Brewing Theology With Teer Hardy

Disarming Advent | Disarming Peace “God makes the Way” Isaiah 11:1-10 Matthew 3:1-12 December 7, 2025 Rev. Teer Hardy God works through vulnerability, that is, through what looks like weakness. The Scriptures are full...

Disarming Advent | Disarming Your Violence Isaiah 2:1-5 Advent 1 November 30, 2025 Rev. Teer Hardy Advent is a choice. A choice to step toward the mountain of the Lord instead of the fortress of fear. To unclench the...

Love God. Love Neighbor Repeat. Colossians 1:11-16 Luke 20:20-26 November 23, 2025 Rev. Teer Hardy Everything belongs to God. And, therefore, I am free. Free from fear. From the lie of scarcity. From the illusion that I...

The Big Relief | Relief from Captivity The Final Relief Luke 4:16-30 November 16, 2025 Rev. Teer Hardy Maybe the question isn’t whether we believe Jesus can set captives free.It’s whether we’ll stop acting like we’re...

The Big Relief | Relief from Productivity The Church That Forgot to Hustle Psalm 150 November 9, 2025 Rev. Teer Hardy Generosity is not productivity; it’s participation. It’s joining the divine rhythm that began when...

The Big Relief | Guilt Trip? There's Relief for Tha! Relief from Guilt John 10:11-18 October 12, 2025 Rev. Teer Hardy You have heard it in the voice that says, “If I can just feel terrible long enough, maybe I’ll prove...

The Big Relief | Relief from Control Luke 10:38-42 October 1, 2025 Rev. Teer Hardy You are not in charge of salvation—yours or anyone else’s. You are not in charge of the Kingdom of God. You are not in charge of Jesus...

The Big Relief | Relief from Rejection Luke 19:1-10 September 28, 2025 Rev. Teer Hardy Here’s the problem: we’re pretty good at defending our trees. We like the safe distance. Voyeurism through the news, doom-scrolling...

The Big Relief | Relief from Regret Romans 5:1-11 Luke 7:36-50 September 21, 2025 Rev. Teer Hardy Or as David Zahl says, “Forgiveness may be a miracle, but that doesn’t mean it’s unavailable.” In fact, in Christ, it is...

The Big Relief | Relief from Deserving When Grace Throws a Party Before You're Ready September 14, 2025 Luke 15:11-32 Rev. Teer Hardy The relief in this story is that the father also goes to see him. The father moves...

Choosing the Narrow Way | More Than a Quality Sermon “From soundbites to surrender” August 31, 2025 Matthew 7:24-29 Rev. Teer Hardy The Sermon on the Mount only makes sense if Jesus Christ really did conquer sin and...

Choosing the Narrow Way | Sunday Best, Counterfeit Faith “Why Jesus isn’t fooled by our religious résumés” August 24, 2025 Matthew 7:21-23 Rev. Teer Hardy And here is the Good News: The One who warns us is also the One...

Choosing the Narrow Way | The Golden Rule in a Good Friday World "The Rule We Can’t Keep—and the Love That Keeps Us" August 4, 2025 Matthew 7:12 Rev. Teer Hardy The gospel is not fairness. It is mercy. It is not “treat...

Choosing the Narrow Way | Knock, knock. Who’s there? Grace. July 27, 2025 Matthew 7:7-11 Rev. Teer Hardy Perhaps the best prayer we can offer today sounds like knuckles hitting the wood. The rhythm of our pleading. The...

Choosing the Narrow Way | A Log in Your Eye “Double Halos and Dirty Mirrors” July 13, 2025 Matthew 7:1-5 Rev. Teer Hardy The way is narrow because it asks something hard of us: to love before we correct, to confess...

Practicing Resurrection | More Than Enough July 7, 2025 Matthew 6:25-34 Rev. Teer Hardy So, if you are carrying anxiety this morning, not as an abstract idea but in tight shoulders and sleepless nights, here is the Good...

Practicing Resurrection | Drowning in Treasure “Jesus Isn’t Against Success. He’s Just Asking a Better Question.” June 29, 2025 Matthew 6:19-24 Third Sunday After Pentecost Rev. Teer Hardy Jesus is not mad at you for...

Practicing Resurrection | Drop the Mask. Wash Your Face. June 22, 2025 Matthew 6:16-18 Season After Pentecost Rev. Teer Hardy We’ve swapped out the mask of indifference for the mask of self-righteousness. We’ve dressed...

Practicing Resurrection | Folded, Bowed, and Closed. Matthew 6:5-15 June 15, 2025 Trinity Sunday Rev. Teer Hardy Because Christ is risen,Because Christ is ascended,Our prayers are not flung into the void. They are...

Resurrection Discipleship | This is Not About You (Thank God) “Pentecost, Inclusion, and the Quiet Power of Resurrection Generosity” June 8, 2025 Acts 2:1-21and Matthew 6:1-4 Pentecost Rev. Teer Hardy Pentecost was...

Resurrection Discipleship | Ascended, Not Avenging Christ’s Victory Over Death (And Over Our Addiction to Payback) June 1, 2025 Matthew 5:38-48 Seventh Sunday of Easter Rev. Teer Hardy None of us likes to admit it, but...

Resurrection Discipleship | God Doesn’t Believe You Either “Fake News Isn’t Just Out There. It’s in You” May 25, 2025 Matthew 5:33-37 Sixth Sunday of Easter Rev. Teer Hardy The fake news we are most tempted to believe...

Resurrection Discipleship | No One Is Disposable What Resurrection Says About Anger, Lust, and Divorce May 18, 2025 Matthew 5:21-32 Fifth Sunday of Easter Rev. Teer Hardy Whether Jesus is talking about anger, lust, or...

Resurrection Discipleship | Stay Salty Embodying the Resurrection in a World That Needs the Real Thing May 4, 2025 Matthew 5:13-16 Third Sunday of Easter Rev. Teer Hardy The resurrection empowers us to bring renewal and...

Resurrection Discipleship | Blessed are the Upside Down Resurrection, the Beatitudes, and the Audacity of God's Blessing April 27, 2025 Matthew 5:1-12 Second Sunday of Easter Rev. Teer Hardy Our risen Lord calls us to...