Oct 23, 2022
Sermon: A King & Priest to Save Us
Hebrews 7.1-10: Our focus is on Jesus' identity as a priestly-king, one who brings external and internal salvation. In him, righteousness and peace are enacted within his kingdom and within our souls. He is the only one who can bring righteousness and peace in this way. He is the only hope for the world.
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  • Oct 23, 2022Sermon: A King & Priest to Save Us
    Oct 23, 2022
    Sermon: A King & Priest to Save Us
    Hebrews 7.1-10: Our focus is on Jesus' identity as a priestly-king, one who brings external and internal salvation. In him, righteousness and peace are enacted within his kingdom and within our souls. He is the only one who can bring righteousness and peace in this way. He is the only hope for the world.
  • Oct 16, 2022Sermon: A Mysterious Figure that Illumines
    Oct 16, 2022
    Sermon: A Mysterious Figure that Illumines
    Genesis 14: We introduce ourselves to the mysterious figure of Melchizedek. He plays an illuminating role in Abram's life and is a precursor to Christ. In his mystery, things make greater sense. He is a signal for Christ, the one in whom all mystery is fulfilled and illuminated that we might know life.
  • Oct 9, 2022Sermon: Seek Peace & Pursue It
    Oct 9, 2022
    Sermon: Seek Peace & Pursue It
    Psalm 34: As children of the coming Kingdom, we are called to be people who seek peace and pursue it. As we encounter a world bent on self-destruction, we are called to the priestly task of prayer - calling out for mercy and God's sovereignty to bring peace upon our warring world.
  • Oct 2, 2022Sermon: Anchored in the Storm
    Oct 2, 2022
    Sermon: Anchored in the Storm
    Hebrews 6.4-20: Though all around challenges present to our faith, we are encouraged to stay strong, to live faithfully, and be fruitful. All this not based on the foundation of our efforts and strength, but upon God's irrefutable promises toward us in Christ. In Christ, we have an anchor keeping us secure, an anchor held firm in the most secure place of all - the inner sanctum of the presence of God.
  • Sep 25, 2022Sermon: Heightening Our Diet
    Sep 25, 2022
    Sermon: Heightening Our Diet
    Hebrews 5.11-6.3: How is our spiritual diet? Are we still satisfied with "milk" or do we seek greater nourishment to the needs of our soul. This text rebukes us in our lethargy to the things of God. Let us humbly acknowledge our weakness and our spiritual fatigue and seek him. May his Spirit inspire, guide, and awaken us.
  • Sep 18, 2022Sermon: The Lowly High Priest
    Sep 18, 2022
    Sermon: The Lowly High Priest
    Hebrews 4.14-5.10: We long for a representative to bring our needs to the center of power, justice, and righteousness. Who will speak for us and who will bring back a word of mercy, guidance, and grace? We long for a faithful priest - an intermediary. We must look to Jesus.
  • Sep 11, 2022Sermon: The Generative & Penetrative Word
    Sep 11, 2022
    Sermon: The Generative & Penetrative Word
    Hebrews 4.12-16: If the word is sharper than any double-edged sword, it holds both a threat and hope. If we allow Christ and the Spirit to do their generative work on us, the word is a surgical instrument, opening our souls unhealth to healing, our incompleteness to wholeness. This is an initial threat, but we are called to trust the great surgeon, who alone knows how to heal and operate on the human soul. 
  • Sep 4, 2022Sermon: The Rest We Long For
    Sep 4, 2022
    Sermon: The Rest We Long For
    Hebrews 4.1-11: How do we find rest? Not merely for the night, but true rest where the incompleteness of our labors doesn't haunt us. How do we get to the end and have the ability to be at peace with what our life has been? Can it come through our own works, our own accomplishments? No. Only through the completeness of Jesus and his work. Through his work of faithful obedience, we are gifted eternal rest. And by grace, our insufficient work is completed, reconciled, and transformed to eternal beauty. But it is all about him, not us. To his glory and not to our own.
  • Aug 28, 2022Sermon: Soft Hearts of Belief
    Aug 28, 2022
    Sermon: Soft Hearts of Belief
    Hebrews 3.7-19: God speaks so that we might hear and thrive. The temptation is to not listen, to allow our hearts to be hardened. Our hearts become hard when we see the rewards of this life as more desirable than the rewards of eternity. It takes disciplined attention to God's grace, to his kingdom, to keep us on the path of faith. We must encourage each other in this so that none will give up on the path.
  • Aug 21, 2022Sermon: Jesus > Moses
    Aug 21, 2022
    Sermon: Jesus > Moses
    Hebrews 3.1-6: To better recognize the glory of Jesus, we need to recognize the glory of Moses. Within the biblical narrative, none is higher than Moses, except Jesus that is. The writer wants us to recognize more fully the heights of Jesus and being included in the house he is building. It is the house that Jesus built where all the glory, power, and victory is located.