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
(These are the topics. Scroll down to see the sermons)
Apathy
The Atonement (The Cross of Christ)
Baptism
Beauty
The Bible and How to Read It
The Body of Christ (Anakephalaio—it may be bigger than you think)
Church
Community (Fellowship)
Compassion
Competition (Jealousy)
Confession and Grace
Creation and Evolution
Death
Depravity
Depression and Sorrow
Desires and Dreams
Devotional Life
Discipleship
Discipline (and the violence of God)
Doubt
The Eternal Fire
The Environment
Evangelism (Witnessing to “non-believers” and “believers”)
Evil (What it “is” and what it’s for)
The Existence of God
Faith (Salvation)
Faith (Trust)
Faith (Courage)
Fear/Anxiety
Femininity
The Flesh (it may not be what you think)
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
Hades (Outer Darkness)
Healing
Heaven
Hearing God’s Voice
“Hell,” The Nature of
Hope
How to Do God’s Will
Humility
Identity
Immanence of God
Incarnation and Missions
Intimacy
Joy
The Judgment
Judgment (Decision Making)
Justification
Law/Grace
Lord’s Supper (Communion)
Love (The Romance of God)
Love (unconditional)
Love For All (Including the Lost)
Masculinity
Meaning
Obedience
Old Man/New Man
Passion/Emotion
Parenting
Politics and Religion
Prayer
Pride
Reality (Ontology and Epistemology)
Reason/Insanity
Religion/Self Righteousness
Rest
Repentance (Grace that creates Faith)
Sacrifice and Life (Blood Flow)
Salvation
Sanctification/Transformation
Self-condemnation
Sex and Marriage
Science and Biblical Faith
Signs and Wonders
Sin
Slavery
Sorrow
Space-Time and Eternity (2nd Coming of Christ)
Speech
Spiritual Warfare
Success
Suffering
Ultimate Reconciliation of All
The Unity of All Humanity
Temptation
Terrorism
The Tree of Knowledge & Tree of Life
Vengeance (God’s, of course)
The Word of God (will not fail)
Worship
The Wrath of God
Sermons that address:
Apathy
12-17-17 Laodicea: Pleasant as Hell
The Atonement (The Cross of Christ)
7-22-12 That Thing That Jesus Did on the Cross *
3-18-12 Vengeance and a Winepress. *
3-4-12 One Skin, Two Skin, Three Skin… [Circumcision]
6-3-12 The Father’s Sacrifice and the Blood Thirsty God
8-23-15 Jesus Envy (Christians Who Crucify Christ)
8-30-15 The Clothes Make the Man (When Christians Put On Christ)
1-20-19 The Tree in the Middle of the Garden *
Baptism
7-28-14 Baptism: Get in the Van
Beauty
9-25-16 Beauty-Full…But Beasts *
3-26-17 The Beautiful Thing and How to Do It
The Bible and How to Read It
4-10-16 The Letter
4-17-16 The Story (A Stack of Letters)
4-25-16 His Story in You (Incarnation)
3-2-14 How to Read Your Bible [This is similar to 4-25-16]
The Body of Christ (Anakephalaio—it may be bigger than you think)
1-20-13 ONE HOPE and Many Strange Vessels
2-10-13 BODY BUILDING (Through Dialectical Reasoning)
2-17-13 BODY BUILDING (The Nuts and Bolt
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 *
Church
Community (Fellowship)
4-11-10 The Abundance of Shared Poverty *
11-2-14 Groups (and why you don’t like this title)
Compassion
1-24-16 Lazarus, the Rich Man, and Dr. Evil
Competition (Jealousy)
11-4-12 I’m God and I approve this message
11-15-15 The Kiss That Blows the Mind *
10-9-16 How to Win the Beauty Pageant
Confession and Grace
5-16-10 Zombies and Vampires: Let Jesus Offend the Hell Out of You
5-24-15 Blessed are the Dirtbags
6-28-15 Hell and How to Stay There
Creation and Evolution
2-11-07 The Deepest Story Part 1 *
2-18-07 The Deepest Story Part 2 *
Death
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)
Depravity
12-14-14 The Wisdom of Grumpy Jesus (and dogs)
Depression and Sorrow
3-26-17 Depression, Repression, and Expression (The Beautiful Thing III)
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”)
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
Discipleship
Doubt
The Eternal Fire
5-6-12 To Burn and Not Be Burnt *
The Environment
Evangelism (Witnessing to “non-Christians” and “believers”)
5-27-07 How to Make a World with Just a Word
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)
Evil (What it “is” and what it’s for)
9-9-18 The Beast Is Not; So What Am I?
The Existence of God
1-21-07 Questions Too Big For Any Specialist
10-11-09 The Unreasonable Reason
Faith (Salvation)
2-8-2015 The Faith that Saves You
1-11-15 Faith in the Valley of Transfiguration
Faith (Trust)
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) *
Faith (Courage)
1-2-11 To Laugh While Drowning
10-21-12 When You Know What the World Doesn’t Know
1-14-18 How to Conquer the World: The Meaning of Your Scroll
Fear/Anxiety
6-14-17 American Gods (and how to beat them)
Femininity
5-14-17 God is Even Better Than Your Mom
The Flesh (It may not be what you think)
12-9-12 To Know your Unknowable Name (You are not you $#!%)
10-14-18 The Violence of Grace
Forgiveness
10-7-12 Forgiven… even before you had a chance to sin
2-28-16 Stuck on Jackass Hill (Blaspheming the Spirit)
Freedom and Responsibility
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
Free Will/Sovereignty
3-22-09 God’s Dreams and Our Dreams
2-8-15 The Faith that Saves You
2-14-16 If The Lord Beats the Hell out of You
8-6-17 How to Abide in the Promised Land (There’s No Place Like Home)
5-13-18 Free Will (The Ark is in the Temple)
Giving/Prosperity (Money!)
8-18-13 Your Stewardship of Unrighteousness
12-6-15 How Money Makes You Stupid (and what to do about it)
10-15-17 Smyrna and the Prosperity Gospel
God where they “Don’t Know God”
6-10-12 Altars to the Unknown God
God’s Character
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) *
God’s Sovereignty
9-24-17 Waking to the King of Kings
Hades (Outer Darkness)
8-5-12 The Potter’s Field [Judas] *
Healing
Heaven
6-14-15 Heaven and How to Find It
12-9-18 “All Things New”: You Can Go Home
Hearing God’s Voice
“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 All the Wrong 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
Hope
2-25-18 Hope in a God Damned World
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
Humility
12-24-17 Ozzie: The Little Man Behind the Curtain (A Christmas Testimony)
4-1-18 Easter: You Can’t Be Serious
Identity
3-17-13 Becoming Who You Already Are
12-9-12 To Know your Unknowable Name (You are not you $#!%)
3-16-14 Baptism in the Holy Spirit (and a world of temptation)
12-18-16 Already Approved (Merry Christmas)
11-12-17 Pergamum and Your Name
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)
Immanence of God
12-24-15 Expecting God in Unexpected Places
Incarnation and Missions
12-24-12 A Redneck Christmas: Concept C
4-15-18 To Prophesy the Mystery II (Meditations on a Cheeseburger) *
Intimacy
8-9-09 Couldn’t We Just Wear T-shirts? [Circumcision]
8-19-12 The Most Neglected Commandment in The Bible
10-1-17 Ephesus and That Lovin’ Feeling
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
The Judgment
8-24-08 The Judgment (Revelation 20: 11-15)
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 *
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
Judgment (Decision Making)
5-13-18 Free Will? (The Ark is in the Temple)
Justification
12-24-13 The Baby Bomb (The Just Retribution)
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
Law/Grace
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)
Lord’s Supper (Communion)
Love (The Romance of God)
How to Judge a Harlot (Double Vengeance?)
9-23-18 The Romance of God (The Death of Fear and the Birth of Faith) *
Love (unconditional)
9-2-12 God Blessed You and You didn’t even Sneeze
7-30-17 Who’s Your Daddy? (ASA Conference) *
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? *
6-8-14 How to Get into Heaven (or get heaven into you)
Masculinity
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
Obedience
1-15-17 Non-Strategic Obedience
Old Man/New Man
3-17-13 Becoming Who You Already Are
5-12-13 The Redemption of Space and Time (The Spotlight in Me) *
6-2-13 Thanks for Everything and Nothing *
11-20-16 Wisdom and Knowledge (and The Schemes of All Women)
12-18-16 Already Approved (Merry Christmas)
Passion/Emotion
Parenting
9-8-13 Parents and Children (“the discipline and instruction of the Lord”)
Politics and Religion
11-4-12 I’m God and I Approve This Message
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
Power (and Love)
12-10-17 Philadelphia and the Open Door
Prayer
2-2-14 Your Disappointing “Prayer Life”
2-18-18 The Other Side of Silence
Pride
7-24-16 Never Wish Upon a Star
8-3-17 Baffled Kings Composing Hallelujah *
Reality (Ontology and Epistemology)
9-17-17 To Dream and Stop Dreaming
Reason/Insanity
8-3-17 Baffled Kings Composing Hallelujah
Religion/Self-Righteousness
8-23-15 Jesus Envy (Christians Who Crucify Christ)
5-22-16 The Antichrist (And How to Kill Him)
11-19-17 Thyatira and Love That Can’t be Pimped
Rest
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)
10-9-16 How to Win the Beauty Pageant
12-24-16 The Youngest Oldest Man at Christmas
6-2-12 The Father’s Sacrifice and the Bloodthirsty God
8-26-18 Seven Wounds and One Blessing
10-14-18 The Violence of Grace
Salvation
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) *
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
Science and Biblical Faith
9-17-17 To Dream and Stop Dreaming *
Signs and Wonders
9-21-14 Signs (of the Undivided Kingdom)
Sin
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
Slavery
9-15-13 The Bible and Slavery: How to Become One
Sorrow
Space-Time and Eternity (2nd Coming of Christ)
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)
Speech
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)
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
Suffering
9-21-14 Signs (of the undivided kingdom)
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
Ultimate Reconciliation of All
12-5-04 The Vineyard (What if God was Better Than You Thought) *
2-18-07 The Deepest Story Part 2 *
10-4-2015 The Vineyard (10 years later)
3-27-16 Easter: The Meaning of the Scroll
8-5-16 The Forgotten Gospel: The Deeper Story of God’s Relentless Love
9-25-16 Beauty-Full…But Beasts *
The Unity of All Humanity
(See: The Body of Christ—Anakephalaio)
Temptation
3-16-14 Baptism in the Holy Spirit (and a world of temptation)
Terrorism
12-13-15 How to Beat Terrorism (and why s#!% happens)
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 *
Vengeance (God’s, of course)
How to Judge a Harlot (Double Vengeance?)
The Word of God (will not fail)
4-22-12 The Lion in the Path *
Worship
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]
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