Israel asks for a king, rejecting God as their king, despite Samuel’s warnings about what a king will do.
A new work of God in San Diego's East Village
A new work of God in San Diego's East Village
Sermons by Chris Nafis
In today’s reading, the Lord calls Samuel for the first time as a child. We talk about what it means to listen to the calling of the Spirit, the calling of God.
We have flying serpents, hot coals, fear, and redemption in this call story of Isaiah. We break it down in this sermon and see how we might respond.
On this day of Pentecost, we talk about the work of the Spirit that binds us to one another and sends us out, overturning the work of sin to isolate us and pull us into darkness, away from God and away from one another.
Jesus shows the disciples the wounds in his hands and the wound in his side, and when they see the wounds, they come to believe. We discuss trauma, grief, and what it means that in Jesus, woundedness has been made holy.
On this Easter Sunday we pronounce the good news that God has swallowed death forever!
In Psalm 51 we find a beautiful, confessional prayer that finds us in our need for mercy and cries out to God along with us.
Numbers presents us with a strange stories of snake attacks and salvation through a snake on a pole. We see how this gives as an image of the gospel, and how we can find our own salvation from sin in the crucifixion (and resurrection) of Jesus.
We look at the life of Abraham and find that he has left his old identity behind to find a new one in the promise of the Lord.
We discuss humanity’s place among creation, recognizing our dependence upon the mercy of God for life.