Sermons

Since we started this series on Going Deeper in Prayer I’ve heard from a number of you. Clearly one of the things that Christians feel we should do yet often struggle to do or feel inadequate about is prayer. Some of us would say, “I am confident and comfortable with the prayer in my life,…

Today and next Sunday we’re looking at a prayer of Paul written to the Christians in Ephesus. Written while Paul was a prisoner (see Ephesians 3:1; 4:1; 6:20), probably at about the same time as the Letter to the Colossians, Ephesians shares with that letter many of the same phrases and expressions. Because there is…

I’m excited for us to start a new series today on Going Deeper in Prayer. When we read the Bible one of the activities we hear a lot about a lot is prayer. There are hundreds of prayers in the Bible. The Book of Psalms contains 150 prayers and songs that teach us we can…

Today is one of the biggest annual celebrations in the United States. It’s Super Bowl Sunday, a day of football, money, excess, food and more. Businesses will spend millions of dollars for 60 second commercials. On television and radio, in print and online thousands upon thousands of hours have been spent in producing stories and…

For those just joining with us today, we are in series called the “Mission of the Church”. A few weeks ago, Doug shared in week 1 about the power of “Inviting People to follow Jesus”. Doug shared that Jesus invited people to follow Him all the time. When the disciples saw Jesus and started to…

Getting more than a foot of snow overnight, we’re reminded of how having the right equipment like a plow or a snow blower or a good shovel can make a difference. No matter what a person does for work or for a hobby, there is often specific equipment that’s needed to do your job or…

Last Sunday we talked about Inviting and how when a person sees and gets to know Jesus it’s natural to want to invite someone else to get connected to Jesus too because of all the ways Jesus impacts and touches our life. Today’s passage is about Connecting. If you look back in Mark 6 to…

One of the things I find fascinating about the Bible is that you can read or listen to a passage and the first time through you’re trying to get a basic sense of what’s going on, what’s the point, what’s happening. When you go over it again, more slowly, all of a sudden you begin…

The terrific book about Spiritual Growth, Celebration of Discipline, by Richard Foster, begins with these words, “Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem. The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.” While I…