RoboPreacher

& my life with change A sermon from Matthew 11:25-30 : Whether you have a Ph.D. in theology or not, you’re a theologian. We all are. One way or another, life itself will force you to try and answer questions like, “ where is God in all this” and “ what is God up to.”   Unfortunately , and maybe you’ve already noticed this, many of the answers that get tossed around ring pretty hollow . They ring hollow. …Way back in 1518, Luther addressed this. In fact, it was the ubiquity of all those empty , prepackaged answers that drove Luther to what we call the “reformation breakthrough.” The theology of the cross .   Because, and this is the thing, Luther wasn’t trying to do theology right . He was trying to find out if theology actually had anything to say about real -life. See, Luther’s problem was never that he was the smartest guy in the room. No, his problem was that all the peddled answers didn’t have a rotten thing to do with real -life—certainly not those places wh...

i wanna get better Second Sermon in our Revelation Sermon-series: John’s revelation means to wake us up to all that’s going on.  Today, as the Revelator takes us before the Throne of God, we’re shown what’s really going on when the pastor, some anxious parents and a squirming baby come up to this font . Today, as we see God on the Throne, the Throne at the center of all things , baptism is shown for what it really is, what it actually does .  And in case the setting of God’s Throne in the center of creation wasn’t enough of a clue; baptism is so much more than an initiation ritual or fire insurance… In baptism we are brought into the very heart of faith.  What it means to be claimed by the God who raised Jesus from the dead. What it means to be marked by the one who after three days in the grave, was raised to new, eternal life.  We always talk about something being a matter of life and death; but today we see that it’s actuall...