Sermons at St. Andrew’s
June 7, 2026 | The Rev. Andrew Van Kirk
Joy Without Purpose
Jesus pursues the broken, the busy, and the successful alike, offering himself not as a task to complete but as a host whose company changes what our hearts desire.
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Joy Without Purpose
Jesus pursues the broken, the busy, and the successful alike, offering himself not as a task to complete but as a host whose company changes what our hearts desire.
Grace, Love, and Communion
The triune God — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — eternally exists as grace, love, and communion, and draws all creation into the fellowship that has always been at the heart of who God is.
The Spirit Knows Your Language
The gospel comes to us not as a universal broadcast but as a personal address — spoken by the Holy Spirit in the specific language of who we are, where we hurt, and what we most need to hear.
Not Sameness, but Harmony
Christ, who prayed for his disciples' unity on the night before the cross knowing they would fail him, continues to call diverse and divided people together, feeding them at one table and sustaining their connection not through human effort but through grace.
Erasing the Engraving to an Unknown God
In a culture that has effectively engraved "to an unknown God" onto both its public monuments and its private heart, we are nevertheless promised through the Holy Spirit that God is genuinely knowable. That knowing, however, is bound up with obedience — Jesus tells us to keep his commandments because "the company" coming to abide with us is the Spirit of truth.
Who Jesus Says He Is
In Christ, God reveals himself as both the singular way to the Father and the one whose arms are stretched wide enough to embrace the whole world, so that the exclusivity of salvation belongs to Christ's identity and power, not to our judgment about who he can and cannot save.