Archive for May 2025

In 1978, where were you? Please don’t answer this out loud. Where were you in 1978? I know a couple of you here this morning weren’t even close to being born yet. In 1978 the highest-grossing movie, I looked it up, was “Grease,” starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. “Grease” was great, I saw it. I was in college in 1978.…

“The Cost of Discipleship.” This is a famous book that Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote, so I’m utilizing that title, and I’m coming at it a little bit differently with you this morning. I’m coming at the cost of discipleship this way. I have a five-word sermon. I’m going to say more than the five-word sermon. But I have a five-word sermon…

This, of course, is one of the things that Jesus said, one of the many things. Chris mentioned that wonderful word “subversive.” One of the subversive statements, interpreted as subversive by some of the people listening to Jesus, are statements like, “God and I are one.” You know? Let’s try that out this week. Why…