Faces of Our Faith: Onesimus | Philemon 1 | 8.23.26

What does it mean to be held accountable — not just to a rule, but to a community you trust? In this week’s sermon from our Faces of Our Faith series, Pastor Chad walks through the entire book of Philemon, Paul’s brief, tender, and pointed letter written on behalf of Onesimus, an enslaved man returning to the household he fled. Drawing on the shopping cart theory and the hard history of how American Presbyterians read this same letter to opposite conclusions during the Civil War, this sermon ...