Stories & Sermons

Going Overboard Sermon by: Rev. Brian Combs, August 2020 Peter is so easily dismissible.  Puffed up with hubris, he rebukes the Christ, silencing any talk about wooden crosses and sandy graves.  Unhinged with violence, he unsheathes his sword, cutting off a servant’s ear.  Hurried with rejection, he denies being a follower, refusing his Christianity three...

Jesus’ Broken Commandment Sermon by Rev. Brian Combs, July 2020 Jesus Christ is not his first and last name.  Instead, affirming him as both Son of God and Son of Man simultaneously, he is a comingling of divinity and humanity.  But when it comes to Christology, or the study of Christ, the Church’s scholarship has...

I Can’t Breathe Sermon by Rev. Brian Combs / June, 2020 Another murder by affixation, this time over a counterfeit $20 bill to buy cigarettes. Soon after, shards of storefront windows littering the sidewalk; ingulphed patrol cars consumed by provoked flames; a nine-year-old boy screaming, “Stop killing us!” Then the noxious burn of tear gas....

Sermon by Rev. Brian Combs, 5/6/2020 The crown fit the first time he put it on.  Even though David grew up a pauper in the wastelands of Palestine, once he was anointed and ascended to the throne of Israel, he didn’t take long to robe himself in the abuse of power, to confuse his role...