Defiance Church

Romans: count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Sermon from our summer series on the book of Romans.

Romans: while we were God’s enemies

Sermon on Romans 5 from Matthew Shedden.

Romans: God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.

Our third sermon on the book of Romans.

Romans: For all have sinned

Second sermon in our Romans series.

Romans: the righteousness of God is revealed

Our first sermon in our summer series on the book of Romans.

Trinity Sunday: God in our pain

Trinity Sunday sermon from Jack Manning.

Pentecost

Sermon for Pentecost Sunday from Matthew Shedden.

Patient: Tradition and Order

Final sermon on our Patient series on Tradition and Order by Matthew Shedden.

Patient: Word, Confession, Table

Sermon on three of our distinctives from Matthew Shedden.

Patient Hope

A sermon on how patience and hope are intertwined.

Patient Faith

Our second Sunday on Patience this time focusing on Patient Faith.

Witness & Patience

First sermon in a series on our church on the virtue of patience.

Resurrection: He's not there

Easter Sunday sermon from Matthew Shedden. From Pascal: We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to stay its too rapid flight. We are so unwise that we wander about in times that do not belong to us, and do not think of the only one that does; so vain that we dream of times that are not and blindly flee the only one that is. The fact is that the present usually hurts...

Good Friday: They all answered, “Crucify him!”

Good Friday sermon from Matthew Shedden.

Palm Sunday: Hosanna

Palm Sunday sermon from Pastor Matthew Shedden.

Lent V: a ransom for many.

Lent V: a ransom for many. Sermon from Matthew Shedden.

Lent IV: Cleansing the temple

Lent IV: Cleansing the temple sermon from David Koshy.

Lent III: Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.

Lent III: Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate. sermon from Matthew Shedden.

Lent II: faith as small as a mustard seed

Sermon from Matthew Shedden for Lent II.

Lent I: Temptation

Lent I: Temptation sermon by Matthew Shedden. The devil is but another name for our impatience. We want bread, we want to force God's hand to rescue us, we want peace—and we want all this now. But Jesus is our bread, he is our salvation, and he is our peace. That he is so requires that we learn to wait with him in a world of hunger, idolatry, and war to witness to the kingdom that is God's patience. The Father will have the kingdom present one small act at a time. That is what it means for us to...

Transfiguration: But Jesus came and touched them. “Get up,” he said. “Don’t be afraid.”

Sermon on Transfiguration Sunday from Matthew Shedden.

and revealed them to little children.

Sermon on the Gospel of Matthew from Matthew Shedden. and revealed them to little children

Parables of the Kingdom: The Dragnet

Parables of the Kingdom: The Dragnet sermon by Matthew Shedden. “Impatience is an argument with reality” Rick Rubin

Parables of the Kingdom: Treasure and Pearl

Parables of the Kingdom: Mustard seed

Parables of the Kingdom: the Wheat and Tares

Parables of the Kingdom: The Sower

Parables of the Kingdom: The Sower

Baptism: This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.

Baptism: This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.

Epiphany: they returned to their country by another route.

Epiphany: they returned to their country by another route.

Christmas I

Christmas I sermon .