Sermons at St. Andrew’s

October 11, 2026 | The Rev. Andrew Van Kirk

Gifts from God

Before we ever give anything to God, God has already been giving to us, and the gifts we can name in one another’s stories ripple outward through ordinary people and point us toward the greatest gift, Jesus Christ.

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God’s Not Done Looking

God seeks us with relentless joy, meeting our lostness not with judgment but with love, and calling us to join him in the search for others—until every soul is found and rejoicing fills heaven.

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The Discipleship Disclaimer

Jesus invites us to count the cost of following him—not to scare us away, but to lead us toward true life.

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Choose the Lower Place

The way of Christ invites us to a humble posture—before God and others—where we let go of status-seeking and self-promotion, and instead receive grace as a gift and extend it to others freely.

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Your Soul is not a Machine

Even as artificial intelligence transforms the nature of work and education, Christians are called to care for the soul—their own and others’—because only humans, not machines, can love, worship, and do the works of the Lord.

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The Aluminum Pan Gospel

Jesus reveals that our deepest need is salvation from sin—not scarcity—and only he can truly save us.

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The Word of the LLM and the Word of God

God calls us to resist the temptation to trust in artificial intelligence more than in him, grounding our lives instead in prayer, worship, and genuine human relationships that reflect his love.