The Sermons

At Resurrection Assembly, we believe the sermon is a sacred moment when fallible human beings make the audacious claim to speak for God. We open the Bible together and believe that God actually speaks transformative words to every person who has ears to hear. Perhaps most importantly, we believe that God then invites us to respond.

We preach to the heart and to the mind. Which means our sermons aren’t shallow. We’re not offering self-help therapeutics (though we do very much believe in helping each other!).  Rather, like Jesus, we believe our hearts will be set on fire with love as we reason with the scriptures together (Luke 24).

Theology matters. It keep us from reducing Christianity to politics, culture wars, or an alternative to yoga and therapy.

Our preaching doesn’t shy away from asking the fundamental questions of existence: Why does death matter? What does human flourishing look like? What does Jesus’s resurrection mean today, after the bloodiest century in human history? We’re convinced that God is at work in the world, and that his kingdom is coming.

And, like Christ, we believe the gospel is always first and foremost good news to the poor (Luke 4:16).

“‘Come let us reason together,’ says the LORD” (Isaiah 1:18).