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Dec 1, 2024
Sermon: Whatever Is Pure
By: Pastor Ben Hulst
Series: Think on These Things
Luke 1.26-38: As we go through Advent, we're tying in the remaining virtues of Philippians 4.8 to a character in the Christmas story. As we consider what is pure, we turn to Mary, the mother of our Lord as her example of purity exemplified in her willing service to the Lord.
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- Dec 1, 2024Sermon: Whatever Is Pure
Dec 1, 2024Sermon: Whatever Is PureBy: Pastor Ben HulstSeries: Think on These ThingsLuke 1.26-38: As we go through Advent, we're tying in the remaining virtues of Philippians 4.8 to a character in the Christmas story. As we consider what is pure, we turn to Mary, the mother of our Lord as her example of purity exemplified in her willing service to the Lord.
- Nov 28, 2024Thanksgiving Meditation: Mindful of Us?
Nov 28, 2024Thanksgiving Meditation: Mindful of Us?By: Pastor Ben HulstSeries: Think on These ThingsPsalm 8: The foundation of our thanksgiving is that God is mindful of us. Even in the places of nothing, we have a God who has not abandoned. From that nothing, the Spirit hovers and recreates life within us. Let us give thanks!
- Nov 24, 2024Sermon: Whatever Is Right
Nov 24, 2024Sermon: Whatever Is RightBy: Pastor Ben HulstSeries: Think on These ThingsPhilippians 4.8-9: It is easy to catalog the problems in the world and in our own lives. The harder thing is to focus our minds around the ideal of what is ultimately right and begin moving toward that with the strength of Christ. We need to assess what is wrong, but can only find peace and movement forward if we focus on the right, which is founded first of all in Jesus Christ.
- Nov 17, 2024Sermon: Whatever Is Noble
Nov 17, 2024Sermon: Whatever Is NobleBy: Pastor Ben HulstSeries: Think on These ThingsPhilippians 4.8-9: Noble refers to a characteristic of something that exhibits within itself a higher order. Nobility speaks to higher principles of power, of benevolence, of sovereignty. To think on what is noble is to draw ourselves upward toward higher things than our mind normally might. These leads to Christ and Christ's reintegration of our whole selves in sanctification and eternal life.
- Nov 10, 2024Sermon: Whatever Is True
Nov 10, 2024Sermon: Whatever Is TrueBy: Pastor Ben HulstSeries: Think on These ThingsPhilippians 4.8-9: To live in the peace of Christ comes with thinking on what is true, which begins with living within Jesus Christ as 'the truth.' Truth first of all is not an intellectual pursuit, but a relational one with the one who embodies truth. To think on truth is to think on Christ and what identity our connection with him means.
- Nov 3, 2024Sermon: Being Good Citizens
Nov 3, 2024Sermon: Being Good CitizensBy: Jasper HallPhilippians 3: We look at what the Apostle Paul teaches about our citizenship and where our focus in life should be. In a world that is striving to gain this world, we as Christians live so as to gain the heavenly kingdom.
- Oct 27, 2024Sermon: Think On These Things
Oct 27, 2024Sermon: Think On These ThingsBy: Pastor Ben HulstSeries: Think on These ThingsPhilippians 4.4-9: We start a series on Paul's instruction to 'Think on such things.' The spiritual battle is often within the mind, of having our minds transformed to the patterns of Christ rather than the patterns of this world. The call is to maturity, to allow our minds and souls to live up to the resurrected body that is promised to us in eternity.
- Oct 20, 2024Sermon: Pressing On
Oct 20, 2024Sermon: Pressing OnBy: Jasper HallPhilippians 3.1-16: The life of faith is one of continuous focus on the end of our faith. In the challenges of daily life, we place before us the hope of our salvation. We follow the example of Paul to live by way of the power and promises of Christ.
- Oct 13, 2024Sermon: Looking Toward Resurrection
Oct 13, 2024Sermon: Looking Toward ResurrectionBy: Pastor Ben HulstSeries: Elisha the ProphetIn the monotonous pattern of the rise and fall of the kings, the stories of Elijah and Elisha offer a change of pace - a pace of hope against worldly decay. As we consider the last stories of Elisha today, we see that even in death, Elisha speaks a word of power, a word of resurrection that is anticipated in Jesus Christ.
- Oct 6, 2024Sermon: The Opened Floodgates of Heaven – Part II
Oct 6, 2024Sermon: The Opened Floodgates of Heaven – Part IIBy: Pastor Ben HulstSeries: Elisha the ProphetII Kings 6.24-7.20: In this second part of this text, we look at the conclusion. We see an enchanted victory, one not gained by way of military strategy or strength, but by the mysterious hand of God. Lepers lead the victory train and through them the windows of heaven are opened to give the people relief. As a faithful prophet with a good word, Elisha foreshadows the coming of Jesus Christ, who is the gift from the windows of heaven that frees us and nourishes us to salvation.
