Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

Philip asked Jesus to show him God. The answer dismantles centuries of angry-God theology — and exposes the retributive impulse hiding in all of us.

Jesus came that we might have life in abundance — but abundant life can’t be hoarded. The moment we try to secure it for ourselves at others’ expense, it stops being life at all.

When the executed one comes back, everyone expects retribution. The shock of resurrection is that he doesn’t.

The resurrection doesn’t restore what we lost — it reveals what we were always becoming: living icons through whom the world might glimpse the life of God.

The desire for a fair universe is real and grief-filled – but Jesus steps outside that framework entirely, and invites us into something better.

A church discerns its new name while remembering that identity is not possession, but a journey of love shaped by God’s call to be a blessing.

In a world ruled by suspicion and blame, the gospel announces an abundance that was never earned and cannot run out.

Jesus calls us to be salt and light by living a public embodied faith that tells the truth, resists indifferent silence, and makes God’s justice and love visible in the world.

The call to live the beatitudes is not about turning them into a guilt-inducing to-do list, but about living a life that is a blessing to others.

Salvation – reconciliation with God and with one another – is relational rather than transactional, and it begins with a willingness to see, listen and learn.

Epiphany reminds us that we have no monopoly on the truth and always have more to learn from people of other faiths and backgrounds.

The hope born at Christmas does not erase, deny, or hide from the horror of a violent world, but meets us in the midst of it.