Category: Sermons

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Acts 2:42-47 – Living in Community

In the early days of the church — the believers fresh from pentecost — they didn’t have massive instruction manuals and page-upon-page of literature of how God expected this new love-centric group of believers to behave. But He did give us the Holy Spirit, and He left the right people in place to train them up to become the very model that we look to today. Love, community, hope, help and nurturing. Let’s dive in today to what that looks like in their world, and how that applies to ours.

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1 Thessalonians 2:10-12 – Fathering Sunday.

While you may have an amazing human father, or someone that really, really hurt you — or maybe don’t even know your father. But God is our Heavenly Father. He is our hope in what a father should be. Integrity. Lacking selfish gain. Just authentic love. As the men in our church body guide, protect and love our members, we hope that you see God in their words and actions. And in that, we strive to point to God as the perfection of that concept.

Love. Trust. Integrity.

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Acts 2:1-4 – The Day of Pentecost

God is still moving. Still filling. Still making his precence known. We want to be filled by God in the same way, declaring how amazing our Father is. The church behaved like the unified church that God designed and wanted. It was HIS church, not belonging to any one group, person or sect. That’s what we want to be, too. Are you willing to step out in unpredictable outcomes to see what He is about to do?

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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.

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Ephesians 1:7-9

The Gift of Redemption

Paul’s purpose of writing to the Ephesians was to let them know of the wonderful gift of Redemption they had through Jesus.

Redemption is the core of the gospel message. Jesus’ blood paid our price of death and separation. If we accept this, we have redemption — to be redeemed, reclaimed, made whole, to be set free. Our past does NOT define us. We have been redeemed for his purpose and plan.

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Romans 6:8-11

Easter Sunday

Today we discuss the resurrection of Jesus Christ — more than the fact that he is risen, but the implications of it.

The resurection of Jesus from death means that we have a new purpose and identity. When we put our trust in his death, his resurection means that we are no longer who we were, but are made new. The old “self” is crucified with Christ. I encourage you to give yourself grace and see yourself through the same lense through which God sees you.