Brewing Theology with Teer Hardy

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

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

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.

Borrowed Burro Messiah

The triumphal procession that was to begin this reordering of the world began two disciples sent to wheel and deal with a local donkey dealer. A humble way for the Savior of the world to take his reign.

It Doesn't Have to Be This Way

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

Hope of the World | Hope Ascended, February 14, 2021

The good news is not that we must ascend up to God by our own good deeds or spiritual striving; the good news of the Gospel is that the one who met Moses in a burning bush and spoke through Elijah has come down to us in Jesus Christ and will come again.

Following Hope

Jesus gave a simple instruction, but when the church gets that instruction wrong, the results are anything but miraculous or a sign that the Kingdom of God is at hand.

Baptized Into Hope

The Hope found in our baptism is an invitation to clothe ourselves in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Year B, Hope of the World, Sermon, Mount Olivet UMCTeer HardyJanuary 12, 2021Acts 19:1-7, Year B, Baptism of the Lord, Baptism, Mount Olivet, SermonComment

What Are We Waiting For?

We do not know what guise Jesus will appear in, and so we find ourselves between two Advents – knowing Christ as come and that Christ promises to come again

Advent, Year B, Sermon, Mount Olivet UMCTeer HardyNovember 29, 2020Year B, Advent 1, Mark 13, Waiting, Fleming RutledgeComment