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Jun 8, 2025

Sermon: The Patriarch – Calling on the Name of the Lord

Genesis 12.4-9: After God's call, Abraham obeys God and travels to Canaan. In seeing what he does, we see a key part of how one lives within a pagan culture. A key thing is to keep before us 'calling on the name of the LORD.' In the midst of life's troubles, it is very easy for the human soul to wander from the LORD, but it is only in the LORD where life and hope is found.

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Jun 8, 2025Sermon: The Patriarch – Calling on the Name of the Lord

Jun 8, 2025
Sermon: The Patriarch – Calling on the Name of the Lord

By: Pastor Ben Hulst
Series: Abraham: The Patriarch
Genesis 12.4-9: After God's call, Abraham obeys God and travels to Canaan. In seeing what he does, we see a key part of how one lives within a pagan culture. A key thing is to keep before us 'calling on the name of the LORD.' In the midst of life's troubles, it is very easy for the human soul to wander from the LORD, but it is only in the LORD where life and hope is found.
Jun 1, 2025Sermon: The Patriarch – Fount of Blessing

Jun 1, 2025
Sermon: The Patriarch – Fount of Blessing

By: Pastor Ben Hulst
Series: Abraham: The Patriarch
Genesis 12.1-9: God desires and plans for blessing for us and his world, but mankind pursues the path of curse. With Abraham, God speaks into the curse to offer a word of hope and life. He names us as his children and offers us an ever-expansive future of hope. In him, though the world might despise us, we become people of the name, or of renown in the heavenly kingdom.
May 25, 2025Sermon: The Patriarch – Eyes to See

May 25, 2025
Sermon: The Patriarch – Eyes to See

By: Pastor Ben Hulst
Series: Abraham: The Patriarch
Genesis 12.1-9: Vital to understanding Abraham's story is the concept of perception. The ability to see correctly is lost in Genesis 3 and it leads to chaos. But in Abraham, God seeks to teach mankind to see rightly with eyes focused on him.
May 18, 2025Sermon: The Patriarch – Who Determines Our Steps?

May 18, 2025
Sermon: The Patriarch – Who Determines Our Steps?

By: Pastor Ben Hulst
Series: Abraham: The Patriarch
Genesis 11.27-12.3: To get into Abraham's call he receives, we consider the cultural background of where he came from. As we understand the historical and cultural context, we can better understand the character of God's call upon him. What was Ur like, from where he was called? What was the world about at that time? What might it speak to us about our own situation?
Apr 27, 2025Sermon: Steadfast in the Wind and Waves

Apr 27, 2025
Sermon: Steadfast in the Wind and Waves

By: Pastor Ben Hulst
Series:
Ephesians 4.1-16: The resurrection serves as the solid ground beneath our feet in a world that brings us to be tossed and turned on chaotic waves. Christ is the Word made flesh and it is through him that we too can be those in whom the word becomes flesh as we engage the living God calls us to. It is the new life that Jesus gives us that we are called to pursue. May God strengthen us by his Spirit to live embodied lives of faith.
Apr 20, 2025Sermon: The Word that Bears Us to Eternity

Apr 20, 2025
Sermon: The Word that Bears Us to Eternity

By: Pastor Ben Hulst
Series:
I Peter 1.10-2.3: The events of Easter confirm that the word of the Lord endures forever, for the word of the world in condemnation of God to death did not hold. And with this knowledge of Christ that we've been given, everything has changed for us who believe this word. And it calls us to 'gird up the loins of our minds' to be ready for the fight before us. It is a battle for the true way - in right thinking to the true word and living that truth out in holy living. This leads us to eternity, for God's word is the one that will last and endure to all eternity.
Apr 13, 2025Sermon: The Word that Will Not Be Silenced

Apr 13, 2025
Sermon: The Word that Will Not Be Silenced

By: Pastor Ben Hulst
Series:
Luke 19.28-44: As Jesus enters Jerusalem to the praises of his disciples, an opposing voice rises - telling Jesus to get his disciples to be quiet. Jesus refuses and speaks of the 'stones crying out.' The word will not be denied, for it is the source of life and the God of life will win, even if the stones must cry out. Praise God!
Apr 6, 2025Sermon: The Word that Overcomes Evil

Apr 6, 2025
Sermon: The Word that Overcomes Evil

By: Pastor Ben Hulst
Series:
Luke 11.14-28: As we looked at how the Word forms and fills us to new life, the Word also confronts darkness and evil. As God works to foster life, the devil seeks to silence God's word and speak a deceitful one. Jesus, the Word made Flesh, is the stronger man that undoes the strong man Satan. We must continually rely upon him to protect us from the attacks of the devil.
Mar 30, 2025Sermon: The Word that Fills Us

Mar 30, 2025
Sermon: The Word that Fills Us

By: Pastor Ben Hulst
Series:
Ephesians 4.25-5.20: As last week, we talked about the Word as that which forms us, today we look at the Word as that which fills us to true life. In forming us, God installs the correct software with the purpose of filling us with his life to display to the world.
Mar 23, 2025Sermon: The Word that Forms Life

Mar 23, 2025
Sermon: The Word that Forms Life

By: Pastor Ben Hulst
Series:
Ephesians 4.17-5.20: We look at the Word as that which forms us to maturity as children of God. Outside of the true word of Christ, the false word of the world will lead to disintegration of our mind and soul, but in by way of the word of life that God speaks, we are brought to reintegration into the life of God. God speaks into us, "Let there be light" and we brought to new life.