Jordan Rimmer Sermons

I take a look at the families of the Christmas story- Zechariah and Elizabeth with John the Baptist and Mary and Joseph with Jesus. Through them I reflect on the struggles that we often feel in our families and relationships during the holidays. Maybe this gives us insight into what it means that Christ brings peace.

This sermon starts my 2018 Advent sermon series. Here I rework a sermon from a few years ago to talk about the importance of Advent and why I think it is so bad that we are losing it.

I take a look at what the image of a Yoke entails and use the words of Jesus to describe the essence of grace.

This is my stewardship Sunday sermon. I try to change the conversation about what it means that we are stewards.

In this sermon given for Reformation Sunday 2018, I take a look at my churches history, especially focused on how we are reformed, Presbyterian, and Celtic. I take a look at Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox, and our Celtic roots.

This sermon was delivered for Veteran's Day in 2018. It was a build up to a special communion experience using my father's used field communion kits.

This is a keynote I gave at a conference recently. It is an introduction to my ideas about being a Story Pastor. Enjoy.

This sermon series is last sermon in The Way series. I take a look at the last week of Jesus' earthly life to consider waht kind of savior Jesus is and what it means to follow in the Way of Jesus.

This sermon series is part of a 6 week emphasis at Northminster which includes personal reading, Sunday school at all levels, and sermons. The series follows along the book The Way by Adam Hamilton. In this sermon, I look at the Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well. I preach the last 3/4 of my sermon from a well that I had made.

This sermon series is part of a 6 week emphasis at Northminster which includes personal reading, Sunday school at all levels, and sermons. The series follows along the book The Way by Adam Hamilton. In this sermon, I look at the Jesus calming two storms on the Sea of Galilee and what that means for storms in our lives today.

This sermon series is part of a 6 week emphasis at Northminster which includes personal reading, Sunday school at all levels, and sermons. The series follows along the book The Way by Adam Hamilton. In this sermon, I look at the teaching ministry of Jesus, especially at the most important theme--the Kingdom of God.

This sermon series is part of a 6 week emphasis at Northminster which includes personal reading, Sunday school at all levels, and sermons. The series follows along the book The Way by Adam Hamilton. In this sermon, I look at the healing ministry of Jesus, particlarly the healing of the mand that was lowered throught he roof to Jesus.

This sermon series is part of a 6 week emphasis at Northminster which includes personal reading, Sunday school at all levels, and sermons. The series follows along the book The Way by Adam Hamilton. In this sermon, I take a look at the baptism and temptation of Jesus and reflect on what a 1st century Jew might see in these stories.

This sermon is from kickoff Sunday where Sunday school begins for the new year. In this sermon, I take a look at what it means to know God and how important the mind is in our faith. I then look at the history and development of the doctrine of the Trinity and use that to consider how we go about doing theology today. I realize that description makes this sermon sound nerdy, but the point was to show the importance of exercising our mind not for our mind's sake but for our heart's sake.

In this sermon I look at the call of Samuel and especially at the idea of "tingling ears." I then ponder how we hear, discern, and follow God's leading in our own lives.

This is the final sermon in my 4-Chapter Gospel series. I must say this has been a very rewarding sermon for me. It has pushed my theology and my way of explaining the gospel, and it seems to have helped others do the same. In this final chapter, I look at how it is not enough for Jesus to die on the cross for our sins and take us to heaven. The story requires the restoration and consummation of all things.

After a recap, I look at the redemption chapter. While we often say that Jesus died on the cross for our sins, I show that the story is so much bigger. It is not just our sins that have to be redeemed, but the whole world must be redeemed. Further, it is not just the death of Jesus that is saving, but his life, teachings, miracles, healings, resurrection, and ascension that all play part in the salvation, salving, or salvaging work of Christ.

In this sermon, I recap the 4-chapter gospel and my main points about creation. Then I look at the Fall, and how humanity (and creation with them) has missed the mark and fallen short of God's glory. This impacts our lives every day.

In this sermon, I follow up my introduction to the 4-chapter gospel by looking at creation. I emphasize that everything is God's, everything is good, that we order and fill in the image of God, and we rest becasue we are not God.

Here I begin a sermon series on what has been called the 4-chapter gospel. It is a model of talking aobut the grand narrative of the Bible and our faith as Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Restoration. Many Christians, unfortunately, only have a small understanding of 2 of the chapters. We need a robust and full picture of what the good news really is.