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Nov 3, 2024
Sermon: Being Good Citizens
By: Jasper Hall
Philippians 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.
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- 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 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.
- Jul 7, 2024Sermon: Surrounded with Songs of Deliverance
Jul 7, 2024Sermon: Surrounded with Songs of DeliveranceBy: Pastor Ben HulstPsalm 32: As we seek relief in the Lord, may we confess to him so that we might find life covered in his grace. God will surround us with songs of deliverance that offer freedom and joy.
- Jun 30, 2024Sermon: The Comfort of God’s Face
Jun 30, 2024Sermon: The Comfort of God’s FaceBy: Pastor Ben HulstNumbers 6.22-27: The face of God is key concept in Scripture to understand. With the priestly blessing of Numbers 6, God seeks to instill within Old Testament Israel and us today a new identity in God's grace, love, and attention. These familiar words are spoken over God's people to shape us and form us according to the pattern of God. God has turned his face toward us in Christ and we can trust his gaze upon us, for it is how we come to know him and ourselves in him.
- Jun 23, 2024Sermon: The Baptismal Life
Jun 23, 2024Sermon: The Baptismal LifeBy: Pastor Ben HulstII Corinthians 3-4: As we celebrate a baptism today, some reflections on what it means to live the baptismal life - to have Jesus' death within us so that his new life may emerge in us as well. The baptismal life is a cruciform life - a life patterned by Jesus himself. It is the path to all that is true and real and good.
- Jun 9, 2024Sermon: Seek His Presence
Jun 9, 2024Sermon: Seek His PresenceBy: Jasper HallPsalm 116: In moments of trial and struggle, our best turn is to the Lord to return to rest. He is the soother of souls, the one who guides us to hope in the midst of trial.
- Apr 28, 2024Sermon: He Gives More Grace
Apr 28, 2024Sermon: He Gives More GraceBy: Scott JohnsonJames 4.6-10: Scott Johnson, director of the Seward Seafarers' Mission came to lead us in God's word and give report on the ministry. God gives more grace as challenges mount. Our call is to recognize the grace he gives, revel in it, and stay committed to his voice as he leads us through life even with challenges and hardships.
- Apr 7, 2024Sermon: The Soul’s GPS
Apr 7, 2024Sermon: The Soul’s GPSBy: Pastor Ben HulstPsalm 84: Life is a journey, but ultimately defined by setting the journey's correct destination. In life, simply the joy of the journey is meaningless without the right end. This psalm guides us to the proper end to desire and also the means to endure the journey.
- Mar 31, 2024Sermon: “Truth is Stranger than Fiction”
Mar 31, 2024Sermon: “Truth is Stranger than Fiction”By: Pastor Ben HulstMatthew 27.62-28.15: The resurrection of Jesus is not an earthly imagined reality, but one that must be brought to us from heaven above. But, it also calls for us to believe heaven's witness, that gets passed onto the women, and then the disciples, and then the world. By believing this 'strange' truth, our lives become reoriented around what is real and lasting. In the hardship of this life and its letdowns, the resurrection reorients us around hope, light, and life evermore.
- Mar 24, 2024Sermon: The Trial
Mar 24, 2024Sermon: The TrialBy: Pastor Ben HulstMatthew 26.57-27.26: We have a longing for a true Judge deep in our hearts. Feelings of injustice well up within us when we notice something off. But as the true Judge came before us, the collective of humanity tried him unjustly and sentenced him to death. But Jesus accepts the unjust trial in order to establish justice into eternity. And in order to face the last judgment, we can have comfort if we are found in him as those who believe and are covered in his righteousness.
