Blog — Teer Hardy

Sara Condon, "That’s Nice"

Rev. Sarah Condon joins the podcast to talk about progressive Christianity, hitting television preachers with cafeteria trays, and explains how she's experienced God's grace while serving as a hospital chaplain.

Crackers & Grape J..., podcastsTeer HardyApril 20, 2018Mocking Bird, Mbird, Sarah Condon, Crackers and Grape Juice, Grace, PodcastComment

We Are The Walking Dead

In our endless conflict over relevancy, which essentially has become how do we get millennials to walk through our doors we are moving like the walking dead. Not quite dead but not quite living. Not quite living because we have forgotten that the one who called us and sent us was not concerned with relevancy. Christ himself was concerned with two things: loving God and loving each other.

Unbelievable Peace

The unbelief of the disciples that we frown upon during Eastertide creeps up for many of us before the lilies and tulips of Easter Sunday go dormant for another year.

Mount Olivet UMC, Sermon, EastertideTeer HardyApril 15, 2018Sermon, Mount Olivet, Year B, Luke 24:36-48, Unbelief, Faith, Fear, Peace, Jesus, Christianity, Eastertide, Easter 3Comment

Kerygma

In this episode, we consider what the event and content of preaching means. Are we talking about a narrative of events, exegesis of scripture, or God? All of it? Also, what about the listener, do they play a role?

(Her)Men*You*tics, Crackers & Grape J..., podcastsTeer HardyApril 12, 2018(Her)Men*You*Tics, Kerygma, Apostolic KerygmaComment

Don't Make Jesus Hangry

Acts 3.12-19, Psalm 4, 1 John 3.1-7, Luke 24.36b-48

podcasts, Strangely WarmedTeer HardyApril 11, 2018strangely warmed, Year B, Preaching, Sermon, JesusComment

The Glad Surprise of the Resurrection

April 8, 2018 - Mount Olivet UMC
Year B, Easter 2
John 20:19-31

David Finnegan-Hosey - Christ on the Psych Ward

Joined by guest host Mike Stavlund, this episode features author David Finnegan-Hosey and his new book Christ on the Psych Ward.

The Underwhelming ‘Meh’ of Easter

The ending of The Gospel of Mark does not fit the new life, new hope feeling we enjoy each year as we use Easter to signal the return of new life in spring. On a day when we expect to feel the overwhelming presence of the risen Christ, the ending of Mark’s Gospel is entirely underwhelming.

God & Guns

Can the church play a role in making not only our communities safer but also in thinking theologically about violence, guns, and our calling to live as disciples of Jesus Christ?

Crackers & Grape J..., podcastsTeer HardyMarch 30, 2018God and Guns, Amy Butler, Crackers and Grape Juice, Gun Violence, TheologyComment

Jesus Is Back, Jack

Is resurrection synonymous with celebrating the spring? What should be preached on Easter Sunday? How does God show up? These questions and more on this episode of Strangely Warmed with guests Teer Hardy and Jason Micheli.

Dueling Parades

To challenge the empire, to be the counter-cultural voice, to put on a piece of political street theater, requires you to be willing to enjoy the carnival-like atmosphere while it lasts because if you challenge things enough if you push the empire enough the empire will push back

Rethinking Evangelism

The problem with attractional evangelism and ministry is that it requires you to out-do yourself week after week. Those who showed up for the giveaway, might stay because they've found God or discovered that Christ has always been present in their lives but if they came for the novelty of the car, and you don't have another novelty lined up, the emptiness of attractional evangelism will fall flat and the 51% increase experience will dwindle back to the norm until the next over the top outreach attempt.

Church, Leadership, Evangelism, Bad ChristianityTeer HardyMarch 13, 2018Evangelism, Attractional Ministry, GiveawayComment

Three Reasons Your Church NEEDS a Podcast

For churches that can barely update a website, starting a podcast can seem like a daunting task. Because podcasting requires an internet connection, the confusion factor seems to go from 0-100 instantly. But it can be manageable and even fun.

Lets Podcast TogetherTeer HardyMarch 12, 2018church leadership, Church Planting, PodcastComment

Obsessed With Growing Young

Andy Root thinks the church's obsession with growing young might be misguided. Joined by Rev. Drew Colby, Jason and I interviewed Dr. Andy Root of Luther Seminary and author of Faith Formation in a Secular Age: Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness on the latest episode of Crackers and Grape Juice.

Backsliding

Either way you slice it, our polarization has had a negative impact on the way we view the world and one another. Theologians have an opportunity to work towards the de-polarization by engaging ideas they would not normally engage.

Blogging, podcastsTeer HardyMarch 5, 2018podcast, backsliding, Tommie Marshell, polarizationComment

40 Years Ago...

I'm just tired unto death of this craziness. I'm tired of the vitriol, and I'm tired of cynicism wrapping itself in the American Flag and proclaiming individual rights are greater than the general welfare.

BloggingWill Thomas-ClappFebruary 21, 2018Gun Control, Enough is enough, now or neverComment

Trumping the United Methodist Church

Does the UMC need a Donald Trump to emerge, willing to disrupt the status quo? Can the UMC move beyond the debate of human sexuality, which is really a debate over power and money, and live into is mission of making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world?

A Sin By Any Other Name

Rev. Rob Lee announces his recently signed book deal exclusively with Crackers & Grape Juice. Rob opens up about the new role he finds himself in as a public theologian as well as what he has learned about race in America traveling and preaching at churches he once never dreamed of preaching in.

Crackers & Grape J..., podcastsTeer HardyFebruary 2, 2018Sin By Any Other Name, Crackers and Grape Juice, CGJ, Podcast, Rob LeeComment

Jesus Throws Out a Demon

Because there is so much going on in this story, and the writer of Mark wrote such a condensed account of the ministry of Jesus, and on top of that uses misdirection, we miss it. The people in the synagogue did not miss it. Yes, they were astounded by the spirit being cast aside but they knew what was going on. They saw something different happening.