2024-12-01 Stations of Promise – Unshakeable Faith Sermon
Daniel 6:13-22 and Luke 1:39-45, CEB “13 So they said to the king, “One of the Judean exiles, Daniel, has ignored you, Your Majesty, as well as the law you signed. He says his prayers three times a day!” 14 When the king heard this report, he was very unhappy. He decided to rescue Daniel […]
2024-11-24 Piecing It Together – God’s Patchwork of Grace Sermon
Jeremiah 36:1-8, 21-23, 27-28; 31:31-34, CEB “1 In the fourth year of Judah’s King Jehoiakim, Josiah’s son, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 Take a scroll and write in it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations from the time of Josiah until today. […]
2024-11-17 Piecing It Together – Stitching Our Response to God Sermon
Isaiah 6:1-8, CEB In the year of King Uzziah’s death, I saw the Lord sitting on a high and exalted throne, the edges of his robe filling the temple. Winged creatures were stationed around him. Each had six wings: with two they veiled their faces, with two their feet, and with two they flew about. […]
November 10, 2024 – Grateful Hearts, Generous Lives: Responding to God’s Generosity
Jonah 1:1-17 and 3:1-10, CEB The Lord’s word came to Jonah, Amittai’s son: “Get up and go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it, for their evil has come to my attention.” So Jonah got up—to flee to Tarshish from the Lord! He went down to Joppa and found a ship headed […]
November 3, 2024 – Grateful Hearts, Generous Lives: The Widow’s Faith Sermon
1 Kings 17:8-16, CEB The Lord’s word came to Elijah: Get up and go to Zarephath near Sidon and stay there. I have ordered a widow there to take care of you. Elijah left and went to Zarephath. As he came to the town gate, he saw a widow collecting sticks. He called out to […]
October 27, 2024 – Grateful Hearts, Generous Lives: A Heart of Wisdom Sermon
1 Kings 3:4-15, CEB The king went to the great shrine at Gibeon in order to sacrifice there. He used to offer a thousand entirely burned offerings on that altar. The Lord appeared to Solomon at Gibeon in a dream at night. God said, “Ask whatever you wish, and I’ll give it to you.” Solomon […]
October 20, 2024 – Grateful Hearts, Generous Lives: Building God’s House Together Sermon
2 Samuel 7:1-17, CEB When the king was settled in his palace, and the Lord had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies, the king said to the prophet Nathan, “Look! I’m living in a cedar palace, but God’s chest is housed in a tent!” Nathan said to the king, “Go ahead and do […]
October 6, 2024 – From Generation to Generation – Faithfulness Across Generations Sermon
Exodus 32:1-14, CEB The people saw that Moses was taking a long time to come down from the mountain. They gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Come on! Make us gods who can lead us. As for this man Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t have a […]
September 29, 2024 – From Generation to Generation – Freedom’s Song Sermon
Exodus 14:10-31, 15:20-21, CEB “10 As Pharaoh drew closer, the Israelites looked back and saw the Egyptians marching toward them. The Israelites were terrified and cried out to the Lord. 11 They said to Moses, “Weren’t there enough graves in Egypt that you took us away to die in the desert? What have you done […]
September 22, 2024 – Family Ties and Reconciliation
Genesis 37:3-8, 12-13, 18-20, 26-28; 50:15-21 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons because he was born when Jacob was old. Jacob had made for him a long robe. When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of his brothers, they hated him and couldn’t even talk […]
