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Sermons on Witness
We talk about when we need to bring bad news, and how Jesus really is good news. Sermon Scripture: Matthew 10:34–42 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father,…
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 a little bit about love, about the economy of love that is present with God and with us, and how we should think in terms of generosity instead of in terms of scarcity Sermon Scripture: Acts 11:1–18 Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had…
We talk about the Resurrection and our call to be witnesses to the work of the living Christ in our lives. Sermon Scripture: Acts 5:17–32 But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and filled with jealousy they arrested the apostles and put them…
We talk about “reproduction” and how it matters to us as the Body of Christ.
We continue our “Signs of Life” Easter series tackling the topic of sensitivity what it means to “feel Jesus” at work in our lives as His Baptized Body, considering the story of Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch and its meaning for us. Sermon Scripture: Acts 8:26–40 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip,…
We talk about the “wound” of living counterculturally as Jesus’ Body in the world in this 3rd week of Lent and our Lenten series “Wounded”. Sermon Scripture: John 2:13–22 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep…
We continue our “Wounded” series with talking about the wound of being misunderstood by the world around us. Sermon Scripture: Mark 8:27–38 And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” And they told him, “John…