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February 15, 2024 · 11:44 am

Affirmation of Faith

Affirmation of Faith for Lent utilizing the Sermon on the Mount

I believe in the power of love to overcome the darkness, and that Sin is that which stands in opposition to love of God, love of others, and love of self.

I believe that love overcomes the power of Sin. Treating others as they wish to be treated, loving my enemy, praying for those who persecute others, and non-violent resistance are the Way toward the Kingdom of God.

I believe that Sin crucified Christ for loving those who were unloved, for feeding those who were unfed, and healing those who were in dis-ease. The Cross was the greatest display of the power of Sin, but was overcome by Christ’s power of love.

This Lenten season, I believe that by the grace of God I can turn away from the Sin of the world and toward the love of Christ, and that I can embrace the Cross and not fear it. I believe the grace of Christ empowers us all to eternal life. Amen.

Dr. Seuss Tells the Sermon on the Mount, Part 4: The Zax

The north-going Zax and the south-going Zax cross paths in the prairie of Prax.

The Zax are lesser-known Seuss creations. Found in one of the smaller stories within the Sneetches book, they are two creatures full of certainty. Their paths intersect one day in an open field. One is going north. The other south. They run into each other, and refuse to yield. Each Zax is certain of his path. He is certain that there is no other way to go. There is no room for east or west. Both dig in, ready for a wait, ready to hold fast to their certainty for as long as it takes. As they stand there at a face off, a funny things happens. The world around them goes on. The story ends with the north-going Zax and the south-going Zax standing face to face, with the world all around them changed. There are buildings and roads, even a bridge that goes over them. All around them is progress, leaving behind the Zax and their certainty.

Assurance is a virtue. I’m not sure certainty is. Certainty is built on the promise that I am right. It inspires us to dig deeper trenches, and defend certainty at all costs. Certainty regards new facts with suspicion. It does not adapt well to change. Assurance is built on the promise that I am loved. It is a source of hope and inspires confidence. Assurance allows freedom for challenge and growth. I think the world could use more blessed assurance and less religious certainty.

Jesus closes his Sermon on the Mount with a warning. “Not everybody who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will get into the kingdom of heaven,” he says (Matthew 7:21). Faith is not about checking a box. Faith is not about making your claim, saying a formulaic prayer, and thinking that your ticket has been punched. “Only those who do the will of my Father will enter,” he continues. He closes this long sermon, one in which he told them some pretty radical stuff, with a reminder that nodding their heads in agreement, even shouting a few ‘amens’ wouldn’t be enough. I can imagine after this sermon, the people filing by Jesus, shaking his hand warmly and saying, “Good sermon, teacher.” The Kingdom of Heaven is about more than knowing what is right. It is about living each day as if the things Jesus taught actually matter.

The Christian life is not easily defined, and it is not easily lived. It starts not with having all the answers, but with having the courage to ask the questions. Religious certainty is built on having all the answers. It is about picking the right Bible verses to memorize, and standing firm on the right side. It is built, above all, on being right. Yet Jesus himself called out those who wanted to draw such clear lines. To those who memorized all the right Bible verses, he declared “You have heard it said… But I say to you.” He threw doubt upon all that their institutions and religious righteousness had been built on.

Instead he called people to struggle with real problems. He called people to fix upon the spirit of love that transcended the letter of the Law. Instead of offering certainty, he offered assurance. Assurance that the entirety of the Bible could be summed up with a commandment to love. Assurance that the sinner is welcome at the table. Assurance that treating one another with love was more important than being right.

Blessed assurance gives me the strength to love. It gives me the confidence to be vulnerable. It gives me the safety to adventure into uncharted territory. Assurance inspires me to go to new places, meet new people, and try to find new ways to encounter what transcends all things: God’s love.

Jesus closes his Sermon on the Mount with a simple metaphor. “Everybody who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like the wise builder who built a house on bedrock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the wind blew and beat against that house. It didn’t fall… But everybody who hears these words and doesn’t put them into practice will be like a fool who built his house on sand. The rain fell, the floods came, and the wind blew against that house. It fell and was completely destroyed” (Matthew 7:24-27)

Certainty is built upon the promise that I am right. It does not respond well to shifting winds or changing times. Assurance is built upon the promise that I am loved. With that foundation, I can stand against any storm.

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September 28, 2014 · 10:41 am

Dr. Seuss Tells the Sermon on the Mount, Part 3: The Sneetches

The Sneetches are such silly creatures, aren’t they? Two groups of yellow bird-like creatures lived on a beautiful beach. Some have little green stars on their bellies. Some don’t. That’s when the trouble begins. The star-bellied Sneetches believe that the star upon their belly makes them “the best Sneetches on the beaches.” They enjoy much fun and frivolity, but don’t let their plain-bellied-brethren join in their reindeer games. Enter Sylvester McMonkey McBean. He has just the contraption that will solve all the problems of the plain-bellied Sneetches. The plain-bellied Sneetches pay just three dollars to enter the machine, and come out the other end with stars upon thars.

This is only a momentary victory, as natural-starred-Sneetches maintain that they are still the better Sneetches. Sylvester comes in again and offers some help. For only ten dollars per Sneetch, they can enter the machine and have that pesky star removed. Chaos ensues. The Sneetches get so caught up in adding or removing their stars to keep up with the trends that eventually even they cannot keep up. Eventually, Sylvester leaves, his pockets properly lined. In the end, “all the Sneetches forgot about stars, and whether they had one, or not, upon thars.”

It would be easier to dismiss the Sneetches as silly, superficial creatures if we didn’t see ourselves so clearly in them. Once again, Dr. Seuss presents us with a fun-house mirror. Bent to stretch out the image to absurd proportions, but mirror-enough to recognize ourselves. The Sneetches remind us of the absurdity of our divisions. They remind us of the stars for which we long. They remind us of the anxieties with which we wake every day. The anxieties that sit in the pit of our stomachs. The anxieties that keep us awake, that diminish our appetites, that affect our relationships, and cripple us with fear for of what we don’t have.

The Sneetches worried about whether or not they had stars upon thars. And we can look out those silly Sneetches and laugh, until we start noticing the stars upon others that we wish we had. I see the Corvette parked in our neighbor’s garage. I see the parents whose children are always so well-behaved. I see the blogger who is selling advertising and the podcasts in the top 100. I see the churches with the talented praise bands and the powerful music, and the preachers biggering their churches. I look down at my own belly, and there is no star. And to boot, it’s a little too big. Look at those guys at the gym who have six-packs, not stars, upon thars.

And then I hear Jesus.

“Therefore I say to you, don’t worry about your life,” and the needle on the record player amplifying my anxieties gets lifted off with a terrible screech.

Before he can finish the sentence, I want to scream. Don’t worry about your life? What is that supposed to mean? My worries are valid. My worries are righteous. Shouldn’t I be in better shape? Shouldn’t I want a bigger church? Shouldn’t I want more readers, more listeners? Don’t I deserve to do some biggering of my own? And then I hear myself. And I pause long enough to let Jesus finish.

“Don’t worry about what you’ll eat or what you’ll drink, or about your body, what you’ll wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothes?” (Isn’t there more to you than the whether or not you have a star upon yars?) “Look at the birds in the sky. They don’t sow seed or harvest grain or gather crops into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than they are?” (Matthew 6:25-27)

“I guess”, I think. But still, that seems absurd. God is the one who gave us the ability to think about the future. And with the ability to think about the future comes the ability to worry about it. So am I supposed to stop saving money? Should I spend my pension? Should I get rid of my refrigerator? How far am I supposed to take this?

“Who among you by worrying can add a single moment to your life?” (Matthew 6:28) Maybe there is a difference between preparing for the future and worrying about the future. Being a good steward of what has been entrusted to me is different than wrangling out every last penny so as to hoard my blessings. It seems possible to have a pension without being a slave to it. There is still room for generosity, kindness, and contentment even in the midst of preparing for a rainy day. If I can let Jesus’ words seep into my crippling anxiety, I can realize that biggering is not what life is all about.

The Sermon on the Mount is Jesus’ long explanation of the Kingdom of Heaven. This Kingdom that Jesus describes defies simple explanation. Yet at the same time it seems to come back to one thing: love. “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be loyal to the one have have contempt for the other. You cannot serve God and wealth” (Matthew 6:24) What do you love? Do you love God, and seek first God’s kingdom? Or do you love status, or money, or power? When we operate out of anxiety, we let our fears rule, so we serve whatever quick fix might offer us an illusion of security. But when we operate out of love, and truly let Jesus be our Lord, we learn that security lies not in the fragile, decaying, dying things of this world. When we operate out of love, we can stop worrying about the stars we don’t have. Perhaps more importantly, we can stop guarding the places where we have stars. We can loosen our grip on the stars upon ours. When security rests only in the eternal, life-giving, resurrected Christ, generosity, justice, and peace start to seep in.

The Sneetches were convinced that having a star upon thars was all that mattered. They knew that if they could only have what the others didn’t then they’d be okay. So they gave everything they had to the one who offered them security. He offered them a quick fix, a walk through a machine, and a star upon thars. Eventually though, they learned. They learned that the security they sought in the mark on their belly was empty.

The question remains, will we? Can we learn to stop searching for easy answers? Can we learn to let go of our anxiety over what is or isn’t on our bellies, in our garages, in our pews, or in our bank accounts? Can we learn to stop putting our trust in a false sense of security?

Can I?

Can I learn to love God first, and let all else come later? Can I learn to seek first the Kingdom of God, and then my pension? Can I learn to let go, loosen my grip, and let God’s grace fill in the gaps?

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Dr. Seuss Tells the Sermon on the Mount, Part 2: The Lorax

Theodore Geisel, the man millions know simply as Dr. Seuss, was not a religious man. That doesn’t mean that his work didn’t have deeply religious themes. I’m currently working on a sermon series called “Dr. Seuss Tells the Sermon on the Mount.” It is a five-part series where I go through Jesus’ most important teaching, as found in the Gospel of Matthew, and relate the texts to different Dr. Seuss classics.

The Lorax is a cautionary tale. It opens in a land that is gray and foresaken. There are stumps littering the countryside and smog fills the sky. There is a city off in the distance, but the only remnant of life in the desolate land is a tower. A boy ventures out into this wilderness in hopes of hearing the story of how it all came to be. Once he gets to the tower, a man named Once-ler tells the story.

One day long ago, Once-ler happened upon a beautiful land full of trees, animals, birds, and fish. The trees, he finds, can be harvested to produce something he calls a “thneed,” and a “thneed is a something that everyone needs.” Immediately upon chopping down one of the truffula trees, a little orange mustachioed creature appears, “I am the Lorax,” he declares. “I speak for the trees.” The tale that is spun is a familiar one. While the Once-ler “biggers and biggers” his operations, and “biggers and biggers” his profits, there are unintended side effects. The animals have no place to play. The fish have no place to swim, and the birds have no place to fly as the waste from the Thneed factory lays waste to the land. Despite the Lorax’s loud protestations, the Onceler keeps going, with employees to feed, he needs to make thneeds, and cares for little else. Finally, the last truffula tree is chopped down. The Lorax lifts himself out of the place, and the Once-ler’s tale seems to come to an end.

Back at the “present day,” the business-tycoon-turned-hermit puzzles over the little monument that the Lorax left behind. It is a small pile of rocks with one word, “Unless.” Finally, Once-ler seems to understand the Lorax’s cryptic message. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing’s going to get better. It’s not,” the Once-ler tells the boy. With that, he throws down to the boy a seed. The very last truffula seed.

Dr. Suess is famous for open-endings. So often he allows the reader to finish the story. Here, the reader is thrust into the role of the boy hearing from the Once-ler. After finishing the book, I feel like if I shake loose the pages a seed might fall out. Surrounded by desolation and despair, a small monument stands as a shrine to hope. This book is a clear warning about economic growth at the expense of ecologic disaster. Whole sermons can be preached on the stewardship of the earth, and the importance of protecting the brown barbaloots and the humming fish. Instead, I focus the two worlds that Seuss once again presents.

Last time we looked at Yertle the Turtle, and were reminded that in the Kindgom of God, even the burp of a lowly turtle name Mack matters. Seuss showed clearly two ways of understanding the world. One was to climb to the top by any means necessary. The other was to care about those on the bottom of the pile.

In The Lorax, Seuss presents us with two ways of understanding the world. There is the way of the Once-ler, whose primary goal is to bigger his profits. He cares nothing about the future implications of his actions. Even his name reveals what he values – using something once. In the end, he winds up separated from the community, with nothing but disaster surrounding him. Then there is the way of the Lorax. The Lorax understands community. He values the interconnection of all things, and speaks up for those who have no voice. Once there is no community, the Lorax can no longer exist in that place. Two value systems. You might say, two kingdoms. One where once rules. Another where community matters.

When Jesus came to preach about the Sermon on the Mount, he did so in community. He gathered with the crowds, and told them something they may not have been expecting. Surrounded by crowds who were desperate for healing, he spoke these words, “You are the salt of the earth… You are the light of the world…” (Matthew 5:13-16).

The Kingdom of God is one where the community matters. It is where the voiceless are given a say. It is where the sick are healed, the blind are made to see, and the lame are made to walk. It is where those at dis-ease are made whole again. “The Kingdom of God is at hand, and you are light of the world.” Those that were gathered were not valued because of what they could perform, or what they could provide. They had no standing or status. They were not a part of the Roman system of tribute, hierarchy, and patronage. They were valued for more than what they could make once.

Jesus came to teach us and show us what the Kindgom of God was all about. So he gathered with the crowds and told them that it was up them. “Let your light shine before the people, so they can see the good things you do and praise your Father who is in heave,” Jesus declared. He reminded the people that the Kingdom of God is at hand because of their very presence, not in spite of it. “Unless,” he might as well have said, “Unless people like you, you who are the salt and light of the world, care a whole awful lot…”

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September 16, 2014 · 2:46 pm

Dr. Seuss Tells the Sermon on the Mount, Part 1: Yertle the Turtle

Yertle the Turtle was a king. He was the king over all he saw, but he was dissatisfied. He wanted a bigger kingdom, so he decided he needed a higher throne. From the higher throne, he would be able to see farther, and rule over more territory. To satisfy his need for a higher throne, he order a few turtles to be stacked upon each other. From atop this throne of turtles, he could expand his kingdom. Over the course of increasing his reign an insignificant turtle on the bottom of the throne named Mack asked for some relief. He was granted none. Higher and higher the turtles were stacked, and yet Yertle was never satisfied. Eyeing his vast empire, he noted he wasn’t the highest creature in the sky. Perturbed by the presence of the moon, her ordered a thousand more turtles for his thone. All the while poor Mack on the bottom of the stack was aching with a sore back. Finally, Mack cracked. Actually, he burped. And the tower of turtles came toppling down. Yertle fell into a puddle of mud, where he reigned all that he could see, which wasn’t very far.

Yertle understood the power of a kingdom. He understood only one thing that matters: more. More turtles, more land, more power. He didn’t care how he achieved more, and he paid no heed to some poor turtle named Mack.

Jesus lived in a time when the power of kingship was clear. The stack of turtles under the King was high indeed. So high that the King named Caesar called himself the son of God. All the people that gathered on that mountain understood that kind of kingdom. They understood what it felt like to be on the bottom of the stack. It was a crowd of Macks that gathered that day.

Then Jesus stood in front of the crowd and told them about another sort of Kingdom. He told them about who was blessed and who wasn’t, and it was different from anything they had known. In the Kingdom they were used to, it was easy to tell who was blessed and who wasn’t. Yertle was blesssed. Mack wasn’t. Then Jesus stood up and said “You who are poor… You who mourn… You who hunger and thirst… are blessed.”

“You, Mack. You are blessed. You who have been piled on. You with sore backs. You who are neglected, mistreated, and set aside. You are blessed. You who see that the world is broken and want to speak up. You who are left heartbroken by the pain of others. You who long to be in community. You who want to know the heart of God, and strive for something greater than the letter of the law. You are blessed.”

Jesus declared that the Kingdom of God was at hand, and in the Kingdom of God, even the burp of a lowly turtle on the bottom of the pile matters.

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February 22, 2014 · 1:59 pm

A table for one.

I’m an introverted person. One of the distinctive marks of an introvert is that they don’t mind going to a restaurant and asking for a table for one. Don’t get me wrong, I love eating and being with people. I love a good dinner party, or going out to eat with friends. I also enjoy a meal by myself. I enjoy the calmness of a table for one. There are no social expectations, no awkward silences. There might be a book, or a crossword puzzle, or a legal pad and a pen.

I enjoy a table for one. It can be a space for reflection, meditation, or even prayer. Sometimes though, it is not…

God “prepares a table before me in the presence of my enemies,” reads Psalm 23. What if it is a table for one?

What if the enemy is within?

I’ve sat with myself on dark and lonely nights.

What if the enemy is my own apathy?

I’ve walked by pain, turned a blind eye to the suffering of my neighbor.

What if the enemy is my own comfort?

I’ve chosen to settle for the inertia of inaction over disrupting the status quo.

What if the enemy is my own pride?

I’ve avoided the one that hurt me. I’ve held onto bitterness, even when the taste in my mouth was too much to bear.

What if the enemy is my own fear?

I’ve walked away from persecution, and participated in unjust systems for fear of the wrath would be turned onto me.

So Jesus, what then?

You tell me to love my enemies. Am I to love my enemy when the enemy is looking back at me in the mirror?

I know the answer. I’ve sat at that table before. Still, God meets me there.

I sit at the table in the presence of my enemy, and can only confess to my God and myself the times I have fallen short. I sit with myself and have no choice but to forgive, so I may be forgiven. I sit at my table for one and am confronted with the profound absurdity of the gospel. There is good news in sitting at the table for one.

There is confession. There is forgiveness. There is grace. There is bread for me to eat, and a cup overflowing. There is oil being poured out on my head with such exuberance and abundance it seems shocking. There at the table for one I learn that goodness and mercy are following me. No, they are doing more than following me. They are pursuing me. Actively, purposefully, God is pursuing me.

Goodness and mercy are pursuing me, even when I flee. Goodness and mercy are pursuing me, even when my apathy and my comfort and my pride and my fear seem to get the best of me. God is pursuing me, and sometimes it is only at a table for one that I pause long enough to sense it.

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April 24, 2013 · 3:06 pm

Sermon: You are the light of the world.

I wonder in this world, how many people have never been told that they are the light of the world. How many people, how many children? How many adults have lived their whole lives and no one has ever said to them, “You are the light of the world. You are the light of my world”? How tragic that is. There is somebody out there, maybe sitting right here. Maybe its a neighbor or a co-worker. Maybe it is someone that comes to our community dinner, or someone that we serve at The Wardrobe. Maybe there is someone you sit next to on an airplane or someone you see at the grocery store, or the waitress you will have at lunch after church. There is somebody that has never been told, “You are the light of the World.” There are people out there in the world living that have never been told that they are the light of the world. But I’m here to tell you, every single one of you, that you are the light of the world. But its not just my words, no one cares if I think you are. Jesus Christ, the Son of the Most High thinks you are the light of the world. You.

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April 14, 2013 · 9:50 am

You are the light of the world.

Part Two of my story of Godspell. Read part one here.

Click here to go to the full sermon, where I talk about our experience with Godspell, called “You are the Light of the World.” From 11:30-20:00, I talk more extensively about the salt and the light as found in Matthew 5:13-14.

Our Riverside UMC “Godspell” cast

“You are the light of the world,” I sang. And then I went home and reflected on the amazing thing we had just done. Godspell had forever changed me, but in the hours after the show I don’t think I had any idea just how much.

“You are the light of the world,” we all sang. Dino Hayz, director of the Center for Living Arts and our Jesus, went out into the audience. He grabbed someone and had them stand up so we could all sing to that one particular person, “You are the salt of the earth.” Then quickly to another man he dashed. He got him to stand up so we could point to him and sing, “You are the city of God.” Finally, he found one last woman. She was sitting near the back, and we sang one more time, “You are the light of the world.”

It was the last song before intermission. We left the sanctuary rocking. We were half way home, and we all sensed that things were going well. None of our rehearsals suggested that the show would go as smoothly as it had been. At the end of the show, after singing the beautiful refrain “We can build a beautiful city, yes we can. Yes we can. We can build a beautiful city. Not a city of angels, but finally a city of man,” I felt a great sense of accomplishment.

After the show a woman approached me. She told me that she had a great time. She loved the music, and she was so glad she could come. For years, she told me, she had a Playbill from the original Broadway production. She also had an album she had never played. For years she had kind of wondered what Godspell was, and when she saw us in the paper, she decided on a whim to come check it out. I told her how happy I was that she was there, and invited her to come again to worship with us.

The next day I was talking to our head usher about what a great experience the show was. We were marveling at the amount of people that came, and how many people came that were not a part of our church. I told him about the woman I talked to after the show, and he quickly realized that he knew who I was talking about.

“Yeah, I was talking to her at intermission. She seemed like she was looking for something, and I wanted to help her. I saw her and said, ‘You are the light of the world,’ she was one of the people that you guys sang to when Dino got her to stand up.'”
She kind of laughed when I said that,” Tom told me. “And then she said, ‘No one has ever called me that before.'”

I got goosebumps when he told me that, and I thanked Tom for telling me about their exchange. Then I went back into my office and was overwhelmed. Something washed over me that I can only describe as the Holy Spirit as I prayed “Thank you God.” Tears started to flow, and my efforts at standing became feeble. I literally fell to my knees in tears as I was struck at once with an overwhelming sense of awe, wonder, sadness, joy, and purpose. “No one has ever called me that before,” she said.

There were so many moments that made Godspell a memorable experience. If it were not for Tom’s story, I would have counted it as a great memory. I would have remembered the impromptu rehearsals in the kitchen with my wife and daughter as we sang and danced together. I would have remembered Molly gently nudging me into the right place so I was ready to be one of the priests in the Good Samaritan parable. I would have remembered the prayer we shared before the show. I would have remembered hugging Dino during the farewell song, and whispering to him. “Thank you, brother.” With or without that conversation with Tom I would have relished in the glow of accomplishing something as a team.

After hearing the story of the woman that had never been told that she was the light of the world though, I had something more.

“You are the light of the world,” is not just a catchy line in a pretty song in an upbeat musical.
“You are the light of the world,” are Jesus’ words to his followers. They are words from what we call The Sermon on the Mount as found in Matthew 5-6. It is a small part of Jesus’ dissertation about what it means to live in this world.

“You are the light of the world.” It is a claim on those that had gathered. It is an assurance of what Jesus’ followers are, and what they shall be.

“You are the light of the world,” Jesus said so long ago.

“You are the light of the world,” Jesus declares today. You.

So let your light so shine. There is a light that is within you that is good. There is a light within you that is of God. There is a light within you that needs to be seen. I think for a moment of the children in this world that have never been told that they are the light of anyone’s world, and it breaks my heart. I think for a moment of people stuck in abusive relationships, allowing their light to be crushed, and I want to scream. I think for a moment of youth that want only to hide and be as invisible as possible so as not to draw anyone’s attention, and it kills me to know that they have never been told, “You were created in the very image of God. The light that God created at the very moment of creation. That is in you. Hear Jesus crying to you, ‘You are the light of the world.'”

That little musical gave me a lot of things. It gave me memories. It gave me friendships. It gave me knowledge about myself. And it gave me a renewed sense of purpose. It gave me a way to think about my mission as a follower of Christ.
I will strive to never allow another man, woman, or child pass me by without letting them know, in no uncertain terms, that they are the light of the world.

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