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Heroes Like Abel

Sunday with Forestdale

On this Sunday we were joined by our sending church, Forestdale in Malden, to tell our story of church planting.

Update: Welcoming Our Newest Sons and Daughters

Over the last 16 months, we have received 10 new babies into the life of our church (woah!), and this has stirred up several conversations about what it looks like for us to welcome our newest sons and daughters at Seven Mile Road so we are going to pilot setting aside a single Sunday annually to celebrate and welcome all the babies that the Father has blessed us within the on Sunday morning, August 26.

Interview: Matthew McCann, Nominee for Pastor/Elder at Seven Mile Road Melrose

In this conversation, we talk with Matty McCann, candidate for pastor/elder at Seven Mile Road.

Interview: Justin Neal, Mosaic Church, Orlando

A team of servants came up from Mosaic Church in Orlando this week to hustle at all Seven Mile Roads. In this interview we hear from one team member on the why and what of their time with us.

All Seven Mile Road Sunday

Listen as we pull all our New England Seven Mile Roads together and hear about gospel advance on the ground in each of these churches.

Heroes Like Rahab

In one thunderbolt of a sentence (Hebrews 11:31), the Spirit reminds us of the beautifully redemptive story of our mother Rahab. By faith she abandoned her old life of sin, leaving behind the the decadent city/culture she'd grown up in/embraced and throwing her lot in with the promises of God.

How The Gospel Will Advance On Cape Cod

Interview: Jeremy Stuart, Seven Mile Road Hyannis (Cape Cod)

In this interview, Matthew Kruse and Jeremy Stuart talk about our future planting plans for Seven Mile Road in Hyannis, Massachusetts on Cape Cod.

Heroes Like Moses

In all of our communities north of Boston in our generation, we need to see faith from all of us akin to what we see in the life of Moses. This is a rugged call and not an easy path. It’s marked by defiance and self-denial and ultimately flourishes in demonstrable acts of faith that many just can’t understand. The Author of Hebrews takes us through the life of Moses, a Jewish Giant of the Faith, from almost 3,500 years ago that has surprising similarities with our own day. We look into the text ...

Heroes Like Abraham

Abraham, who obeyed when God called him, and was able to live by faith even through great adversity. His story is a lot like all of ours, and the faith that kept Abraham going is the same faith given to all of us: faith looking forward to the promises of God.

Summer Update

Honoring Our Fathers

When you think of dads, what words come to mind? Honorable? Clueless? Damnable? In Bostonian culture, we've quickly shifted toward the latter. The beautiful, Biblical call to "Honor your Father" has been jettisoned in favor of cries to "Smash the Patriarchy!" So which is it? This Sunday we'll consider the doctrine of the Fatherhood of God and its implications for how we respond to our dads and church fathers (as imperfect as they are).

Heroes Like Enoch

All Summer we're looking at the lives of 10 different heroes of faith from Hebrews 11. Unlike the "superheroes" of our big screen and comic book fantasies, these folks were just ordinary people who came to trust God fully with their lives, and now they've been given to us as examples, that we might do the same. This week is seventh-from-Adam-Enoch, whose unusually long life seems, at first glance, as unheroic as it gets, until we get to the wild, mic-drop moment at the end.

What A Gospel Community Is (And Isn't)

In this sermon, we cast a vision for our gospel communities being venues where disciples are actually made as we marry understanding, belief, and action.

Heroes Like Sarah

We begin our look at the exemplars of living-by-faith from Hebrews 11 on Mother's Day with Sarah as she receives, laughs at, but then holds to and acts on the promise of God for her life.

Weaponizing the Sweetness of our First Season of Grace

The pastor/writer of the letter to the Hebrews has been working overtime to convince these Christians to stick with Jesus and His gospel in the face of serious temptation to bail. In chapter 10 we see him imploring them to look back at that first season of grace and remember how sincere and unshakeable their conviction was. They suffered, their friends suffered, and they EVEN HAD THEIR HARD-EARNED STUFF WRONGFULLY CONFISCATED ... and none of it shook them an inch because none of it compared the ...

In The Godly, Fear And Love Embrace

What happens when, in defiance of both God's law and gospel, we make sin the settled pursuit of our lives? This is a burning question for all of us who live in what is rapidly becoming a post-Christian culture. In this fourth warning from the book of Hebrews we get an answer.

Why Jesus' People Get Together A Lot

American culture excels at distracting us from the realities of sin and grace and convincing us that we don't need to spend time gathered with other Christians - and we often gladly oblige (to our own harm and the harm of those we are called to love and encourage). In this sermon we hear the Spirit calling us in Scripture to "not neglect meeting together, as is the habit of some" and we hit one of the big "whys" of going to church and getting together with our gospel community.

Why is the Christian gospel so bloody?

"If God is love, why would He require a blood sacrifice in order to forgive sins? That sounds barbaric." In this sermon, we'll consider this objection by following the thread of substitutionary atonement that weaves its way through all of redemptive history - from the garden to the cross - culminating in Christ's willing sacrifice of His life for ours.

The Power of an Indestructible Life

"The power of an indestructible life." That's how the book of Hebrews refers to the hinge on which the gospel swings: the unexpected, unrivaled, undeniable, unchanging fact of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. On Easter Sunday at Seven Mile Road we talked resurrection and its implications for our present and future.

The Way, Way Better Promises of the New Covenant

The "new covenant," aka "the gospel era," aka "all the awesomeness that we are experiencing at Seven Mile Road right now" is built on better promises than the older covenant that preceded it." This Sunday we deep dive on what Hebrews 8 teaches us about what was "wrong" the with older covenant and what the "better" promises are that God has made real in us in the new. Come ready to do some theology with us ... the kind that sets your soul on fire.

The Church Just Wants My Money

What American with cable tv and a remote control has not had that skeptical thought run through their head? And rightfully so. "Televangelism" is a bane of the American church and an affront to the very heart of the gospel. Truth be told, all of church history is littered with liars, thieves, and charlatans who sought to manipulate the gospel for their own financial gain. This practice is a sin that is condemned throughout Scripture, one that the church must own up to and fight hard against it. ...

The Certainty Of God's Promise

Should I Come To The Table?

In this sermon, we work to answer a question that comes up often in the life of our church: Who should be coming to Jesus' Table? Is this meal open to anyone who happens to gather for worship that day? How would I know if I should be participating? We spent time in the text of Scripture that most explicitly addresses this question (I Corinthians 11:23-32) and saw that the Spirit's answer is meant to BOTH stop us in our tracks AND bid us come.

Jesus Is No Ordinary Priest

You might not be particularly familiar with Melchizedek or even if you are, you probably haven’t given him a lot of thought, but he might be the most important person in the Bible that you’ve probably never thought much about. In this sermon we look at Hebrews 7 and tackle some important questions like “Why does Seven Mile Road not have priests?” and “Why is Melchizedek important, at all, for us today?”

Apostasy Is Real (And I'm Not Going There)

In this sermon we come across the third of the five fierce warnings that pepper the book of Hebrews. These warnings are meant to alert us to the dangers of neglecting the gospel of grace, and this warning is intense. According to Hebrews 6:4-9, it's possible for someone who has had legitimate gospel experiences to "fall away" with zero hope for every coming back to Christ. Join us as we think on how the twin Biblical teachings of potential apostasy and eternal security hold together.

Aren't Christians the No Fun Police?

Is there a gospel-centered way to watch the Super Bowl? Yes. Yes, there is. With some wings in one hand, some nachos in the other, and a big, fat smile on your face. In this sermon, we address the common objection that Christianity is for grumpy curmudgeons who barely smile, frequently brood, and would even suck the life out of a Super Bowl party if you let them. This common caricature is actually the exact opposite of reality. Through the gospel, God has secured for us a future that is marked b...

You Should Be Teachers By Now (Or, Don't Be Billy Madison)

We've all heard the words "grow up." Sometimes they've been spoken to us with disdain, sometimes with despair. But in Hebrews 5:11 - 6:3 the Spirit speaks them to us with urgency and hope. The gospel life is one of moving, relentlessly, purposefully, toward maturity in Christ. We never get beyond gospel grace, but we do build on it.

Saying Yes To Very Hard Obediences

Has the Father called you to some really hard obediences in this season of your life? This text will provide some hope and help! We look at the Spirit's words in Hebrew 5:7-10 and see that Jesus' life was one long, difficult, perfect obedience, crescendoing in His yes to the cross. We then consider the posture of a life that is fully submitted to God by the power of the gospel.