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Salvation Belongs to the Lord
May 15, 2022 20:06 - 33.7 MBIn this sermon, we looked at how Jonah's psalm of thanksgiving in Jonah 2 declares that the miracle of salvation belongs to the Lord. Jonah begins by summarizing his experience of salvation and indicating that God is a good God who hears when His people cry out to Him for help. After reaching a place of complete desperation and despair, Jonah is finally awakened to see how the obstacles that God used to stop him from running were actually good gifts meant to lead him back to the Lord's prese...
You Must Dwell as Mine
May 08, 2022 05:39 - 43.5 MBIn this Mother's Day sermon, we looked at God's hope for moms who are shackled by the guilt of feeling like they aren't enough. In the story of Hosea, we get a beautiful picture of how God meets all of us in our failures and inadequacies. Unlike the critical voice in our heads or the harsh judgement we feel from the world, God meets us in our failure with a gentle invitation to let Him guide us to a place where He provides everything we need and restores our relationship. When we see ourselv...
The Prevailing Love of God
May 01, 2022 05:39 - 35.2 MBIn the second sermon of our Jonah series, we looked at how God displayed His sovereign power over creation in order to display His prevailing love for sinners. In a moment of desperation in the middle of a storm, the sailors with Jonah cast lots to determine why the storm was occurring. God's sovereign hand guided the lots to fall on Jonah, revealing his disobedience in running from the Lord to be the cause of the storm. In his guilt and shame, Jonah offered himself as a sacrifice for the sa...
God’s Kindness in the Storm
April 24, 2022 05:39 - 42.2 MBIn this sermon, we kicked off the Jonah series by looking at the power of shame and the power of God's kindness in the storm found in Jonah 1:1-6. The story of Jonah opens with God's calling for Jonah to take the message of repentance to the gentiles in Assyria. Within the first 3 verses, Jonah has already disobeyed God to protect his own comfort and run from God's presence in an attempt to avoid the shame he feels. To keep His plan of redemption on track, God caused a dangerous, life-threat...
The Victory of Jesus
April 17, 2022 05:39In this final sermon of the Genesis series, we looked at how the resurrection of Jesus restored all that was broken by the Fall. In Genesis 3:14-24, God tells the serpent, Adam, and Eve that, from that point onward, everything that He had created for good would now be broken. In Romans 8, Paul describes the impact of Adam and Eve's decision, connecting our individual suffering to the futility and suffering that all of creation has been experiencing since the Fall. Paul and other Biblical aut...
All is Now Broken
April 10, 2022 05:39In this sermon, we looked at how Adam and Eve's disobedience introduced brokenness into God's story and produced a need for creation to be redeemed. In Genesis 3, we find Satan masquerading as a serpent, twisting God’s truth into a lie to convince Adam and Eve that they are missing out on something good. When Adam and Eve believe the lie and disobey God, all that God had created for good becomes broken and fallen from His glory. Created for relationship, Adam and Eve are no longer able to wa...
The Knowledge of Good and Evil
April 03, 2022 05:39 - 37.9 MBIn this sermon, we looked at God’s purpose for the Law in Genesis 2 so that we can better understand the purpose of God’s Law in our lives today. After placing Adam in the Garden, God gave Adam a Law to not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This Law was meant to keep Adam and Eve in the knowledge of good and protect them from the knowledge of evil. For us today, the Law give us the knowledge of what is good by revealing the character of God and foreshadowing the future rea...
Not Good to Be Alone
March 27, 2022 05:39 - 39.1 MBIn this sermon, we continued the Genesis series by looking at how God created man and woman in His image as relational beings. In Genesis 2, God declares that it is not good for Adam to be by Himself. This doesn't mean that Adam is able to be relational if he wants to; this means that Adam was designed to exist within perpetual intimate relationship. To address this need in Adam's life, God creates Eve as a helper. Before Eve is created, Adam spends time with the animals God had already made...
Stewards of the Garden
March 20, 2022 05:39 - 39.6 MBIn this sermon, we looked in Genesis 1 and 2 at God's design for work and rest. As God told mankind to be fruitful and multiply, He was commissioning us to multiply and fill the kingdom with His image bearers. We were created to be small reflections of His Kingship in the world. God worked for six days and then He rested. We were created to bear this image in the world through our working and resting. Work wasn't created to be a burden and rest wasn't created as a means of temporary recovery...
Image Bearers
March 13, 2022 05:39 - 37.1 MBIn this sermon, we looked at what it means to be created in the image of God. In Genesis 1:26-31, God created mankind with the explicit purpose of bearing His image in the world. God created us like Him in that He gave us minds with which to think, reason, and make decisions. He created us like Him by giving us hearts with a capacity for relationship and a soul that will exist for eternity. God created us like Him in that He gave us the capacity to work and create, bearing His image as sub-c...
The Glory of God in Creation
March 06, 2022 05:39 - 43 MBIn this sermon, we looked at the function and purpose of God's creation. In Genesis, 1:1-25, we saw that all matter, space, and time has been created by God and exists under His rule and reign in order to reveal and glorify Him. God created the world with designed rhythms and divine purpose that are clearly seen in creation. Romans 1 declares that God made His invisible attributes visible through His creation. The immeasurable nature and incomprehensible complexity of the universe bear testi...
The Everyday Mission of the Church
February 27, 2022 05:40 - 37.8 MBIn our final sermon of The Dawn of the Church series, we looked at the everyday mission of the Church. As seen in Acts 2:41-47, the first Christians had an immense joy in Jesus that gave them a passionate love for God and a compassionate love for their neighbors. This immense joy fueled a courageous response to persecution and suffering as well as a deep desire to care for the poor and discarded. Even though the number of Christians was relatively low in these early days, they quickly caught...
The Heart of Biblical Community
February 20, 2022 05:40 - 37 minutes - 34 MBIn this sermon, we looked at the heart of Biblical community. In 1 Corinthians 12, we see that Christian relationships are more than a working partnership for doing ministry; we are called to bear with one another, boasting in our weakness and exposing our neediness to one another. Fear of rejection is one of the most painful things a person can experience because the desire to belong is hardwired into who we are. The Gospel calls and empowers us to take the risk. The Gospel declares that we...
The Rhythm of Biblical Community
February 13, 2022 05:39 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBIn today's sermon, we took a deeper look into the Gospel rhythms of everyday life in the early Church. Acts 2:42-47 captures a beautiful and challenging picture of the rhythms necessary to living life with one another in Biblical community. At the dawn of the Church, the believers were devoted to spending time together on a regular basis. They worshipped together weekly and spent time in one another's homes on various days throughout the week. They were able to meet each other's needs becaus...
The Devotion of the Church - Part 4: Communion
February 06, 2022 05:40 - 34.6 MBIn this sermon, we continued The Dawn of the Church sermon series by looking at the early Church's devotion to Communion. In Mark 14, Jesus reveals the full meaning of the Passover meal to His disciples and transitions the Passover meal into the Communion meal we practice today. In the Passover meal, we see that the promises of Exodus 6:6-7 are fulfilled in Jesus. As we take Communion together, we remember and celebrate everything the Passover meal symbolized: Only Jesus can rescue us from o...
The Devotion of the Church - Part 3: Prayer
January 30, 2022 05:39 - 37.6 MBIn this sermon, we continued to look at the early Church's devotion described in Acts 2. This week, we looked at these early Christians' deep devotion to praying together as they passed along what Jesus taught His disciples about prayer. In Luke 11, the disciples asked Jesus how they should pray. He gave them an example prayer before teaching them about the heart behind prayer. Through this passage, we learn that prayer isn't about making transactions between us and God; prayer is a way for ...
The Devotion of the Church - Part 2: The Fellowship
January 23, 2022 05:40 - 36.2 MBIn this sermon, we continued our The Dawn of the Church series by taking a look at the early Church's deep devotion to their fellowship with one another. We learned that, as believers, our fellowship with Jesus is made visible through our fellowship with one another. To be part of the fellowship of Jesus implies that we are in a partnership with one another in the mission of Jesus as we share our lives in both suffering and blessing. Living as the fellowship of Jesus also includes giving ge...
The Devotion of the Church - Part 1: The Apostles' Teaching
January 16, 2022 05:39 - 31.3 MBWith this sermon, we began the first of four weeks looking at the devotion of the early Church to the Apostles' teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread, and prayer found in Acts 2:42. This week, we focused on the Church's devotion to the Apostles' teaching. This heartfelt dedication was born out of belief in the message of the Church, found in Christ Jesus. As we devote ourselves, both personally and corporately, to the powerful message of the Gospel, we are able to experience true life in H...
The Message of the Church
January 09, 2022 05:40 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MBFor this second week of The Dawn of the Church series, we looked in Acts 2:22-41 at the first sermon of the Church. In this passage, Peter uses the Scriptures to boldly preach that Jesus is the Messiah who was proven by miracles and signs, predicted by the Prophets, delivered up according to the plan and foreknowledge of God, crucified, killed, and raised up by God. Upon hearing his words, the people listening are deeply convicted and ask Peter what to do. Peter’s answer is simple: repent an...
The Power of the Church
January 02, 2022 05:40 - 43.4 MBWith this sermon, we launched The Dawn of the Church: Acts 1-2 series. We looked at Acts 2:1-21, when God uses fallible humans to establish His infallible Church by sending His Spirit to empower the Church and accomplish works that would otherwise be impossible for His people. This significant event marks the dawn of the Church and reveals that the true power of the Church is found in the Holy Spirit of God. God has given the Holy Spirit to the Church to empower believers to deliver the mess...
The Church and the Next Generation
December 26, 2021 05:39 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBIn this sermon, we looked at the importance of the Church investing in the next generation. In Deuteronomy 6, Moses challenges the Israelites to not only be a people who follow and honor God but to also pass on this charge to their children. In the roughly 936 weeks between a child’s birth and high-school graduation, the Church has the responsibility and privilege to join with parents in raising up kids to know and follow God. This means intentionally investing in kids and students, leading ...
Met with Gladness
December 19, 2021 05:39 - 30.1 MBIn this sermon, we looked at the surprising and glorious angelic announcement of the birth of Jesus in Luke 2:8-21. The angels appear to shepherds watching their flocks at night and proclaim that the Savior, Messiah, and Lord has been born! The joy of heaven overflows into the appearance of an angelic multitude giving glory to God and praising Him for His favor toward mankind. After traveling to see Jesus with their own eyes, the shepherds tell others about the angelic announcement of this n...
The Loneliness of Christmas
December 12, 2021 05:39 - 39.8 MBIn this sermon, we looked at Mary and Joseph's experience of the first Christmas. In Matthew and Luke's accounts of the nativity, we see that Mary and Joseph faced many difficult situations that caused them deep loneliness. We also learned how God gave us the feeling of loneliness to remind us that it’s not good to be alone; we were created to be deeply connected to God and to others. Loneliness allows us to know when that connection is missing and drives us toward real intimacy with God and...
Mary's Fear
December 05, 2021 05:39 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBIn this sermon, we looked in Luke 1:26-50 at Mary's response to Gabriel's announcement that she was about to become pregnant with the Messiah. When Mary first encounters the angel, she is stricken with fear. Like many of us, she tries to calm her own fears by attempting to control the situation. Instead of giving into Mary's demand for understanding, Gabriel responds to Mary's troubled heart by letting her know that God is bigger than her fear and that He is going to overshadow her with His ...
Elizabeth's Sadness
November 28, 2021 05:39 - 35.6 MBIn this sermon, we looked at the story of Zechariah and his wife, Elizabeth. Both were considered righteous before God, yet they lived with deep sadness at never having the child they longed for. The sadness they felt wasn’t a result of personal sin, but the overarching brokenness of this world. It reminds us that even those who are in Christ still have hopes and desires that may never be realized in this life. We see Elizabeth take her sadness and burden to the Lord in prayer while faithful...
Follow Me
November 21, 2021 05:39 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBIn this sermon, we looked at how John ended his Gospel with Jesus' invitation to Peter and John to follow Him and trust Him with the outcomes of their life stories. In this closing scene, Peter asks Jesus what the outcome of John’s life will be and Jesus responds by making it clear that He alone will be the author of John's story. Then Jesus says, “Follow me,” inviting Peter to surrender his life and trust in Him. At the end of his Gospel, John says that there aren't enough books in the worl...
Feed My Sheep
November 14, 2021 05:39 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBIn this sermon, we looked at how Jesus forgave and restored Peter to his calling as one of Jesus' disciples. In John 21:15-19, Jesus makes Himself known, for the third time since His resurrection, to seven of the disciples on the shore the Sea of Galilee. After a miraculous catch of fish and a gracious meal with the disciples, Jesus addresses Peter in a way that brings to light how Peter denied Jesus three times. Through a series of three questions, one for each of Peter's denials, Jesus dra...
Take and Eat
November 07, 2021 05:39 - 37.7 MBIn this sermon, we looked at how Jesus made Himself known to His disciples at the Sea of Galilee. The disciples were still recovering from the emotionally tumultuous series of events surrounding Jesus' life, death, and resurrection and were now exhausted and discouraged from fishing all night with nothing to show for their efforts. Jesus meets them in their discouragement and exhaustion by miraculously providing for them what they couldn't provide for themselves. This resurrection appearance...
Life in His Name
October 31, 2021 05:39 - 33.6 MBIn this sermon, we looked at John's statement about why he wrote down his account of Jesus' life, ministry, death, and resurrection. John tells us that he selected some of Jesus' miracles to reveal to his readers the identity of Jesus in the hope that we would know Jesus to be the promised Messiah and the Son of God. Earlier in his Gospel, John tells us about how he came to fully believe in Jesus when he saw the empty tomb. It’s John's desire that we, too, would come to believe in Jesus and ...
We Have Seen the Lord
October 24, 2021 05:39 - 31 MBIn this sermon, we looked at Jesus' resurrection appearance in John 20:24-29. The week after the resurrection, rumors and threats were being perpetuated by the Pharisees, which made believing in the resurrection not only difficult but also dangerous. As the disciples hide in fear, the others tell Thomas that they have seen Jesus but Thomas says that he won’t believe unless he can touch Jesus’ physical body. Eight days after the resurrection, Jesus appears again to the disciples and, this tim...
I Am Sending You
October 17, 2021 05:39 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBIn this sermon, we looked at how Jesus made Himself known to the disciples after the resurrection. In John 20:19-23, Jesus miraculously passes through the locked doors of the upper room in order to be with the disciples. Finding them in fear and turmoil, Jesus shows them His wounds and invites them into the peace of His presence. As Jesus turns the disciples’ fear into gladness and their chaos into peace, He empowers them with the Holy Spirit to go out into the broken world with His message ...
The Resurrection (2021)
October 10, 2021 05:40 - 40.9 MBIn this sermon, we looked at the eternal significance of the resurrection of Jesus. In John 20:1-18, we see Mary Magdalene go to Jesus' tomb on the third day following His death. She didn’t go to see if He had resurrected but to make sure He had been properly buried. Upon seeing the empty tomb, she thought that the tragedy of Jesus’ death was now followed by the additional tragedy of His body being stolen. She quickly went to get Peter and John, who ran into the tomb to see for themselves. J...
The Burial of Jesus
October 03, 2021 05:39 - 36 MBIn this sermon, we looked at how the details of Jesus' burial reveal the depth of His trust in the Father. With more than 90 references to Jesus' relationship with God the Father, John's Gospel account helps us to see how Jesus completely entrusted Himself into the hands of His Father in His darkest hour. In order for Jesus to qualify as our Messiah, He had to obey the law perfectly in life andin death. John19:38-42 reminds us that Jesus laid down His life, fully trusting that His Father wou...
The Scripture is Fulfilled
September 26, 2021 05:39 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBIn this sermon, we looked at John’s account of the crucifixion of Jesus in John 19:16-37. While John wants us to see the intensity of this moment, he doesn’t want us to lose sight of the bigger picture of God’s unfolding plan to redeem His creation. When Pilate says, “What I have written, I have written,” we can see the finality of what God has written. John includes many prophetic details, connecting Jesus’ death with the rest of the Bible, giving us a beautiful and powerful picture of God’...
Behold Your King
September 19, 2021 05:39 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBIn this sermon, we looked at Jesus' claim to be the King of the Jews. In John 19:1-15, Pilate was struggling to know what to do with Jesus so he had Jesus severely beaten and humiliated, hoping this would appease the Jewish leaders and Jesus could be released. However, when Pilate presented a beaten and bloody Jesus, the crowd of Jewish leaders replied, “Crucify Him!” Viewing this part of John’s Gospel through the eyes of the prophet Isaiah reveals that what was happening to Jesus was the un...
The Kingdom of Truth
September 12, 2021 05:40 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBIn this sermon, we looked at John 18:28-40 when Jesus claims to be the King of the Kingdom of Truth. The Jewish leaders wanted to have Jesus put to death, while still maintaining the appearance of adhering to their strict religious laws, so they passed the burden onto the Roman Governor, Pilate. They knew that if Pilate could get Jesus to admit to His claim of being a king, it would make Jesus look like a political threat to Caesar, and Pilate would be forced to put Him to death for treason....
The Faithfulness of Jesus
September 05, 2021 05:39 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBIn this sermon, we looked in John 18:12-27 at Jesus' faithfulness as He was being interrogated by the Jewish religious leaders. As Jesus continued to do His Father's will during the interrogation and false accusations, Peter was outside in the courtyard denying, three times, that he was one of Jesus' disciples. While John specifically captures Peter's unfaithfulness to Jesus, the reality is that all of the disciples abandoned Jesus to face His death alone. In this story, we see a convicting ...
I Have Lost Not One
August 29, 2021 22:05 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBIn this sermon, we looked at how Jesus' arrest unfolded in John 18:1-11 and how this affects our lives today. After Jesus' prayer in the upper room, He and the disciples go out to the garden just outside of town. Judas comes to the garden, leading the religious leaders and Roman soldiers. When the leaders ask which one is Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus steps forward and identifies Himself, saying, “I am.” At His words, the soldiers and religious leaders fall to the ground in fear. Knowing what was...
Living the Mission (2021)
August 22, 2021 05:40 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBIn this sermon, we looked at John 17:20-26 when Jesus prays for the believers who will come to Him through the work and testimony of His disciples. Christ prays that we will be united in our faith with one another just as He is united with the Father. This unity is grounded in our relationship with Christ and will be a sign to the world that He was sent by the Father. Jesus even gives believers His glory, that we may reflect that glory back to the Father and the world would see His glory as ...
Kept and Sanctified
August 15, 2021 05:39 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBIn this sermon, we continued to unpack Jesus' prayer in John 17. As Jesus prays to the Father, we see a beautiful picture of His earthly ministry and fulfillment of God's will and purpose. Jesus prays for His disciples to be protected by the Father as they face suffering in their ministry. However, the protection that Jesus prays for isn’t to remove the suffering the disciples would face; He prays that the Father would use their suffering to sanctify them while keeping them in His presence. ...
God's Glory and Our Good
August 08, 2021 05:39 - 36 MBIn this sermon, we looked at John 17:1-5 when Jesus begins to pray and ask the Father to glorify Him through His upcoming suffering and death. Through His prayer, Jesus helps us understand how the Father glorifies the Son and the Son glorifies the Father. In His prayer, we also see our part in glorifying God: We don’t add glory to God when we glorify Him; we glorify God by making Him known and revealing His glory that already exists. In this passage, Jesus also reminds us that even our salva...
I Have Overcome the World
August 01, 2021 05:40 - 36.9 MBIn this sermon, we looked at how Jesus prepares His disciples to walk through a difficult season of fear, loneliness, sorrow, and failure. In John 16:25-33, Jesus tells them that a new era is coming when He will overcome the world and return to the Father to sit as the mediator and advocate between man and God, thus giving His disciples direct access to the presence of God. Jesus is teaching us that peace is not found in the absence of suffering and failure, but in the presence of God alone.
Fullness of Joy
July 25, 2021 05:40 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBIn this sermon, we looked at John 16:20-24 when Jesus shares very difficult news with His disciples. He tells them that the time has come when He will no longer be with them but that they will have a fullness of joy that supersedes the dark and difficult circumstances they will face. Despite any troubles we may encounter in today’s world, this same fullness of joy is ours in Christ Jesus.
The Work of the Holy Spirit
July 18, 2021 05:40 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBIn this sermon, we looked at John 16:4-15 when Jesus once again encourages His disciples with the hope of the coming Holy Spirit. Jesus knows the disciples are full of sorrow at His departure and the reality of their future suffering at the hands of those who would persecute them. However, Jesus tells them it is actually better that He should ascend to the Father so the Holy Spirit will come. The Spirit’s ministry convicts the world, leads Jesus’ followers into truth, and furthers the messag...
Handling the World's Hatred
July 11, 2021 05:40 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MBIn this sermon, we looked in John 15:18-16:4 when Jesus talks with His disciples about the persecution and suffering they will encounter. Jesus explains that because the world hates Him, His works, and His message, the world will also despise His Church. Those who follow Jesus will face hatred and hostility. However, Jesus also encourages believers with the promise of the Holy Spirit. As the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit will comfort believers, empower them to proclaim the nam...
I Am the True Vine
July 04, 2021 05:40 - 36.4 MBIn this sermon, we looked at John 15:1-17 when Jesus gives us a picture of our relationship with Him by saying He is the true vine and we are the branches. As people who have heard and believed the Gospel, we are commanded to continue to abide in Jesus: to find our identity in Him, to bear fruit through His power, and to bring glory to God in the process. Here we find true joy and show that we are His disciples. However, the true test of abiding in Jesus is how well we love one another. As c...
The Spirit of Truth
June 27, 2021 05:40 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MBIn this sermon, we looked at Jesus' promise in John 14:15-26 to send the Spirit of Truth to His disciples to help them after He is gone. Jesus tells His disciples that they are to keep His commandments after He is gone as evidence that they belong to Him. This sounds like an impossible expectation to fulfill until Jesus explains that God will send the Holy Spirit to teach, remind and empower them to love God and keep His Commandments. He offers this to us, too. Out of His love for us, God ...
Greater Works
June 20, 2021 05:40 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBIn this sermon, we looked at John 14:11-14 when Jesus gave a parting promise to His disciples. Jesus told His disciples that if they believed in Him, they would do greater miracles than they had seen so far and God would grant them what they asked for. The Kingdom of God would be established on earth as the Father carried on Jesus' works through weak and imperfect believers. Of these greater works, the greatest miracle happens when the Holy Spirit opens the eyes of someone who is spiritually...
Let Not Your Hearts Be Troubled
June 13, 2021 05:40 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBIn this sermon, we looked at John 14:1-11 when Jesus addressed His disciples' troubled hearts. The disciples were becoming anxious and broken hearted the more Jesus talked of leaving them but Jesus reassures them that the key to not being troubled is rooted in believing and trusting in His promises. Jesus uses the imagery of a large house with many rooms to illustrate six promises about Heaven. He tells the disciples that believing and trusting that they will spend eternity with Him is enoug...
A New Command I Give
June 06, 2021 05:40 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBIn this sermon, we looked at a new command Jesus gave to His disciples in John 13:31-35. After washing the disciples' feet and telling them to do the same for one another, Jesus gives them the command to love one another. He calls this a new command because He has given them a living example of the specific kind of love He has for His followers. Additionally, from this point forward, the outworking of this new command to love one another will be a primary way by which Jesus’ followers are id...