Anthem Church

Our faith changes our posture so that we may manifest, receive, and apply God’s word rightly. Godly anger is just, righteous, and appropriately directed at our sin. The anger that we deserve fell on Jesus when He died for our sins. Therefore, our posture is changed when we take off our old desires by welcoming and applying God’s desires for our lives through His word.

Where do you find your significance? Is it in what you do, what others say you are, what makes you feel good? Or, is it in Christ, the one who humbled himself to exalt you? Real significance has perspective, perseverance, and purpose. Our lives cannot be made more or less than the Gospel; for the world will fade and wither away, but the Gospel will withstand all. Jesus Christ died to claim that yo...

The Bible is clear: we will meet trials of various kinds. In light of this very important truth, how does authentic faith respond? The culture, at large, would have us believe that our response is to increase the sum total of our own happiness by decreasing the amount of suffering we endure. How is that possible when much of this suffering is not within our control? Instead, the Bible declares suc...

What if there was a visible way to discern whether one’s faith was legitimate or nothing more than hollow religion? What if God’s grace had ensured genuine belief in Jesus had an outward and discernible manifistation clearly distinguishable from just knowing, saying and doing the right things? Enter James, Jesus’ intrepid younger brother, whose short letter pierces though the self-deception and lu...

God has included all who follow Jesus in his mission to bless all nations through the person and work of Jesus Christ, but he hasn’t left us to accomplish the mission on our own power. The first chapter of Acts emphasizes the Holy Spirit’s work in empowering the disciples to bear witness to what they had seen and heard. This sermon explores what it means for us to join in God’s mission, to bear wi...

Have you ever wondered what purpose God might have in blessing you? In Psalm 67, the psalmist makes an explicit connection between God’s unmerited favor on Israel and all peoples knowing God and experiencing his salvation. This sermon explores God’s mission in the world to bless all of humanity in the person and work of Jesus, and how the church is not the end of God's mission but the witness and...

The truth that only comes from God strengthens us in who we are. God’s truth points us back to Jesus and the good plan of His redemption. We are no longer under God’s wrath or enslaved to sin because of the gospel. Because of God’s wise plan for our lives we all, gentile and jew, are restored in Christ. Because of what Jesus did through his life, death and resurrection we are free to worship and p...

As the Jewish religious leaders seek to test Jesus a lawyer asks what is the greatest teaching. Jesus points back to the greatest Old Testament teaching. Jesus tells us to love God and the second teaching is to love our neighbor. This message explores what this means for us as we walk with The Lord and neighbors today.

What are you pursuing? We pursue many different things in life hoping they will yield the best possible life. In John 15, Jesus calls for us to abide in Him as a branch abides in the vine. The abiding in Christ enables us to be fruitful (loving others). When we obey this call to bear fruit through abiding (continual, conscious, communion) our joy will be complete.

In the latter half of the story of the Samaritan woman at the well (John 4: 15-30) we see Jesus interact with her in a very real and personal way. Just as Jesus gets at the heart issue, not the external one, we are to share the gospel in the same way. Make Jesus known, for He is the living water.

We swim in the waters of discontentment. Advertisers and the corporation they work with spend billions to make us feel like what we have is not enough. But the scripture says that the real problem is in our hearts. In Philippians 4 Paul teaches us the secret of being content in every circumstance. This sermon explores what it means for us to be content in Christ and how that shapes the way we live...

Jesus' earthly ministry is over and about 30-years have gone by since His ascension. Paul is now Nero’s prisoner in Rome, nearing the end of his life and thinking about his impending death. The book of Philippians could be called “The Believer’s Guide To Joy”. It is a letter written by the Apostle Paul to the established church in Philippi to acknowledge a gift of money from the church, brought to...

We live in a world filled with conflict, and the scripture states that conflict is about whats going on in our hearts more than something external. Paul too faced conflict both within the church and outside the church, and yet he commands the Philippians to have joy. This sermon explores how it is possible to rejoice in the face of conflict.

Jesus' earthly ministry is over and about 30-years have gone by since His ascension. Paul is now Nero’s prisoner in Rome, nearing the end of his life and thinking about his impending death. The book of Philippians could be called “The Believer’s Guide To Joy”. It is a letter written by the Apostle Paul to the established church in Philippi to acknowledge a gift of money from the church, brought to...

Jesus' earthly ministry is over and about 30-years have gone by since His ascension. Paul is now Nero’s prisoner in Rome, nearing the end of his life and thinking about his impending death. The book of Philippians could be called “The Believer’s Guide To Joy”. It is a letter written by the Apostle Paul to the established church in Philippi to acknowledge a gift of money from the church, brought to...

Jesus' earthly ministry is over and about 30-years have gone by since His ascension. Paul is now Nero’s prisoner in Rome, nearing the end of his life and thinking about his impending death. The book of Philippians could be called “The Believer’s Guide To Joy”. It is a letter written by the Apostle Paul to the established church in Philippi to acknowledge a gift of money from the church, brought to...

If you live long enough, you will suffer. Too often we avoid the suffering and trials that come our way. The Bible is not surprised by suffering; Jesus hung on a cross to die for our sins. Here in Philippians, Paul, a man in prison at the time of this letter, tells us that our suffering glorifies God. Whatever the pain or hurt or trial is, it has a purpose in your life, it is meant to draw you nea...

We live in a culture of loneliness that masks itself with false connections, but the gospel provides a basis for breaking through loneliness and isolation and into real friendship. In Paul’s letter to the Philippians, we see a model of friendship that is rooted and grounded in the gospel of Jesus. This sermon explores what a gospel centered friendship looks like.

Jesus' earthly ministry is over and about 30-years have gone by since His ascension. Paul is now Nero’s prisoner in Rome, nearing the end of his life and thinking about his impending death. The book of Philippians could be called “The Believer’s Guide To Joy”. It is a letter written by the Apostle Paul to the established church in Philippi to acknowledge a gift of money from the church, brought to...

There are several interpretations of the Genesis creation account, many of which are based on faithful exegetical investigation. However, we will seek to recover an interpretation lost in our modern context, but most likely understood by ancient Near Eastern readers at that time. In our recovery of this understanding, we hope to show that not only does it offer the most natural reading of the hebr...

Easter is the most exciting season of the whole year for those who love Jesus. First is the solemnity of Good Friday, where we remember the brutal death of a good man on a cross, the God-man, Jesus. Then, on Easter Sunday, we declare that the tomb is empty and that there is a story to tell! Where the cross is a display of God’s love and justice, the resurrection is his victory over all that enslav...

As Jesus is before the Roman soldiers and as he goes to the cross he suffers a great humiliation. Is it humiliation or humility? Humiliation and humility are joined in the God/Man Jesus Christ. He delivers man from the great human humiliation of sin and death, that we may return to the relationship of beloved, humble sons and daughters of the Most High God.

Through the sentencing of Jesus we see his authority, humility, responsibility, sovereignty, and purity displayed. Pilate’s questioning of Jesus serves to show us that he is fully God (authority), he is fully man (humility), he makes a choice (responsibility), he saves (sovereignty), and that there is none but him (purity). The Gospel communicates that Jesus is all of these, but ultimately it is o...