Sermon by Brandon Clements on December 19, 2021.
For our Advent series this year we’re taking one popular Christmas song each week and unpacking what this teaches us about Jesus’ birth.
This week we’re looking at a hymn authored by the 18th century hymnist Isaac Watts, “Joy to the World.”
Sermon by Andrew Flowers on December 12, 2021.
For our Advent series this year we’ll be taking one popular Christmas song each week and unpack what this teaches us about Jesus’ birth.
This week we’re looking at another hymn authored by the 18th century hymnist Charles Wesley, “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.”
Sermon by Brandon Clements on December 5, 2021.
For our Advent series this year we’ll be taking one popular Christmas song each week and unpack what this teaches us about Jesus’ birth.
This week we’re looking at the 19th century carol penned by Joseph Mohr, “Silent Night.”
Sermon by Michael Bailey on November 28, 2021.
For our Advent series this year, we’ll be taking one popular Christmas song and unpacking what it teaches us about Jesus’ birth. In this sermon, we’re looking at the hymn “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”
Sermon by Brandon Clements on November 21, 2021.
Celebrating God's faithfulness in the history of our church & looking ahead to what we pray He will continue to do.
Sermon by Michael Bailey on November 14, 2021.
As we wrap up our series on the Ten Commandments, the final command says, “Do not covet.” According to this command, coveting is ultimately rooted in misplaced desire. The call was to therefore curb your desires in such a way to find your provision in God alone. But as you’ll see, in our culture we don’t really have a category for this. Desires are to be celebrated not tamed. So what do we do with this?
Sermon by Brandon Clements on November 7, 2021.
In this week’s teaching, we explore the 9th commandment, “You shall not bear false witness.” “Bearing false witness” means to tell a story about someone that isn’t true; you act as a witness to their behavior or character and do it in a way that doesn’t line up with reality. This subject is more complicated than you might think. It’s possible to bear false witness knowingly or even unknowingly.
Sermon by Brandon Clements on October 31, 2021.
In the eighth commandment, we see the call to not steal is also a call towards generosity. Because God has given abundantly to us, we in turn can give abundantly to others.
Sermon by Michael Bailey on October 24, 2021.
In the seventh commandment, we see that Jesus is ultimately after our hearts. He commands us to not commit adultery, but also to not do anything that might distort God’s covenant love towards us. Our call then is to love our spouse because it says something about God’s character.
Sermon by Michael Bailey on October 17, 2021.
Because God made human beings in His image, all human life has tremendous dignity, value and worth. In light of the sixth commandment then, our call as followers of Jesus then is not just to “do not murder” but to protect life no matter what it costs us.
Sermon by Brandon Clements on October 10, 2021.
Learning how to submit to authority and be a part of a group bigger than us is for our good, and the nuclear family is one such structure God put in place to teach us to respect authority. Honoring our parents becomes the “training wheels” to learn how to honor those over us, and most especially, helps us learn how to honor God.
Sermon by Brandon Clements on October 3, 2021.
Through commandment four, God gives us a picture of His holiness, and a reminder that we can’t save ourselves: The Sabbath. The Sabbath is our call to stop once a week, to rest, and enjoy God. While we often think this is good for our own health, this commandment holds a communal aspect to it. Individuals keeping the Sabbath is for the good and the health of the group.
Sermon by Brandon Clements on September 26, 2021.
The way we think about and speak about God is designed to reflect His holiness and defaming Him through our speech brings harm. Yet for many modern people, it’s probably fascinating that this would be one of the 10 most important commands. Commandment three is but another reminder that God takes His holiness and His name seriously.
Sermon by Michael Bailey on September 19, 2021.
This week we look at the second commandment, “You shall not make images of God.” Now to our modern ears, this command sounds strange. However, in Deuteronomy 5, Romans 1, and Colossians 1, we see “image making” as describing something universal to the human condition. Ultimately, we need a better image of God and His name is Jesus.
Sermon by Michael Bailey on September 12, 2021.
The Israelites spent 430 years in circumstances that normalized the worship and service of different gods. This week we’ll look at the first commandment in Deuteronomy 5 where God gives His people a marker to look back and show them that He is the one true God. No one and no thing come before Him.
Sermon by Michael Bailey on September 5, 2021.
Last week, we introduced a concept called moral foundations theory. It argues that different cultures base their sense of right and wrong through five different moral categories. This week, we'll look at Hebrews 3-4 to see exactly what happens when we forget God’s view of morality and look to ourselves or our culture to determine what’s right and what’s wrong.
Sermon by Brandon Clements on August 29, 2021.
Have you ever encountered people who think differently than you and thought they were so incredibly wrong? Do you know of other Christians with opposed political views to yours and wondered how you’ll ever get along with them? Have you ever read the Bible and and thought, “Hold up! How is this okay?” In this week’s sermon, we’ll look at Romans 2:14-16 to unpack the issue of morality, conscience, and ultimately how God’s Spirit and God’s Word lead us into truth.
Sermon by Brandon Clements on August 22, 2021.
Why should we trust God in the first place? Why should we believe him? The good news is we aren’t the first people to ask that question and in fact, God himself expected that question. In this week's sermon we’ll look at Deuteronomy 6:20-25 where God predicts and answers this very question.
Sermon by Brandon Clements on August 15, 2021.
In Luke 22:14-20 Jesus institutes the sacrament of communion to His disciples. Now we don’t know what all they understood at this point, but this was a category breaking event. This was no normal Passover meal. Jesus says He is starting a new covenant, a new way of relating to God the Father. And every week when we gather, we participate to remind ourselves of this reality.
Sermon by Michael Bailey on August 8, 2021.
The average sermon is 40 minutes in length. So if you were to attend each Sunday, the total cumulative time spent listening to sermons in a year would be 36 hours. Taking that in account, what are you hoping will happen as a result of that time? Why spend so much time having someone teach you from the Bible each and every week? More broadly, why is one of the focal points of our time together reading from, explaining and applying a 2000+ year old collection of literature?
To answer that, we’ll look at a handful of passages including 2 Timothy 3, Hebrews 4, Titus 2, and Luke 8.
