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  • June 29, 2025

    Series: Sundays after Pentecost, Undivided Attention

    Speaker: Pastor James Enderle

    Topic: Above, Afraid, Christ, Commitments, Elijah, Elisha, Fear, Feel, God, Jesus, Loving, Marriage, Means, Relationship, Savior, sin, Trust, Truth, Unwavering, Wavers

    There is the type of fan who follows his team if they make the playoffs. Then there is the type of fan who, regardless of his team’s record, watches every game and knows the stats for every player. There are different types of followers: the half-hearted versus the committed. Jesus is uninterested in followers who pay attention to his Word and will only when their other pursuits provide the time. Jesus wants followers who are all in . . . who love him above all things . . . who would be willing to leave everything else behind if that were what it would take to be with him. We simply do not have it inside us to produce that level of commitment. But in the gospel, we see how Jesus went all in for our salvation. As we witness the way Jesus made our eternal happiness the focus of his undivided attention, the Spirit creates within us the very commitment that Christ seeks.

    1 Kings 19:19-21

  • July 7, 2024

    Series: Meaningful Ministry, Sundays after Pentecost

    Speaker: Pastor James Enderle

    Topic: Amazed, compassion, Everyone, Feel, forgiveness, Glee, Gospel, Gratitude, Love, Ministry, Offended, Offense, Offensive, Ordinary, Pride, Rejection, Repent, Repentance, Resentment

    If ministry involves serving others with love and compassion, you would think that people would respond only with glee and gratitude for the help they received. Sometimes, but not always. If you offer to help a family member who is having trouble paying his bills, he might be offended, wondering if you are implying that he is not a good provider. Likewise, if you try and share the gospel with someone, he might resent the message that he is a sinner in need of salvation. You are trying to minister to this man’s greatest need. Your intentions are loving. Yet he responds with rejection and resentment.

    When our ministry efforts are met not with glee and gratitude but rejection and resentment, we are in good company. The prophets, apostles, and even Jesus himself all had those who responded negatively to their ministries. When that happens to us, it doesn’t mean our ministry is no longer meaningful. For if others do not appreciate our efforts to serve them, God still appreciates our efforts to serve him.

    Mark 6:1-6