Sermons

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…

Luke 2:8-20 (KJV), And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. 10 And the angel said unto them, “Fear not:…

39 In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, 40 where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit 42 and exclaimed with a…

This is a time of year that many of us enjoy, and yet it also can be a little stressful with all we feel we’d like to do, want to do, and need to do, to say nothing of how events in the larger world impact us as well. A few weeks ago, Jill and…

Luke 3:1-6, “In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, 2 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came…