becoming more like Jesus
The Whole Life of Christ in Us
The Whole Life of Christ in Us
January is a season of fresh starts. Gym memberships surge, and many of us resolve to build better habits. But what if this year’s most important resolution wasn’t about doing more, but about becoming more — specifically, becoming more like Jesus?
Beginning on the first Sunday of the new year, we’ll launch a six-week worship series called The Whole Life of Christ in Us, which will focus on historic spiritual practices that have shaped faithful Christians for centuries. These practices are six life-giving ways of following Christ that were modeled in the life of Jesus.
Read Pastor Doug’s introduction to the series.
People of the Bible: Why the Word Still Matters
In Why the Word Still Matters, Pastor David Pranga reminds us that in a noisy and distracted world, God still speaks clearly through Scripture. Drawing from 2 Timothy 3:14–17, this sermon teaches that the Bible is God-breathed, authoritative, and essential for shaping how we live as followers of Christ. God’s Word teaches, corrects, and trains…
Preview: People of the Bible: Why the Word Still Matters
This Sunday, Pastor David will continue our series, “The Whole Life of Christ in Us,” sharing why God’s Word still matters in our lives today. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. ~…
A Spirit-Empowered Life
In A Spirit-Empowered Life, Pastor Doug Scalise reflects on Jesus’ baptism in Matthew 3:13–17 and what it reveals about identity, purpose, and God’s presence. As the Spirit descends and God declares Jesus the Beloved Son, we see that acceptance and approval come before achievement or service. This sermon reminds us that baptism is not an…
Preview: A Spirit-Empowered Life
We continue our series, “The Whole Life of Christ in Us” with Pastor Doug sharing about “A Spirit-Empowered Life” and the baptism of Jesus from Matthew 3. And when Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from the water, suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw the Spirit of God…
Flesh and Blood Christianity
The Gospel of John doesn’t include a birth story for Jesus like Luke and Matthew; however, John also testifies to the incarnation of Jesus, the idea that in Jesus, God took on a human body like ours. John says, the eternal Word became flesh, that God chose to tabernacle or “camp out” with us on…
Preview: Flesh and Blood Christianity
This Sunday, we begin a new series, “The Whole Life of Christ in Us,” with Pastor Doug sharing from John 1:1-14 about when the Word became flesh in Jesus. And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace…