Selected Sermons
Navigating the Narrows - Matthew 7:1-20 and Luke 13:22-30
August 29, 2010
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
Strengthening the Bent, and Bending the Straight - Matthew 12:1-14 and Luke 13:10-17
August 22, 2010
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What If….? - Amos 8:1-12 and Colossians 1:15-20, 2:6-7
July 18, 2010
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Pressing the Questions - Luke 10:25-37
July 11, 2010
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
Inspecting Our Prospects - 2 Kings 5:1-14 and Matthew 10:40-11:6
July 4, 2010
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
Who Qualifies? - I Kings 17:8-24 and Luke 7:11-17
June 6, 2010
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
Suffering's Byproducts - Psalm 8 and Romans 5:1-5
May 30, 2010
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
The Ministry of Irrritation - Acts 16:16-34
May 16, 2010
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What's Your Decision? - Acts 11:1-18 and John 13:34-35
May 2, 2010
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Love's Pursuit - Psalm 23
April 25, 2010
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Heart Burn - Luke 24:13-35
April 11, 2010
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
An Idle Tale - Isaiah 25:6-9 and Luke 24:1-12
April 4, 2010
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
Unrest in the Quest for Peace - Luke 19:29-42, Philippians 2:5-11
March 28, 2010
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
Working Against the Shriveling of the Human Heart - John 12:1-8, Psalm 126, and Isaiah 43:16-21
March 21, 2010
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
Irrational Exuberance - Luke 15:1-32
March 14, 2010
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
The Unfairness of Grace - Isaiah 55:6-13 and Luke 13:1‑9
March 7, 2010
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Dinner at the Castaway Kitchen - Luke 14:1, 7-14 and Mark 2:14-17
February 28, 2010
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
The Devil in the Details - Luke 4:1-13
February 21, 2010
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
Following Through - Luke 5:1-11 and John 21:1-11
February 7, 2010
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
You've Changed - Psalm 71:1-9 and I Corinthians 13:1-13
January 31, 2010
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
Some Assembly Required - I Corinthians 12:4-13 and Luke 4:16-21
January 24, 2010
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Listen to Your Life - Luke 3: 15-17, 21-22
January 10, 2010
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
Heir Apparent - John 1:1-18 and Ephesians 1:3-14
January 3, 2010
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
Are You Ready? - Luke 1:26-55
December 20, 2009
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
Baptisms Fiery, Icy, or Tepid - Luke 1:68-79 and Luke 3 1-6
December 6, 2009
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
The Truth of the Matter - John 18:28-38 and Acts 17:1-9
November 22, 2009
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
Accumulated Prophets - Mark 12:41 – 13:2 and Philippians 4:10-20
November, 15, 2009
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
Same Question, Different Answer
October 25, 2009
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A Mouth Full of Argument
October 18, 2009
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The Bequest
October 11, 2009
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
Prerequisites to Peace
October 4, 2009
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
Welcome Without Boundaries
September 20, 2009
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
Goodness and Grief
September 13, 2009
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Open Ears, Open Hearts, Open Season
September 6, 2009
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Partners in Courage
October 5, 2008
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Who You Gonna Believe?
September 28, 2008
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Coming in Last
September 21, 2008
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The Christian Birthmark
September 14, 2008
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Just Perfect
September 7, 2008
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What a Bunch of Loosers
August 24, 2008
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Ladder Day Saints
July 20, 2008
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Faith for an Untidy World
July 13, 2008
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Not My Music
July 6, 2008
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Faith's Progress
June 29, 2008
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A Sinful Sermon
June 22, 2008
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Unsettling the Mind
June 15, 2008
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Are You Religious?
April 27, 2008
Among those who consider themselves religious, many are guilty of making the holiness of God and the preciousness of faith crude banalities, rendering sublime matters of the spirit as flat as last week’s champagne. The result is an image so self-serving, cramped and simplistic that such a God could never have managed to ignite a bush or called a son, much less created a universe of vast complexity.
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
Pursued by Kindness
April 13, 2008
We spend so much time chasing after dreams of happiness, we fail to realize that it is we who are being chased by grace. We are insistently pursued until the self-concern in us is driven out and replaced by an open-hearted love for God’s world, our neighbors, ourselves.
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
A Watered Garden
March 30, 2008
Whenever there is a disaster, donations pour in to relieve suffering. We give generously when our attention is arrested by some enormity, but what about the kind of consistent giving that is based on who we are as persons under God and what we know in faith God requires of us?
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
The Fall Guy
February 10, 2008
Life is a mix: the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly. Lying within us, side by side, like sunlight and shadow, is goodness and evil. These are choices of our freedom, the same freedom Adam and Eve exercised, exploring the border between love and communion, or alienation and despair.
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
Partly Cloudy
February 3, 2008
So much of contemporary faith seems to be little more than a crush on God. We hear folks speaking romantically about their walk with Jesus, as though strolling the beach, a glorious sunset bathing the couple in afterglow. I don’t mean to play fast and loose with anyone’s spiritual sensibilities, but where do we get off making God our buddy?
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
Faith for an Untidy World
January 20, 2008
Into our untidy lives God comes, looks upon the harmful choices and painful discoveries we have made and announces, "You are forgiven." In the midst of the world's chaos God stands and announces, "I am making all things new." On these two foundations, expressed most completely in the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, can a faith for an untidy life be built?
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
Holding Things Together
November 25, 2007
It's not something to be left to someone else. If we don't tell the stories, who will? And if we don't tell the stories, how will our children know who we were? And if we don't tell the stories, how will God's story make sense to a world which knows only too well the stories of brute power and its resulting misery?
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
Two Pockets
October 29, 2007
Abraham Heschel said, "I used to admire intelligent people. As I grow older, I admire kind people." Kindness is the residue of humility, of not thinking more highly of ourselves than we should, of being able to imagine others wearing spiritual clothes with two pockets, just as we do. We are bearers of God’s graciousness only to the extent we are gracious ourselves.
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God's To-Do List
October 21, 2007
How could we live without faith which leaves old comfortable certainties behind and reaches out for the next moment's surprise? It is faith which secures the future and faith which reveals the truth. It is faith which gives us a path to take when there is no path visible, and faith which takes the uncertainty of the day and makes it the stuff of God's purpose for tomorrow.
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Table Service
September 2, 2007
"Blessed is anyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God," one anonymous voice cries out at the sumptuous feast where Jesus was guest and where he delivered his criticism of the very banquet he was attending. Whoever spoke that line got the message: blessed is anyone, blessed is everyone, for those who are welcome at the table in God’s kingdom are those called from prestigious hallways and backwater byways, from the classy and déclassé, the hearty and the heartsick.
Reverend Dr. Jeffrey S. O'Neill - Complete Sermon [pdf*]
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