Sunday Sermons

In God's original, ideal design, children receive a clear sense of identity and responsibility from their families—including the resources and guidance they need to mature and to live well. Biblical discipline focuses on habits, priorities, relationships, and actually living out God's will. Sermon Outline Series: JESUS Speaker: John Pryor

Love makes forgiveness possible, forgiveness makes new life possible, and Jesus never let anyone's sin keep Him from offering them both love and forgiveness. Both are gifts God chooses to give us and expects us to give others, and both are investments in the future. Sermon Outline Series: JESUS Speaker: David Pryor

Christ knew that physical healing often leads to the spiritual and relational restoration that He came to give us. Each recorded healing demonstrated His power over creation itself and gave someone an opportunity to live a full life after reconnecting with God and others. Sermon Outline Series: JESUS Speaker: John Pryor

Jesus violated man-made rules because He celebrate what the Sabbath and the other Jewish rituals were designed to be: regularly scheduled new beginnings. Today we honor His sacrifice by accepting all He offers and living out His will. Sermon Outline Series: JESUS Speaker: John Pryor

Jesus intentionally recruited marginalized people—even those who seemed to deserve their suffering or rejection. He knew that beneath all the distortion and brokenness, we are all made in God's image and longing to belong and play vital part in His story. He also knows that the "least likely" are often first in line for love, forgiveness, and a genuine new start, and He went where they were...

The core of Jesus's message was a royal proclamation: He is King, and everyone is invited to follow Him. Using poetry, commands, symbolic stories, and His own example, King Jesus made His expectations clear… Sermon Outline Series: Jesus Speaker: John Pryor

Godly mothers (and all true believers) value and live out their identity as Christ followers more than what anyone else thinks about them. They refuse to define themselves by past successes or failures and relentlessly keep growing and strategically passing on their faith—mostly by example. Sermon Outline Series: Jesus Speaker: John Pryor

Literally everything Jesus did at the beginning of His ministry—including His own baptism—was a symbol or an example of this truth: Jesus creates new beginnings when we do what He says, His way. Sermon Outline Series: JESUS Speaker: John Pryor

Jesus showed us exactly what God would do if He lived life as a human being—and made it possible for us to live our lives the same way. Every day, we work together in the "family business," restoring all things with the Father, the Son, the Spirit, and with all our brothers and sisters. Sermon Outline Series: JESUS Speaker: John Pryor

Transformative churches grasp the imperative understanding of God as a sending God and recognize themselves as a church of sent people. As a result, they integrate into their communities and impact their neighborhoods and cities, having been transformed by incarnating Jesus in everyday life in everyday circumstances. Three Rivers Collaborative "The Seven Marks" Sermon Outline Speaker: John Pryor S...

Transformative churches have a clear and compelling understanding of why they exist and what they are called to as a faith community. They can articulate their identities and missions. People at every level of the church can clearly answer the question: “What is the story we are called to live out as a community of Jesus followers?” Further, they express this focus in their allocation...

Transformative churches develop cultures of leadership and processes of leadership development that equip ownership and participation by the entire faith community. They facilitate environments that empower laity, rather than environments that are clergy-centric or staff-driven, while developing the character, competence, and Christlikeness of multiple leaders across the church. As a result, the f...

Transformative churches incorporate personal and communal rhythms into a disciple-making culture. These rhythms include spiritual formation, intentional community, and missional activity on a personal and communal level. Such faith communities recognize that if they form mission-minded disciples, they build the church. If, however, they aim to build the church, they may not build disciples. Three...

Transformative churches intentionally embody an agreed-upon set of core values and a shared purpose that enables them to grow in healthy, lightweight, and sustainable ways. Their organic systems, rhythms, and practices produce health and movement on an individual church level. These organizational frameworks are low in control but high in accountability; enhance mission, not hinder it; and are &ld...

Transformative churches understand and clarify the nature of the adaptive challenges we all now face, especially in light of the Covid-19 crisis. This adaptation involves defining threats, seeing opportunities, embracing paradigm changes, and preparing for the ever-increasing seasons of transition. Three Rivers Collaborative "The Seven Marks" Sermon Outline Speaker: John Pryor Series: Game Changer...

Transformative churches understand their identities, have a strong missional anthropology, and are able to exegete their current cultures. They have authentic, active engagement with their communities, and the ability to adapt and innovate as the culture changes without altering or weakening their foundational beliefs and callings. Three Rivers Collaborative "The Seven Marks" Sermon Outline Speake...

Amazing things always happen when a group of people fully commit, unite, diversify, and work together to accomplish common goals. Sermon Outline Speaker: John Pryor Series: Put The Hammer Down

Simply believing that God equips us to do His work—or even studying and identifying our gifts—is not enough. We must use them. Sermon Outline Series: Put The Hammer Down Speaker: John Pryor

While we must never compromise the truth or Christ's goals, we must be willing to change our strategies whenever necessary. Sermon Outline Speaker: John Pryor Series: Put The Hammer Down

Defensiveness rarely actually protects us; instead, it distances us from anything that might actually help. Sermon Outline Speaker: John Pryor Series: Put The Hammer Down

Speaker: David Pryor Series: The Great Adventure

Living God's way and achieving His goals for us requires regular rests and resets as well as relentless hard work. Sermon Outline Series: Put The Hammer Down Speaker: John Pryor

Following Jesus requires complete, unconditional submission to His authority. This is a landmark decision that shapes all future choices. Sermon Outline Speaker: John Pryor Series: Put The Hammer Down

Speaker: John Pryor

When God's people unite and use all our combined gifts to accomplish Christ's will on earth, we will finally fulfill the Great Commission and make it possible for Christ to return. The heavenly kingdom we build on earth will last forever in heaven itself. Sermon Outline Speaker: John Pryor Series: The Great Adventure