"People who delight in the grace of God become gracious people." - JR Vassar
Guest Pastor Jonathan Murphy
"When we neglect God and his purposes, our lives become flat. We end up killing time to cure boredom instead of stewarding time to accomplish something of significance." - JR Vassar
Luke 10:25-37 "To see someone as a person means that you understand that everyone has intrinsic worth and is sacred...There is no one on this planet who is simply common. Every person that exists is made in the image of God...They are reminders to us of God's existence and reality." - JR Vassar
Romans 8:28-39
Romans 8:31-34
Romans 8:28-30 “Don’t turn a text of comfort into a text of controversy… when we go through times of suffering, theology matters. God is not going to comfort you apart from reason or your mind… He comforts us with truth… Theology has the ability to serenade and sooth you.” – JR Vassar
Romans 8:18-29 “Be careful how you define ‘good.’ It doesn’t mean an upgrade in your circumstances as much as it means an upgrade in you.” –JR Vassar
Romans 8:1-27 “The Holy Spirit is given to us because life is too much for us.” -JR Vassar
Romans 8:22-25 “God wants the Holy Spirit not to be just a theological truth we affirm, but an experiential reality we encounter.” – JR Vassar
Listen to our first ever, Q&A Podcast where we will help you go just a little further into your understanding of the Romans 8 text. Pastor Joseph Tenny is joined by Pastor JR Vassar in answering the questions you have sent in as you have been following the sermons. They cover everything from important biographies...
Romans 8:17-22 “Jesus has come to regain us for God and to regain creation for us.” –JR Vassar
Romans 8:14-17 “The Holy Spirit gives every Christian a sense of God’s personal, fatherly love.” – JR Vassar
Romans 8:12-14 “I fear we have few of us a diligence proportionable to our danger.” –Joseph Tenney (Quoting John Owen)
Romans 8:12-17 “The mortification of sin is more than overcoming certain particular sins; it is the killing of the roots of sin, not just the fruit of sin.” -JR Vassar
Romans 8:5-11
Romans 8:5-8 | Guest Speaker – Tyson Guthrie
Romans 8:1-4 “The gospel is that your heart may be made fit to receive the Holy Spirit and that you might be brought into a new experience of life altogether under the influence and power of the Holy Spirit.”–JR Vassar
Romans 1:1-4 “A Christian should never feel condemned, never see God as opposed to them, and never see him as a God in need of appeasing. It’s all been done in Christ.” -JR Vassar
Mark 4:35-41 “Our circumstances do not have final significance. They break upon the fact that Jesus has all authority. They are robbed of ultimate significance…This world is broken and fallen and we are all going to get cut, wounded and we are all going to bleed. But those things do not have ultimate significance… Christ...
Hebrews 10:23-25 “Our worship is desperately seeking a home.” -Joseph Tenney
“The gospel will heal you of your need to be extraordinary because it gives you the love and approval you desperately want and need.” – JR Vassar