Beyond the Sermon

For our summer series we are back in our spiritual gifts series, "Empowered: Understanding & Exercising Spiritual Gifts." Part two of this series is looking at each of the spiritual gifts, how God uses them today, and how we discern which gifts we've been given. This sermon looks at the gifts of helps and hospitality, which we believe is the key to the spread of the gospel in our...

For our summer series we are back in our spiritual gifts series, "Empowered: Understanding & Exercising Spiritual Gifts." Part two of this series is looking at each of the spiritual gifts, how God uses them today, and how we discern which gifts we've been given. This sermon looks at the gifts of generosity and healing as well as the difference between spiritual gifts and common f...

Dick Esher grew up in our congregation, has previously served as youth pastor, associate pastor, and interim pastor, and now is back as part of our congregation in his retirement. For our Father's Day message we asked Rev. Dick Esher to speak to our congregation as a spiritual father. This is that message. Colossians 3:12-17

The truth comes out about who is paid who to say what to promote things happening at the church. Join us for this follow up conversation with Elizabeth and Joanna to hear more about what God is doing in their lives.

We had the joy of hearing from some of our students for our 2026 Youth Sunday. We hope you are encouraged by what God is doing in Joanna & Elizabeth's lives and that you are challenged by their call to follow Jesus in whatever He is asking you to do. Scripture: Matthew 14:22-36, 1 Corinthians 1:26-31, 2:6-16

Pastor Scott shares more about his testimony where God brought dead areas of his life back to life, and both pastors share about what the Holy Spirit led during the communion on our last regular episode for the summer

A stand-alone sermon (not in a series) preached in June 2026. This sermon encourages us to look to God for resurrection hope even when things in life feel dry, weary, or dead. Ezekiel 37:1-14

Pastor Scott and Jeremy talk about forgiveness when no one has sinned, all the times we were right, and maybe about spiritual gifts

Our spring series is "Empowered: Understanding & Exercising Spiritual Gifts." This series will lay the foundation of what it looks like to live a life surrendered to God the Father and empowered by the Holy Spirit. This sermon talks about the tension that can arise from the different perspectives our gifts give us and the need for grace as we grow in our gifts. Scripture: Ephesians 4...

Pastor Scott and Jeremy discuss Santa Claus, Preaching regrets, testimonies from The Awakening Project, and free worship

Our spring series is "Empowered: Understanding & Exercising Spiritual Gifts." This series will lay the foundation of what it looks like to live a life surrendered to God the Father and empowered by the Holy Spirit. This sermon looks at our calling to represent God well, which can only happen through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. Scripture: Genesis 11:1-9, Acts 2:1-12

Jeremy and some of our college kids are in Wilmore, KY for Awakening Project this week. Listen in as they share some of their early impressions of what God is doing in their time.

Our spring series is "Empowered: Understanding & Exercising Spiritual Gifts." This series will lay the foundation of what it looks like to live a life surrendered to God the Father and empowered by the Holy Spirit. This sermon looks at the role of spiritual gifts assessments in discovery our spiritual gifts and gives 6 considerations for how we might learn what gifts we've been g...

Pastor Scott and Jeremy sit down with our very own Ron Smith to hear about his story and what God has done in his life. topics include, but are not limited to, baseball, the tubes, and Ron's extensive career in magic

Our spring series is "Empowered: Understanding & Exercising Spiritual Gifts." This series will lay the foundation of what it looks like to live a life surrendered to God the Father and empowered by the Holy Spirit. This sermon puts together the pieces we've been talking about for the past few weeks and casts a vision for the life we are called and empowered to live. Scripture: Ro...

Pastor Scott and Jeremy discuss pickles, why we're talking about spiritual gifts so much this year, and how to practically move closer to Holy love

Our spring series is "Empowered: Understanding & Exercising Spiritual Gifts." This series will lay the foundation of what it looks like to live a life surrendered to God the Father and empowered by the Holy Spirit. This sermon discusses the greatest gift, love, which is the foundation for all the other gifts. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:27-14:1

Pastor Scott and Jeremy talk about Delanco camp and what's missing from the church in regard to different areas of spiritual gifts

Our spring series is "Empowered: Understanding & Exercising Spiritual Gifts." This series will lay the foundation of what it looks like to live a life surrendered to God the Father and empowered by the Holy Spirit. This sermon defines what a spiritual gift is, what they are not, and what the spiritual gifts are. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:1-14

Pastor Scott details some of the inspiration behind this series and the concept of Jesus working out of the power of the Holy Spirit

Our spring series is "Empowered: Understanding & Exercising Spiritual Gifts." This series will lay the foundation of what it looks like to live a life surrendered to God the Father and empowered by the Holy Spirit. This first sermon in the series stars with Jesus, our model for living an empowered life. Scripture: Acts 1:1-12, John 5:19, Philippians 2:6-11, John 14:12

Is the title not clear enough?

This week we have a special guest, Don Parsons, sharing the Word with us. Don grew up at First Methodist and is currently a missionary with Mission Eurasia. He shared a message with us from Psalm 67.

We get down to the important stuff!

This week we conclude our Lent sermon series, "Deny Yourself: The cost of following Jesus," with our Easter message. In this series, we've been looking at what it means to say "No" to the disordered desires in our lives so we can say "Yes" to the transforming work God wants to do in our lives. In this sermon we're looking at the offer of life in the gospel; th...