What holds you captive? Paul views himself as a prisoner of Christ. A man called to make God's goodness known alongside the churches he serves. To come to give his life like Jesus did, and not to be served. Yet, many of our lives are divided between our desire to love God and others, and our desire to live attached to things that imprison us. God knows this is our challenge. Watch this sermon to hear more about God's incredible invite to freedom and setting others free through Christ's love and ...
Mar 12, 2017•30 min
Hear our friend Jade share how Jesus transformed her life during last year's Seabrook trip!
Mar 12, 2017•6 min
Division is not new. In Paul's time, the Ephesian believers struggled with disunity between the Jews and Gentiles in their community. Paul gives a vision for how they are united in Jesus. This struggle is so real for us today. We disdain those who are different than us and define ourselves by our differences. Watch this sermon to catch a vision for life united in the one person who can bring us together and heal our relationships; Jesus Christ.
Mar 05, 2017•37 min
Where are you seeking to find life? Ephesians 2 calls us to look at where we've been, where we are, and where we are going. God's grace meets us in the collision course of all of those places and gives us the faith in Jesus who saves us. A faith that also calls us to live lives of good works that transform our world from the inside out.
Feb 26, 2017•31 min
World-renowned theologian, and friend and advisor to A Seattle Church, Ray Bakke, examines Scriptures thread of how God used people throughout history and how it intersects with today's world and country's issues.
Feb 12, 2017•53 min
Jesus offers us freedom, and call us to be His disciples. Yet, our lives are not just about us. God made us incapable of following Jesus without the help of others. We need close friendships to help us truly love God and love our neighbors. It was God's prayer that we would be "one in Him" and by doing so, the world comes to know who He is. That is our hope for community at A Seattle Church.
Jan 29, 2017•40 min
Tim Gaydos shares the journey of ASC. From it’s founding, it’s heart, vision, struggles and where it’s going. Scripture: John 10:10
Jan 08, 2017•42 min
Can you imagine what it would have been like to hear you were giving birth to the savior of the world? Mary's story is an incredible picture of God giving incredible purpose to unimportant people, and the courage to trust God's plans. Instead of denying God's call to give all of who she is, Mary responds by asking: "How is it to be so?". We are called to do the same. This sermon by Tyler Gorsline invites us to receive the gift of Jesus and to ask Him how he wants us to give our life to follow hi...
Dec 11, 2016•30 min
What is telling our story as humans? The Christ-Child or the consumeristic philosophy of this world? In Matthew 2, Jesus comes down to show us a new way to find the hope and peace we after. Herod pursued influence, power, control and wealth. Jesus paves a counter-cultural way for us.
Dec 04, 2016•38 min
Jesus' birth shook the foundation of how we understand our world. The rules were broken by the greatest story ever told. Tyler Gorsline looks at Matthew 2:1-20 and how Herod and the Magi responded to this good news. Asking the questions "who/what do you worship?", and how are we to flee idolatry and gifts that will never satisfy apart from Jesus.
Nov 27, 2016•35 min
Marriage. An incredible hope and source of pain. A union we experience with God (as his bride, the Church), with each other, sometimes lose, and many hope to have one day. A bond that we witness or don't while growing up and aren't sure about its power. In the midst of it all, a love song about Jesus in Philippians 2 invites us to understand the power of marriage. How like on our wedding day, Jesus invites us to "clothe" ourselves with His redemption in our love for God, our marriages, and our f...
Oct 30, 2016
Who are you? Who were you made to be? We spend most of our lives building the false self, which in turn, impacts negatively our relationship with God and others. God desires us to live into the “true you” and see your relationships flourish. In the kick-off to the “You + Me” series, listen in as we turn to Scripture and God’s teaching on finding the true you.
Sep 25, 2016
Tyler Gorsline bridges the space between our series on what Jesus did in the Book of Mark and our "You + Me" Relationships series this fall. If you look closely in the middle of God's work and our ministry is the core of who we are, our very own hearts, souls, minds, and strength. Lives that are often lost where we are, confused about why we are here, and in disarray about who we are. God's very presence and power meets us in this place and I hope it will encourage you wherever you are today....
Sep 18, 2016
All of us have a desire to become significant and important. In the face of his key disciples fighting over position and status in the kingdom of God, Jesus reveals what true human greatness is and where it is found.
Jun 26, 2016
In this sermon, Ray Bakke dives deep into the scriptures in the genealogy and birth narrative of Jesus in Matthew 1-2. Ray "removes the stained-glass" and speaks to how these passages should inform our life and move us to love everyone in our city and the world around us.
Jun 19, 2016
Jesus is confronted by religious leaders of his day who were concerned about how His disciples did not wash their hands and follow their man-made traditions. Traditions can be a beautiful thing, especially if they lead to intimacy with God and others. Yet, Jesus showed the hypocrisy of the religious leaders devotion to rules over closeness with God and love for people. Watch Tyler Gorsline explore how Jesus' healing touch enters into the mess of religiosity and the brokenness of our lives, and h...
May 29, 2016
A man named Jairus approached Jesus and begged him to heal his 12 year old daughter. She was on her death bed, and Jesus entered right into the middle of this pain and brought resurrection. In this sermon, Tyler Gorsline explores how Jesus draws close in our trials, give us hope, heals us, and calls us to follow him as he does the same for others in our lives.
May 01, 2016
In this sermon from Mark 5, Tim Gaydos explores the story of The Demon Possessed man and how Jesus interacts with tormenting and mental illness.
Apr 17, 2016
When the women arrive to Jesus' tomb, two angelic figures ask them "Why are you looking for the living among the dead?" Jesus resurrection begs us to ask why we seek to find life in dead places, when Jesus died and rose again that we might have eternal life in him. Tyler Gorsline explored this question and what Jesus tells us about who he is as the "resurrection and the life" (John 11) and as "our Lord, and our God" (John 20).
Mar 27, 2016
What’s in a name? In this sermon from Mark 3, Tim Gaydos asks this question and explores what Jesus tells us about who we are, and where we find our worth and value.
Mar 20, 2016
Looking at Jesus' teaching on the Sabbath at the end of Mark 2, Tim Gaydos shows how Jesus, as Lord of the Sabbath, encourages us to live into the vision that God has had for humanity, to "rest" in the midst of a world that encourages more and more "work".
Mar 13, 2016
Can you feel it? The pain. That insurmountable brokenness in our world? The Shame, fear, guilt, lies, disunity, strife, and death that surrounds us? Do you hold onto a hope for healing in our world, and your heart, soul, mind, and strength? Unlike our world of products, vacations, and infomercials that promise to fix our lives with miracle remedies, Jesus bursts into Capernaum as our one true healer. He amazed by teaching with authority, and restored their infirmities. In Mark 1:21 -28 and 2:1-1...
Feb 21, 2016
Jesus' first words in the Gospel of Mark proclaim that good news has arrived and the kingdom of God is near and now. He calls us to ask what we're turn towards and invites us to turn back to him instead. That we might be His followers while inviting others to follow Him with us.
Feb 14, 2016
In this sermon, Ray Bakke dives deep into the scriptures written in Iraq and Iran. Ray shares with us how these scriptures should inform our life and move us to love everyone in our city and the world around us.
Feb 07, 2016
In this sermon, Tim Gaydos introduces us to 'The Gospel of Mark'. The Gospel of Mark speaks to both the faithful and to skeptics. It speaks to the whole history of the world, and how by looking carefully at the person and story of Jesus, we find our place in it. Through Jesus' words and actions, we see how his life makes sense of ours.
Jan 31, 2016
We firmly believe that our call as a community is to give our first fruits to God in service to each other and our city. In this sermon, Tim Gaydos explores the different elements of what makes a community transformational and how we can best live into those elements.
Jan 24, 2016
Acts 2:42-47 paints a powerful portrait of the early Church as a community of believers that lived richly in fellowship with one another, resting in the power of Christ. In this sermon, Tyler Gorsline explores how we can better live into the example that the apostles give us.
Jan 17, 2016
We truly desire community & friendship, though we can be fearful to take steps towards it, particularly if it doesn't come easy or if we've been hurt. In it's place, we can pursue money, status, power or isolation - but what if we were given the gift of perspective? The opportunity to see what life looks like with and without community and friendship. In this sermon, Tim Gaydos explores Acts 2:42-47 where we see a picture of love, affection, care and community in the early Church.
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