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Each of us bears the imprint of three hundred thousand years of human history. Our ancestral lineages carry gifts and wounds with roots that run deep into the human story. Our flesh and blood, spirit and stories are woven of the grief, resilience, and beauty of that collective inheritance. It’s up to us what we’ll
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I was reading through some of my older sermons in preparation for this week’s celebration of All Saints’ Day at the congregation I serve, and I was reminded of this gem—possibly one of the best sermons God has ever shoved through the matrix of my heart-mind-voice. In it I trace the outline of my theology
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For a long time now, a principal spiritual practice of mine has been the work of the Daily Office, a cycle of readings and prayers based on the time-sanctifying rhythms of monastic life in the Benedictine tradition. Most spiritual traditions of the world have some way of weaving together prayer and time, and the Christian
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I’m excited to spend the next two weeks preaching exorcism narratives in Mark’s gospel, which communities around the world will be reading this weekend. And so as I’m getting ready to preach these texts, I want to expand on some of my reference points with much more detail than I’ll be able to get into
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This sermon was preached at First Congregational Church of Battle Creek on August 14th, 2022. The text is Psalm 46. I found my way back to it by fortunate accident upon finding some prep notes I had written for it saved in my work laptop’s browser cache a full year and a half later, and
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This sermon was preached on April 16th, 2023 at First Congregational Church of Battle Creek. The text is the Thomas pericope, beginning at John 20.19 and following. Click here to listen along—sermons were meant to be heard! At the heart of the Christian mystery is the idea that God becomes a human with a body.
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This sermon was preached at First Congregational Church of Battle Creek on November 20th, 2022. The text is Isaiah 36 and 37, as well as Isaiah 2.1-4, per the Narrative Lectionary. Click here to listen along—sermons are meant to be heard! My friends, I speak in the name of the Crucified and Risen One. Amen.
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This sermon was preached at First Congregational Church of Battle Creek on September 4th, 2022. The text is 1st Corinthians 13. Click here to listen along: sermons are meant to be heard! I speak in the name of the Crucified and Risen One. Amen. The passage that Roger just read for us is a piece
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This sermon was preached at First Congregational Church of Battle Creek on Sunday, August 15th, 2021. The text is Mark 6.30-44. Listen along here, starting at 33:00. I speak in the name of the Crucified and Risen One. Amen. Unlike last week’s text, with its salacious intrigues and revenge plots and beheadings, this text is
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I’ve been wanting to write a “Where Are We Now?” post for a while but 2020 was, well, 2020. Well, this is an attempt at that. It will be long. It’s mostly for me. But if you choose to read, linger, and hold your questions for the end. This is simply another chapter in my
The Rev. Nate Craddock 