Challenging and thoughtful messages of hope and humor recorded live.
ExtraChristy - Podcast
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Challenging and thoughtful messages of hope and humor recorded live.
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1/15/2023
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April 23, 2026
Locked Room
What if doubt isn’t the opposite of faith — it’s the doorway to it? This week’s sermon takes a fresh look at Doubting Thomas, and asks a harder question: not why Thomas doubted, but where he was when everyone else was hiding. From mass incarceration to immigration fear, from social media echo chambers to the rooms we personally refuse to enter, we’re challenged to stop “doing research” and start doing a real search — one that puts us face to face with people whose scars we’d rather not see. Because if you’re 41 years old and you’re not covered in scars, maybe you haven’t been loving people hard enough. Come find out what it means to go make some more.
December 28, 2025
God Moves Into the Neighborhood
God Moves Into the Neighborhood God Moves Into the Neighborhood a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey DOWNLOAD A LIVE RECORDING Audio from worship at the 10:00 AM Worship Service December 28, 2025 at St Peter’s Episcopal Church, Carson City, Nevada edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions all errors are mine. John 1:1-18 Sermons also available free on iTunes Transcript on its way! Clip from To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), dir. Beeban Kidron. © Universal Pictures.
October 13, 2025
Disobeying Jesus
Disobeying Jesus Disobeying Jesus a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey DOWNLOAD A LIVE RECORDING Audio from worship at the 10:30 AM Worship Service October 12, 2025 at St John’s Presbyterian Church, Reno Nevada Complete Service on YouTube edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions all errors are mine. Luke 17-11-19 Sermons also available free on iTunes Let’s take a look at Luke. Luke. This is not the story about gratitude. But it’s okay. I understand if some of you, if you want to, pick an off-ramp. We’ve going on the express route to the Kingdom of God. Some of you may not be up for the trip. I’m okay with that. If you want to take an exit route right here, take an exit, go over, you know hang out at the truck stop for a while, whatever you want to do. Look at your phone. No problem. Just say what the sermon’s about. Sermon’s about gratitude. You’re fine. No worries. For the rest of you, the sermon is not about the one that came back in gratitude. The sermon’s about the nine, the nine who did what they were told. The nine who followed the great leader Jesus. The nine who followed the law. Yes, the law, Leviticus 14. Now my favorite Leviticus is 19, if you want to know. But 14’s okay. You know. But if you go, if you get Leviticus out, you know, go over into 19. Read that, too, because that’s the best. But Leviticus 14 talks about, if you are a leper, how to be clean. It is very entertaining reading. It involves two birds, one of which you kill. It involves shaving your entire body, head to toe, not once, but twice. It involves standing outside in the cold as sort of enforce home – it’s like a little light torture in the Bible to get clean. It takes about a week, a little over a week to eight days. It is the law. That is what the law says you do. Nine did it. Nine complied. Nine did what they were told to do. Jesus told them, “Go show yourself to the priest.” And that’s not just, “Hi, Priest. How you doing?” It’s that whole thing, Leviticus 14, light torture, standing outside getting shaved, killing a bird, other sacrifices. Bleah, the whole thing. Nine of them did it. Nine of them complied. Even though they didn’t have to. What a mind-blowing thing. You don’t have to follow the law and obey Jesus. What a mind-blowing thing. Because I submit to you this time in America is not the time where we need more sermons about gratitude. Gratitude’s fine. Gratitude’s a nice thing. Attitude of gratitude. I like the rhyme. But what Americans need now is consideration, reflection, and faith that might, just might lead you to disobey. Now all you that are upset, I told you, you could get off earlier. We have here a time where it says Jesus is okay with disobeying. He’s okay with breaking the law. He’s okay with not following scripture. And that wasn’t the Old Testament back then, that was The Testament. That was Bible. And Jesus is okay with that. In fact, not only is he okay, He asked where the other nine were. How come only one disobeyed me? How come only one broke the law? Where are the other nine? Wonder if Jesus is saying that now? Where is everybody? Faith makes you well. Not following the law, not even doing what the leader said. Faith makes you well. He doesn’t condemn the nine that followed the law and did what they were told. I mean, come on. I mean, they’re doing what they’re supposed to do. Come on. He seems to be okay with being inclusive, with being okay with diversity, among responses. And he seems to be okay with that half-breed immigrant that shouldn’t be there, not following the law, but still having faith and still doing the right thing. Now, when we as Samaritans, we just think about, oh, Good Samaritan, teddy bears and rainbows and unicorns. We like the Samaritan. No, no, no. That was the cursed. That was a putdown. That was telling them they were half-breed unfaithful heretics that should not – good people do not talk to, that you do not even walk through their territory. Did you see it was in between the places that a good Jew did not go. He was illegal. Wasn’t supposed to be there. And Jesus praises him. Yow. Christy, did you come this week so that we’d be happy when Pat comes next week? I told Pat, “Don’t worry, buddy, they’ll be happy to see you.” He goes, “Thanks, Christy.” But let’s go back, back into time, to a simpler, lovelier time, back to the time of the ‘80s with Reagan in the White House. Oh, what a wonderful time. I want to tell you about not that people, but remember back then, back then the Russians shot down a Korean airliner. Boom, out of the sky, killing everybody. Remember, you can look it up, the families brought on the boat, the children crying for the father. Waves. It was a tense time. It was a worrisome time. What are the Russians going to do next? What are we going to do in response? There’s a film, a documentary, it’s on YouTube, “The Man Who Saved the World.” And no, it is not about Jesus. “The Man Who Saved the World” is about Stanislav Petrov and his visit to the United States 40 years after the ‘80s. On September 26th, 1983, the computers in Serpukhov-15 bunker outside of Moscow, which housed the command center for the Soviet Early Warning Satellite System, reported U.S. intercontinental ballistic missiles were heading toward the Soviet Union. One, then another, then another, then another, then another. Five nuclear missiles were detected coming toward the Soviet Union. Stanislav Petrov was the duty officer. It was the protocol. It was the law. It was a duty. It was a patriotic thing to carry that on up to the command center, to call headquarters and say, “We are being attacked by the United States. They have launched nuclear missiles. Our satellites have reported. We checked the computer. The computers are right. They did not have visual confirmation because of the weather conditions. But the computer is saying yes. There’s nuclear warheads headed to you.” According to the book, according to what’s called “The War Diary,” he is to call the headquarters. He is to call the headquarters and tell them what has happened so that they can respond in kind. There are 11,000 nuclear warheads ready to go, to blow up the United States. Make Hiroshima and Nagasaki a birthday candle. This is what Stanislav said 40 years later. “In the general headquarters all they have left to do is press a button. I fully understood that I would not be corrected if I reported it. No one would dare correct me. They would agree with me, and that would be it. It’s always easier to agree.” We’re here today because Stanislav did not report the attack. He broke the law. He ruined his career. He lost his family. But he has no regrets. It was a fluke. It was a computer failure. It was weather, a weird weather thing. There are satellite orbits. There’s a whole Wikipedia page about it. But Stanislav didn’t know that. He disobeyed. He had faith that the United States wouldn’t do that. And he also knew that someone had to stop the chain of events into violence and into destruction and into ruin and into chaos. And he knew that he was the one to stand up and say no. No, we’re not going to destroy the world. I’m breaking the law. I’m ruining my career. My family is not going to support me. I’m going to be estranged from all our friends. But I will not obey. I will not destroy. I will not harm innocents. I will not attack the enemies like I’m told. It’s always easier to agree. Thank god Stanislav Petrov decided not to take the easy way, but the hard and faithful way. His faith has made us well. Amen.
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