Sermons From Clayton Wesley

The reading is parts of Luke's apocalypse. How did the people of Jesus time have hope after the destruction of Jerusalem? How do we have hope in the face of the existential threat of climate change?

Seven brides for seven brothers? Try one bride for seven brothers. Jesus deals with a hypothetical about what happens after death. It's not clear what Jesus thinks happens but there might be a few clues in his response... 

A life of grace and the story of Zacchaeus

I wasn't preaching on the 27th so here's one I prepared earlier. Its from about this time last year and looks at the story of Bartimaeus

Another reading from Luke, the upside down gospel. What does an upside down reading of the parable of the widows and the unjust judge offer us?

I wasn't preaching on Sunday, so here's one I prepared earlier. it's from about this time last year and it's about Jesus and his comments on divorce.

Who would invite a slave to sit and be served? No one? Except we are reading Luke, the gospel that turns the world upside down...

The cracking story of the rich man and Lazarus and what it means to really live!

Looking at the first letter to Timothy and what it means to pray for everyone

The lost sheep and the lost coin, another couple of stories where Luke's gospel upends the way we run the world.

Unless you hate your folks, give away all your possessions and carry a cross, you can't be a disciple of Jesus. Seems pretty straightforward. If we're not planning on doing these things what does that mean for the rest of us?

Luke gives us a story (Luke 14:1, 7-14) about who to invite and who not to invite to dinner. What sense can we make of it today?

What was the significance of Jesus healing a woman on the sabbath?

What did Jesus mean when he said that he didn't come to bring peace to the earth?

What might Jesus have meant when he says in Luke that we should expect the unexpected?

We explore a passage from the ancient book of Deuteronomy and see how it relevant to our situation nearly 3000 years later

What did Jesus mean us to do when he taught us to pray? What does it mean that all who ask will receive?

If one way of reading the Gospel of Luke is as a discipleship manual, what can this little story of Mary and Martha teach us?

A reading of the story of the Samaritan as an exploration of how to respond to existential fear and pain 

Jesus sent disciples out from town to town, house to house. But that was first century Palestine, what does that mean for disciples today?