Coronablog — Brewing Theology with Teer Hardy

Everything Has Changed

The light of Christ shines into the darkness we have been living in since March 2020.

Coronablog, Devotional, Mount Olivet UMCTeer HardyDecember 25, 2021Christmas, Devotional, Coronablog, coronavirus, Mount Olivet, John 1:1-18Comment

Denying to Love

Seek First, Year B, Sermon, Mount Olivet UMC, CoronablogTeer HardySeptember 12, 2021Mark 8:27-38, discipleship, Year B, Proper 19, Seek First, Mount Olivet, Sermon, The WayComment

Back to School

God is with you in math or science class. God is with you during gym class and recess. God is with you on the bus or in the car.

Children, Church, CoronablogTeer HardyAugust 29, 2021Back to School, Blessing, Mount, Children's MessageComment

Episode 318 : Ryan Burge - The Nones, Myths about the Trump Voter, and the Shrinking Silver of Progressive Christianity

Graphs, charts, statistics, and Jesus

Crackers & Grape J..., Coronablog, podcastsTeer HardyAugust 13, 2021vaccine, COVID-19, coronavirus, podcast, Crackers and Grape Juice, CGJ, Ryan BurgeComment

Grumpy Old Men

Help us help Will and Tony stay on task.

Coronablog, Crackers & Grape J..., Will Willimon, podcastsTeer HardyJuly 22, 2021Comment

Sabbath is Resistance

A moment to pause in the beauty of God’s creation, to breathe in God’s life-giving Spirit, and a moment of peace in a world that seems hell-bent on turning away from peace every change it is given.

Mount Olivet UMC, Coronablog, DevotionalTeer HardyMay 20, 2021Exodus 20:8-11, Sabbath, Deuteronomy 5:12-15Comment

It May Be Dark Out There, But the Lord is With Us

Whatever you have been called to, the Lord will equip you. The Lord will not leave you in the darkness alone

Advent, CoronablogTeer HardyDecember 4, 2020Jeremiah 1:4-10, Devotional, Advent, Mount Olivet, DarknessComment

An All Saints Reflection

The greatest commandments, loving “the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength” and loving your neighbor is a little less daunting knowing that before we ever attempt to fulfill it, Christ first loved us.

Devotional, CoronablogTeer HardyOctober 29, 2020Mark 12:28-34, Coronablog, Mount Olivet, Devotional, All SaintsComment

The Saving Power of Politics

At a basic level (is anything basic when it comes to theology?), the saving power of the Grace of Christ is perhaps the one thing theologians and Christians around the world can actually agree one.

Politics, CoronablogTeer HardyOctober 7, 2020Coronablog, politics, TrumpComment

Searching for Words

It is difficult to put into words the anguish we feel for this amount of life that has been lost.

Coronablog, Devotional, Mount Olivet UMCTeer HardySeptember 23, 2020Psalm 69, Coronablog, COVID-19, Prayer, Lament, COVID, Mount Olivet, DevotionalComment

Grace is a Pumpkin Spice Latte in August

Grace comes to us in the ordinary - in bread and wine, and in water.

Coronablog, DevotionalTeer HardySeptember 2, 2020PSL, Pumpkin Spice, Devotional, Mount Olivet, Coronablog, coronavirus, John 1, Robert CaponComment

Come On Tomatoes

There are a lot of ways to spin my inability to effectively sustain plant growth but at the end of the day, I’d be doing what we do best in DC - spinning a positive tale on a negative reality.

Coronablog, Devotional, Mount Olivet UMCTeer HardyJuly 22, 2020Parables of Jesus, Matthew 13, Mount Olivet, Devotional, CoronablogComment

Enough

God offers us an exit ramp off this tortuous merry-go-round and onto a higher way of living in which we work and do and strive not as a way to save ourselves or prove our worth but as an expression of love, joy, God-given purpose and connection to something larger.

Solitude

Solitude as an outward spiritual discipline creates community by respecting it.

Coronablog, Devotional, Missional ChurchTeer HardyJuly 10, 2020Amanda Holmes, Coronablog, Solitude, Spriritual PracticesComment

Quarantunes

The quarantine playlist from Crackers & Grape Juice

Coronablog, Crackers & Grape J..., podcastsTeer HardyJuly 9, 2020CGJ, PodcastComment

Anger, Tears, and Grief

Yesterday morning was full of anger, tears, and questions. We moved through each of these until we got the root of Camden’s grief.

Out of Control

We allow worship of busyness (or control) to replace the enoughness given to us by Christ.

Coronablog, DevotionalTeer HardyJune 23, 2020Coronablog, coronavirus, Colossians 2, DevotionalComment

I Don't Know

Jesus Christ is present with us, freeing us from division, hate, and despair, and extending an invitation to step into his grace.

Coronablog, RacismTeer HardyJune 3, 2020George Floyd, Coronablog, Racism, Presence, Karl Barth, Howard ThurmanComment

Polishing Your Stones

The power of Christ’s Resurrection ensures that we are all, all of creation is held together, we are grounded in His Grace through the love of our Creator and the power of God’s Spirit.

Grounded, Coronablog, Mount Olivet UMC, SermonTeer HardyMay 10, 2020Year A, Easter 5, 1 Peter 2:2-10, Grounded, Mount Olivet, COVID, Sermon, PreachingComment

Mystical Body

Grab a ticket, pour yourself a drink, and let’s find our grounding while we’re the Mystical Body of Christ.