Guerrilla Christianity

Guerrilla Christianity

An Unconventional, No-Apologies Exposition of God’s Grace from an Evangelical-Methodist Point of View

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March 28, 2024 23 mins

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Tenebrae is a Latin word that means "Darkness." The Tenebrae service is a reading of the Passion account from John's Gospel, broken down into 16 readings, and after each of the first fourteen readings a candle is extinguished until the entire sanctuary is clothed in darkness. This represents the light of Christ being extinguised on the cross, and it also represents the three hours of darkness that the p...

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March 27, 2024

Old Testament: Isaiah 40:4-9a

Psalter: Psalm 70

Epistle Lesson: Hebrews 12:1-3

Gospel Lesson: John 13:21-32

Scripture quotations from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

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Sermon #598

When we look at the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, we find a story that we know very well.  After all, we celebrate Palm Sunday every year; ever since we were kids in Sunday School we learned about how Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey and the people threw their cloaks and palm branches at his feet, crying "Hosanna!"  But it's that word, Hosanna, which always confused me as a child.  I thought it was a cry...

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March 26, 2024

Old Testament: Isaiah 49:1-7

Psalter: Psalm 71:1-14

Epistle Lesson: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31

Gospel Lesson: John 12:20-36

Scripture quotations from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

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March 25, 2024

Old Testament: Isaiah 42:1-9

Psalter: Psalm 36:5-11

Epistle Lesson: Hebrews 9:11-15

Gospel Lesson: John 12:1-11

Scripture quotations from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

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Sermon #437

Like so many other stories in the Bible, the account of the triumphal entry into Jerusalem is so familiar to us that we might just gloss over it's deeper meaning.  What we see in these eleven brief verses in Mark's gospel is that Jesus is who he says he is - the very Son of God, God of very God, and complete and utter master over time and space.  And what we might deem as human failure after such a great victory, God co...

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March 24, 2024   Liturgy of the Palms:   Gospel Lesson: Mark 11:1-11   Psalter: Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29   Liturgy of the Passion:   Old Testament: Isaiah 50:4-9a   Psalter: Psalm 31:9-16   Epistle Lesson: Philippians 2:5-11   Gospel Lesson: Mark 14:1-15:47   Scripture quotations from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. ...
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March 21, 2024 27 mins

Sermon #105

Jesus' ministry began with the Jews, God's chosen people whom he came to save.  But in today's text we see a group of non-Jews seeking to find Jesus, and to see what all the comotion is about.  Like the Greeks, we need to see Jesus revealed to us, not just as a great teacher, not just as a worker of miracles, but as the very Son of God who came to the world He created, to save it from sin and death.  So grab your Bible,...

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Sermon #597

People often say it is impossible to know if there is a God, and if there is one, it is impossible to know anything about Him.  Two weeks ago we looked at the difference between General Revelation - the existence of God revealed in creation - and Special Revelation - God's specific attributes revealed in the inspired word of God, the Bible.  This week we dive deeper into how we can know God by reading His word.  God's w...

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Sermon #596

What is your testimony?  The stories we tell others, particularly to non-believers, about how we were saved by God's grace are powerful in that they are undisputable.  They are OUR stories, and we lived them.  In today's reading in Psalms, we encounter four stories of how God rescued the people of Israel when they humbled themselves and repented, calling out to Him.  We see how our salvation is not dependent upon our fa...

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Sermon #435

There is an odd story in the book of Numbers that involves venomous snakes biting the people (sent as a judgment by God for their disobedience).  Instead of removing the snakes, God instructs Moses to put a bronze serpent on a pole so that anyone who is bitten by a venomous snake can look at it and live.  Jesus tells us in John chapter 3 that the bronze serpent is a type of the cross, meaning that God was pointing to Je...

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March 10, 2024

Old Testament: Numbers 21:4-9

Psalter: Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22

Epistle Lesson: Ephesians 2:1-10

Gospel Lesson: John 3:14-21

Scripture quotations from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

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March 8, 2024 28 mins

Sermon #104

This week as we continue our Lenten journey we encounter a Jesus that we don't often see or even want to think about.  Jesus' righteous indignation at the Temple moneychangers and merchants was justified, but what was he really angry about?  We take a deeper look into the practice of sacrifice and why the moneychangers were necessary, and perhaps uncover some of the reason Jesus drove them out of the temple.  It's a pow...

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Sermon #595

Psalm 19 is a gorgeous song that declares the glory of God in two ways.  First, it informs us that God's glory is revealed in his creation.  When we look at creation we can see the hand of God at work and we can know that he is greater than his creation.  Second, the psalmist informs us that God's glory is revealed more completely in his holy word - in the Law of the Lord.  Though we sinful creatures may imagine that Go...

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Sermon #434

We can sometimes find ourselves frustrated when sharing the gospel with our friends and neighbors.  We wonder to ourselves, why don't they get it?  After all, we get it!  But Paul reminds us in his letter to the church in Corinth that those who are unsaved simply cannot understand the gospel, because it is foolishness to them.  In fact, it takes a move of the Spirit for us to finally understand what it means that we wer...

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March 3, 2024

Old Testament: Exodus 20:1-17

Psalter: Psalm 19

Epistle Lesson: 1 Corinthians 1:18-25

Gospel Lesson: John 2:13-22

Scripture quotations from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

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February 29, 2024 30 mins

Sermon #103

Jesus told us that we are to deny ourselves, take up the cross, and follow him.  In this day and age, however, we are so far removed from crucifixion as a means of execution that we don't fully understand the weight of his words.  Today we take an in-depth look at what it means to deny ourselves, and why we need to take up our cross - our instrument of execution - daily.  So grab your Bible, turn it to Mark chapter 8, a...

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Sermon #594

In today's lectionary we find Psalm 22, verses 23 to 31.  But if that is all we read of this psalm we might be tempted to think that it is merely a song of praise.  Yet it is so much greater than that.  Reading through the entirety of the psalm reveals that it is a prophetic psalm that David wrote looking forward to the crucifixion of Christ.  But more than that, despite its overtures of utter desperation and complete h...

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Sermon #433

Take up your cross.  Easy to say, hard to do.  We use phrases like "This is my cross to bear" to speak of some hardship or difficulty in our lives, something we must do.  But Jesus told his disciples that he must suffer, that he must be rejected, that he must die, and that he must rise again.  On the heels of this difficult declaration (for which Peter rebuked him), Jesus invites us to deny ourselves, take up our cross,...

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February 25, 2024

Old Testament: Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16

Psalter: Psalm 22:23-31

Epistle Lesson: Romans 4:13-25

Gospel Lesson: Mark 8:31-38

Scripture quotations from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

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