Sermons at St. Andrew’s
December 21, 2025 | The Rev. Andrew Van Kirk
Emmanuel: God-With-Us and
Us-With-God
God is not Alenuel (God-Against-Us), Tachteynuel (God-Under-Us), or "Menuel" (God-Away-From-Us), but Emmanuel (God-With-Us), with us in Christ through every aspect of existence from birth to death. Because He is fully "God-With-Us," He secures our eternal hope and identity as "Us-With-God."
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Don’t Homogenize Your Faith
God calls us to preserve the richness of our faith by resisting the temptation to dilute it into political or economic ideologies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Aluminum Pan Gospel
Jesus reveals that our deepest need is salvation from sin—not scarcity—and only he can truly save us.