Whether we're single, dating, or married, we all need the truth of the Gospel to shape the way we pursue and receive love. In this sermon, Pastor Adam looks to Jesus' words about marriage and various Proverbs to illustrate that the Gospel makes sense of romance, and for us, growing up in God means believing it.
Whether we're single, dating, or married, we all need the truth of the Gospel to shape the way we pursue and receive love. In this sermon, Pastor Adam looks to Jesus' words about marriage and various Proverbs to illustrate that the Gospel makes sense of romance, and for us, growing up in God means believing it.
Money. We all want it and we all need it. In our capitalist and consumerist culture, we all face the temptation to worship it. How do we learn to submit our money and our resources to the God who meet all of our needs? In this sermon, Pastor Adam looks to the generosity of the Church at Corinth in 2 Corinthians to illustrate that if we want to grow up in God, we've got to love God with our money.
God isn't the kind of person who simply wants us to follow His rules. True surrender to God involves our thoughts and feelings and affections as well. How do we learn to offer God our thoughts and feelings? In this sermon, Pastor Adam looks to Paul's second letter to the Corinthians to explore how growing up in God involves thinking how God thinks and feeling how God feels.
God isn't the kind of person who simply wants us to follow His rules. True surrender to God involves our thoughts and feelings and affections as well. How do we learn to offer God our thoughts and feelings? In this sermon, Pastor Adam looks to Paul's second letter to the Corinthians to explore how growing up in God involves thinking how God thinks and feeling how God feels.
Who are you, and how do you know? We have tons of ideas about what lies at the center of our identities, but it turns out that who we truly are is reflected not in what we think, but in what we love. In this sermon, Pastor Adam shows us from 2 Corinthians that if we become what we behold, we must learn to behold God.
We know we need to mature. Americans spend more on self-help than any other country - more than the GDP of the poorest 62 nations on earth! But self, success, and security aren't large enough life-purposes. God has a bigger mission and a bigger vision, and it's going to require our full engagement and maturity. In this sermon, Pastor Adam teaches us from the Scripture that to grow up with time, we must grow up with wisdom.
We know we need to mature. Americans spend more on self-help than any other country - more than the GDP of the poorest 62 nations on earth! But self, success, and security aren't large enough life-purposes. God has a bigger mission and a bigger vision, and it's going to require our full engagement and maturity. In this sermon, Pastor Adam teaches us from the Scripture that to grow up with time, we must grow up with wisdom.
In this addendum to When God Seems Gone, Kevin McKenzie offers practical wisdom for how Christians can hold fast to faith, hope, and joy in the midst of trial and hardship.
In this addendum to When God Seems Gone, Steve Cabral offers practical wisdom for how Christians can hold fast to faith, hope, and joy in the midst of trial and hardship.
In the final installation of our series in Habakkuk, Pastor Adam explores the reality of disappointment in faith - sometimes, God's answer to our situation doesn't meet our expectations of Him. What do we do in the midst of spiritual disappointment? The prophet Habakkuk answers with praise. In this sermon, we explore what it means to answer disappointment by allowing God's word to redefine our vision of God.
Justice is an essential topic in our culture. Who deserves what, and why? However, Christians have a special responsibility to ground our conceptions of justice in the character of the Ultimate Judge, God. Continuing our series in Habbakuk, Pastor Adam examines the Scriptures to uncover why God allows the wicked to prosper and allows injustice to exist. Most importantly, when God seems unfair and injustice seems pervasive, God's justice is still coming, so wait on Him.
We all face crises of extraordinary odds. How do we surrender to God's perfect plans during theses crises, and what does the Scripture reveal to us about managing our hearts during hard times? In this sermon, Guest Speaker and Aletheia Elder Jim Laffoon looks to the famous story of Joshua and the Walls of Jericho to illustrate how God gives us faith to win victory over the Jerichoes of our lives.
We all face crises of extraordinary odds. How do we surrender to God's perfect plans during theses crises, and what does the Scripture reveal to us about managing our hearts during hard times? In this sermon, Guest Speaker and Aletheia Elder Jim Laffoon looks to the famous story of Joshua and the Walls of Jericho to illustrate how God gives us faith to win victory over the Jerichoes of our lives.
We like God's plans for our lives to come through quickly. That's not always the case. When God seems slow, how do you live with hope instead of frustration? In this sermon, Pastor Adam explores the second part of Habakkuk's exchange with God to find the answer.
Sometimes, God seems deafeningly silent. In the midst of a world full of illness and senseless tragedy, how can Christians declare God to be good or faithful? In this sermon, Pastor Adam explores the words of the prophet Habakkuk to show that when we see evil and God seems silent, God sees more and His plan is at work.
Life can feel like a constant succession of battles. Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose, but we never experience the satisfaction of success for long. It's always on to the next thing until we die. Do any of our victories really matter? How can we experience victory of an eternal nature? In this Easter Sunday sermon, Pastor Adam looks to 1 Corinthians 15 to show how the resurrection means final victory over our greatest enemy!
In the United States, there are about 400,000 children in the foster care system, and there are about 100,000 children still waiting to be adopted. In this final sermon of the How To Neighbor series, Pastor Adam illustrates how the Church can step in to embrace the orphaned among us, and shows from the Scripture that if God cares for the orphaned, so must his church.
In the United States, there are about 400,000 children in the foster care system, and there are about 100,000 children still waiting to be adopted. In this final sermon of the How To Neighbor series, Pastor Adam illustrates how the Church can step in to embrace the orphaned among us, and shows from the Scripture that if God cares for the orphaned, so must his church.
Loneliness isn't just a matter of the quantity of friendships you have — it's a matter of the quality of relationships. In this sermon, Tyler Parker looks at Jesus's words in John 15 to show us how we can form the kind of friendships that are deep, and how we can extend that friendship to others experiencing loneliness.
In this sermon, we consider those of our neighbors of less means. The poor are always with us, but we often feel shame or guilt around their presence, and many times Christians feel paralyzed by the scale of poverty in our nation and around the world. How can Christians fulfill Christ's instructions to help the poor without robbing them of the autonomy and dignity of personal responsibility? In this sermon, Pastor Donny explores the Scriptures that if Christ empowers the poor, so should we....
How should Christians deal with racism in our modern context? How do we atone for our past failures to recognize the inherent dignity of our brothers and sisters? In this first installment of our new series How To Neighbor, Pastor Adam unpacks 1 Peter 2 to show how, despite all opposition, the races must be reconciled in the people of Jesus.
Though Jude takes heresy very seriously, he recognizes that God is able to pull his children back from the reaches of false doctrine. In this last sermon of the Heretic series, Pastor Donny explores the final section of Jude to illustrate how clear-eyed contending for the faith means practicing love in the confidence of grace.
Though Jude takes heresy very seriously, he recognizes that God is able to pull his children back from the reaches of false doctrine. In this last sermon of the Heretic series, Pastor Donny explores the final section of Jude to illustrate how clear-eyed contending for the faith means practicing love in the confidence of grace.
In our modern times, political or cultural blasphemies appear to be far more important than blasphemies against God. However, as Jude warns, blasphemy against God is more serious than we could ever imagine. What is blasphemy, and how can we avoid speaking with with our mouths in our lives? In this sermon, Pastor Adam shows us from Jude why we should beware blasphemy, the root of all heresy.
There've been lots of doctrinal disputes in church history, but the greatest threats to the church have always been more sinister: the internal heretics in our hearts. Our internal heretics lead us confess one doctrine with our mouths while declaring other doctrines with our lives. In this sermon, Pastor Adam looks to the book of Jude to show how we must fight the internal heretic that changes grace into license.
What enables our non-Christian loved ones to accept and believe the Gospel? How does someone experience the transformation of their worldview? How can flawed human beings ever seek to carry out God's work on the Earth? In this final installment of This Is Our Time, Pastor Donny Fisher shows us how Jesus answers all these questions for us through the person of the Holy Spirit, who empowers us to live out God's mission for the sake of those around us.
Ministry sounds like something that ministers do, but we can wrongly assume that ministers are only paid professionals, like pastors or church staff. In this sermon, Pastor Adam looks at Ephesians 4, where Paul describes how church leaders are meant to equip disciples for ministry. Leaders do the equipping and all followers of Jesus do the ministry.
"There was no king in those days, and everyone did what was right in his own eyes (Judges 21:25)." These words punctuate a horrific period in Israel's history, and yet, they also seem to parallel our modern world. How can we learn to practice true goodness when our world has so many different definitions of "good living?" In this sermon, Pastor Adam shows that it is only by being established in God's Word that humanity has any hope of escaping enslavement to our desires and the freedom to serve ...
"There was no king in those days, and everyone did what was right in his own eyes (Judges 21:25)." These words punctuate a horrific period in Israel's history, and yet, they also seem to parallel our modern world. How can we learn to practice true goodness when our world has so many different definitions of "good living?" In this sermon, Pastor Adam shows that it is only by being established in God's Word that humanity has any hope of escaping enslavement to our desires and the freedom to serve ...
