June 23, 2024
Series: A Top-Down Faith, Sundays after Pentecost
Speaker: Pastor Ron Raddatz
A powerful tornado rolls through your neighborhood. A massive hurricane heads straight for your city. A bolt of lightning sends 300 million volts to earth. The raw power and unpredictability of storms can inspire both awe and terror. We cannot stop storms from coming. We can only hope to survive them. However, we know the Almighty God can stop storms. He can calm literal storms. He could remove metaphorical storms, other types of troubles and trials. So, if He can, why doesn’t He?
Well, would you rather have a God who was distant from you but removed all the storms of life? Or would you rather have a God who allowed some storms to come but promised to be right there by your side within them, holding you close? May God give us the top-down faith that sees that the latter is by far the better option. God promises to be with us through all the storms of life. Sometimes He removes them. But when He doesn’t, it’s only because He has plans to use even storms for our eternal good.
April 7, 2024
Series: Resurrection Reality, Sundays of Easter
Speaker: Pastor James Enderle
Topic: Condemned, Conflict, Experience, Faith, Fellowship, forgiveness, Gospel, Joy, Life, Peace, Proclaim, Reconciled, Saw, Share, Testify, Truth, Witnesses, Yoke
In most world religions, the alleged foundational event was experienced by only one person. A self-proclaimed prophet would allege he alone had some special encounter with God. “No really! Just trust me. It really happened.” The resurrection reality is so very different. In the Great Resurrection Chapter (1 Corinthians 15), St. Paul writes an entire paragraph listing all the people to whom Jesus appeared after He rose, including a group of over five hundred at one time. It is like St. Paul is telling skeptics, “You don’t need to take my word for it. Hundreds of us saw Jesus back from the dead.”
The proof of Jesus’ resurrection brought peace and strength to those early believers. They knew there was more to their existence than just their time on earth. They knew the reality that eternal life was theirs, a gift from their living Lord. It gave them incredible joy and courage. May the resurrection reality give us the same.
January 21, 2024
Speaker: Pastor David Ruddat
Topic: Ambassadors, Barrier, Create, Grace, Life, mercy, Message, New, Reconciled, Reconciliation, Relational, Relationship, Repent, sin
From Jordan’s Shore to Mountain’s Glory: Committed to a Lofty Charge. To whom does the work of salvation belong? Simple question. There is only one Savior. Yet He gives our lives a profound meaning and eternal purpose, by sharing His work with us. He calls us not just to be followers, but to be follower-makers. Jesus asks some—pastors, missionaries, teachers—to do this full time. But ultimately Jesus asks all believers to serve as His ambassadors, sharing the Gospel with whomever He brings into our sphere of influence. This lofty charge requires commitment—a willingness to abandon everything else should faithfulness require it. This is the life-changing revelation for this week. Jesus has committed us to a lofty charge: the privilege to play a role in His saving work.
July 23, 2023
Series: Sundays after Pentecost, The Christian...
Speaker: Pastor James Enderle
Topic: Accomplish, Life, Love, Peace, Water
The Sunday is summarized in the Prayer of the Day, which thanks God for the implanting of the Word and asks for the Spirit’s help in producing fruits of faith. The Christian is planted by the Word and produces fruit.
February 12, 2023
Series: Epiphany
Speaker: Pastor Randy Ott
Topic: Condemnation, Faith, Life, Sins, Time
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October 10, 2021
Series: Jesus' Grace is ALL in ALL to Us
Speaker: Pastor James Enderle
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