I delivered this sermon as an assignment for Exegesis of Acts with Rev. Jeremy Williams, Ph.D. at Brite Divinity School during the Spring Semester of 2023. When I was a child, I thought like a child. I was introduced to the Christian faith by a Church that believed that fear was the greatest tool for evangelism. That threats of eternal torment in hellfire ordered by God at the final judgment was the reason that we should repent and be baptized. My Jesus was a small Jesus wh

I believe in God the creator of the universe, who is the eternal wellspring of love and the source of everything good in creation. The one, true, sovereign, and holy God freely chooses to be in loving relationship with us. Our great comfort in life is that we belong to the almighty God, we are assured that God’s grace and eternal redemption are unconditional. I believe in Jesus Christ’s redeeming work: He is the fount of salvation for our broken and hurting world. Fully God

A Winding Path to Calling People sometimes assume that those in ministry have followed a straight and steady path of faith. My own journey has been anything but direct. Looking back, I can see that God has been at work through every season—sometimes clearly, sometimes quietly—but always faithfully. Early Glimpses of Faith I was raised in a family that was nominally Christian, though faith was not something we regularly practiced at home. My first meaningful exposure to Chri