Sermons from July 2026
Confess
Our series on the vows we make at baptism continues with the third promise: to confess Jesus Christ as Savior and to serve him as Lord. Confessing means saying out loud who Jesus is to us, and allowing our confession to change the way we live in the world. Every one of us answers that question somehow, whether we say it or just live it. This week we explore what this means, and where we find the confidence to trust…
Accept
This week our series on the baptismal vows turns to the second promise: to accept the freedom and power God gives us to resist evil, injustice, and oppression. In Isaiah, the devotion God looks for is feeding the hungry and welcoming the stranger, and in Romans, Paul reminds a struggling church that they are children of God in a world still waiting to be free. There is power already in our hands, and we ask how to use it for…
Renounce
This Sunday we begin a new five-week series on the vows we make at baptism. We start with the first vow: to renounce. Renouncing means turning away from whatever controls us and deciding who we’ll follow instead. It’s an authentic look at who and what we serve, and at the freedom God gives to choose differently. Scripture: Joshua 24:14-18; Romans 8:1-11 (CEB)
This Holy Mystery
This is the final week of our Wesleyan Vile-tality series. Across the series we’ve looked at what changes when we stop managing how our faith looks to other people, the same freedom John Wesley found when he left the pulpit to preach in open fields among the people the respectable church had ignored. This week explores the challenges of a focus on appearance, and what might be possible when we let that focus go. Scripture: Luke 24:13-16 (CEB)