We continue our “Valued” series on discipleship by considering the singleminded discipleship that we are called to while considering the singleminded salvation that Jesus won for us. Sermon Scripture: Luke 9:51–62 When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. And he sent messengers ahead…
We continue our Call and Response series by looking at the call to discipleship and how we respond to God’s call by becoming little Matthiases ourselves. Sermon Scripture: Acts 1:12–26 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away. And when they had entered, they…
We talk about ownership and how we own the forgiveness of our sin, our vocations, and our place in the Kingdom of God. Sermon Scripture: Luke 5:1–11 On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and he saw…
We finish up not only our “Communion of Saints” series but the entire “We are the Body” annual focus with a repeated Gospel reading from Mark where we talk about being God’s household, and how being in the house is good news. Sermon Scripture: Mark 13:24–37 “But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will…
We count down to the 2nd to last Sunday of the Church year and start looking beyond our own lives to heaven and the Resurrection by asking ourselves some tough questions about our expectations for the afterlife and what God promises us. Sermon Text: Mark 13:1–13 And as he came out of the temple, one of…
In the second sermon in our “Communion of Saints” series about the 3rd article of the Creed and the Holy Spirit’s work in the Church – we talk about All Saints Day and comforting and our mourning with our experience of the beatitudes. Sermon Scripture: Matthew 5:1–12 Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain,…
We end our “In One Body” series by talking about the armor of God in Ephesians 6, and end talking about something that most people seem to miss in the reading. Sermon Scripture: Ephesians 6:10–20 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that…
We continue our “In One Body” series by talking about a reading from Ephesians that is considered offensive to many people, but we dive into it and look at what it means for us to be Christians, husbands, wives, and single persons. Sermon Scripture: Ephesians 5:22–33 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.…
Today we talked about wisdom and advice, and how God’s best piece of advice isn’t advice at all, but is the wisdom of the Cross that says “you are forgiven”. Sermon Scripture: Ephesians 5:6–21 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of…
We talk about what it means to be a part of the Body by talking about how it is like theft when we don’t function as our place in the Body. Sermon Scripture: Ephesians 4:17–32 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in…