Category: May

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1 Samuel 1:11-20 – Hannah’s Surrender

Our greatest act of worship is often giving back to God the very thing we worked hardest to get. Hannah prayed earnestly and deeply for Samuel to be born. His name even means “God heard me.” And today we see that Hannah did as she promised, yet again exercising her faith in God and facing the unknown as she sent Samuel to serve in the temple.

We may not need to send our kids away to exercise faith, but how are we exercising our faith day-to-day and showing God what is truly important in our hearts? Let’s look at that.

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2 Kings 4:1-7 – God Uses What We Have

A woman who was a wife of one of the prophets of God found herself a widow. And in her day, this meant that she and her family would very likely become destitute. She owed debts in her husband’s name. She had this deep financial need, and came to Elisha for how to resolve her need.

This woman may have had a need, but that didn’t mean her faith was void. In fact, she had incredible faith. We see it on display through this entire story. Let’s look at her story to see her faith, and to see how God responds to her when she brings to him all that she has, and even jars borrowed from friends to contain all that God is about to — literally — pour out for her in more than she will be able to contain.

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Psalm 19:1,7-9 – The Scientific Reliability of Scripture

Do you think Science and Religion can’t work together? God didn’t design us to just blindly nod and follow. He gave us inquisitive minds.

We shouldn’t fear discussions of science in our church. He wants us to understand our world and see Him in it. He has given us so many ways to see his hand at work, and it is up to us to praise him for that. Let’s dig in to how God works in our world, and let’s praise Him for how good his creation is, created for us.

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Isaiah 46:9-11

The Prophetic Reliability of Scripture

Today, we’re going to look at how God makes us promises. Some may refer to this as prophecy, but from the eternal perspective of God, it’s just a statement of fact.

It is simply God saying “I am going to do this” much like we would say “I am going to the store” or “I am going to eat breakfast” except with much more certainty. Today, let’s explore some of the ways that God promises us about our own lives.

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Proverbs 31

The Strong, Godly Woman

Proverbs 31 talks about the rarity and importance of a virtuous, godly woman. On Mothering Sunday, we wanted to take a moment to focus on those women that made the difference in our lives.

Thank you to the mothers and adopted moms — those that adopted us, or those that we adopted as motherly figures in our own lives — to show us how to be strong, confident, loving people of God. This sermon is all about how important you are to us. We thank you for taking good care of your sphere of influence to let God help shape us into who we are. And as for us, how well will we take care of our sphere of influence such that future generations can say the same about us?

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2 Timothy 3:14-17

The Historical Reliability of the Word

This week we look at this book we call “The Bible”.

One of the core phrases that we want you to ask yourself: Do we really believe that what we believe is really real?

This is a fundamental question that Timothy was asking, and we wanted to look at the history of scripture and take a look at this “historical book” in conjunction with other historical books that are taken as fact.

Can we really take The Bible as fact like that? Let’s chat about it here.