Our sermons are only a part of our Sunday morning, but they are an important part – they are the Word of God presented to us in our context so that we can repent, seek to amend our lives, and receive God’s grace through the power of the Gospel.
We start our “Listening for Hope” series on this Pentecost Sunday with the Sound of Rattling, talking about how the sound of the bones rattling and God’s command to Ezekiel give us hope for our current day. – Ezekiel 37: 1-14 | Psalm 139: 1-16 | Acts 2: 1-21 | John 15: 26-27; 16: 4-15
We finish off the Easter season talking about the confidence that we have as people who h;ave been saved by the Risen and Living Lord Jesus Christ . – Acts 1: 6-26 | Psalm 1 | 1 John 5: 9-15 | John 17: 11-19
We take some time to talk about our unity as Christians, which comes from the fact that we have all been forgiven by Christ, and how that forms in us hopes for deepening our unity with God and one another, and hopes for what the world will look like because of our united action and…
We continue to talk about the things that form our hope, this Sunday talking about how our Baptisms form abiding hope in our connection with God – Acts 8: 26-40 | Psalm 150 | 1 John 4 | John 15: 1-8
It’s Good Shepherd Sunday and we talk about our Good Shepherd who lays down His life for us- Acts 4: 1-12 | Psalm 23 | 1 John 3: 16-24 | John 10: 11-18
We continue to think about how the Cross shapes our hopes, especially in terms of how Jesus reveals what we will be. – Acts 3: 11-21 | Psalm 4 | 1 John 3: 1-7 | Luke 24: 36-49
We begin our “A Cross Shaped Hope” series by considering our hopes that relate to restoration. – Acts 4: 32-35 | Psalm 148 | 1 John 1: 1 to 2: 2 | John 20: 19-31
We celebrate the end of Holy Week and the beginning of the Easter season with an acknowledgement that Jesus changes our hopes to something beyond ourselves. – Isaiah 25: 6-9 | Psalm 16 | 1 Corinthians 15: 1-11 | Mark 16: 1-8
We continue our Holy Week by commemorating the death of Jesus on Good Friday with a service of shadows called Tenebrae.
We begin our Holy Week by considering how Jesus was much more than anyone could have hoped for from a King. – Zechariah 9: 9-12 | Psalm 118: 19-29 | Philippians 2: 5-11 | Mark 14: 1 – 15: 47