Jason Micheli
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Episodes
Peter's Right about the Mountaintop
In anticipation of Transfiguration Sunday, I picked the text for a week night chapel service.
Stuck with Jesus
I was invited back for St John's, my first church in Virginia, 125th Anniversary.
I Can Do All Things Through (the Body of) Christ
Healing
After a 4 month hiatus from the pulpit, I joined Dennis Perry this Sunday for a dialogue sermon on John 5's story of the healing at Bethsaida.
Christmas Ends in the Dark
Bad Santa
This Sunday I closed out our 'Mystical Christmas' series by looking at St. Nicholas, who received a mystical encounter from Christ after Nick's temper tantrum at the Council of Nicaea.
Missing by Nine Miles
Church Father John Chrysostom wrote that the star of Bethlehem was no ordinary star because that which it illumined was exceptionally ordinary. Here's a sermon on Matthew 2.1-12 in which I try to filter Chrysostom through a recent trip on an airplane.
While We Were Yet Dogs
I continued our community-themed series this past weekend with a sermon on Matthew 15, the passage where Jesus calls a Canaanite woman a b@#$%.
Oprah Ain't Bringing You Chicken Soup
A Kingdom Conspiracy of Forgiveness
My friend Scot McKnight, author of the Jesus Creed blog and book, preached this weekend. In advance of his upcoming book, A Kingdom Conspiracy, Scot preached on the church as a kingdom community of forgiveness and reconciliation.
What Can the Spirit Do the Son Can't?
Dennis Perry continued the Midrash in the Moment by taking a turn at my roulette wheel and tackling questions- at random- about the Holy Spirit. His first question 'Can the Spirit Do Anything the Son Can't Do and Better?' cuts to the quick of our beliefs about the Holy Spirit.
What Do Our Prayers Sound Like to God?
From the Button Down Mind of Rev. Jason Micheli
To Be Read at Your Confirmation
A sermon on baptism based on Romans 10.1-10 and Psalm 19.
The Gospel to HeWhoMustNotBeNamed
Wherein I use Romans 3 to respond to @HeMustNotBeNamed's tweets.
Create in Me~ A Spoken Word Sermon
I was taught by my homiletics professor that for preaching to be biblical 'the form of the text should determine the form of the sermon.' So, I wrote this sermon on Psalm 51- a poem- in verse. Good thing I didn't warn people ahead of time.
I Need to Drive Your Toilet
The Sacrifice of War
Here's my sermon for Memorial Day Weekend on Colossians 1 and 2.
The Most Political Day of the Year
Jesus Loves the Little Liars
It's Much Worse than 14 Verbs
God's Not Angry, But Jesus Is PO'd
Believing in Jesus, Believing like Jesus
Jesus is God's prototype for a new humanity. You don't make a prototype unless you desire there to be others just like it.