Sermon — Brewing Theology with Teer Hardy

How Long, Lord?

The Good News is the object of our prayers and lamentations is the One who made the shadow-laden journey to the cross, and when death, the consequence of our sin, seemed to have won the day, asked Mary, “why are you crying? Who are you looking for?”[

Lent, Mount Olivet UMC, SermonTeer HardyFebruary 26, 2023Lent 1, Psalm 13, Sermon, Lament, Imago DeiComment

A Griswold Family Advent

No matter how much we try to avoid the broken and messiness of the world and our lives, the birth of Joseph’s boy tells creation that we are not separated from God.

Advent, Mount Olivet UMC, SermonTeer HardyDecember 11, 2022Advent, Sermon, Griswold, Matthew 1, Matthew 1:18-25Comment

The Hardest Parable

This parable is not about finances or management. It is a parable about new life.

Year C, Mount Olivet UMC, ParablesTeer HardySeptember 19, 2022Luke 16:1-13, Parable, Storyteller, Year C, SermonComment

Harmonized Tension

Ignoring this tension ignores that tension reveals even more to us about God than we imagine.

Year C, Sermon, Mount Olivet UMCTeer HardyJuly 31, 2022Year C, Hosea 11, Prophets, journey, Sermon, PreachingComment

The Same Old Song

If you are scratching your head thinking this story sounds familiar, that is because it is.

Mount Olivet UMC, Sermon, Year CTeer HardyMay 22, 2022Easter 6, Year C, Acts 16, Lydia, Preaching, SermonComment

The If/Then Temptation

The Gospel good news is that there are no ifs. There are no buts. No fine print.

Unreasonably Reasonable

The resurrection of Jesus Christ, according to the New Testament, is not a myth or moral metaphor. The resurrection of Jesus Christ, according to the New Testament, is FACT.

Mount Olivet UMC, Sermon, Year CTeer HardyFebruary 7, 20221 Corinthians 15.1-11, Love Never Ends, Mount Olivet, Sermon, Resurrection, Year CComment

A Small-Town Messiah

God did not choose the pride-filled, the historically strong, or influential at the first Advent.

Advent, Mount Olivet UMC, Sermon, Year CTeer HardyDecember 19, 2021Advent 4, Guatemala, Luke 1:35-55, Micah 5:2-5, Embodied, Mount Olivet, SermonComment

Wait, Anticipate, and Trust

The good ‘ole days are what they used to be.

Kingdom | Apocalyptic Jesus, November 14, 2021

God’s redemption and transformation of this broken world is good news for all; the comfort and privilege for which we work and to which we cling instantly pale in the light of God’s justice and love.

Mount Olivet UMC, SermonTeer HardyNovember 15, 2021Mark 13:1-8, Proper 28, Kingdom, Kingdom of God, Sermon, fleming rutledge, Will WillimonComment

Rebuking the Jericho Road

Because Bartimaeus followed, his story stands as a rebuke to the world and an invitation to us who may not be as energetic or even as faithful in our following of Jesus.

Mount Olivet UMC, SermonTeer HardyNovember 3, 2021Mark 10:46-52, Generous Living, Bartimaeus, Sermon, GivingComment

Dependently Free

Freedom in Jesus Christ is more than forgiveness. Freedom in Jesus Christ is liberation from what we have turned toward at the expense of our relationship with our creation.

Sermon, Mount Olivet UMCTeer HardyOctober 31, 2021John 8:31-36, Reformation Day, Year B, All Saints, SermonComment

Confusing. Disorienting. Abrupt. Amazing.

The disciples are the apostolic mirror through which we locate ourselves in the story. Their missteps are our missteps. Their feet in the mouth moments of embarrassment are our moments.

Mount Olivet UMC, Sermon, Seek FirstTeer HardySeptember 22, 2021Year B, Mark 9:30-37, Mount Olivet, Sermon, Seek First, DiscipleshipComment

Denying to Love

Seek First, Year B, Sermon, Mount Olivet UMC, CoronablogTeer HardySeptember 12, 2021Mark 8:27-38, discipleship, Year B, Proper 19, Seek First, Mount Olivet, Sermon, The WayComment

Peace Out!

Peace upon peace upon peace.

People on the Move, Mount Olivet UMC, Sermon, PsalmsTeer HardySeptember 5, 2021Psalm 125, Mount Olivet, Sermon, Peace, Jesus, christianity, People on the MoveComment

You Can't Control It

No matter how hard David tried, no matter how hard we try we are unable to domesticate, to control, to keep at bay the movement and presence of God.

Family Ties

In his Capernaum campaign, Jesus took the first-century how-to adult handbook and threw it out the window. In one out-of-town trip with his buddies, Jesus overturned one of the backbones of social order.

Poured Out for All

The God who created and sustains has redeemed creation and continues to fill us, sending us out to proclaim it again and again.

Mount Olivet UMC, SermonTeer HardyMay 24, 2021Year B, Acts 2:1-21, Pentecost, Sermon, Phyllis Tickle, Tom LongComment

We're All Eunuchs

Like the Ethiopian Eunuch, you, and every other person to be dunked, sprinkled, or poured over with this water have been clothed in new life, in the amazing grace of Jesus Christ.

Baptism, Mount Olivet UMC, SermonTeer HardyMay 3, 2021Acts 8:26-40, Baptism, Letter, Mount Olivet, SermonComment

Now, Tomorrow, Always

We are sustained through this very community, through being the body present to somebody - through word and sacrament, in the physical presence of Jesus Christ.