Sermons

Push Back Against Culture

“The Amish are not…against modern technology. We have simply chosen not to be controlled by it” (Amishman David Kline). Western...

One Objective: Humility

Why should you go to church on Sunday? Imagine, for one moment, that your chief objective, your highest motivation Sunday morning, is to...

Death to Self: Christianity Without Asceticism Is Not Christianity

“Strip me of the consolations of my complacent spirituality. Plunge me into the darkness where I cannot rely on any of my old tricks…Take...

Push Back Against the World

“I suppose that our whole present life, looked back on from [eternity], will seem only a drowsy half-waking. We are here in the land of...

Tyranny of Distractions

Three brothers aspired to serve God. The first wanted to be a peacemaker, the second, to feed the poor, and the third, to go to the...

Called to be Extremists

Extremism is not the problem. There is a lot of talk in our country about extremism. The extreme right, the extreme left, the extreme...

Christ, Culture, & Brainwashing

“The maid dead in her house, is the soul lying dead in thought” (St. Rabanus). What does it mean to be dead in thought? This is a comment...

The Weight of Faith

No one can truly appreciate a huge, weeping willow tree the way a child can. When I was seven, my family moved into an old home at the...

Christianity, Sinners, and Hypocrisy

A young monk once prayed to God for patience. That day, the abbot told the monk that a visitor would need to share his room. The new...

When God Sleeps

The tempest flared up in an instant and waves beat against the boat. The Sea of Galilee lies six hundred and eighty feet below sea level....

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