The first two words of the Lord’s Prayer do most of the work. Pastor Adam argues God as Father is among the most radical religious ideas ever proposed, builds it…
Malachi and Matthew 19 on marriage and divorce, continuing a deliberately uncomfortable series and reporting that the discourse has stayed civil.
Matthew 5:27-30, on the Sunday before Martin Luther King Jr. Day — noted as part of this church's own American Baptist heritage of some ninety years.
Matthew 22:1-14 and the wedding banquet: invitations refused, the doors thrown open to whoever can be found, and the one guest without a garment.
Jesus' threefold question to Peter by the Sea of Galilee — do you love me — and the commission that follows each answer: feed my sheep.
The baptism of Jesus in Matthew 3:13-17, John's protest, and the voice from heaven naming him beloved Son.