Oct 1, 2023
Sermon: Philippians 4.4-9
Philippians 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?
WatchNotesDownloadDateTitle
  • Oct 1, 2023Sermon: Philippians 4.4-9
    Oct 1, 2023
    Sermon: Philippians 4.4-9
    Philippians 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, 2023
    Sermon: The Spirit-Ripened Person: Joy
    Psalm 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
    Sep 17, 2023
    Sermon: The Spirit-Ripened Person: Love
    Galatians 5.13-26: To grow in the fruit of the Spirit, we need to stay in step with the Spirit. We put ourselves in the context of the Spirit's testimony. This will grow our love as we are continuously exposed to God and his character and action in Scripture and in our lives. A life of love is a summary of freedom.
  • Sep 10, 2023Sermon: The Spirit-Led Path
    Sep 10, 2023
    Sermon: The Spirit-Led Path
    Psalm 1: We begin a series on the fruit of the Spirit from Galatians 5 as we consider Psalm 1 as an Old Testament parallel passage. We will be considering what it means to be a person of substance who can stand with character, with disciplined passion for good, and an ability to be a blessing to the world. This is something that is vitally needed today. This is our call.
  • Sep 3, 2023Sermon: An Inheritance of Prime Real Estate
    Sep 3, 2023
    Sermon: An Inheritance of Prime Real Estate
    Psalm 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, 2023
    Sermon: John’s Subversive Ministry
    Matthew 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
    Aug 20, 2023
    Sermon: John the Martyr
    Matthew 13.53-14.13: John, the greatest of the prophets up until Christ, finds an end similar to other prophets that came before him. But like the other true prophets, his words do not disappear when he is dead. True prophets' words do not 'fall to the ground', but they continue to speak truth and call the darkness out into the light. The main words that stand are his testimony of Jesus, who is the prophet of prophets and who will undo all the powers that seek to destroy the righteous and just prophetic voice.
  • Aug 13, 2023Sermon: Getting Our Expectations Aligned
    Aug 13, 2023
    Sermon: Getting Our Expectations Aligned
    Luke 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.
  • Aug 6, 2023Sermon: Look! The Lamb of God! Part 2
    Aug 6, 2023
    Sermon: Look! The Lamb of God! Part 2
    John 1.19-39: In calling Jesus, the Lamb of God, John is presenting both an apocalyptic view of Jesus and a redemptive view. Would you stand behind a Lamb for protection against the beasts of this world? Yet, it is the Lamb that will overcome as he removes sin from the world and brings forth the goodness of God's kingdom against all evil.
  • Jul 30, 2023Sermon: Look! The Lamb of God! Part 1
    Jul 30, 2023
    Sermon: Look! The Lamb of God! Part 1
    John 1.6-8, 19-34: John comes in the wilderness to signal both the coming disintegration of the known Jewish world and the recreation through the coming Messiah. He calls all as individuals to ready themselves, to set themselves up for renewal, reorientation, and recreation. Themes of creation, of water, and of Spirit circle all around as John points our eyes to Jesus. "Look," he says, "not at me, but at Him!" Who is Him? The Lamb of God, the Word made flesh, the Messiah, Jesus.