Sermon Outline – May 10, 2020 Text: Numbers 20:1-13 Title: “God’s Design for the Church: The Obligation and Humility of Leaders” We have spent the last two weeks looking at the biblical qualifications of those who are called to lead Christ’s church, His Bride. But what about when those men blow it? What must they […]
Sacrificial love and being a servant to others are two qualities at the essential heart of what Jesus came to be and do for us. Deacons have a special calling in the Holy Spirit to walk in that Christ-reflecting ministry. This is a call and a mandate that everyone in the church has the responsibility […]
There are days when everything feels upside down, when life seems crazy – and when we feel like we are on the verge of drowning. What does it look like to call out to God in those days? What difference does worshiping Him, even then, make? And how does the gospel of Jesus Christ come […]
So much around us these days is being cancelled and put away. Many of us are grieving for things that have been lost. But the greatest grieving we do is reserved for grieving at the presence of death, for it can rob us of so much. But there is good news — Christ is Risen! […]
It is hard to answer God’s call to “Go Forward” and “Be Witnesses” and “Run the Race” when everything around us seems to be so unsteady and uncertain. But what if what God is really doing in this time is shaking everything that can be shaken, so that we will see the unreliability and danger […]
How does the church respond to the times God has placed us within? How are we faithful to His calling and His mission? If we are going to be “of those who do not shrink back” (Hebrews 10:39), if we are going to be “strengthened in grace” and “endure everything for the sake of the […]
Sermon Outline – March 22, 2020 Text: 2 Timothy 20:1-10 Title: “The Viral Gospel” We live in strange, unsettling times, with quarantines and Covids run amok! And the Bible makes clear that things found in this world aren’t even our greatest opposition as Christians. Yet, despite it all, and despite our own failures and weaknesses, […]
Sermon Outline – March 15, 2020 Text: Hebrews 10:32-39 Title: “Can Confidence in Tomorrow Change Today?”
God Instructs Us Through His Means of Grace Scripture Matthew 16:13-27 Sermon Rev. Lynn Downing “The Importance of the Church in the Mind of Christ”
This morning, we start a new series and journey together in God’s Word. How has Jesus loved us? To what depth and extent has He placed His love on us? And what does it look like for us to begin to respond to that love? As we come alive to grace, as we grow as […]