Sermons at St. Andrew’s

May 10, 2026 | The Rev. Andrew Van Kirk

Erasing the Engraving to an Unknown God

In a culture that has effectively engraved "to an unknown God" onto both its public monuments and its private heart, we are nevertheless promised through the Holy Spirit that God is genuinely knowable. That knowing, however, is bound up with obedience — Jesus tells us to keep his commandments because "the company" coming to abide with us is the Spirit of truth.

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You’re Chosen in Love

Before we could ever earn it, prove it, or ruin it, God chose us in love – and invites us to live in the deep freedom and joy of already belonging.

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Grace Never Runs Out

God pours out grace upon grace through Christ, meeting us not with scarcity or judgment, but with mercy layered over mercy, even when we least expect it.

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When God Came Close

The miracle of Christmas is that God becomes small—entering our ordinary, messy lives with tender love, not from a distance, but with us, in vulnerability and grace.

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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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O Dayspring from On High

God meets us in the shadow, not with judgment but with tender mercy, guiding us gently – like dawn breaking – into hope, peace, and light.

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God the Stump Shooter (O Come Thou Branch of Jesse's Tree)

Like a stump sending up a new shoot, God brings life from what looks cut off or beyond hope. Just as Jesus emerged from the seemingly ended line of Jesse, God is at work in our stories, our politics, and even our mortality—not simply restoring the past, but creating something new, good, and surprising.