Taylor Mertins
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Taylor Mertins
thirty something pastor, podcast host, and fan of parables
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The Unexplored Virtue of Embarrassment
Embarrassment is a unexplored virtue.
The truth about the church is that we never really know what we’re walking into and we never reall...
Love Alone Is Credible
Easter is a promise. It is a promise that you are worthy of love and that nothing can ever separate you from the love of God in Jesus, not even death.
Anthem of the Lamb
Jesus is a revolutionary. It’s just a different revolution than anyone thought it would be. He’s not a lion who will supplant violence with more viole...
Can These Bones Live?
The great Robert Farrar Capon believed that the greatest challenge facing the church wasn’t questions about the afterlife but rather our present dulln...
The Truth Will Set Us Free
Jesus heals the blind man so that he can truly see. He sees the brokenness of the world but he also sees how beautiful the world can be because he see...
The Crucified God
When we survey the wondrous cross, on which the Prince of Glory died, we see the lengths to which God will go to forgive sin. The cross is both ugly a...
Jesus Is What God Has To Say
God so loves you that God gives it all for you. God does not send Jesus into the world to condemn you, but to save you. Once you see it you can’t real...
Some Things Never Change
Some things never change. God has always used fools to shame the wise, has worked to lift up the lowly and knock down the mighty, and demonstrated str...
Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God
Lent is, as Stanley Hauerwas notes, a dangerous time for Christians. With talk of ashes and repentance, renewal and sin, we can soon turn the Good New...
Believing Is Seeing
'Seeing is believing,' we say. Implicit in this kind of affirmation is the presumption that if we were given enough information, enough data, enough i...
The Last Word
I will confess that I did not know how to end this sermon. All week I worried about how to wrap it all up and I fear the art and text may leave us wit...
The Mad Farmer
Whenever we plant seeds and harvest the fruit, whenever we break bread and share stories with our friends, whenever we are surprised by the impossible...
The Closest Thing To The Grace Of God
There’s a deep pleasure in the gospel that we don’t talk about very much, and it’s the pleasure of being surrounded by others in such a safe, fun, and...
The Big Beginning
For some reason the Holy Spirit is pleased to let these words stand as they are before us in the beginning of all things and the beginning of the Bibl...
A Crowded Table
whenever we gather at this table, in this room, on a day like today, we’re certainly here in this time and place with these people, but we’re also in...
The Fullness of Time
Chances are you’ve felt interrupted a time or two this Christmas season; you had a plan and then you watched it fall apart. And chances are your life...
The Hopes And Fears Of All The Years
Whenever we come to the table for communion, we share this short and ancient creed: Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again.
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Keep Lent In Advent
Lent and Advent are the most challenging seasons of the Christian calendar because during them we receive the most difficult, demanding, bad news ever...
Things Without Mystery Have No Power
Let there be no mistake, we, all of us, stand on the threshold of God’s kingdom. We never really know from moment to moment when an opportunity will c...
The End Of The World (As We Know It)
“Jesus always comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all possible peace of mind, even in th...
One Bride For Seven Brothers
I’ve joked before, though its not really a joke, about how despite the beauty of the wedding liturgy, it would be far more appropriate if the couple m...
At The Same Time
A saint is simply someone whose life manages to be a crack through which God’s grace peaks through.
The End is Music
God uses music to help us enter the mysteries of life, death, and life after death.
We sing our faith. The words and melodies of our mus...
The Story Behind The Story
Baptism is the gift of God’s living water that never runs dry. And it’s not just a sign of God’s love. It’s a sign of God’s love for the ungodly. Like...
The Church Is God's Message For the World
It’s by grace, and only by grace that Jacob makes it to the well and to the banks of the Jabbok river. It’s by grace, and only by grace, that the conn...
The Relief from Captivity
From his very first sermon Jesus identifies the work of the Lord with rescue, release, and relief.
And the rest of the New Testament is...
The Relief from Productivity
One of the most compelling and evergreen reasons to follow Jesus is that discipleship is playful. There’s a dance to the life of faith and it’s fun, o...
The Relief from Keeping Up
Dave Zahl writes, “The very notion of a weekly Sabbath breaks the twenty-four-seven cycle of more and reminds us that we are God’s treasured children,...
The Relief from Status Anxiety
When Jesus commands the disciples to be like children, he’s telling us to recognize how much we’re like children no matter how old we actually are. Be...
The Relief From Control
We're all obsessed with control and we tend to mask it under the guise of efficiency. We adopt and adapt new behaviors and practices that promise orde...
The Relief From Rejection
Salvation has personal, domestic, social, economic, and theological dimensions. Salvation, in the New Testament, is the same word for health and well-...
The Relief From Regret
All of us have some moment we would redo if given the chance, some past decision or action or utterance that we would take back if we could.
The Relief From Deserving
The prodigal perfectly proclaims the paradox of the gospel: Jesus dies and is resurrected for us whether we deserve it or not. Like the younger brothe...
The Place of Grace
Hosea’s life becomes the parable of his preaching.
Gomer, Hosea’s wife, mother of his three oddly named children, whom he loves and cheri...
The Story of Starting Over
It’s not too late to change your mind
It’s not too late for the truth this time
It’s not too late to fall on your knees
It’s not to...
The Surprise of Salvation
When healing comes, its usually quiet and unexpected and surprising. Sometimes it requires a crack in the sidewalk before the root of healing can take...
The Truth Is A Cave
Elijah climbs the mountain on a hope and a prayer, looking for a theophany. He comes looking for fire, wind, smoke, and earthquake, a decisive declara...
The Slippery Slope of Sin
One day, in the city of David, shadows darken as a cross is raised. Upon which is nailed the last king to come from the line of David. What does God d...
The Early Church
There’s only once church that matters, and it’s not a church that’s wealthy, or powerful, or prestigious, or bursting at the seems, or filled with acc...