Our joy is not dependent on the circumstances of the world around us. This sermon looks at how when times are good and when times are bad, we need to remember that “this too shall pass.” We cannot depend on “successes” AND we cannot be be defeated by trials. We are more than conquerors through Jesus.
Bible Text: Jonah 3 | Speaker: Darrell Cook | Series: Jonah: The Prodigal Prophet | In our faith walks, in order to grow as a Christian, it is important for us to realize that repentance is essential. True repentance allows us to overflow with God’s grace, so that we might bless others.
Bible Text: Jonah 1:11-17 | Speaker: Matt Simpson | Series: Jonah: The Prodigal Prophet | Even if we are doing all of the “right Christian things”, it is possible to still have a hardness of heart towards God, which can be revealed by a hardness towards other people. This sermon looks at how Jonah was hardened towards those outside of …
Bible Text: Galatians 6:11-18 | Speaker: Matt Simpson | Series: Galatians | What is truly important is being a “new creation.” Works don’t please God, power, acclaim doesn’t please or impress him, what he wants from us is to become a new creation in Christ. If that is how we can summarize Galatians, then we should be concerned about knowing …
Bible Text: Galatians 3:10-14 | Speaker: Jeff Noble | Series: Galatians | Jeff Noble preaches on how those who have been saved by faith will live by righteousness, but a life of righteousness requires complete perfection- no sin, at all. We do not have to attempt to achieve this perfection through legalism, because Jesus became sin for us and makes …
Bible Text: Galatians 3:1-6 | Speaker: Jeff Noble | Series: Galatians | This sermon takes an in depth look at what Paul describes as the “foolishness” of the Galatians, in that they made little of the cross by tying themselves and their faith to legalism. We know that because of the cross we have the tomb, and because of the …
Bible Text: Galatians 1:6-10 | Speaker: Matt Simpson | Series: Galatians | Matt Simpson preaches on Paul’s rebuke of the Galatians, as they deserted the gospel. He discusses people who teach that salvation is achieved through anything more than Jesus dying on the cross, and why adding anything to the gospel kills it. He emphasizes that the only road to …
Bible Text: Genesis 27 | Speaker: Jeff Noble | Series: Created and Called | This sermon examines Jacob and Esau, and the ways that Jacob deceived his father to take Esau’s blessing. In Jacob’s “performance act” and through Esau’s desperation we see that God uses both for redemption, and that we can look to Jesus to be free from performing.
Bible Text: Luke 24:1-12 | Speaker: Jeff Noble | Through looking at Peter’s failures as he tries desperately to love Jesus but denies him three times, we learn that the cross was for the purpose of restoring us and commissioning us. We fail Jesus every day, but he loves us and reminds us to leave our sin in the past …
