Sermon: Out of Your Shell

“Out of Your Shell”

(August 25, 2013) We can be trapped by our fear and pain and the tapes we play in our heads, and so mired in our trapped-ness that even when the obstacles are removed, it is hard for us to break free. I believe that we are set free when we find the courage and faith and conviction that come from living as who we are called to be. Are you a flea… or a bird? (Jeremiah 1:4-10, Luke 13:10-17)

This sermon relies heavily on these two video clips. I played this clip about training fleas to leap only within the confines of their container before I began to preach, and then this clip from the television show “Lost” just before the end of the sermon.