SUNDAY SERMONS @ UpRising Austin
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2024
Jan. 7 — I Love a Good Mystery
Jan. 14 — If I Had a Hammer
Jan. 21 — Lord, I Give You My Heart
Jan. 28 — It’s All (or Mostly) in Your Head
Feb. 4 — Spiritual, but Not Religious — Really?
Feb. 11 — Seize the Day
Feb. 18 — What If? Leading with the Questions
Feb. 25 — What If We Don’t Need Saving?
March 3 — What If Hell Is Off the Table?
March 17 — What If Heaven Is for Real and It’s Here?
March 31 — What If the Cross Means Everything, But Not in the Way We Thought?
April 7 — For Fear of the Others
April 14 — The Meaning of Life or Crackers and Cheese
April 21 — What If We’re Responsible for Our Own Choices, Not Adam and Eve’s?
April 28 — The Ethiopian Dignitary
May 5 — Live Like You Were Dying
June 16 — 1975: A New Church in Austin
July 7 — The Bible on Broadway: Tuck Everlasting
July 21 — Bible on Broadway: Jekyll and Hyde
Aug. 11 — Rabbi Jesus
Aug. 18 — Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, & Loving the Bible Again
Sept. 1 — Vocation, Vocation, Vocation
Sept. 8 — Litmus Test: In the Beginning, the Words
Sept. 15 — Litmus Test: Heaven and/or Hell
Sept. 29 — Litmus Test: Why We Distrust Higher Education and Hollywood
Nov. 24 — Gratitude in the Wilderness
2023
Jan. 1 – Blessings for the New Year
Jan. 8 — We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re Christian
Jan. 15 — The God Who Is Beyond Binary
Jan. 22 — Be Fruitful and Multiply and Other Reproductive Matters
Jan. 29 — Safer to Sit Down & Shut Up? A White Woman Speaks on Race
Feb. 5 — Climate Crisis
Feb. 12 — Blood, Sweat, and Tears, and Jesus
Feb. 19 — Fat Sunday: The Transfiguration
Feb. 26 — How Is the Bible Inspired?
March 5 — The Bible: Formation
March 12 — Lost in Translation
March 19 — The Rest of the Story
March 26 — Biblical Interpretation or This Is How I See It
April 2 — Why Hosanna?
April 9 — The Word Becomes Flesh
April 16 — Trusting Doubting Thomas
April 23 — The Walk to Emmaus
April 30 — A Church Grows in Jerusalem
May 7 — The Stoning of Stephen
May 14 — Poems, Prayers and Promises
May 21 — Don’t Look Up… Look Around
May 28 — Tongues of Fire
June 4 — Trinity Sunday
June 11 — On the Road with Father Abraham
June 18 — Sarah Laughed
June 25 — Abraham and Islam
July 2 — God Bless America
July 9 — Bible on Broadway: Hamilton
July 16 — Spring Awakening
July 23 — Bible on Broadway: Hadestown
July 30 — Bible on Broadway: Parade
August 13 — The Beatitudes
Aug. 20 — Sermon on the Mount: Salt and Light
Aug. 27 — Sermon on the Mount: Contracts and Covenants
Sept. 3 — The Sermon on the Mount: Prayer and Fasting
Sept. 10 – The Sermon on the Mount: Don’t Worry
Sept. 17 — Sermon on the Mount: Do Not Judge
Sept. 24 — The Sermon on the Mount: Asking, Seeking, Knocking
Oct. 1 — The Sermon on the Mount: The Golden Rule
Oct. 8 — The Sermon on the Mount: Narrow the Way
Oct. 15 — The Sermon on the Mount: True and False Prophets
Oct. 22 — The Sermon on the Mount: Building a House on Sand
Oct. 29 — The Sermon on the Mount: Anger, Revenge, Forgiveness
Nov. 5 — “Let’s Start with the Hard Stuff”
Nov. 12 — The Great Thanksgiving
Nov. 19 — A Thanksgiving Thesaurus
Nov. 26 — Putting It All Together
Dec. 3 — Unwrapping Christmas: Gifts from John the Baptist
Dec. 10 — Unwrapping Christmas: Gifts from Mary
Dec. 17 — Unwrapping Christmas: Gifts from Joseph
Dec. 24 — Unwrapping Christmas: Gifts from the Baby.
2022
Jan. 2 — Starstruck
Jan. 9 — The House That Built Me
Jan. 16 — “God So Loved That God Gave”
Jan. 23 — The Dream Continued
Jan. 30 — Integrity Is a Noun
Feb. 6 — Anything Worth Living For…
Feb. 13 — Come In
Feb. 20 — Philemon’s Dilemma
Feb. 27 — I Seen the Little Lamp
March 6 — Radical Trust
March 13 — Radical Humility
March 20 — Radical Church
March 27 — Radical Grace
April 3 — Radical Service
April 10 — Radical Discipleship
April 17 — Radical Recognition
April 24 — When Things Get Real with Jesus
May 1 — The Brave Chili Pequin
May 8 — When a Mustard Seed Grows in Texas & Other Hard To Understand Things
May 15 — When the Sermon Hit the Fan
May 22 — What Did the Fig Tree Ever Do to Jesus?
May 29 — The Day Before You Die
June 5 — Hang On for Dear Life or Let It Go?
June 12 — When Eternal Truths Don’t Age Well
June 19 — The Sheep, the Shepherd, and the Gate
June 26 — Pride and Prejudice
July 3 — God and Country
July 10 — The Bible on Broadway: Something Rotten!
July 17 — The Greatest Showman
July 31 — Nine to Five
Aug. 7 — Who Is My Neighbor?
Aug. 14 — “What Is the Image of God?”
Aug. 21 — What Is Truth?
Aug. 28 — Who Is the Greatest?
Sept. 4 — What About Fear?
Sept. 11 — What Do We Render unto Caesar?
Sept. 18 — Who Are the Peacemakers?
Sept. 25 — What Does It Mean To Be a Disciple?
Oct. 2 — Are We Still Salt and Light?
Oct. 9 — Just By Thinking About It
Oct. 16 — A Three-Pronged Gospel
Oct. 23 — How To Make Atheists
Oct. 30 — Stumbling Blocks or Stepping Stones?
Nov. 6 — All Saints Day
Nov. 13 — I Love __________ More than Jesus
Nov. 20 — Thanksgiving Dressing
Nov. 27 — Bah Humbug! Making Change
Dec. 4 — The Remembrance of Christmas Past: Hope from Heartbreak
Dec. 11 — The Life of Christmas Present: Look Upon Me
Dec. 18 — The Hope of Christmas Future: Death-Defying Acts
Dec. 24 — The Redemption of Scrooge: Keeping Christmas Well
Dec. 25 — God Bless Us – Every One!
2021
1/10/2021
1/17/2021
1/24/2021
1/31/2021
Feb. 7 — Shine the Light on Evangelism
Feb. 21 — The Gifts of Imperfection
Feb. 28 — The Gifts of Race
March 7 — The Gifts of Anger
March 14 — The Gifts of Failure
March 21 — The Gifts of Doubt
March 28 — The Gifts of Confronting
April 4 — The Gifts of Forgetting
April 11 — The Man Who Was Not Afraid to Follow Jesus
April 18 — The Road to Emmaus as Walked by Our Friends
April 25 — What I Have Learned from the Great British Baking Show
May 2 — You Can Only Take a Fruit (analogy) So Far
May 9 — The Gift of Hunger
May 16 — The Long Good Friday
May 23 — The Pentecost After the Pandemic
May 30 — Memorial Day
June 6 — You Should See the Other Guy!
June 13 — The Truth Will Set You Free
June 20 — Chaotically Beautiful Lives
June 27 — The Cost of Comparison
July 4 — The Bible on Broadway: Waitress
July 11 — The Bible on Broadway: Pippin
July 18 — The Bible on Broadway: Kinky Boots
July 25 — The Bible on Broadway: Annie Get Your Gun
Aug. 1 — When Righteous Indignation Goes Wrong
Aug. 8 — Will Work for Bread
Aug. 15 — Be the You God Wants You to Be
Aug. 22 — Jesus in History
Aug. 29 — Jesus in Scripture
Sept. 5 — Jesus in Ministry
Sept. 12 — The Beginning — Baptism
Sept. 19 — Devils, Demons, and Diseases
Sept. 26 — Unforgivable Sin?
Oct. 3 — Happy Anniversary: 46 Years of Miracles
Oct. 10 — Food, Glorious Food!
Oct. 17– You Can Name It; But Can You Claim It?
Oct. 25 — When We All Get to Heaven: What a Headache!
Oct. 31 — Left Behind
Nov. 7 — Saints and Sinners: The Disciples
Nov. 14 — Jesus on Trial
Nov. 21 — The Never-Ending Story
Nov. 28 — Show Me the Way To Go Home
Dec. 5 — Home Is the Place Where, When You Have To Go There, They Have To Take You In
Dec. 12 — There’s No Place Like Home
Dec. 19 — Home Is Where the Heart Is
Dec. 24 — “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”
Dec. 26 — “A Christmas Message”
2020
Jan. 5 — Are You Ready for a Different Way?
Jan. 12 — The Baptism of Jesus
Jan. 19 — Call Me By Your Name
Jan. 26 — Do We Really Want to Fish for People?
Feb. 9 — Closer than Close: Intimate Lovers
Feb. 16 — Closer than Close: Intimate Families
Feb. 23 — Closer than Close: Intimate Jesus
March 1 — Did Jesus Exist?
March 8 – “Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?”
March 15 – What About Original Sin?
Marh 22 – Science vs. Christianity
March 29 – Did There Have To Be a Cross?
April 5 –
April 12 — What Happened on the First Easter?
April 19 — What the World Needs Now is Doubting Thomas
April 26 — The Jesus upRising
May 3 — Mutually Exclusive: Social Distancing and the Church Without Walls
May 10 — Faith of Our Mothers
May 17 — Is Heaven Real?
May 31 — The Pentecost with the Pandemic
June 7 — Sacred Resistance
June 14 — JK Rowling, Harry Potter, Mustard Seeds, and Messiness
June 21 — Faith of Our Fathers
June 28 — When the Storms Come
July 5 — The Bible on Broadway: Love’s True Form
July 12 — “The Bible on Broadway: The Hunchback of Notre Dame”
July 19 — The Bible on Broadway: The Prince and the Prodigal.
July 26 — The Bible on Broadway: The Phantom of the Opera
Aug. 2 — The Power of No
August 9 — When God Gets Away
Aug. 16 — False Prophets
Aug. 23 — Dwelling in God
Aug. 30 — I Believe; Help My Unbelief
Sept. 6 — Searching for Sunday
Sept. 13 — Searching for Sunday: Baptism
Sept. 20 — Searching for Sunday: Confession
Sept. 27 — Searching for Sunday: Holy Orders
Oct. 4 — Searching for Sunday: Communion
Oct. 11 — Searching for Sunday: Confirmation
Oct. 18 — Searching for Sunday: Anointing of the Sick
Oct. 25 — Searching for Sunday: Marriage
Nov. 1 — Searching for Sunday: Finding Sunday
November 8 — 45 or 46?
Nov. 15 — Four Words I Promise Never To Say Again
Nov. 22 — “Thanks Always”
Nov. 29 — “I Believe in the Sun”
Dec. 6 — I Believe in Love
Dec. 13 — “I Believe in Joy”
Dec. 20 — I Believe in Peace
Dec. 24 — We Believe Even Now
2019
Jan. 6 — Shine the Light on the Stable
Jan. 13 — Shine the Light on Black Lives
Jan. 20 — Shine the Light on Those Living with Chronic Illness and Pain
Jan. 27 — We Need the Merciful
Feb. 3 — Holy People
Feb. 10 — Courageous Love and Justice
Feb. 17 — When God Doesn’t Follow the Rules
Feb. 24 — Will the Poor Always Be with Us?
March 3 — Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler
March 10 — Mission Incredible: Connecting You to God
March 17 — Mission Incredible: Connecting You to Each Other and the Community
March 24 — Mission Incredible: Creating Hope and Healing
March 31 — Mission Incredible: Creating Spiritual Growth
April 7 — Mission Incredible: Affirming Your Joys and Journey
April 14 — Mission Incredible: Affirming Your Unique Gifts
April 28 — “I Doubt It”
May 5 — “In My Mind I’m Gone to Carolina”
May 12 — The Genesee Diary: Unbreakable
May 19 — Sweet Home Alabama
May 26 — The Quilt
June 2 — Sabbath
June 9 — Pentecost: Creating Church
June 16 — Black Role Models and Racism
June 23 — The Irony of Immigration
June 30, 2019 — Resurrection Stories
July 7, 2019 — The Bible on Broadway: The Prom
July 14 — The Bible on Broadway: Mama Mia
July 21 — The Bible on Broadway: If/Then
July 28 — The Bible on Broadway: Les Miserables
Sept. 1 — After 10 Years, Saturday @ 6:24
Sept. 8, 2019 — The World Economy: an Embarrassment of Riches
Sept. 15 — The U.S. Economy: A Gross Domestic Product
Sept. 22 — The MCC Economy: Tax or Tithe?
Sept. 29 — The MCC Austin Economy: So Long Scare City
October 6 — World Communion Sunday
October 13 — First Time Christians
October 20 — Grow Old Along With Me
October 27 — We Should Probably Talk About the Millennials
Nov. 3 — All Saints Day
Nov. 10 — Sexuality and Spirituality
Nov. 17 – Whiplash
Nov. 24 — Now Thank We All Our God
2018
Aug. 19 — The Cost of Freedom
Sept. 2 — The Self-Made Myth
Sept. 16 — Corporate Prayer
Sept. 23 — Individual Prayer
Sept. 30 – Unanswered Prayer
Oct. 7 — Church Without Walls
Oct. 14 – Wise Ones
Oct. 21 — Anxious To Talk About It
Oct. 28 — Resurrecting Robin Hood
Nov. 4 — Sense and Sensuality
Nov. 11 — The Old Testament: History or Hoax
Nov. 18 — The Old Testament: Texts of Terror
Nov. 25 — The Old Testament: A Love Story
Dec. 2 — Calm and Bright: Peace
Dec. 9 — Calm and Bright: Hope
Dec. 16 — Calm and Bright: Joy
Dec. 23 — Calm and Bright: Love
Dec.30 — Christ the Savior Is Born
