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.
Before Christendom is our Sunday morning adult education series right now. We are studying the writings that were not considered Scripture but still were around in the early part of the Christian movement. Today we take a look at one heretical work (the Gospel of Judas) as well as two apologists (Clement of Alexandria and…
We celebrate Easter Sunday today talking about Jesus’ vocation of Prophet and how Christianity is a future oriented faith. Sermon Scripture: Luke 24:1–12 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb,…
We talk about Jesus’ kingship and what it means for us to confess Him as our King. Sermon Scripture: Philippians 2:5–9 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself,…
“Before Christendom” is our Sunday morning Christian education topic currently. In it, we explore the writings of Christians (and opponents of Christianity) from 100 to 350 AD. This week we talked about three writings from around 170 AD: The Infancy Gospel of James, the heretical writing of Marcion, and the Acts of Peter.
We talk about risk. We are called by God to risk our lives because He risked His life (and lost it!) on us. Sermon Scripture: Luke 20:9–18 And he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and went into another country for a long…
“Before Christendom” is a series of our Sunday morning education time. Today we talked about three people/writings from the mid 100’s AD: the Apocalypse of Peter, Polycarp, and Ignatius of Antioch.
Today we continue our series of early Christian writings looking at some things written right around 100 AD: the histories of Josephus, the Epistle of Barnabas, and the Shepherd of Hermas.
We begin a new Bible study time looking at writings that came largely after the writing of the New Testament but before the “legalization” of Christianity. Today we do some introductions and look at the 1st Letter of Clement, the heretical gnostic Gospel of Thomas, and the document known as the Didache.
We talk about the prodigal son and what God won’t let us talk about with Him. Sermon Scripture: Luke 15:11–32 And he said, “There was a man who had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided…
We talk about how repentance is God’s repair of our souls. Sermon Series: Luke 13:1–9 There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans,…