Text: Luke 12:35-13:9 | Listen to Message A Judge Who Loves You At any moment Jesus Christ could split the skies and come down and it will be the end of the world as we know it. In that moment, a division will be made. And it will not matter how successful or even how righteous you’ve been, but only one thing will matter: “What did you do you with Jesus?” Did you ignore him, marginalize him, or even reject him outright … or did you give him the fundamental trust and allegiance of your heart? Jesus warns that things will […]
Biblical Fatherhood
Text: 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12 | Listen to Message Check Your Commitments Our culture’s idea of a good family man is someone who’s committed to providing for his wife and kids – especially one who provides material things and fun experiences. If your garage is overflowing with bikes, scooters, skateboards, and skis, and your basement is piled high with toys and dvds, and every weekend’s adventure looks like a photo shoot straight out of Outside Magazine, you’re probably in the running for “The World’s Greatest Dad.” Somehow, somewhere along the way, Christian fathers bought into this definition of successful fatherhood. And we […]
Text: Luke 12:13-34 | Listen to Message You Can’t Take It With You The American Dream is little more than the glorification and worship of profit, consumerism, and leisure. Pursuing this “dream” is about like saying, “My ultimate goal in life is to maximize my own personal comfort, satisfaction, and wealth – often at the expense of others.” So, of course, no one says that. We try to be a little subtler about our covetous, materialistic sense of entitlement. “I’m just being a good steward and putting aside a little nest egg for the uncertain times ahead.” Uh huh, right. If […]
Unafraid And Unashamed
Text: Luke 12:4-12 | Listen to Message Standing For Christ In A Culture That Doesn’t Many American Christians will live and die without ever leading a single person to faith in Christ. Many will never even try. They are content to go to heaven … alone. Evangelism, soul-winning, sharing the Gospel, even simple invitations to church – these are best left to the experts and the extroverts, right? Wrong. The Christian who doesn’t share Christ needs to hear Jesus’ sobering warning in Luke 12: If you don’t acknowledge me before men, neither will I acknowledge you in heaven. In other words, […]
Service Spotlight: Mothers
Show me a thriving church, and I’ll show you a number of volunteers whose faithful service goes virtually unnoticed. Without these unsung heroes, much of the church’s ministry – and maybe the church itself – would fall flat. These servant-hearted individuals are not motivated by recognition; they’re driven by their love for God and others. These service spotlights are designed to affirm and encourage all of our volunteers – especially those who work behind the scenes – and to express gratitude for your selfless ministry. We see you, we honor you, and we thank God for you! This month’s service […]
You Might Be A Hypocrite If…
Text: Luke 11:37-12:3 | Listen to Message Let’s Stop Pretending It’s easy to spot the tiniest speck of hypocrisy in others but we’re reluctant to see even the most blatant duplicity in ourselves. No one wants to admit there’s a disconnect between my stated beliefs and my actual behaviors – that there’s dissonance between my reputation (who I portray myself to be) and my character (who I really am when no one’s looking). And because recognition is the first step to repentance, this is often the reason we spiral further into hypocrisy: we’re not willing to confess to ourselves and to […]
The Invisible Battle
Text: Luke 11:14-28 | Listen to Message Presence, Not Performance Imagine your city is being invaded by a murderous foreign army hell-bent on your destruction. Each passing day, the enemy lines inch closer and the sounds of war grow louder. The air is filled with the stench of gunpowder, smoke, and death. Soon, you can see the conflict from your front porch. Knowing you need to take decisive action, you rally your family together: “All right, everybody, here’s what we’re going to do: we need to clean the house like we’ve never cleaned before!” Whaaaat?! That’s absurd! Everyone knows a clean […]
Teach Us to Pray
Text: Luke 11:1-13 | Listen to Message Gospel-Driven Prayer The attached sermon unpacks 6 “P’s” of Christian prayer from this text of Scripture: The Priority, The Privilege, The Pattern, The Persistence, The Promise, and The Presence of it. While these are all important for a comprehensive understanding of the whats, hows, and whys of prayer, let’s just focus on just the last two here. The Promise of Christian Prayer In verses 9-10, Jesus tells his disciples, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks […]
Serving or Savoring
Text: Luke 10:38-42 | Listen to Message Busyness: Its Cause, Effects, And Solution Busyness is one of the preeminent virtues of postmodern, Western culture. Somehow we’ve convinced ourselves that we’re supposed to keep the pedal to the metal and go a million miles an hour, overcommitting ourselves to all kinds of responsibilities, tasks, and events that pull us in several different directions at once. We’re more productive and less present than perhaps any culture in history. The results of this busyness are well documented. Physically, we’re restless and exhausted, our immune systems are shot, and heartburn, migraines, and heart attacks are […]
A Resurrection for You
Text: John 20 | Listen to Message Isn’t It Just A Legend? There are a number of reasons why people say they cannot believe in the bodily Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Some of these objections, at least on the surface, are rational barriers: “Hasn’t science proven that a dead person can’t come back to life after a few days?” Other objections stem from personal barriers: “If Jesus is alive, then why have I gone through such painful, traumatic experiences in my life?” But many skeptics today have never really thought it through and reasoned it out. Most have never even attempted […]
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