Brewing Theology with Teer Hardy

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

Everything Has Changed

The light of Christ shines into the darkness we have been living in since March 2020.

Coronablog, Devotional, Mount Olivet UMCTeer HardyDecember 25, 2021Christmas, Devotional, Coronablog, coronavirus, Mount Olivet, John 1:1-18Comment

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

Spoiler Alert

Peace by the pointy end of a sword, gun, or any instrument of violence exemplifies how well we do not understand the very thing we all want for ourselves generations to come.

Advent, Mount Olivet UMC, Sermon, Year CTeer HardyDecember 5, 2021Year C, Advent, Zechariah, Luke 1:68-79, PeaceComment

Wait, Anticipate, and Trust

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

Do we Need Original Sin?

The crucifixion of Jesus finally gave meaning to what we mean by the word ‘sin.’ The crucifixion of Christ is not just another of humanity revealing its inhumanity; the crucifixion is humanity making the most ultimate sort of rejection and, in doing so, rejecting itself.

Catechism, Mount Olivet UMCTeer HardyNovember 17, 2021Original Sin, Original Blessing, Mount Olivet, Bible StudyComment

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

Franchised Gospel

If we insist that we are the only ones in town, the only means by which the world can approach Jesus, then we should, as Jesus put it tie heavy objects around our necks and go for a swim or begin cutting off appendages.

Year B, Seek First, Sermon, Mount Olivet UMCTeer HardySeptember 27, 2021Year B, Mark 9:38-50, Seek First, Proper 21, Discip Comment

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.

Settling Down

How might we enter the new space we find ourselves in with singing and dancing, and at the same time not become too causal with that which the church has been doing since Mary and Mary found the tomb to be empty?

Sermon, Mount Olivet UMC, Year B, People on the MoveTeer HardyJuly 12, 20212 Samuel 6, Year B, Proper 10, Samuel, Uzzah, Ark, People on the MoveComment

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

Sabbath is Resistance

A moment to pause in the beauty of God’s creation, to breathe in God’s life-giving Spirit, and a moment of peace in a world that seems hell-bent on turning away from peace every change it is given.

Mount Olivet UMC, Coronablog, DevotionalTeer HardyMay 20, 2021Exodus 20:8-11, Sabbath, Deuteronomy 5:12-15Comment

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.