Choosing the Narrow Way | A Log in Your Eye “Double Halos and Dirty Mirrors” July 13, 2025 Matthew 7:1-5 Rev. Teer Hardy The way is narrow because it asks something hard of us: to love before we correct, to confess before we critique, to see others through the lens of grace before we try to fix them through the lens of the Law. We do not see clearly because we are right. We can see because we have been seen and forgiven. Because we are loved by the One who had every right to judge us harshly and...
Jul 13, 2025•12 min
Practicing Resurrection | More Than Enough July 7, 2025 Matthew 6:25-34 Rev. Teer Hardy So, if you are carrying anxiety this morning, not as an abstract idea but in tight shoulders and sleepless nights, here is the Good News: The One who raised Jesus Christ from the dead has not abandoned you. You are not alone. You do not have to hold the world together. That job is already taken. So, stop. Breathe. Get full access to Brewing Theology with Teer Hardy at teerhardy.substack.com/subscribe...
Jul 06, 2025•12 min
Practicing Resurrection | Drowning in Treasure “Jesus Isn’t Against Success. He’s Just Asking a Better Question.” June 29, 2025 Matthew 6:19-24 Third Sunday After Pentecost Rev. Teer Hardy Jesus is not mad at you for having wealth; he’s just tired of seeing it break your heart. So here is the invitation again: “Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” The question is not what do you own. The question is, what owns you? And if the answer is not Jesus, then it might be time to let s...
Jun 29, 2025•15 min
Practicing Resurrection | Drop the Mask. Wash Your Face. June 22, 2025 Matthew 6:16-18 Season After Pentecost Rev. Teer Hardy We’ve swapped out the mask of indifference for the mask of self-righteousness. We’ve dressed up our ego and religious clothing and called it faithfulness. That still is just a mask. And the father who sees in secret wants more than that. And that is the reward: The Father sees in secret. Not the praise of people or the illusion of control. The quiet, sustaining truth that...
Jun 22, 2025•12 min
Practicing Resurrection | Folded, Bowed, and Closed. Matthew 6:5-15 June 15, 2025 Trinity Sunday Rev. Teer Hardy Because Christ is risen,Because Christ is ascended,Our prayers are not flung into the void. They are gathered into the life of God. So: Don’t pray like God is far away.Don’t pray like no one’s listening.Don’t pray like someone auditioning for a part. Pray like the tomb is empty.Pray like the Son is alive.Pray like someone who’s already been heard. Get full access to Brewing Theology w...
Jun 16, 2025•10 min
Resurrection Discipleship | This is Not About You (Thank God) “Pentecost, Inclusion, and the Quiet Power of Resurrection Generosity” June 8, 2025 Acts 2:1-21and Matthew 6:1-4 Pentecost Rev. Teer Hardy Pentecost was already inclusive before we got around to recognizing it. God was already including the lost, erased, and invisible. The one's history forgot. The people the Church has too often pushed to the margins, the ones we struggle to understand. God brought all of them into the story. So yes,...
Jun 09, 2025•14 min
Resurrection Discipleship | Ascended, Not Avenging Christ’s Victory Over Death (And Over Our Addiction to Payback) June 1, 2025 Matthew 5:38-48 Seventh Sunday of Easter Rev. Teer Hardy None of us likes to admit it, but we love a good revenge story. We love seeing someone “get what they deserve.” But when Jesus says, “You’ve heard it said, but I say to you…” He isn’t just calling us to be slightly nicer people — He’s flipping the script entirely. Get full access to Brewing Theology with Teer Hard...
Jun 02, 2025•11 min
Resurrection Discipleship | God Doesn’t Believe You Either “Fake News Isn’t Just Out There. It’s in You” May 25, 2025 Matthew 5:33-37 Sixth Sunday of Easter Rev. Teer Hardy The fake news we are most tempted to believe is not about others. It is about ourselves. That if the truth came out, we would be abandoned. Exposed. So we lie. We spin. We control the narrative. And Jesus says, “You do not have to do that anymore.” The resurrection of Christ, promised to us, tells the truth about us. And than...
May 27, 2025•11 min
Resurrection Discipleship | No One Is Disposable What Resurrection Says About Anger, Lust, and Divorce May 18, 2025 Matthew 5:21-32 Fifth Sunday of Easter Rev. Teer Hardy Whether Jesus is talking about anger, lust, or divorce, he’s addressing the same core sickness: We treat people like they’re disposable. We get angry, and suddenly that person doesn’t deserve our grace. We lust, and that person becomes a fantasy rather than a human being. We divorce (in Jesus’ context, especially men divorcing ...
May 19, 2025•12 min
Resurrection Discipleship | Stay Salty Embodying the Resurrection in a World That Needs the Real Thing May 4, 2025 Matthew 5:13-16 Third Sunday of Easter Rev. Teer Hardy The resurrection empowers us to bring renewal and transformation wherever we go. It doesn’t mean we walk around glowing. It means we are walking witnesses to a kingdom that doesn’t run on power, pride, or self-protection. It runs on mercy. It runs on grace. Friends, Easter isn’t just a holiday. It’s a whole new way of seeing the...
May 04, 2025•13 min
Resurrection Discipleship | Blessed are the Upside Down Resurrection, the Beatitudes, and the Audacity of God's Blessing April 27, 2025 Matthew 5:1-12 Second Sunday of Easter Rev. Teer Hardy Our risen Lord calls us to lose ourselves for His sake in a world that tells us to protect ourselves at all costs. The empty tomb declares that true power is found in humility and true blessing in mercy. The resurrection does not just vindicate Jesus—it vindicates the whole upside-down Kingdom of God. Do not...
Apr 28, 2025•17 min
Grace in a Ketchup Bottle Grace That Shows Up for Everyone—Sweet, Sour, and Hungry April 20, 2025 Luke 24:1-12 Easter Rev. Teer Hardy So maybe ketchup isn’t the worst metaphor after all. Not because it’s clever or funny (though many of you were worried about where this sermon was going). But because it’s ordinary. It’s always there. It meets every taste and doesn’t discriminate. It doesn’t try to be impressive. It just shows up and makes everything else taste more like itself. Jesus doesn’t wait...
Apr 20, 2025•13 min
The Cost of Discipleship | Humility on Hooves Embracing the Cost of Discipleship Through the Humble Entry of Jesus April 13, 2025 Mark 11:1-11 Palm Sunday Rev. Teer Hardy The palms we wave today will soon be forgotten—much like the crowd’s memory of welcoming Jesus into the city. The same crowd waving palm branches… some would soon turn their backs on Christ, leaving us to ask: What does it mean for us to follow Jesus? The cost of discipleship is found in surrendering to the self-giving love of ...
Apr 14, 2025•16 min
The Cost of Discipleship | The Individual April 6, 2025 Luke 14:25-33 Lent 5 Rev. Teer Hardy Jesus, in His wisdom, knew that we cannot live the Christian life in isolation. It is through the community of faith, through the gathered body of believers, that we are nourished and shaped. We are not disciples because of our individual accomplishments but because of the grace of God working through the church. The church is where we are molded into the image of Christ—not through our own efforts or ac...
Apr 07, 2025•15 min
The Cost of Discipleship | The Single-Mindedness of Discipleship March 23, 2025 Matthew 6:24-33 Lent 3 Rev. Teer Hardy Following Jesus is not an endless streaming service or a New York Times-sized menu of options, add-ons, and trans fats. This is the paradox of the Kingdom. The more we cling to our lives, the more we lose them. The more we try to control, the more anxious and exhausted we become. But when we let go, when we trust that Jesus is enough—that’s where true freedom is found. Think abo...
Mar 24, 2025•12 min
The Cost of Discipleship | The Call March 16, 2025 Matthew 4:18-22 Lent 2 Rev. Teer Hardy The disciples left their nets and followed. What are we still clinging to? Maybe it’s security—the need to have everything planned and figured out before you step forward. Maybe it’s comfort—the fear of stepping into something difficult or unfamiliar. Maybe it’s pride—the desire to keep control instead of surrendering. Whatever it is, Jesus is standing before you today with the same invitation He gave to th...
Mar 17, 2025•13 min
The Cost of Discipleship | The Joy of Costly Grace March 9, 2025 Matthew 13:44-46 Lent 1 Rev. Teer Hardy I have said it before, and I will say it again: “God loves you just as you are, but God loves you too much to leave you just as you are.” The good news—the best news—is that this grace has already been bought and paid for. You did not earn it, and you cannot lose it. It’s already yours because Jesus gave everything to make it so. His life, His death, His resurrection—this is what costly grace...
Mar 10, 2025•13 min
The Impossible Ask: I Don’t Want to Forgive My Enemies February 23, 2025 Seventh Sunday After Epiphany Luke 6:27-38 Rev. Teer Hardy The truth in God reconciling all things, in making all of creation new through the mercy of God’s grace, is that when our sin could have made us an enemy of God and God could have cast vengeance upon humanity – upon you and me – God instead extended, God is extending mercy. It is downright offensive to think of God extending mercy to the person we despise the most u...
Feb 24, 2025•12 min
The Sermon Stands Among Us “The Savior Who Comforts the Afflicted and Afflicts the Comfortable” February 16, 2025 The Sixth Sunday After Epiphany Luke 6:17-26 Rev. Teer Hardy We see this when Christian symbols are wielded in ways that justify violence, when the gospel is reduced to a tool for cultural dominance, and when faith is used to demand power rather than to serve the least. We see it when people conflate their country with the kingdom of God, as if God’s blessings are limited to one peop...
Feb 16, 2025•14 min
Grace Beyond Expectations “When God’s Good News Disrupts Our Comfort” January 26, 2025 The Third Sunday After Epiphany Luke 4:14-21 Rev. Teer Hardy When Jesus proclaimed “the year of the Lord’s favor,” he wasn’t just offering comfort; he was announcing a revolution. The poor would hear good news. The captives would be set free. The blind would see. The oppressed would be liberated. And that’s not a message everyone wants to hear—because it calls us to confront our own complicity in systems of in...
Jan 27, 2025•13 min
758 Bottles of Grace on the Wall “The Sign at Cana and the Grace That Never Ends” January 19, 2025 The Second Sunday After Epiphany John 2:1-11 Rev. Teer Hardy This wedding at Cana isn’t just about what happened back then. It’s about what’s happening now. Jesus is still transforming, still pouring out His grace in abundance. And He’s inviting you to the table, to the party, to the life that only He can give. And the best part? The wine never runs out. The grace never dries up. It’s all available...
Jan 19, 2025•12 min
Epiphanies | Who Am I? Whose Am I? “Remembering Your Baptism” January 12, 2025 Baptism of the Lord Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 Rev. Teer Hardy Remembering our baptism is like hearing a forgotten song from our childhood. It stirs something deep within us. It reminds us of who we truly are. It is also an invitation to discover, over time, whose we are. God’s beloved. Jesus tells the story of the prodigal son. The son lost himself in a far-off land. One day, he “came to himself.” He remembered. “I am my fa...
Jan 12, 2025•18 min
The Paradox of Glory “Homage at the Manger” January 5, 2025 Epiphany Matthew 2:1-12 Rev. Teer Hardy Paying homage to someone is no small task. As we hand our whole selves over to Christ, it can feel like a quid pro quo. We can think that before we receive Christ, we must give or do something extraordinary. After all, we live across the river from the quid pro quo capital of the world. Some might tell you that you need to pray a certain prayer, never miss a Sunday worship service or give a certai...
Jan 05, 2025•12 min
An Early Epiphany “ Finding Christ Where We Least Expect” December 29, 2024 First Sunday After Christmas Luke 2:41-52 Rev. Teer Hardy Jesus has a habit of dwelling in the places we least expect: in the manger, with shepherds, in the Temple, at a well, at the table of a tax collector. And the question we are faced with is why. Why these places? Why those people? Why us? The Good News is that while we search for Jesus, we do not have to look further than our Holy Scriptures, bread and wine, and a ...
Dec 30, 2024•9 min
Christmas Eve 2024, Luke 2:1-14 The peace we long for is the product of God’s actions. We are experiencing peace this evening because we are acknowledging – like Mary, like Joseph, like the shepherds – that God has moved. I know not all is right in the world, that all is not right in your life. There are secrets, deep and dark, that keep you up at night. There is an empty seat at your table. There is a diagnosis that you wish you could ignore. And, when Christmas is over, you will trudge your wa...
Dec 25, 2024•12 min
Do You Know? Following Mary's Faithful Witness December 22, 2024 Advent 4 Luke 1:46-57 Rev. Teer Hardy The question is not, “Mary do you know, but rather, do you know? Brody, Logan, and Meghan, Brett and Lauren, do you know? Do you know that his child that we celebrate on Christmas is the one who will do all of the things mentioned in the song – walk on water, heal the blind, give life back to the dead? Do you know that while being rejected and despised, Jesus extends grace to all? Do you know t...
Dec 23, 2024•13 min
Mary, Theotokos: Bearer of Hope “Hope in the Annunciation” December 1, 2024 Advent 1 Luke 1:26-38 Rev. Teer Hardy Mary’s “Yes” came in the face of danger and uncertainty. We know her fiancé considered ending their engagement, placing both Mary’s life and her child’s in jeopardy. With the darkness of the world before her, Mary said “Yes” to the hope of God. This is the same hope the church carries into the world's darkness. Hope rooted in the promise of God to renew every corner of creation, the ...
Dec 02, 2024•14 min
Breaking the Patterns of the Pilate "From Pilate to Preschool: Learning the Patterns of the Kingdom" November 24, 2024 Christ the King Sunday John 18:33-37 Rev. Teer Hardy In Rome, Caesar was the ultimate symbol of that kind of power. Caesar embodied the pattern of worldly power: victory through force, glory in wealth, and security through fear. The Romans had a saying for this pattern – Pax Roma, the peace of Rome – but everyone knew that peace came at a cost. It was the kind of peace you could...
Nov 25, 2024•11 min
Jesus, A Different King of King | Beyond Crowns and Thrones: Embracing the Lordship of Christ in a World of False Power Mark 12:38-44 November 10, 2024 The elephant and donkey in the room are this: when we consider the reign of God and the Lordship of Christ, our politics inevitably create conflicts of interest, tension, and outright discomfort. No matter who we vote for or who ultimately wins an election, that person will never—can never—live up to the expectations we place on them. They will a...
Nov 11, 2024•13 min
Runneth Over | No Condemnation, Only Freedom “How Christ’s Love Frees Us to Live Generously” October 27, 2024 Romans 8:1-4 Rev. Teer Hardy No condemnation! None! Nada! Not an ounce! For those who have heard the gospel for years, and for those familiar with wooden church pews or the consistency of the church’s liturgy, we may gloss over Paul’s declaration. But think about it for a moment: in Christ, through Christ, and because of Christ, we are not condemned. All of the mistakes, the missteps, th...
Oct 28, 2024•10 min
