Year A — Brewing Theology with Teer Hardy

Overnight we began keeping our distance from one another – from extended family, friends, and strangers at the grocery store. We made masks from bandanas and rubber bands. We hoarded toilet paper (some haven’t needed to buy TP in the past year) and stocked up on any of the essentials we could find. We sat in front of our televisions and scrolled endlessly online looking for information about the virus, determining what we needed to do to protect ourselves and our loved ones.

Lent, Mount Olivet UMC, Sermon, Year A, Building a LifeTeer HardyMarch 14, 2021Lent 4, Year A, Ezekiel 37:1-14, Dry Bones, coronavirus, Coronablog, Robert JensonComment

The Condition Our Condition Is In

What's so good about fall? Is God *really* immutable? What should we wear to weddings?

podcasts, Strangely WarmedTeer HardyOctober 6, 2020Exodus 32.1-14, Psalm 106.1-6, 19-23, Philippians 4.1-9, Matthew 22.1-14, Year A, Proper 23, RCLComment

Gotta Have Swagger

God promises to meet us, changing our lives. We may not be knocked off a horse and blinded like Paul was but Christ will meet us. The faithfulness of Jesus Christ is an invitation to set aside the gains of this life, leaving behind the old markers of confidence and swagger, and now lean into the amazing grace of God in Jesus Christ.

God Works With Manure

What's the best biblical story for VBS? Should we look to the Bible to help with our family problems? What does Romans tell us about the Gospel?

The Gospel in Short Shorts

In turning others away we are able to ignore, we think, who God has called not just into our lives but into the body of the One whom God sent.

Hold My Beer

What does it look like to be a sheep without a Shepherd? Why is God so obsessed with impossible possibilities? Is there a Pauline Gospel?

Polishing Your Stones

The power of Christ’s Resurrection ensures that we are all, all of creation is held together, we are grounded in His Grace through the love of our Creator and the power of God’s Spirit.

Grounded, Coronablog, Mount Olivet UMC, SermonTeer HardyMay 10, 2020Year A, Easter 5, 1 Peter 2:2-10, Grounded, Mount Olivet, COVID, Sermon, PreachingComment

Hope Soap

Before Moses, way back when the Word was God and the Word was with God, God has been present, and God is present with us now. God is reigning now.

Coronablog, Mount Olivet UMC, Sermon, Year A, GroundedTeer HardyApril 26, 2020Year A, Luke 24:13-35, Sermon, Mount Olivet, Easter, EmmausComment

Ashes to Asses

In less than a week the man who entered the city peacefully, with no show military force, will tell his disciples to put away their swords as he was taken from a garden, arrested and then killed. The quickness with which we move into Holy Week, beginning with this procession, is a shock we experience year after year.

Year A, Who Am I?, Palm Sunday, LentTeer HardyApril 5, 2020Year A, Matthew 21, Fleming Rutledge, Stanley Hauerwas, Holy wee, SermonComment

Canceled

Lazarus carried a disease more widespread than any pandemic the world has ever faced - Death.

Coronablog, Mount Olivet UMC, Sermon, Who Am I?, Year ATeer HardyMarch 30, 2020Coronablog, coronavirus, Mount Olivet, Who Am I?, John 11:1-45, Lent 5, Year AComment

Finding Purple In a Changing World

We can have change everywhere in the world. We can eat different things for dinner and different things for breakfast, but one thing always stays the same.

Children, Mount Olivet UMCTeer HardyMarch 11, 2020Children, Children's Message, Psalm 121, Year A, MountComment

The Only Must That Means Anything

Jesus did not tell his disciples, called away from their nets and their families to be born again. This word association conundrum is Nicodemus’ problem. Can’t we just end the sermon now and head home?

Who Am I?, Sermon, Mount Olivet UMCTeer HardyMarch 10, 2020Lent 2, Who Am I?, Year A, John 3:1-17, Philippians 2:5-11Comment

A Silly Question

This is just the beginning of revealing the fullness of God, in Christ, to us.

Who Am I?, Year A, Sermon, Lent, Mount Olivet UMCTeer HardyMarch 1, 2020Lent 1, Sermon, Year A, Matthew 4:1-11, Philippians 2:5-11, Mount Olivet, Who Am I?Comment

Around the Table

Every time we hear Jesus’ invitation to his table and we share bread and wine, taking seriously his invitation to all people - the poor and the rich, the meek and the powerful, the hungry and those with plenty - we are experiencing the grace and promise of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Do it Again

A liturgy of grace, the work of God’s love we participate in does not remove us from the weekday and weekend liturgy of the neighborhood. Our work continues.

God Doesn't Forget

In your baptism, you were raised to new life in Christ. You received the pardon, not because of anything you did or because the correct prayer and words were spoken.

Sermon, Mount Olivet UMC, BaptismTeer HardyJanuary 12, 2020Year A, Matthew 3:13-17, Baptism, Baptism of the Lord, Sin, RighteousnessComment

Yes, There's Church After Christmas

What does life look like after Christmas? Is creation still happening? What is the benefit of knowing the end of the story?

Strangely Warmed, podcastsTeer HardyDecember 26, 2019First Sunday After Christmas, Strangely Warmed, Podcast, Preaching, Year AComment

Dream On

God’s revelation, God’s dreams rearrange our lives, disrupting the trajectory of what we have set for ourselves, just as an intruder in the middle of the night has the ability to suddenly, without warning rearrange the layout of a home.