Oct 15, 2023
Sermon: The Spirit-Ripened Person: Kindness
Series: Trees of Fruitful Abundance
Titus 3.1-8: Kindness is a somewhat simple concept. Be kind is to be of benevolent approach to the other, looking for good of them. It is a loving and patient approach that moves beyond self-seeking. It is a fruit of the Spirit that opposes the spirit of this world that is bent on self-centered advantage. We live kindness because God was kind to us in Christ, having mercy upon us to bestow love we didn't deserve. Be kind.
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- Oct 15, 2023Sermon: The Spirit-Ripened Person: Kindness
Oct 15, 2023Sermon: The Spirit-Ripened Person: KindnessSeries: Trees of Fruitful AbundanceTitus 3.1-8: Kindness is a somewhat simple concept. Be kind is to be of benevolent approach to the other, looking for good of them. It is a loving and patient approach that moves beyond self-seeking. It is a fruit of the Spirit that opposes the spirit of this world that is bent on self-centered advantage. We live kindness because God was kind to us in Christ, having mercy upon us to bestow love we didn't deserve. Be kind.
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- Oct 1, 2023Sermon: Philippians 4.4-9
Oct 1, 2023Sermon: Philippians 4.4-9By: Pastor Ben HulstSeries: Trees of Fruitful AbundancePhilippians 4.4-9: We long for peace, but it is very difficult to find. So much challenges our peace and we often fail to be peacemakers ourselves. Peace is not natural, but the Spirit gives us a supernatural peace. How do we grow in is? What must we be aware of?
- Sep 24, 2023Sermon: The Spirit-Ripened Person: Joy
Sep 24, 2023Sermon: The Spirit-Ripened Person: JoyBy: Pastor Ben HulstSeries: Trees of Fruitful AbundancePsalm 126, I Peter 1.3-9: We long for a deep joy, a joy that lasts and that raises our spirit to a strength that overwhelms our sufferings. This joy is from the Lord. We cannot conjure it up via alternate means, but must gain it from the source, God himself. He offers an everlasting joy that fulfills all our deepest longings and hopes.
- Sep 17, 2023Sermon: The Spirit-Ripened Person: Love
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- Sep 10, 2023Sermon: The Spirit-Led Path
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- Sep 3, 2023Sermon: An Inheritance of Prime Real Estate
Sep 3, 2023Sermon: An Inheritance of Prime Real EstateBy: Pastor Ben HulstPsalm 16: "Keep me safe" is a simple, yet deep prayer of our hearts. Life is filled with threats that trigger our feelings of insecurity and of fear. How do we stay steady in the midst of it all? David leads us to recognize the confidence and contentment we can have as we fix our eyes on the Lord. He will not abandon us to decay, but will lead us to an eternal inheritance through Jesus.
- Aug 27, 2023Sermon: John’s Subversive Ministry
Aug 27, 2023Sermon: John’s Subversive MinistryBy: Pastor Ben HulstSeries: John the BaptizerMatthew 21.23-32: John and Jesus' ministry is about exposing the darkness and exposing it with the light. To overcome the darkness is to set up God's kingdom, where no injustice reigns and where forgiveness and hope is found. To have hope in this world and the next, we must look to Jesus, for it is upon his gift of grace that we find our hope.
- Aug 20, 2023Sermon: John the Martyr
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- Aug 13, 2023Sermon: Getting Our Expectations Aligned
Aug 13, 2023Sermon: Getting Our Expectations AlignedBy: Pastor Ben HulstSeries: John the BaptizerLuke 7.18-35: In the midst of prison, John the Baptist has a moment of doubt about Jesus' ministry. He is stuck and hopes to get unstuck, but Jesus calls him to trust in his work and to hold on no matter what might come. John will never make it out of prison, but he clings to Jesus' identity as the Messiah. In times of stuckness, we may expect God to act - he might and he might not - but no matter our present stuckness, the surety of everlasting freedom is ours to hold out hope for - a sure hope.
