I recently gave another talk at my church. It’s always a nice feeling to be invited to speak a second time (the previous one is here).

This time I was talking about a little experiment I’ve been engaged in. I’ve been reading the New Testament letter to the Galatians in it’s entirety every day (well most days) for about 3 and half months. Part of the hope with doing such a thing was to put myself in the shoes of the first-century Galatians for whom this letter would be their only written document about what it means to follow Jesus. So it’s almost like this one letter was their entire New Testament.

Anyway, you can listen to it here. And I challenge you to find any other sermon on Galatians that features a Weird Al song! And I hope that I can be forgiven the blasphemy of comparing the Apostle Paul’s intellect to Weird Al’s.

One of the perks (or occupational hazards) of working for a church is that they might ask you to give the Sunday Morning sermon someday. That’s what happened to me and you can listen to the result:

How Can I Figure Out How Much to Trust Jesus?
(sermon outline)

This sermon contains a fair amount of the story of how I came to be a chaplain here at MIT.