Resurrection South Austin

Father Shawn McCain Tirres | November 08, 2026 Using a childhood memory of scrambling to look busy before his parents got home, Father Shawn unpacks Jesus' parable of the ten bridesmaids in Matthew 24-25. Believing Christ will come again isn't just a head-knowledge idea; it should reshape our checkbooks, our neighbors, and our priorities. He asks a searching question: what will you be caught doing...

Rachel Ambasing | November 02, 2026 Seminarian Rachel shares how moving from San Diego's mild "nothing weather" to Austin's extremes loosened her grip on ideals and opened her eyes to unexpected beauty. On All Saints' Sunday, she turns to the Beatitudes and asks what it means to be a peacemaker and a saint. She names the temptation to turn faith into a flawless performance and offers a reminder th...

Father Shawn McCain Tirres | October 25, 2026 Leviticus 19 gives us the command to love your neighbor as yourself, but it sits inside a vision of holiness that includes how we farm, pay workers, and share wealth. Through a story about his grandfather, who always ate last, Father Shawn invites us to leave something at the edge of our own fields. Generosity becomes a way to find God, find our neighb...

Father Shawn McCain Tirres | October 18, 2026 Teenagers often ask whether the 10 percent tithe comes before or after taxes, and it turns out to be a question with no easy answer. Father Shawn explores the trap the Pharisees and Herodians set for Jesus over paying taxes to Caesar, and how Jesus answers with brilliant wisdom about what belongs to God. The sermon invites us into God's gift economy, w...

Father Scott Madison | October 11, 2026 Father Scott Madison asks a simple question: what is your heart text, the Scripture you return to in joy or in loss? Through his own Galatians 3, his father's John 3:16, and his grandmother's fire-and-brimstone reading of Psalm 23, he shows the Good Shepherd as a God of abundance, not scarcity. Paired with Jesus' wedding banquet parable, the sermon says ever...

Father Shawn McCain Tirres | October 04, 2026 Drawing on Isaiah's song of the vineyard and Jesus' parable of the tenants, Father Shawn asks what God truly wants from a people entrusted with so much. Rather than pressure or guilt, he offers an invitation to ask God what to do with our money, and to become a church known for justice, mercy, and generosity in a broken world. --- We are a community of...

Father Scott Madison | September 27, 2026 A powerful reflection on the gap between our words and actions, sparked by a personal failure to stop and help when debris scattered across a highway. Through Jesus's parable of two sons, this sermon confronts our tendency to say yes while meaning no—and challenges us to respond to injustice in our own neighborhoods. The shooting of Wilber Rafael Garces Pe...

Father Shawn McCain Tirres | September 20, 2026 Father Shawn shares a confession about resenting his brothers' free college tuition after his own grueling hustle through school—and uses this honest moment to unpack Jesus's parable of the vineyard workers. This sermon confronts our tendency to keep score with God and others, revealing how envy poisons our ability to celebrate our neighbor's blessin...

Father Shawn McCain Tirres | September 13, 2026 We all keep mental ledgers of who owes us apologies, who disappointed us, who hurt us. When Peter asks Jesus how many times to forgive, Jesus doesn't just offer a bigger number—he refuses the entire framework of counting. Through the parable of the unforgiving servant, Father Shawn explores how forgiveness isn't just about releasing others from debt,...

Don Smith | September 06, 2026 A former church planter returns to the pulpit after 15 years to explore what it means to speak truth in love—not as heavenly hall monitors, but as fellow broken travelers on the road home. Drawing from Ezekiel's call to be sentinels, Matthew's teaching on confrontation, and Paul's wisdom on humility, this message weaves together personal stories of addiction and reco...

Father Shawn McCain Tirres | August 23, 2026 Father Shawn McCain Tirres reflects on the challenging story of the Canaanite woman and what it reveals about God's expanding circle of mercy. Drawing from Resurrection South Austin's own costly journey of crossing denominational boundaries for the sake of radical hospitality, he explores how Jesus continually breaks down the lines we draw around who be...

Father Shawn McCain Tirres | August 16, 2026 Have you ever been part of a church with amazing worship but overlooked injustice within its own walls? Or known someone passionate about justice but disconnected from prayer? Father Shawn explores Jesus's brilliant response to a trap question that reveals the inseparable nature of loving God and loving neighbor. This Rally Day sermon challenges us to m...

Rev. Canon Leyla King | August 09, 2026 When Jesus walks on water and calls Peter to come, Peter's sinking isn't a failure—it's faith in action. In a world filled with violence, division, and overwhelming chaos, we're invited not to conquer our fears but to step out into the storm anyway, knowing we'll need to reach for Jesus when we start to sink. Drawing on her experience as a Palestinian Americ...

Father Shawn McCain Tirres | August 02, 2026 In a world full of tables promising satisfaction but leaving us empty, there's one table that operates on a completely different economy. Father Shawn explores the contrast between Herod's table of scarcity and exploitation versus Jesus' table of abundance and grace. Drawing from the feeding of the 5,000, he challenges us to examine which economy we're...

Father Scott Madison | July 26, 2026 In this exploration of five parables from Matthew 13, we discover that God's kingdom is both hidden and near, expansive yet built on tiny acts of faith. Through images of mustard seeds, yeast, treasures, pearls, and fish, Jesus reveals that we are the beloved treasures God seeks, filled with love, grace, and mercy. The kingdom bursts forth when we tend to our f...

Father Shawn McCain Tirres | July 19, 2026 Using Jesus' parable of the wheat and weeds, Father Shawn challenges our compulsion to fix ourselves and others. Drawing from memories of his grandfather's farm, he explores why God tells us to stop sorting, stop controlling, and instead entrust ourselves to the divine Gardener who alone knows how to tend our souls without causing damage. This sermon offe...

Father Shawn McCain Tirres | July 12, 2026 Ever wonder if the small things you do actually make a difference? In a world that feels overwhelmingly broken, it's easy to believe our quiet acts of service, kindness, and faithfulness are too insignificant to matter. Through Jesus' parable of the sower, Father Shawn reveals how God works with reckless abandon and extravagant generosity—sowing seeds eve...

Father Shawn McCain Tieres | July 05, 2026 Father Shawn explores how we often size people up before knowing them—and how we do the same with God. Through Jesus' lament over a generation that rejected both John the Baptist's austerity and Jesus' celebration, we see a pattern: we prejudge God's messengers and miss what we desperately need. Yet even after our rejection, Jesus still offers rest to the...

Father Shawn McCain Tieres | June 28, 2026 We want God to show up spectacularly—in neon signs and dramatic reversals. But what if God is already at work in the quiet, humble acts of love we overlook? Father Shawn explores how the kingdom of God doesn't arrive in flashy ways, but through ordinary faithfulness: planting gardens in exile, bringing water to the thirsty, showing up when the work is har...

Rev. Janna Osborne | June 21, 2026 In a world that often feels foreign and strange, how do we recognize God's presence? Drawing from personal stories of grandfathers who modeled care, action, and hospitality, this sermon explores what it means to be shaped by faith across generations. When life challenges us in ways we don't like, we're called not just to do good works, but to boldly proclaim that...

Father Scott Madison | June 14, 2026 Father Scott explores the connection between Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem 'We Wear the Mask' and Jesus' commissioning of the disciples in Matthew 9-10. Drawing from his own experience as a Black man in America, Scott unpacks how Jesus calls us to do the difficult work of showing radical love that defies social norms—even when we face persecution. This sermon cha...

Father Shawn McCain Tieres | June 07, 2026 Father Shawn challenges us to examine whether our picture of God is too small, and how that limited view creates tables with too few chairs. Through Jesus' radical meal with tax collectors and sinners, we discover that our theology flows from our imagination of who God is. When we allow our understanding of God to expand beyond comfortable boundaries, we...

Rev. Janna Osborne | May 31, 2026 Rev. Janna Osborne tackles one of Christianity's most profound mysteries: the Holy Trinity. Rather than trying to solve the theological puzzle that consumed centuries of church debate, she invites us to see the Trinity as a divine dance—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit joined in an eternal circle of love, with all creation invited inside. This Trinity Sunday sermon ex...

Father Shawn McCain Tieres | May 24, 2026 What happens when God shows up in ways we didn't plan for, speaking to people we didn't expect, through channels we didn't approve? Using the image of a driverless car and the story of Pentecost, Father Shawn explores our deep need to control outcomes and manage the Spirit—and why the miracle of Pentecost wasn't uniformity, but God speaking to every person...

Father Shawn McCain Tieres | May 17, 2026 Have you ever stood in the place where something good used to be, staring at the sky, not quite ready to turn around and face what comes next? Father Shawn explores the disciples' fear of abandonment after Christ's ascension and the powerful truth that we are never alone. Through the stories of three beloved leaders being sent out from Resurrection South A...