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,…
We talk about the strange way that the Easter story is told in Mark, and how it maybe isn’t so strange after all. Sermon Scripture: Mark 16:1–8 When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on…
We consider Good Friday together and ask why it had to be this way – why the Cross? Sermon Scripture: Isaiah 52:13–53:12 Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted. As many were astonished at you— his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his…
We start our Holy Week series, the Heart, with Palm/Passion Sunday and the invitation to join Jesus this Holy Week as we consider what the “heart” of the Body of Christ is, the story of His suffering, death, and resurrection. Sermon Scripture: Mark 14 and 15
It’s Easter! And we’re talking about being Sinner/Saints and what a Resurrected Jesus has to do about this duality that we have in our lives. Sermon Text: Colossians 3:1-4 [1] If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. [2] Set…
We talk about the word Hosanna and how it engages us in the paradox of Holy Week, which is the same paradox of Sinner and Saint. Sermon Text: Matthew 26 and 27, the Passion according to Matthew The Plot to Kill Jesus [1] When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples, [2]…