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Dec 1, 2024
Sermon: Whatever Is Pure
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, 2024
    Sermon: Whatever Is Pure
    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.
  • Nov 28, 2024Thanksgiving Meditation: Mindful of Us?
    Nov 28, 2024
    Thanksgiving Meditation: Mindful of Us?
    Psalm 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, 2024
    Sermon: Whatever Is Right
    Philippians 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, 2024
    Sermon: Whatever Is Noble
    Philippians 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, 2024
    Sermon: Whatever Is True
    Philippians 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.
  • Oct 27, 2024Sermon: Think On These Things
    Oct 27, 2024
    Sermon: Think On These Things
    Philippians 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 13, 2024Sermon: Looking Toward Resurrection
    Oct 13, 2024
    Sermon: Looking Toward Resurrection
    In 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, 2024
    Sermon: The Opened Floodgates of Heaven – Part II
    II 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.
  • Sep 29, 2024Sermon: The Opened Floodgates of Heaven – Part 1
    Sep 29, 2024
    Sermon: The Opened Floodgates of Heaven – Part 1
    II Kings 6.24-7.2: This is Part 1 in this quite disturbing yet fascinating story of the Aramean siege of Samaria. The story presents a story of seemingly complete hopelessness and the darkest despair that might be experienced here on earth. And yet from it, a word of hope emerges - a miracle of unbelievable proportions.
  • Sep 22, 2024Sermon: A Buoyant Faith
    Sep 22, 2024
    Sermon: A Buoyant Faith
    II Kings 6.1-7: Iron does not float, unless by the hand of God. As Elisha brings the axhead to float, in the same way does God lift his people from the depths.