Brewing Theology with Teer Hardy

Franchised Gospel

If we insist that we are the only ones in town, the only means by which the world can approach Jesus, then we should, as Jesus put it tie heavy objects around our necks and go for a swim or begin cutting off appendages.

Year B, Seek First, Sermon, Mount Olivet UMCTeer HardySeptember 27, 2021Year B, Mark 9:38-50, Seek First, Proper 21, Discip Comment

Denying to Love

Seek First, Year B, Sermon, Mount Olivet UMC, CoronablogTeer HardySeptember 12, 2021Mark 8:27-38, discipleship, Year B, Proper 19, Seek First, Mount Olivet, Sermon, The WayComment

You Can't Control It

No matter how hard David tried, no matter how hard we try we are unable to domesticate, to control, to keep at bay the movement and presence of God.

Settling Down

How might we enter the new space we find ourselves in with singing and dancing, and at the same time not become too causal with that which the church has been doing since Mary and Mary found the tomb to be empty?

Sermon, Mount Olivet UMC, Year B, People on the MoveTeer HardyJuly 12, 20212 Samuel 6, Year B, Proper 10, Samuel, Uzzah, Ark, People on the MoveComment

Family Ties

In his Capernaum campaign, Jesus took the first-century how-to adult handbook and threw it out the window. In one out-of-town trip with his buddies, Jesus overturned one of the backbones of social order.

Now, Tomorrow, Always

We are sustained through this very community, through being the body present to somebody - through word and sacrament, in the physical presence of Jesus Christ.

Borrowed Burro Messiah

The triumphal procession that was to begin this reordering of the world began two disciples sent to wheel and deal with a local donkey dealer. A humble way for the Savior of the world to take his reign.

Hope of the World | Hope Ascended, February 14, 2021

The good news is not that we must ascend up to God by our own good deeds or spiritual striving; the good news of the Gospel is that the one who met Moses in a burning bush and spoke through Elijah has come down to us in Jesus Christ and will come again.

Preaching Ash Wednesday with Fleming

Fleming’s thoughts and comments are just as relevant today as they were four years ago. In it, she talks about what she deems the “current preaching crisis,” the desire to appear prophetic, and the call to stand under the judgment of God.

Year B, podcasts, Strangely WarmedTeer HardyFebruary 11, 2021Ash wednesday, Year B, Fleming Rutledge, Preaching, PodcastComment

Following Hope

Jesus gave a simple instruction, but when the church gets that instruction wrong, the results are anything but miraculous or a sign that the Kingdom of God is at hand.

Baptized Into Hope

The Hope found in our baptism is an invitation to clothe ourselves in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Year B, Hope of the World, Sermon, Mount Olivet UMCTeer HardyJanuary 12, 2021Acts 19:1-7, Year B, Baptism of the Lord, Baptism, Mount Olivet, SermonComment

Preaching Christmas (From the Couch)

What does Karl Barth have to say about Christmas? How hard is it to preach/lead worship on Christmas Eve? Why should we give God all the good verbs?

Crackers & Grape J..., podcasts, Strangely Warmed, Year BTeer HardyDecember 23, 2020Year B, Christmas EveComment

What Are We Waiting For?

We do not know what guise Jesus will appear in, and so we find ourselves between two Advents – knowing Christ as come and that Christ promises to come again

Advent, Year B, Sermon, Mount Olivet UMCTeer HardyNovember 29, 2020Year B, Advent 1, Mark 13, Waiting, Fleming RutledgeComment

Unity Isn’t Uniformity

We can do the things Christ called his Church to do - feed the hungry, heal the sick, care for the least, search out the lost, proclaim God’s reign - and at the same time disagree without threatening further division and fracturing of Christ’s body.

Mount Olivet UMC, Sermon, Year BTeer HardyNovember 15, 2020Christ is King, Christ the King Sunday, Ephesians 4:1-6, Mount Olivet, Year B, Unity, UniformityComment

The One With the Sandwich

While we might want to think of ourselves as Joey saving Ross, more often than not we are Joey saving his sandwich