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 […]
Although He keeps many of the details to Himself, our God makes this message clear: He will rescue and deliver His people. The hope that we place in Him is not misplaced — it is real, it is certain, and it will be answered. But our God also makes clear that His deliverance also comes […]
Stock markets. Weather forecasts. Sports books. Horoscopes. College entrance scores. And kids trying to find their presents before Christmas. Our culture is obsessed with trying to know things before they happen. We want to know, because we want to be in control. But our God, who loves us as a perfect Father, reveals a great […]
“God, why?! Why this way? Why won’t you take the pain and suffering and fear away?” Have you ever called out to God like that, with questions full of hurt, doubt, even anger? What does God say to us about His purpose through the suffering and the hard times through history — and in our […]
Daniel 10 is another highly controversial text in this section of prophecy. But again — don’t get lost in the details and speculation. Look at the context! Daniel is deeply depressed….for three weeks! And into this depression, Jesus comes and does exactly what Daniel needs — He touches him (three times, actually)!! He speaks love […]
The section of Scripture we come to today is one of the most controversial, argued about, speculated about, “spooky and scary” portions in all of Scripture. Entire books have been written arguing back and forth about this passage! Today, as we come under God’s Word, we are asking Him to de-mystify it — by focusing […]
This is a strange time of year — when the world offers us new starts and the alluring promise of “beginning again” through the siren song of resolutions, better intentions, and trying harder. “Surely, this is the year I can get it right.” But what if the way forward doesn’t come through the self — […]