This four-week series examines the deeper meaning behind this Advent season, using Isaiah 9 as a foundation for this year’s celebration. Sometimes called the “little Lent,” Advent is the anticipation and celebration of the arrival of Christ. It is a season that is meant to draw our attention once again to Christ and keep him at the fore of our hearts, lest we get lost in the presents, decorations, and festivities without remembering why we’re celebrating in the first place.
This series looks at the Lord’s Prayer as taught by Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew. Each week will consider the words of Jesus and what it means to pray in the manner he taught his disciples to pray. This series will examine some of the underlying challenges Jesus faced in his culture. Along the way, we will see the importance of what he accomplished at the cross and how it still applies to us today.
The work and ministry of Jesus were not done in a vacuum, free from all outside impact or influence. Rather, we can best understand Jesus’s work when we understand the culture in which he lived. This series will examine some of the underlying challenges Jesus faced in his culture. Along the way, we will see the importance of what he accomplished at the cross and how it still applies to us today.
This five-week series examines the downward spiral of God’s people in the book of Judges. The book centers around people having a relativism that caused them to do whatever they wanted to do. Through understanding the context, theology, and relevance to our own idolatries, we can see that the only hero in Judges is a loving God who will redeem his wayward people.
God is both merciful and just. The justice of God demands that sin be dealt with in our lives, but mercy calls for God to be compassionate in his judgments. The book of Isaiah called Israel to repentance in many ways and yet also set the stage for both her redemption and the ultimate redemption of the world. This six-week series unpacks a series of key passages that point to the demand for God’s justice and the exercise of mercy on those who don’t deserve it.
This Easter Sunday sermon looks at the Christ Hymn in Philippians 2:5–11. It challenges the congregation to recognize that Christ’s incarnation is the model we are called to imitate. If we imitate Christ’s humility, we will make greater progress in building unity in the church.
This six-week series explores the book of Lamentations and its descriptions of grief and sorrow in the nation of Judah. In its clear language of pain and suffering, we see a reflection of our own. As Lamentations struggles with God, we struggle with God as well, and seeing how its grief progresses can help us to understand, deal with, and work through our own grief.
New Year’s is an opportunity for people to take stock of their life, think about the future, and make some changes. But as this single message reminds us, the number-one thing we need to remember as we enter a new year is to focus on God and his power, beauty, and glory.
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