Series: Teach Us To Pray Title: Talking With God
Luke:11:1-13. When we pray to God, we come to him as our loving Father who delights to hear our gratitude, laments, and petitions and answer our prayers.
Feb 12, 2023•42 min
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Series: Teach Us To Pray Title: Revive Us Again
II Chronicles 7:11-16. God accomplishes his providential purpose in prayer, changing the world, by accomplishing his secret purpose in prayer, changing us.
Jan 29, 2023•33 min
Series: Upper Room Title: Bearing Witness
John 15:26-27. Jesus said we would become his witnesses, telling others what we have seen and experienced in Jesus. To become his witnesses, we need to seek him so that we will have firsthand experiences to tell.
Jan 22, 2023•39 min
Series: Upper Room Title: What In The World?
John 15:18-25. The world tries to get us to conform to its ways of living without God and redefine good and evil. When we don't conform, the world will hate us as it hated Jesus. Even so, we can be a light to the world when we are transformed by Jesus rather than conformed to the world.
Jan 15, 2023•41 min
Series: Upper Room Title: Your Joy Will Be Complete
John 15:9-17. Joy is gratitude in all circumstances in response to God's love and grace. Jesus says we can experience such joy as we abide in him through obedience, love, pruning, and fruit-bearing.
Jan 08, 2023•42 min
Series: Upper Room Title: Remain In Me
John 15:1-8. Jesus is the only source of spiritual life. When we remain in him, we bear fruit and bring glory to God.
Jan 02, 2023•35 min
Series: Upper Room Title: Peace I Give You
John 14:27-31. Jesus gives us his peace as a gift. We receive and access his peace through worship, prayer, thanksgiving, meditation, and obedience.
Dec 18, 2022•37 min
Series: Upper Room Title: The Presence God Gives Us
John 14:15-26. Jesus said if we love him, we will obey his commands. He knew we'd need help to obey his commands, so he promised the Holy Spirit to testify to who he is and remind us what he said.
Dec 11, 2022•45 min
Series: Upper Room Title: Veiled In Flesh
John 14:6-22. How do we find peace in a troubled world? By trusting God, which would be easier if we could see him.What we see in Jesus is enough to cause us the trust in God.
Dec 04, 2022•42 min
Series: Upper Room Title: Don't Be Troubled
John 14:1-6. Jesus's disciples were troubled after hearing that Jesus would be with them no longer be with them. Jesus comforts them, saying don't be troubled, I have prepared a place for you, and I am the way for you.
Nov 27, 2022•30 min
Series: Upper Room Title: He's Not Through With You
John 13:31-38. Peter promised to be faithful to Jesus unto death, but he broke the promise by disowning Jesus three times. Even so, Jesus was eager to restore Peter and remind him that he was not through with him yet.
Nov 20, 2022•31 min
Series: Upper Room Title: The Platinum Rule
John 13:34,35. How will people know that we're disciples of Jesus? When we follow Jesus's new command to love one another as he has loved us.
Nov 14, 2022•40 min
Series: Upper Room Title: Do You Understand What I Have Done For You?
John 13. In a cultural moment when it's hard to follow Jesus, what can keep us following Jesus? By remembering the good news about how Jesus loved and served us.
Nov 11, 2022•38 min
Series: Upper Room Title: Rethinking Friendship
John 13:1-5. In light of God’s unconditional acceptance and friendship toward us, how do we extend that kind of unconditional friendship to those around us? John 13:1-5 gives us keen insight into what it takes to have deep, meaningful friendships. When we know we are fully loved and accepted, we are free to extend that to those around us.
Oct 31, 2022•42 min
Series: Life Together Title: Community In Mission
John 17:20-26. Jesus prays that we would be one so that the world may believe that the Father sent the Son. We need loving Christian communities, and the world needs to see loving Christian communities.
Oct 25, 2022•44 min
Series: Life Together Title: Practicing The Truth In Love
Ephesians 4:1-16. We practice the community of Christ by becoming a community of practice, and practice means embodied participation.
Oct 16, 2022•44 min
Series: Life Together Title: Spiritual Family
Mark 3:31-35. Jesus started a new spiritual family and said it takes priority over our biological family. As brothers and sisters, we are obligated to one another.
Oct 09, 2022•29 min
Series: Life Together Title: Made In The Image Of God
Genesis 1:26,27 and 2:18. We were made in the image of our triune God which means we were made for relationships.
Oct 02, 2022•38 min
Series: How We Change Title: Christian Community
Matthew 10:1-4. Following Jesus has from the beginning been in community (messy community) because it's only in the context of community that we learn how to love.
Sep 25, 2022•40 min
Series: How We Change Title: Missional Practices
Matthew 14:13-33. One of the ways we change is by doing what we can to follow Jesus's missional practices while depending on Jesus to do what only he can do when we do.
Sep 18, 2022•39 min
Series: How We Change Title: Spiritual Disciplines
I Corinthians 9:24-27. What we do spiritually forms us to Jesus or the world, so we need to ask, "What are the things we're doing, doing to us?"
Sep 11, 2022•32 min
Series: How We Change Title: Formational Forces
Luke 6:39,40. Jesus’ goal is to make us like him. But why does it often feel like it’s not happening? In this sermon, we consider two main reasons why and what we need to overcome them.
Sep 05, 2022•46 min
Series: How We Change Title: By Being With Jesus Through The Spirit
John 15:1-8. Jesus teaches us that to become like him, we must be with him, and we can be with him today through the power of the Spirit.
Aug 28, 2022•42 min
Series: How We Change Title: Becoming Like Jesus
Mark 1:16-20. Jesus's invitation to follow him is an invitation to become like him, restoring us to who he created us to be.
Aug 21, 2022•40 min
Series: Consider Your Ways Title: Keep Going
Haggai 2. In a time of great discouragement, Haggai urges the remnant to be strong, have hope, and check their hearts.
Aug 14, 2022•36 min
Series: Consider Your Ways Title: Consider Your Ways
Haggai 1. After more than forty years in exile, the remnant community returned to Jerusalem to rebuild their home. When the temple reconstruction is halted, God sends Haggai to the nation's leaders to address the ambivalence which had taken root in their hearts.
Aug 07, 2022•36 min
Series: Psalms of Summer 2022 Title: Keeping The Passion Alive
Psalm 63: To keep our passion for God alive, our desire must be for God, our delight must be in God, our dependence must be on God, and our deliverance must come from God.
Aug 03, 2022•39 min
Series: Psalms of Summer 2022 Title: Gutsy Guilt
Psalm 51. What do you do when you feel impossibly helpless about the guilt in your life? In Psalm 51, David teaches us that when we come to God with gutsy guilt, God gives gob stopping grace.
Jul 26, 2022•46 min
Series: Psalms of Summer 2022 Title: Praying Through Our Fears
Psalm 3. This psalm is a lament Psalm retelling the time David fled from his son Absalom. It helps us see a real-life example of what it looks like to see our faith grow as we take our fears and anxieties to God.
Jul 19, 2022•38 min
Series: Psalms of Summer 2022 Title: How Majestic
Psalm 8. God is magnificent because he created the entire universe, and we are significant because we're made in his image and called to represent him in the world.
Jul 10, 2022•42 min
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