Sermons from November 2025
30 Nov 2025
1st Sunday of AdventNovember 30, 2025Isaiah 2.1-5 On top of the turkey and the official beginning to the Christmas crazy, this week also brought with it a pop culture moment that has been years and years in the making, one that folks have been waiting for with baited breath. Not Wicked: For Good. Not Zootopia 2. Not Chiefs/Cowboys. No, this week brought us the premier of Stranger Things season five, the final season. Now, even if you know nothing about this show, you have probably seen…
23 Nov 2025
Christ the KingNovember 23, 2025Jeremiah 23.1-6, Luke 23.33-43 The other night, the strangest and yet kind of sweetest thing happened to me while leaving the movie theater. It feels a little bit like a funny thing happened on the way to the Forum, but anyway. I was walking out of the AMC in Hampton, just minding my own business, heading towards my car. Now, I have entered into my do not care, I’d rather be comfy phase when it comes to the movies,…
16 Nov 2025
23rd Sunday of PentecostNovember 16, 2025Luke 21.5-19 Over the last month or so, you may have seen previews for the movie Roofman with Channing Tatum. If you take the trailer at face value, it seems like just kind of a feel good, fun movie. Random guy ends up secretly living in a Toys R Us where he plays with toys and roller skates through the aisles at night. However, when you see it, you realize that the story is much bigger than that, and is, in…
09 Nov 2025
22nd Sunday of PentecostNovember 9, 202Job 19.23-27a My apologies to the Bible study crew because they have already heard this story, but it is the one that always pops into my head whenever I think of the book of Job. At my first call, we had two services, a contemporary and a traditional. The contemporary service was where all of my kids were, but because it was a condensed service, only about 50 minutes, there was never time for a children’s sermon. The kids…
02 Nov 2025
All SaintsNovember 2, 2025Ephesians 1.11-23 I don’t know about you, but there are times when I reflect on how I’ve gotten to this iteration of my life, of my self-hood and I can see what I have picked up along the way from various family members. There is a strange sort of comfort in looking at yourself in the mirror and not only knowing the things that are uniquely your individual self, but also those parts that reflect and remind you…