Sermon on “Jesus Christ in Texas”

I thought that the sermon/discussion last Sunday went quite well. Here’s the link to the audio (sermon starts around 29 minutes): http://www.emmausway.net/media.php?pageID=9&itemID=47

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Jesus Christ in Texas pt3

In ‘Jesus Christ in Texas,’ DuBois shows how we do not recognize Jesus because we fail to ask the one question that really matters as we encounter him: “Who are you?” None of the white characters in the story ever think to ask this question of the peculiar character that walks amongst them. Instead, the [...]

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Jesus Christ in Texas pt.2

In ‘Jesus Christ in Texas,’ DuBois shows us that at the heart of Christianity’s complicity and production of the racialized world—where black and other non-white folks are always already put to the question as to whether they are “really one of us”—is mistaking the identity of Jesus for someone who looks, thinks, and acts just [...]

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Jesus Christ in Texas pt.1

I was asked by my pastor to lead the sermon/discussion for this Sunday’s service. We are currently in a “Fiction” series, so I have chosen to focus on W.E.B. DuBois short story “Jesus Christ in Texas.” In preparation, I’m writing out my thoughts as I think through how our congregation might have a fruitful discussion [...]

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Sermon on 2 Cor. 5:17

Here is a sermon I preached for the camp counselors and staff I am working with this summer. We have been going through a series termed “basic Christianity” all summer. I was given the topic “the essential gospel” to preach. “If anyone is in Christ there is a new creation” 2 Corinthians 5:17 I would [...]

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Pursuing what is Real.

Here is a sermon on 1 Corinthians 15:35-44 I wrote for my New Testament course this semester: [Hope by Czeslaw Milosz] Hope is with you when you believe The earth is not a dream but living flesh, That sight, touch, and hearing do not lie, That all things you have ever seen here Are like [...]

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