Sword

3-14-10 If Your Dad Were a Monster *

1-23-11 The Judgment (John 12:23-36)

7-15-12 How to Judge Yourself, the World, and Everyone It *

3-28-15 Now is the Judgment

11-13-16 Mirth in The House Of Mourning (Or “Judge Me Jesus!”)

7-15-18 Glory Glory Hallelujah (The Grim Reaper isn’t Grim)

11-18-18 Thank God for “Me” (The Glorious Appearing…and Disappearing)

11-25-18 The Books of the Dead and the Books of the Lamb

5-12-19 How to Become a Mom (Where Babies Come From)

10-6-19 Good Judgment (Relentless Love Conference)

2-7-21 Prophecy 102: Who Gets Stoned

10-24-21 The Dishonorable Passion

11-20-22 How to Judge the Hell Out of Your Neighbor

03-05-23 Jesus Goes to Sodom

04-09-23 Last Man Standing

10-20-24 The Judgement: There is Only One

Judgment (Decision Making)

5-13-18 Free Will? (The Ark is in the Temple)

8-19-20 Pearls

11-7-21 The Judgment of God (Is Fun)

11-20-22 How to Judge the Hell Out of Your Neighbor

12-4-22 Much Worse and Far Better Than You Can Imagine (F@*t)

5-21-23 How Moses Made Decisions (and Decision Made Moses)

7-9-23 Wisdom and Two Harlots

7-16-23 Ester: Harlot, Bride, and Mother (“Such a Time as This”)

Justice

6-23-19 The Story You Tell Yourself

8-19-20 The Point (of Your Every Wound)

4-11-21 Prophecy 107 (Retribution)

Justification

12-24-13 The Baby Bomb (The Just Retribution)

10-18-15 Keep Asking Until…

10-25-15 To Be “Not Like Other Men”

1-24-16 Lazarus, the Rich Man, and Dr. Evil

2-19-17 What God Wants From You

2-20-22 Good News: You’re Dead

2-27-22 One Tree and Two “Me’s”

Law/Grace

12-6-09 Wine and Kisses

2-5-12 The Lost Ark (and its current location)

12-24-14 St. Nicholas: Hold the Baby

1-10-16 Lawyers Looking for Loopholes in Love (Humanity’s Incessant Lust for Hell)

2-16-20 A Near-Life Experience (for Zombies)

5-3-20 Perfection (and Infinate Neurosis)

5-10-20 Discipline and Dancing (In the Light)

Leadership

3-17-24 Turtle Pens and the Power of The Imperishable Seed

Lord’s Supper (Communion)

7-19-09 The Beautiful Mind

9-10-23 How the Church Changes the World (Communion on a Sinking Ship)

Love (The Romance of God)

9-16-18 How to Judge a Harlot (Double Vengeance?)

9-23-18 The Romance of God (The Death of Fear and the Birth of Faith) *

12-16-18 Feeling Sexy?

6-13-21 Love (Take a Walk With Him)

7-31-22 Why I Am Likes You: Free Will

12-10-23 Cosmetics, Christmas and the Romance of God

Love (unconditional)

8-19-07 Who’s Your Daddy?  *

9-2-12 God Blessed You and You didn’t even Sneeze

2-16-14 Love Incorruptible

7-30-17 Who’s Your Daddy? (ASA Conference) *

12-15-19 How to Wish God a Merry Christmas

9-13-20 We Are the Champions

1-2-22 Who’s Your Daddy? (2022) 

11-6-22 Pay What You Owe, Sleepy Head

Love For All (Including the Lost)

9-6-09 When Jesus Goes to Sodom

2-14-10 The Picture on the Father’s Desk *

12-4-11 Does God Love Everyone? …Even Esau? *

4-1-12 The Lord’s Side

6-8-14 How to Get into Heaven (or get heaven into you)

3-9-15 The Tree Story

Lust

3-8-20 Lust and the Forgotten Beatitude

11-6-22 Pay What You Owe, Sleepy Head

Masculinity

8-14-11 Behold the Man

11-20-11 Finding Your War (Warriors on Their Couches)

Meaning

2-11-07 The Deepest Story Part 1 *

4-26-15 Jesus Stories & Stories Jesus Told (Living in a Parable)

3-27-16 Easter: The Meaning of the Scroll

8-5-16 The Forgotten Gospel: The Deeper Story of God’s Relentless Love

10-15-23 Apologies and Eulogies 

Obedience

1-15-17 Non-Strategic Obedience

Old Man/New Man

3-17-13 Becoming Who You Already Are

5-5-13 The Spotlight on Me

5-12-13 The Redemption of Space and Time (The Spotlight in Me) *

6-2-13 Thanks for Everything and Nothing *

7-7-13 Intoxicating Spirits *

8-9-15 Our House 

11-20-16 Wisdom and Knowledge (and The Schemes of All Women) 

12-18-16 Already Approved (Merry Christmas) 

2-9-20 Maximum Potency 

8-23-20 The “Man” Jesus Does Not Know 

8-30-20 The Man Jesus Does Know (“Rock”) 

8-1-21 The Name You Make and the Name That Makes You

2-27-22 One Tree and Two “Me’s”

6-19-22 Angry Birds and Vessels of Wrath

12-4-22 Much Worse and Far Better Than You Can Imagine (F@*t)

New Life

1-15-12 Prophets and Passion

Passion/Emotion

4-24-22 Prophets and Passion

1-31-21 Prophecy 101 (How to Prophesy)

4-30-23 Predestined to Drama

Parenting

9-8-13 Parents and Children (“the discipline and instruction of the Lord”)

1-2-22 Who’s Your Daddy? (2022) 

Politics and Religion

11-4-12 I’m God and I Approve This Message

11-11-12 Walls

11-18-12 Beyond the Wall

4-13-14 How to Conquer Jerusalem (Zionism)

12-6-15 How Money Makes You Stupid (and what to do about it)

12-11-16 Talking Politics with Solomon

6-24-18 How to Battle the Beast (Politics and Religion!?!?)

7-8-18 The Dead Who Die and Dance

10-28-18 Don’t Miss the Millennium

10-25-20 Who to Not Vote For (and the Babysitter)

11-8-20 Partisan Politics: Three Days in Hell

11-15-20 Partisan Politics: Three Days in Hell (Part 2)

10-23-22 Be the Revolution (When All Your Rights Are Wrong)

04-09-23 Last Man Standing

11-5-23 How to Rebuild the Temple and Love Your Neighbor

8-4-24 Why Jesus Won’t be President

8-18-24 The Tale of Two Cities and One Party

Power (and Love)

12-10-17 Philadelphia and the Open Door

10-21-18 The Word Wins

Prayer

2-23-03 How to Pray

4-08-07 Let There Be Light

2-2-14 Your Disappointing “Prayer Life”

2-18-18 The Other Side of Silence

5-24-20 How to Pray (the Holy Name)

Prejudice

10-08-23 A Letter to the Uncommon Common

Pride (The Human Ego)

7-24-16 Never Wish Upon a Star

8-3-17 Baffled Kings Composing Hallelujah *

8-25-19 The Council of Gods (And Your Super Power)

10-27-19 When God Laughs… (At You)

7-26-20 The Narrow Way (That Finds You)

1-17-21 Great Things for Yourself

1-9-22 What Becomes of Our Boasting

4-16-23 The Chosen Unchosen (Seeing the One that Sees You)

Prophecy

1-31-21 Prophecy 101 (How to Prophesy)

Reality (Ontology and Epistemology)

7-19-09 The Beautiful Mind

9-17-17 To Dream and Stop Dreaming

1-7-18 Crown Casting 

7-14-19 Sleep 

8-23-20 The “Man” Jesus Does Not Know 

11-22-20 How to Sanctify Everything (and Nothing)

11-28-21 Relativity and Thanksgiving

2-12-23 Romans 16:17-The End ~ The Mystery

Reason/Insanity

8-3-17 Baffled Kings Composing Hallelujah

Religion/Self Righteousness

3-31-13 Losing My Religion

8-23-15 Jesus Envy (Christians Who Crucify Christ) 

9-27-15 Foolish Virgins

5-22-16 The Antichrist (And How to Kill Him)

11-19-17 Thyatira and Love That Can’t be Pimped

9-22-19 Let Heaven Happen

8-9-20 The Sheep in the Wolf in the Sheep’s Clothing

3-21-21 Prophecy 105 (Mess With the World and the World Will Mess With You)

11-14-21 The Death of Fun (Religion)

6-24-22 Why You Don’t Have to “Go to Church”

8-13-23 A Most Encouraging Discouraging Story (Ananias and Sapphira)

Religions/Comparative

2-26-23 Jesus Before Jesus

Rest

3-11-07 The Sabbath

7-14-19 Sleep

11-17-19 God’s Rest (And How to Enter It)

Repentance (Grace that creates Faith)

11-15-15 The Kiss That Blows the Mind *

11-26-17 Sardis and the Dead (Who Don’t Know They’re Dead)

3-18-18 To Prophesy the Mystery

Sacrifice and Life (Blood Flow)

6-2-12 The Father’s Sacrifice and the Bloodthirsty God

9-13-15 Safe as Hell

10-9-16 How to Win the Beauty Pageant 

12-24-16 The Youngest Oldest Man at Christmas

8-26-18 Seven Wounds and One Blessing

10-14-18 The Violence of Grace

10-6-19 Good Judgment (Relentless Love Conference)

1-10-21 Let Go

9-18-22 Therefore…

9-25-22 Bump

11-19-23 Signs of Life at the Living Temple (Beautiful Deeds?)

11-26-23 Signs of Life at the Living Temple: Women, Slaves, and Martyrs

12-10-23 Cosmetics, Christmas and the Romance of God

12-24-23 I’ll Be Home for Christmas (the Testimony of Old Simeon from the Temple)

1-7-24 Milkmen Gone Sour

Salvation

8-25-13 Party Penance

1-31-16 The Thing That Made Dr. Evil Repent

9-18-17 300 (and how they conquered the gods)

Sanctification/Transformation

1-24-16 Lazarus, the Rich Man, and Dr. Evil

4-15-18 To Prophesy the Mystery II (Meditations on a Cheeseburger) *

5-10-20 Discipline and Dancing (In the Light)

7-26-20 The Narrow Way (That Finds You)

5-23-21 Take a Walk (with the Unmoved Mover)

6-6-21 Wisdom (Take a Walk With Her)

6-27-21 Firefall: How Law Becomes Life

1-30-22 Becoming Super Man

2-6-22 Becoming Super Man II

2-20-22 Good News: You’re Dead

5-15-22 When it’s Not Working it’s Working (Nuts)

6-30-24 Therefore (The Application)

The Sanctity of Human Life (Abortion, Poverty, Immigration)

6-9-19 The Sanctity of Human Life (And Your Life)

6-16-19 The Sanctity of Human Life (And Perfect Hatred)

Self-condemnation

5-31-15 What to do About the Sons of the Devil

Sex and Marriage

7-14-13 Looking for Your Helper

7-21-13 Warm Bodies in a Cold War

8-4-13 Marriage: God’s Sneaky Way to Get a Person Crucified

3-8-20 Lust and the Forgotten Beatitude

Science and Biblical Faith

1-28-07 The Day You Were Born

9-17-17 To Dream and Stop Dreaming *

Seeking

12-6-20 Seek (or Christmas in Athens)

Servanthood

11-26-23 Signs of Life at the Living Temple: Women, Slaves, and Martyrs

Signs and Wonders

9-21-14 Signs (of the Undivided Kingdom) 

Sin

10-2-10 Blame *

8-17-14 Not so Good to be the King (Or, Why God is so Uptight About Sin) 

11-8-15 Sin and What to do about it

6-23-19 The Story You Tell Yourself

12-5-21 Relativity and the Reason for Wrong

4-3-22 What to do With Your Sins

7-28-24 The Gift in Your Sin

Slavery

9-15-13 The Bible and Slavery: How to Become One

Sorrow

6-26-16 PTL Honest to God

9-11-16 Sorrow

10-20-19 When Sad…

2-25-24 Recipe for Joy (Sorrow in the Van)

Space-Time and Eternity (2nd Coming of Christ)

9-9-12 IF

5-12-13 The Spotlight in Me (the Redemption of Space and Time) *

3-1-15 Do You Want to See (The Moonwalking Bear)

7-30-17 Relativity and Apokatastasis (ASA Conference)

9-10-17 Apocalypse Now

10-30-22 Wake Up (The Apocalypse at Hand)

Speech

4-21-13 Talk This Way

Spiritual Warfare

9-5-10 Jesus in the Land of Ghosts I (The Light of the World) 

9-12-10 Jesus in the Land of Ghosts II (How He Sets Us Free) 

9-19-10 Jesus in the Land of Ghosts III (I Can Die)

9-22-13 Get Real (a “what” or a “who”)

10-6-13 Get Real (and Renounce the Kingdom of Lies)

10-13-13 Get Real (and Renounce Your Faith in the Devil–Jesus Wins)

10-20-13 Truth (and the Music in Hell)

11-3-13 Righteousness (Sometimes the Clothes do Make the Man)

11-10-13 Peace (for Walking into War)

11-17-13 Faith (and Flaming Darts)

12-1-13 The Helmet of Salvation (Wear it to Dinner)

1-19-14 Just a Word

2-2-14 Your Disappointing “Prayer Life”

6-17-18 How to Conquer the Dragon 

6-24-18 How to Battle the Beasts (Politics and Religion) 

Success

11-2-12 The Successful Christian Life

7-9-17 The Count

2-9-20 Maximum Potency 

Suffering

1-22-12 God’s Champion [Job]

9-21-14 Signs (of the undivided kingdom)

5-21-17 Does Love Work?

12-17-17 Laodicea: Pleasant as Hell

1-28-18 Soundtrack to the End of the World

2-4-18 What’s So Great About the Great Tribulation? (The Omen) 

8-26-18 Seven Wounds and One Blessing

9-8-19 Where the Hell is God (the day my mother died)

3-22-20 The Corona Virus and the Blessing of the Curse

8-19-20 The Point (of Your Every Wound)

9-13-20 We Are the Champions

10-15-23 Apologies and Eulogies 

Swearing

3-29-20 My Favorite Swear Word

Temptation

3-16-14 Baptism in the Holy Spirit (and a world of temptation)

4-28-19 I Shall Not Want

1-12-20 The Devil Quotes the Bible

6-14-20 Lead Us Not Into Temptation

Terrorism

12-13-15 How to Beat Terrorism (and why s#!% happens)

Thanksgiving

11-22-20 How to Sanctify Everything (and Nothing)

11-28-21 Relativity and Thanksgiving

The Tree of Knowledge & Tree of Life

11-20-16 Wisdom and Knowledge (and The Schemes of All Women) 

1-20-19 The Tree in the Middle of the Garden *

1-27-19 Worship God!

2-24-19 Totems and Temples

8-11-19 The Kind of Good You Can Taste

12-8-19 Envy (How Skipping Church Makes You Stupid)

3-1-20 Mad as Hell (and Happy as Heaven)

5-16-21 How to Do Good (The Perfect Offering)

6-6-21 Wisdom (Take a Walk With Her)

6-13-21 Love (Take a Walk With Him)

7-9-23 Wisdom and Two Harlots

4-21-24 Forgetting to Remember to Forget and Remember

5-12-24 Why Be Good? (Wisdom From a Dumb Ass)

6-9-24 Why God Kills People

6-16-24 Why God Kills People and Those People Are Not Dead

10-6-24 The Fall: The Doctrine of Original Ignorance

Trials/Tribulation

3-19-23 Wrestling Your Blessing

Ultimate Reconciliation for All (Apokatastasis)

2-5-04 The Vineyard (What if God was Better Than You Thought) *

2-18-07 The Deepest Story Part 2 *

6-1-14 Jesus Makes a Skylight

4-5-15 Good News!… ?

10-4-15 The Vineyard (10 years later)

3-27-16 Easter: The Meaning of the Scroll 

6-12-16 Let Everything PTL

8-5-16 The Forgotten Gospel: The Deeper Story of God’s Relentless Love

9-25-16 Beauty-Full…But Beasts *

4-21-19 Hallelujah in Hell (King David)

9-22-19 Let Heaven Happen

2-7-21 Prophecy 102 (Who Gets Stoned)

5-2-21 Prophecy 108 (The Transformation of Shame *

5-2-21 Prophecy 108b (The Transformation of Shame into Life *

12-5-21 Relativity and the Reason for Wrong

5-29-22 Double Predestination (and the Sacred Sperm)

6-5-22 Double Predestination (Who to Blame?)

9-4-22 Mercy On All: The Resurrection of Adam

1-14-24 Milkmen Gone Extra Sour (and Satan’s Big “But”

1-28-24 Journey to the Magic Kingdom (Get in the Van)

2-4-24 The Kingdom in the Van

2-18-24 Repent: The Kingdom is the Van

2-25-24 Recipe for Joy (Sorrow in the Van)

The Unity of All Humanity

(See: The Body of Christ—Anakephalaio)

Vengeance (God’s, of course)

4-6-14 Killing Jesus

9-16-18 How to Judge a Harlot (Double Vengeance?)

7-21-19 Why You Should Fear God

10-9-22 Vengeance (The Violence of Kindness)

Vulnerability

10-18-20 Foreskins and T-Shirts

10-30-22 Wake Up (The Apocalypse at Hand)

The Word of God (will not fail)

4-22-12 The Lion in the Path *

3-21-21 Prophecy 105 (Mess With the World and the World Will Mess With You)

8-7-22 The Work of the Word (I Know Who You Are)

8-21-22 The Work of the Word (I Know Who We Are)

Waiting

3-10-19 Waiting for Your Song

4-7-19 Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There

Worship

8-12-12 Worship Service

9-23-12 Lunatics (or “Why You Exist and Everything is What It Is”) *

2-12-12 Joy… The Lost Ark [David Dancing]

2-19-12 Fertility… and the Lost Ark [David Dancing]

7-7-13 Intoxicating Spirits *

6-12-16 Let Everything PTL

1-7-18 Crown Casting

1-27-19 Worship God!

2-17-19 Your Favorite Thing to Do

11-17-19 God’s Rest (And How to Enter It)

7-18-21 Drink to be Drunk by God

12-11-22 Sing To Be Sung

9-3-23 The Biblical Strategy for Global Conquest and Limitless Success

The Wrath of God

3-18-12 Vengeance and a Winepress

6-23-17 How to Conquer the Promised Land (“Devotion”)

8-12-18 The Gospel of Perfect Wrath

6-16-19 The Sanctity of Human Life (And “Perfect Hatred”)

6-19-22 Angry Birds and Vessels of Wrath

10-9-22 Vengeance (The Violence of Kindness)