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Sermons from Oak Church — 467 episodes
How Long? Not Long.
One More Cup of Coffee ‘Fore I Go
Oak Youth Sunday 2026
Missing God in Plain Sight (on the Road to Faith)
Peace Be With You
Learning to Garden Hope
In Jesus’ Dangerous Company
Used Car Messianic Motorcade
Weep, Grieve, & Believe
Mud, Mercy, & New Sight
A Deeper Well
We Love It (Toph Banke’s Ordination)
Pass/Fail
The Mountaintop
Normal Christian Stuff
Living the Good Life on Purpose
A Good Crisis
Testimony of a Beloved Community
Love Spoken by the River
The Radical Wisdom of Epiphany
Seeing & Noticing on Christmas Eve (Visio Divina)
Rubble is a Sacred Place
The God of Slow and Small
When Swords Become Plowshares
The Hope of the Pour (St. Arthur Guinness)
A Shaft of Burning Light (St. Mary McLeod Bethune)
God’s Mission: Across the Sea & Across the Street (St. Lottie Moon)
God’s Good Trouble (St. John Lewis)
Saved by Grace (and Potlucks)
In Sorrow, Yet Ever Joyful (St. Vincent Van Gogh)
The Holy Topsy-Turvydom of Humility (St. Francis of Assisi)
The Gate Between Worlds
The Anti-heroic Kingdom
Even the Losers
Focused Against the Family?
Blessing of the Books 2025
Being With the Dying
Being With the Distracted
Being With the Hurt
Being With the Troubled
Being With the Challenged
Being With God, Together
Being With Creation
Being With the Called
Being With the Afflicted
As Myself, With Myself
Pentecost Means Being With God
Making it Happen for Others
Here, There, Everywhere
The Gift & the Task of Hope (Oak Youth Sunday)
Woman Fully Alive
Being Fed & Feeding Sheep
Everywhere Except the Tomb
Where Resurrection Shows Up
If Friday is Good…
With Great Expectations
“I Am Doing a New Thing”
Learning How to Advocate for Our Immigrant and Refugee Neighbors with Shane Ellison
Freed, Fed, & at Home With God
Testimony from the US/Mexico Border
In This Economy?!
Wilderness Promises
A Wandering Aramean
God’s Love Made All-the-way Through (St. John & St. Charles Wesley) [Dr. Lester Ruth]
A Million Little Cheek-Turns
The Second Best Day to Plant a Tree
Fishes Have Faces
Worth the Wait
News That’s Truly Good
In Whom I Find My Happiness
The Ghosts of Epiphanies Past
Seeing & Noticing on Christmas Eve (Visio Divina)
Mary’s Song of Love & Joy
Tidings of (Dis)comfort & Joy
The Word in the Wilderness
Advent Breaks in Amidst the Broken
Faithfulness Over Flash (St. Buck Leonard)
This Revelatory Reversal (St. Anna Sewell)
Heavenly Love Shall Outdo Hellish Hate (St. John Milton)
No Anonymous Person (St. Oscar Romero)
Keep Church Small, Local, & Weird
A Preemptive Prayer and a Predator
The Givenness & Forgivenness of Things
On Earth as it is in Heaven
A King with a Cross
The Holy Here
Praying Like Family
Kingdom, Power, Glory, & #2 Pencils
Oak Youth Sunday
The Work of the People: Worship Shapes
The Glory of God is Humanity Dying to Live
Existing in the Contexts
Instruments of Peace (Prayer)
Broken Imaginations & Broken Bread
The Gift of a Good Cry
3 Easy Ways to be a Serious Businessperson
Peace Like a River
Hoping to Get Well
Reasonable Doubt
Pardoned by Our Pardon
Sowing Love
Isaiah’s Whoa & Woe
Stitched in the Spirit
The World is Not an Orphanage: Julian of Norwich on Sin & God’s Love
God’s Desire for Everyone & Everything
Spoiling the Good Book
Green Pastures, Quiet Waters
We Are All Witnesses
Witnessing the Resurrection
Making Sense of Sunday
Making Sense of Friday
From Galilee to Jerusalem
What Does Jesus Smell Like?
Taste & See
To Hold and Be Held
Finding God in the Sound of Silence
The Difference Between Looking and Seeing
Wildflowers & Everything All At Once
One of Us
Robots & Root Canals
God is Already at Work (and so are you)
Cold Coffee, Kitchen Tables, & Being Known Before You Even Knew It
(Dis)located Love
That Ancient Joy
Advent’s Pointing Finger
To Cast Away the Works of Darkness
Muir Christianity (St. John Muir)
Coming to Life (St. Ignatius of Loyola)
Follow the Child (St. Maria Montessori)
The Price of Liberty (St. Ida B. Wells)
Pastor Meg Ministry Transition Announcement
Love, Actually
The Difference Between Paying & Praying
Pilgrimage of Pain & Hope Testimony: Anna & Toph Banke
A Crowded Table
Vines, Stones, & Fruit
Holding it Together
Season of Creation Testimony: Josh Cadorette
The Grace of Time
Season of Creation Testimony: Elizabeth Christenson
Hallelujah, y’all!
Season of Creation Testimony: Natasha Arnold
Human Propensities & Good Bones
Season of Creation Testimony: Janna Starr
The God of Creation, Labor, & Rest
The Subversive Act of “Knowing”
Dogs are Sheep Too
(Not Quite) Walking on Water
Saved By Grace (& Potlucks)
A Church in This Place
Liminal Space & Agreeing In Spirit
Growing & Sowing
Paradoxology
Peace That Surpasses Understanding
Our New Ordinary
But Sick People Do
Welcome to Ordinary
Oak Folk Testimony: Andy Shaver
Wayfarers, Truth-tellers, Vivifiers
Oak Folk Testimony: Nicole Kamrass
Light, Both Visible and Invisible
Oak Folk Testimony: Nate Sawyer
Vulnerable, Fed, & Led
Oak Folk Testimony: Junie Harris
Chosen, Blessed, Broken, Given
Oak Folk Testimony: Calvin Gross
Deep Roots & Strong, Weird Networks
Oak Folk Testimony: Hannah Wheeler
A Good Gate Makes Good Neighbors
Oak Folk Testimony: Justin Farmer
Resurrection is a Team Sport
Oak Folk Testimony: Nicole Kallsen
The Clap & the Clasp (Easter)
Through Eyes That Have Cried (Easter Vigil)
A Holy Intersection (Good Friday)
The Doorway to Salvation
Vine, Vinter, & Wine
Bread That Binds Us Together
An Extraordinary Shepherd
An Illuminating Presence
A Significant Journey
Sowing Seeds of Transfiguration
The Keys to the Kingdom
Tasting & Seeing the Kingdom
Anticipating the Kingdom
Confessions of Love (St. Augustine of Hippo)
Reflections from Pastor Meg’s Staybatical
The Unassuming, All-Consuming Kingdom of God
Kings & the God of Gifts (Tres Reyes Magos)
The > A
Here, Now, God with Us
Anticipating the Unexpected
Joy Springs Up
Life in the Peaceable Kingdom
Life is Advent
The Kingdom of God is a Neighborhood (St. Fred Rogers)
The Saving Blood of Jesus (St. Julian of Norwich)
Upside Down & Backwards (St. Libba Cotten)
A Great Cloud & Tiny Drops
A Parable for the Powerful
The Ministry of Needling
A Well-Making Faith
Resting in the God of Naps
Parables of Redemption
How to Win Friends and Influence People?
Celebrating with the God Who Loses
Introducing Oak Pastoral Intern: Natasha Arnold
…lose it, all, right away, every time…
Feasting This Fall (Blessing of the Books)
A Good Day To Be Set Free
The Weather & What God Is Up To
When & How God Arrives
Breslin Sabbatical Recap
We Are the Body
Human Bricks
Standing In The Right Place
Climate and Community [Avery Davis Lamb]
Chivalry Is Dead
The Wall In Your Head [Dr. Stephen Chapman]
How To Have An Enemy
Repairing & Remaining
Inauspicious Beginnings
Trust in the Slow Work of God
Where Pentecost Happens (St. William Seymour)
Where We Start From
2022 Oak Graduate Blessing
The Tunic Maker & the Tanner [Kaitlyn Schiess]
The Kingdom Work of Play
The Confusing New Newness of It All
From the Depths
Those Who Hate Peace
A Borrowed Donkey & a Weeping Messiah
God Surrounds Us
Flourishing on the Way
When We Get There
Building the House of Tomorrow
Cultivating a Quieted Heart
A Feature, Not A Bug
Of Good Measure
A Level Place
The Fellowship Haul
Some Great Thing vs. A Local Gospel
Jesus’ One Sermon
Whatever He Tells You
Seeing and Praying in the New Year
Christmas Eve Lessons & Carols with the Gathering Church
A Promise & A Calling
Instead of Armoring Up
A Cosmic Christmas (Oak Kids Christmas Pageant)
Always Only Advent
Strange Birds & the God of ‘Extra’ (St. Flannery O’Connor)
The Lord is With You (St. Harriet Jacobs)
Creating a Durable Life Together (St. Benedict of Nursia)
Y’all Saints: Communion of Saints
Agents of Instead-ness
Fruitful Self-Control
Fruitful Gentleness
Fruitful Faithfulness
Repost: Kate Bowler at Oak Church
Fruitful Goodness
Fruitful Kindness
Fruitful Patience
Fruitful Joy & Peace
Fruitful Love
A Cure for Face-Blindness
Boundless
Money, Magic, & ‘Illegitimi Non Carborundum’
Can I Be a Witness?
Fragments of Heaven
Everything About This New Life
The Currency of a New Kingdom
The Just One Justices
The Good Shepherd & the World Communion
“But This is How God…”: Peter & the Spirit’s Jazz
We Give What We Have
We Are How We Eat
This is That
Gardens, Grenades, & Google-Translate
Considering the Lilies
Learning to Talk and Listen to God [Will Willimon]
New Plans for the Nonviolent Kingdom
Concrete Good News
This Little Light of Mine
The Sermon on the Parking Lot
The Beautiful/Terrible Resurrection
Descending Theology: The Resurrection by Mary Karr
The Beautiful/Terrible Cross (Good Friday)
What Do I Do with this Anger?
The Poet Thinks About the Donkey by Mary Oliver
Who Gives You Thanks from the Grave?
VI. Domine, Ne In Furore by Malcolm Guite
What Keeps You Up At Night?
Epilogue by Christian Wiman
Teach us to Number our Days: A Story of Pandemic Parenting in 3 Acts
Bright Field by R.S. Thomas
Our Last Words and the Words After That
How I Talk to God by Kelly Belmonte
It’s Both Better & Worse Than We Thought
Late Results by Scott Cairns
Ash Wednesday Evening Prayer
An Outward-Facing Intimacy (St. Valentine)
Healing Power with & from Intimacy
The Ministry of Bear-poking & Tooth-extraction
Kitchen Tables & Sea Shores
God Knows Us
Epiphany Means Revelation
Los Tres Reyes Magos (testimony by Pastor Ricardo Correa)
Son of God & Son of Mary
Hope & Joy Collude (Advent 3)
The 3mph Kingdom Coming (Advent 2)
Staying Awake for a Change (Advent 1)
No Mechanic of the Flesh: Suffering with & for Nagasaki (St. Takashi Nagai)
A Ministry of Stirring the Pot (St. Pauli Murray)
A Deliberate & Liberative Rest (Oak Church 6th Anniversary)
A Fellowship For All People (St. Howard Thurman)
Never Alone
Introducing Nate Hood (Oak Church Resident Artist)
A People Who Bear the Kingdom’s Fruit
Introducing Bethie Figgie (Oak Church Resident Artist)
Don’t Call Me a Saint (St. Dorothy Day) [D.L. Mayfield]
Introducing Sayde Anderson (Oak Church Resident Artist)
Confusing Grace: God’s Vast Conspiracy of Enoughness
Never Forget Mercy
Like the Gentiles & Tax Collectors
God Loves You & Has a Cross Planned for Your Life
The Cross & the Mustard Seed (Blessing of the Books)
A Persistent Prayer for Humble Access
God Moves on the Water
The Ordination of Meg Hoffman
The Resurrection & the Life: Jesus & Vacant Tombs [Andy Byers]
Forgiven-ness & Sheep-Feeding
More Than What It Currently Is
God’s Breath in Breathless Times
The Restorative Judge
The Gifts of the Ever-Present Christ
Jesus Grabbed Me By the Wrist
The Healing Wounds of Jesus
The Imitation of Mary [Chris E.W. Green]
Walk This Way: Resurrection, Scripture, and Eating with Jesus by Fr. Mike Boone
Lord, Teach Us To Follow
This Is My Father’s World
Beautiful, Credible Friends
Intense, Immersed, Intimate, & In Awe
The Stranger on the Road
Peace, Even in Lockdown
[Repost] Slow Church w/C. Christopher Smith
Do Not Be Afraid
Love So Amazing (Good Friday audio version)
Worshipping the God Who is Working Even When We Can’t See It (Palm Sunday)
The Fast We Didn’t Choose
Lament in a Time of Coronavirus [Amy Peterson]
The Language of Community [Richella Parham]
Hammer is the Prayer
Transfigurate
Discipleship for Losers*
Kingdom Values and the Valuable Cross
An Extraordinary Call
The Mindset of Christ
Ecclesia Network National Gathering 2020 Update
Open Eyes & Open Ears
The Bread of Tears
Songs of Hope & Joy
In the Days to Come
Imaging the Invisible God (St. Macrina)
Learning to Love Like Jesus Loved (St. Rich Mullins)
Crucified with Christ in Community (St. Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Praying Times (St. Ann Atwater) [Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove]
Another Ring (5th Anniversary)
Peace Within Your Walls
A Home for God
The Holy Everywhere and the Holy Here
The Hope of the Poor Will Not Die
Gotta Serve Somebody
Homecoming
Counting the Cost in the Kingdom
[Repost] Jeremy Begbie at Oak Church
The Kingdom of God Has Come Near
Teach & Establish (Blessing of the Books)
By Faith
The End is Where We Start From
Here and Now
Enemies, not Rivals
Hallelujah Anyhow
The Apocalyptic Ordinary
Follow the Lamb Wherever He Goes
The Art of the Interlude
Songs, Scents, & Silence
The Lamb Will Be Their Shepherd
Gathered Around the Throne
Identity Crisis
Past, Present, & Future
Can I Get a Witness?!
A Magnifying Life
What’s So Great About This Commission?
Scary Good News
Evergreen (Easter Sunday)
Walk With Me (Good Friday)
A House of Prayer
Eternity Already
The Unfamiliarity of the Christian Life
Everything is on the Table
Insouciant Grace
As You Forgive Those
Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places
Farm Faithfulness
A Gospel Economy
The Pains of Being Pure of Heart
Instigators of Jubilee
Epiphany & Jubilee
New Year, New You…Same God
Through Waters
Feast of the Three Kings (with CANU)
Holy Shift
Hope in the Wilderness
Stories of Freedom: A Conversation on Race and Place with Natasha Sistrunk-Robinson & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
It’s the Start of the World as We’ve Never Known It
The Not-From-Around-Here King (Christ the King Sunday)
Two Sides of the Same Coin
What She Needed to Live On
Just the Way the World Works
A New Life Burgeons
God’s (Vulnerable) Person
God’s (Vulnerable) People
Our Wicked Problem
Introducing & Blessing New Steering Group Members & Pastoral Intern
Created to Eat [Kendall Vanderslice]
Re-Placing Friendships
A Tale of Two Tables
Reconstructing the Gospel: an evening with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
The Roots of Shalom
Who is My Actual Neighbor?
Prayer & Work & Presence
Circle of the Church Year
The Spirit and the Bride Say, “Come!”
Hidden in Plain Sight
Two Laws and the Gospel [Jeff McSwain]
The Renaissance Spirit
The Spirit, Poured Out
Hope-filled & Peace-able, Imagine That
Illuminating Light: Worship & Work in the Spirit
A Prayer for Our Immigrant Sisters & Brothers
That Fitful, Fluent Spirit
Fill Your Horn with Oil and Get Going
Over the Bent World Broods
Breathing Forgiveness
God as Our Witness
The Water and the Blood
This is How We Know
Ecclesia Network National Gathering Testimonies
Called What We Already Are
A Sensible Life
Mourning into Dancing (Easter Sunday)
Baptismal Testimonies (Gary Davis & Matthew Fox)
Conversion at the Cross (Good Friday)
Behold Your King
On the Water, Through the Storm
“Five Barley Loaves and Two Fish”
“Pick Up Your Mat & Walk!”
“Go. Your Son Lives!”
Everything Happens for a Reason: a Conversation with Kate Bowler & Bob Crawford
A Vintage Richer for the Keeping
Listen Up! (Transfiguration Sunday)
The Kingdom of God Comes Home (Epiphany 5)
We Should All Be Wearing Crash Helmets (Epiphany 4)
Hooked (Epiphany 3)
Nazareth?! (Epiphany 2)
The Voice of the Lord (Epiphany 1)