Series: Psalms of Summer 2022 Title: Be At Rest Once More
Psalm 116. When we pray to God in our distress and experience his deliverance, we grow in our love for God and our faith in God. We can rest because we know he is good.
Jul 03, 2022•29 min
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Series: Ruth Title: The Power of Loyal Love
Ruth 4. Experiencing God's loyal love through others has the power to move us to witness, redeem broken lives, and make our lives significant.
Jun 26, 2022•44 min
Series: Ruth Title: Cover Me Up
Ruth 3. The story of Ruth teaches us that God's extraordinary love is expressed through the actions of ordinary (and often the most unlikely) people. This is especially in times of suffering and cultural confusion. In this teaching, we consider Ruth's conversation with Boaz on the threshing floor and reflect on how Ruth's actions teach Boaz and Naomi about the extraordinary love of God.
Jun 21, 2022•40 min
Series: Ruth Title: As It Turned Out
Ruth 2. There's a mystery about where God's sovereignty intersects humanity's free will. We can experience this mystery through "as it turned out" moments when we trust God's providence while faithfully trying to find favor.
Jun 12, 2022•34 min
Series: Ruth Title: Providence and Promises
Ruth 1. To keep our faith while facing difficult trials, we must believe in God's providence (that He is in control) and God's promises (that He can be trusted). Circumstances don't tell us what God is like, but His promises do.
Jun 05, 2022•42 min
Series: Sermon On The Mount Title: We're Talking About Practice
Matthew 7:24-29. Jesus ends his sermon by warning his readers about what happens to people who don't put to practice his teaching. His warning should cause us to evaluate what foundation we're building our lives upon and put his teachings into practice.
May 29, 2022•38 min
Series: Sermon On The Mount Title: The Narrow Way
Matthew 7:13-23. Jesus invites us to follow his narrow and hard way that leads to life, and he warns us about the easy and wide way that leads to death - the way of religion and the world.
May 22, 2022•33 min
Series: Sermon On The Mount Title: The Golden Rule
Matthew 7:12. Jesus summarizes the Sermon on the Mount with the Golden Rule. As much as we love the idea of the Golden Rule on paper, we often follow one of two unwritten rules of our own.
May 15, 2022•36 min
Series: Sermon On The Mount Title: Jesus On Confident Prayer
Matthew 7:7-11. Jesus teaches that we can pray with confidence when we ask God to help us become more like Jesus. We can pray confidently because we know it's what God wants for us, God can do it, and He's a good Father.
May 08, 2022•39 min
Series: Sermon On The Mount Title: Judge Not
Jesus' command to not judge is one of our favorites to enforce in the lives of others, but when we try to live by it ourselves, we find it seemingly impossible. We will explore Jesus' position on the subject and its implications for those who want to follow him in this teaching.
May 01, 2022•43 min
Series: Resurrection Hope Title: The Hope Of The World
Biblical hope is the joyful and confident expectation of what's to come based on something trustworthy. Jesus's resurrection is the trustworthy event that makes Christians have hope that everything will be made new.
Apr 24, 2022•35 min
Series: Resurrection Hope Title: A Reasonable and Freeing Hope
I Corinthians 15:3-8. No one expected Jesus to rise from the men and women closest to him. Why did they document their unbelief, what caused them to change into those who proclaimed having seen Jesus risen, and what doe it mean for us today?
Apr 17, 2022•38 min
Series: Resurrection Hope Title: The Great Reversal
Philippians 2:8,9. Jesus's resurrection signaled the start of his restoration of the world, a restoration born through weakness, not power. Weakness is the way of God, the way to God, and the way we partner with God in restoring the world.
Apr 11, 2022•37 min
Series: Sermon On The Mount Title: Seek First
Matthew 6:33. Jesus announced the availability of the Kingdom of God to all people. In this teaching, we will unpack Jesus' gospel of the Kingdom and His expectation for those who would become His disciples.
Apr 03, 2022•41 min
Series: Sermon On The Mount Title: Jesus On Worry
Matthew 6:25-34. We worry because something is wrong in the world and something is wrong with our hearts. We can be free from worry when we believe that we're valuable to God and that he knows what we need and will provide.
Mar 27, 2022•37 min
Series: Sermon On The Mount Title: The Eye Is The Lamp Of The Body
Matthew 6:19-24. What we believe about God affects our entire lives, from the inside out. In this teaching, Jesus shows us how our vision of God influences our relationship to wealth, materiality, and the poor.
Mar 20, 2022•38 min
Series: Sermon On The Mount Title: When You Fast
Matthew 6:16-18. We will practice fasting more regularly when we understand how our bodies affect our spirits and our spirits affect our bodies. We'll realize how fasting helps keep our minds on God when we do.
Mar 13, 2022•32 min
Series: Sermon On The Mount Title: How To Pray
Matthew 6:5-13. Jesus teaches us how to pray and how not to pray. He promises great rewards for those who pray secretly and simply.
Mar 06, 2022•30 min
Series: Sermon On The Mount Title: Careful Service
Matthew 6:1-4. Our Father notices us and wants to reward us for our good works, but if we do good works to look good to others, we'll miss out on God's reward.
Feb 28, 2022•37 min
Series: Sermon On The Mount Title: Breaking the Cycle of Us vs. Them
Matthew 5:38-48. We can only break the cycle of Us vs. Them when we don't retaliate and overcome evil by doing good like praying for our enemies, serving them, and befriending them.
Feb 20, 2022•31 min
Series: Sermon On The Mount Title: Jesus On Honesty and Integrity
Matthew 5:33-37. Jesus teaches people to be those who keep their word. We keep our word because we were created to reflect God, the promise keeper, and called to love others, as God loves them.
Feb 13, 2022•40 min
Series: Stand alone sermons Title: The Fast That God Has Chosen
Isaiah 58:6-11. The spiritual practice of fasting has benefits and dangers, so we need to ask what kind of fast God has chosen?
Feb 06, 2022•48 min
Series: Kingdom Generosity Title: Expectations and Attempts
Isaiah 54:1-5. It's time to move from a survival mentality to a "thrival" mentality. We should expect great things from God and attempt great things for God.
Jan 30, 2022•27 min
Series: Kingdom Generosity Title: Blessed To Bless
Genesis 12:1-3. Why does God bless us? He blesses us because he is good, and he's up to something good. How should we respond to his blessings? By blessing God and blessing others.
Jan 23, 2022•33 min
Series: Kingdom Generosity Title: Generosity and Thanksgiving
II Corinthians 9:10-12. The generosity of one church leads to thanksgiving in another church and God being glorified in His Church.
Jan 16, 2022•33 min
Series: Kingdom Generosity Title: Kingdom Generosity
II Corinthians 8:1-5. The kingdom of God expands through the sacrificial generosity of churches and God's people.
Jan 09, 2022•39 min
Series: Sermon On The Mount Title: Jesus On Objectification And Oppression
Matthew 5:27-32. Jesus discusses how the misuse and misappropriation of sexual desire lead to the objectification and oppression of others and why this is such a big deal.
Jan 02, 2022•43 min
Series: Sermon On The Mount Title: Jesus On Anger
Matthew 5:21-26. Our relationship with God is inseparably tied to our relationship with people. Only through repentance and forgiveness can we live at peace with one another.
Dec 19, 2021•40 min
Series: Sermon On The Mount Title: Jesus On Scripture
Matthew 5:17-20. Jesus believed that the scriptures were inspired, trustworthy, unchanging, and fulfilled in him. If Jesus saw the scriptures this way, they should not be neglected or unexamined by us.
Dec 12, 2021•36 min
Series: Stand alone sermons Title: Doing For God and Being With God
Luke 10:38-42. Doing things for God apart from being with God leads to emotionally unhealthy spirituality. There are four symptoms to help diagnose if you're making this mistake.
Dec 05, 2021•30 min
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