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Practice Resurrection - Love

November 11, 2013 16:34 - 38 minutes - 30.7 MB

We return this to our Practice Resurrection series with Practice: Love. In this sermon Kyle examines Ephesians 3:14-21. We often use the word love but stop short of the Biblical definition of love. Love requires obedience, intimacy, submission, and is a processes that God calls us into with him. This kind of love compels up to serve, be discipled, extinguish hateful judgements, and enter into life with one another.

The Creation of Creativity, the Reason for Artists and the Consequence of Beauty

November 04, 2013 17:27 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MB

In this sermon by Missio’s Associate Pastor, Josh Rosenthal looks at how beauty and creativity are central to understanding the gospel. Our God creates out of the abundant overflow of love and joy that exists in the relationship between Father, Son, and Spirit. This has huge implications for how we both appreciate and create things of beauty, and ultimately how this points to our God.

The Mercy of Hell (pt 2)

October 28, 2013 17:38 - 57 minutes - 39.1 MB

In the second and final message from Josh Butler on The Mercy of Hell, we dive into hell as a location. The word Gehenna, which we translate into english as hell, is an actual place in scripture (the Valley of Hinnom). We see how hell is a place where we are given over to our idols, but our God calls us to his Holy City where sin cannot exist. This is the age-old story of the good king returning, liberating his people, and the evil is cast outside the city.

The Mercy of Hell (pt 1)

October 21, 2013 18:52 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MB

Josh Butler, Pastor of Global and Local Missions at Imago Dei Community in Portland, Ore, speaks on the topic of hell. This has been a topic the church has often shied away from, but Josh asks some hard questions and pressed into what scripture has to say. God is not on a mission to get us out of earth and into heaven or hell. God is on a mission to reconcile heaven and earth from the destructive power of hell.

Practice Resurrection - Peace

October 14, 2013 21:00 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MB

When we talk about peace, many of us have a grandiose idea of a conflict free world, without war and political disagreements. In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul says that peace comes through Jesus, and begins with each one of us. Peace is necessary in every relationship we have. It’s through the unifying work of Jesus in the church that we experience peace.

Practice Resurrection - Trust

October 07, 2013 20:42 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MB

Story is a powerful tool. It grabs us and gives us an avenue to relate to one another. But what happens when we try to write our own story or give over our story to impostors other than Jesus? In Ephesians 2:4-10, we see how God is writing our story; from Creation, to Fall to Redemption to Restoration, and what it means to enter into that story and submit its authorship to God.

Practice Resurrection - Receiving Mercy

September 30, 2013 21:11 - 38 minutes - 35 MB

In Ephesians 2:1-5, we are brought face to face with the result of who we choose to follow. We are either following God, or following the prince of the power of the air. There is no option of neutrality. But, God in his mercy loves you even when you are far away, and it is by grace you have been saved.

Practice Resurrection - Prayer

September 23, 2013 17:54 - 49 minutes - 45 MB

Prayer is the way we communicate with our God. Prayer is an active discussion with God about what He is doing around you. In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul shows us how being in tune with what God is doing around him breeds thanksgiving and response. Prayer is a transformative action because it aligns us with what God is already doing.

Walking by the Spirit

September 16, 2013 21:11 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MB

This week, Pete Kelley of Doxology in Corvallis, Oregon discusses the inner conflict of the desires of our flesh and the desires of the Spirit. Although our desires of the flesh may seem the strongest, it’s the desires of the Spirit that are the deepest for the Christ follower. How then do we follow the deepest desires of our heart?

Practice Resurrection - Adoption

September 09, 2013 23:20 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MB

This week we start a new series titled Practice Resurrection, and this message looks at what it means to practice adoption. In Ephesians we see that Paul calls us, as followers of Christ, adopted sons. This then shifts our whole worlds from being outsiders, uncared for, and alone, to the fullness of being an adopted child of God.

Leave - Crisis

September 03, 2013 20:28 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MB

Many times, crisis reveals our true nature and the things we worship the most. Other times, it’s just minor inconveniences that find us derailed and serving anything but Jesus. In this week’s message, we are challenged to look at why we get off track so easily, how not to settle for the small and how to keep our eyes on a bigger hope that is truly worthy of our worship.

Leave - Status

August 26, 2013 21:31 - 42 minutes - 39 MB

Kyle continues in our series entitled “Leave” with a conversation about status. Status is something that our culture, that we, strive for. We love independence, and doing things that create independence. We find ourselves, maybe subconsciously, asking, “What’s in this for me?” When we look at Jesus we get a different story. He viewed his God-attributes as something that he could let go of because of his deep love for humanity. He sought us, not his own ambition.

Leave - Origin

August 19, 2013 22:14 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MB

Kyle begins a new series entitled “Leave.” The purpose of this week’s sermon is to show the influence of family, culture, sub-culture and religion on our lives and how God constantly calls us to reassess those influences in light of his kingdom and authority. Abraham was called to leave all that was familiar to him, without any promises of what was in his future. He did, and nothing was the same again. God is still calling us to leave for the sake of the kingdom.

Generous - 2 Cor. 8

August 05, 2013 21:32 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MB

Howie Smith preaches out of 2 Corinthians 8 on the topic of generosity. Generosity is at the core of being a Jesus-followers; it's how we are to live. It's easy for us to never talk about money or what giving looks like, but Jesus talks about money, giving, poverty, and prosperity quite a lot. How does money changes us, challenge us, and how can generosity compel us to live more like Christ?

Love God, Love Neighbor: Church

July 22, 2013 20:14 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MB

Unity in the church may be the one of the most overlooked emphases of the New Testament writers. Everyone of them stress often how important it is for the Church to be united. The simple question is then, why do we overlook it? Why is it rarely if ever contained in a mission statement or website of a local church? How can we begin to take this call seriously? Who and where does it start? The answer is with us as individuals. We must start with self inspection and repentance rather than na...

Love God/Love Neighbor - Self

July 09, 2013 21:31 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MB

In this passage, Peter speaks to what holiness looks like for the follower of Christ. Our culture has a view of self that pushes self-actualization and self-worship. This passage unpacks the importance of an understanding that is God who changes us. We are called to be perfect as Christ is perfect, yet it is he who brings this radical transformation about within us. We are called to be obedient children of God who have been ransomed with a price and are now to live in holiness.

Love God/Love Neighbor - Who is my Neighbor?

June 24, 2013 21:01 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MB

The Parable of the Good Samaritan starts with the question of, “who is my neighbor?” Jesus then tells this short but profound story. In it Jesus exposes our sin of apathy and even hate towards others. The unlikely hero, the Samaritan, who would have been considered a total outsider to Jesus’ Jewish audience, is the one who does what is right. No one would have considered the man who is beaten and the Samaritan to be neighbors, yet Jesus uses this man to illustrate his point. This attacks the ...

Come Pray: Kingdom

May 28, 2013 17:11 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MB

In Act 2 Peter gives his first sermon where he shows from the scriptures that not only was Christ the promised Messiah, but his listeners where those who killed him. He gives a call to repentance and unpacks what life in the Kingdom of God looks like. Peter is speaking some difficult truths and is calling his listeners to reform. This is a life that is full of sacrifice, vulnerability, and being on mission. Yet we can only live in this place by the power of the Holy Spirit. In this Kingdom we...

Come Pray: Transformation

May 20, 2013 23:06 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MB

This Sunday was Pentecost where we celebrate the Holy Spirit and his coming. In Acts 2:1-13 we see the Holy Spirit come to his church as Jesus said he would. Jesus says that it is better that the Holy Spirit is with us because he will help us, convict us, and guide us. God has chosen to work through his Spirit to transform us as individual people and the world. The Holy Spirit is what we need most to be changed. He is key to this resurrected life.

Come Pray: Presence

May 13, 2013 22:16 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MB

Heather Thomas of Imago Dei Community preaches on prayer out of Luke 18:1-14. In this sermon we look at prayers that cry out to God in humility. These can be desperate pleas for help, for mercy, for hope. In these two parables we start by seeing an unjust judge giving a widow mercy. If an unjust judge will do this, how much more will our loving God take care of us? In the second parable, Jesus uses this story to both speak out again self-righteousness and show how much he values a heart that ...

Come Pray: Evangelism

May 09, 2013 15:33 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MB

This week in our Come Pray series, Kyle teaches on evangelism. This topic can be difficult for our culture and our community. We’ve often seen this abused, yet that doesn’t change God’s heart to see those he loves come to know him. If evangelism is sharing good news, this life changing news that calls all of creation into a deep love with God, why don’t we share it more readily? We must first believe that this is good news. In this call there is no condemnation. This call brings us into a lif...

Psalm 32

April 29, 2013 22:43 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MB

As we continue in our Come Pray series, Kyle preaches on repentance out of Psalm 32. Our culture doesn’t value repentance, and we often view repentance as a negative. Scripture makes it clear that we are guilty of sin and this is something we need to recognize, but we are freed from this shame. Repentance is a call to come back into right relationship with God.

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