“The good news is that God is reordering your heart. You do not have to do it yourself.”
This is week two of The Good Life, four weeks in the Ten Commandments. Preached August 23, 2026, on Exodus 20:3-11, on the Sunday of the Blessing of the Backpacks as school opens across our communities. The sermon starts in an accidental quiet moment and asks where the mind goes when no one is steering it. The first commandments turn out to be less a fence around behavior than a question about love, and about whether whatever has climbed into first place can hold the weight we keep putting on it.
In the manuscript below:
Why a ship’s compass could be trustworthy the whole time and still drift a crew off course, and what finally corrected it.
How the first four commandments move from heart to hands to mouth to calendar, and what that order is guarding.
The Methodist name for the slow work a rhythm like Sabbath does in us, and why rest is one of its steadiest tools.
The reason you cannot out-discipline a disordered love, and what God commands instead of trying harder.
