Sermons

Using Words for Good
John Wesley proposes three simple rules for how we are to live a healthy life: Do No Harm, Do Good, Stay in Love with God. The words we choose to use can be in line with these rules. This week, how might your words do good to and for the people...
Being Merciful in a Sometimes-Nasty World
We live in an increasingly polarized society. We line up along socioeconomic, political and other lines, pitting ourselves against the other, as if anyone too different from us or our beliefs is enemy.  Using the example of wealth, James...
Facing Trials
Click here to watch the Facebook Live video of the song and sermon. This week we begin a 5-week study of the Book of James called “A Healthy Life, Under Pressure.” James asks followers of Jesus to live in ways where life’s...
The Spirit's Relevance Today
Today we hear again the story of the coming of the Holy Spirit in power on the day of Pentecost and about the means through which the church was birthed. It’s an amazing story of how a scattered group of believers were energized toward...
A Letter to our Graduates and their Families
Graduates, Paul write the "in every way you have been enriched in [Jesus Christ], in speech and knowledge of every kind…so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift.” As you transition into this next season in your lives...
Protocol
This week's focus in our series "How Do I Please God" is on protocol. How do we engage in worship that is pleasing to God?  Protocols spell out the “how” of doing something so that we may more fully integrate the...
Power
What do you have control of when you approach God for worship? In corporate worship, you generally cannot select the hymns or sermon text or direct the way the pastor or liturgist prays. However, you are in charge of you. You can set the tone of...
Preparation
This week's focus in our series "How Do I Please God" is preparation.  How do you prepare for worship or do you?    We prepare for other meaningful practices. We train for the upcoming race. We shop for supplies for a trip...
Presence
Have you ever considered whether God is pleased with how you worship? Many times, we think about worship being about us, and it is.  Yet, we assemble together and turn our hearts toward God to worship our divine creator. Should we not always...
We've Celebrated - What's Next?
Click here to watch the sermon on Facebook Live.  You do not have to have a Facebook account to watch the video.   We learn from our text today that we are moved to share the Good News whenwe encounter the resurrected Christ, much...
Crossing
Click here to view the Facebook Live video of the sermon In a visual account of Jesus’ life using only Words from the Gospel called The Visual Bible, director Regardt van den Bergh depicts Jesus walking from the empty tomb to...
Proclaiming
 N.T. Wright in his work, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church shares that “resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven, but to...

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