Celebration Sermons

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "Songs for the Road: Security" Psalm 125 This Sunday, we continue our summer sermon series titled "Songs for the Road," which is a 15-week journey through the Psalms of Ascents (Psalms 120-134). These were the songs the people of God recited while making their way up to the city of Jerusalem for the annual pilgrim festivals and they continue to give voice to the pilg...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "The LORD Our Helper in the Face of Regrets and Anxieties" Psalm 124 Real life in this real and broken world can be filled with the haunting trauma and anticipated anxieties of all the "what if's" that life challenges us with. This psalm reminds us that we have a Helper for our need. His grace turns our "what if's" into "what didn'ts" and "what won'ts," empowering us...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "A Room Called Remember" Psalm 77 While we all have great memories, sometimes we forget things that truly matter. When we do, we may need some prompts to find our way back to the best selves God meant for us to be. Additional Resources For Secure Online Giving: https://harderwyk.elexiochms.com/external/form/6aac393c-8e7c-4ae5-b88c-721ae9847679 Give one time without l...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "What the LORD is Doing to Us Through Our Worship of Him" Psalm 121 "Standing in your gates, Jerusalem!" It is as if they have made the long climb and now stand face-to-face with the Temple of the Living LORD! Here there is joy, community, justice and flourishing, because this entire journey has been about forming hearts for worship. Additional Resources For Secure O...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "Looking For Help in All the Wrong Places" Psalm 121 Our Journey with Jesus may be difficult but we travel with both a promise - The LORD will keep you from all harm - as well as the Promiser. We may take a punch, but He will guard us from the poison of life. Additional Resources For Secure Online Giving: https://harderwyk.elexiochms.com/external/form/6aac393c-8e7c-4...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "The Messiah's Meditation" Psalm 120 Our first of fifteen "Psalms of Ascent" begins "in the pits." Trust in the LORD can make us a target of words that make us feel distant from the LORD. The Spirit's work of peace - SHALOM - feels choked out by the weeds of war. From here, our Journey with and TO Jesus begins. Additional Resources For Secure Online Giving: https://h...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "Something Old, New, Borrowed & Blue" Acts 2:36-47 This Sunday is Pentecost, our annual remembrance of that pivotal day when God's one plan of redemption entered a new and distinct phase in which we in which we continue to live today. It is the day when Jesus the Bridegroom first adorned His Bride - the Church - with something old, something new, something borrowed a...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "BLESS Others: Story" Luke 7:18-23 With regard to Jesus, John the Baptist goes from "all in" to disoriented and wondering "are you even the One?" in just a few short years. But the threatening circumstances that cause him to wonder turn out to be a sharp tool in the hand of a gracious God and Life-Shaper. John is learning that his own story, is best understood as a p...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "BLESS Others: Serve" Mark 7:31-37 Jesus serves this man well - healing deafness and a speech impediment! - but even more, He shows us all HOW the Gospel empowers us to serve others, and find ourselves transformed along the journey. Additional Resources For Secure Online Giving: https://harderwyk.elexiochms.com/external/form/6aac393c-8e7c-4ae5-b88c-721ae9847679 Give...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "BLESS Others: Eat" Matthew 9:9-13 It's interesting that Jesus was comfortable eating with "sinners." While this led to others wrongly accusing him of "being a sinner" himself (John 9:24), the truth is, that He would instead give His own life to redeem the life of sinners. Gospel Hospitality is rooted in grace because it is a gift and invitation to others based on wh...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "BLESS Others: Listen" Luke 18:35-43 Having listened to His Father in prayer, Jesus now stops along the way on his journey to Jerusalem - where we can now look back and see that he will be crucified in about a week - to listen to the request of a blind beggar. Faithfulness is about the journey along the way as much as it is the destination. Additional Resources For S...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "BLESS Others: Begin with Prayer" Luke 6:12-19 For the most part, both believers and non-believers would say that Jesus prayed a lot. What we see in this passage though is that the way Jesus prayed was very different than most non-believers think of prayer - and amazingly, different than many believers as well! For Jesus, prayer was not so much about the an...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "Bless Others: A New Chapter in the Mission Plan" Acts 1:1-8, 2:40-47 With the resurrection of Jesus, a page is turned and a new chapter begins in the Master's Rescue Plan for His creation. "Blessed to be a blessing for all nations" (Genesis 12:3) continues to be the theme, but now Jesus introduces the next phase of the mission plan with a promise of power, a demonst...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "He is Risen! - Bringing Truth, Grace & Hope!" Mark 16:6-8 Because of who Jesus uniquely is, His death and resurrection are the central events of the experience of all humanity across all of time. It is based on Truth, motivated by Grace and gives those who receive its benefit a life-transforming Hope. Additional Resources For Secure Online Giving: https://harderwyk....

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "The King Arrives and He's Setting Things Straight" Mark 11:11-21 A new king shows up for Passover in Jerusalem and the whole city misses the point. They love a parade and a party but are put off by the joy and hope in the Gospel - because it first presents as a call to repentance and transformation. Additional Resources For Secure Online Giving: https://harderwyk.el...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "On the Road with Jesus" Matthew 10:46-52 The man who started this story, SHAMED, BLIND, and BEGGING on the SIDE of the road; is transformed before our eyes into an HONORED, RESTORED, PARTICIPANT, ON the road with Jesus. He became the Valuable Son that he was created to be, and he joins Jesus on the road to Jerusalem. Additional Resources For Secure Online Giving: ht...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "Living for the Moment" Mark 13:32-37 In Mark 13:32-37, Jesus tells his disciples that no one knows when the Master will return, so the call is simple: stay awake. In a world that constantly pulls our attention in a thousand directions, it is surprisingly easy to drift through life and miss what God is doing right in front of us. This week, we'll explore what it mean...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "The King's Cross: Love and The Law" Mark 12:28-34 Mark's account of the life and ministry of Jesus is now in the last week, though only Jesus realizes it. Everyone else seems anxious to get Jesus and his rising influence on board with their agenda. At each step, Jesus shows in a story or conversation that the real invitation is his to us: Come and follow me. I and m...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "The King's Cross: Grace Makes the Impossible Happen" Mark 10:17-31 It seems like an honest and earnest question from a sincere, decent sort of guy who, by all outward appearances, "had it all together." Even Jesus felt "genuine love for him." (vs 21) But then one soul-piercing challenge, and we see how impossible it is to enter into eternal life apart from God's gra...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "The King's Cross: Mountaintop Preparation For The Mission" Mark 9:2-10 Events demonstrate to the disciples - and Peter in particular - that this Jesus is more than they can imagine. Today, we look at the ultimate "mountain top experience" to see both a growing awareness of the divinity of King Jesus, as well as his mission to rescue his people by dying and rising ag...

An Ash Wednesday service marks the beginning of Lent and seeks to remind Christians that we were formed from dust and to dust our bodies will return. Click Here to watch the Ash Wednesday service in full. To learn more about Harderwyk Ministries, visit our website at harderwyk.com

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "The King Arrives: And Holds His Course" Mark 8:22-38 Nobody around Jesus seems to see clearly. First, there is the blind man who gains his sight incrementally - step by faithful step, prayer by prayer. Then there is Peter. He "gets it" with who Jesus is and "misses it" about Jesus' death in almost the same moment. How can Peter be so blind? Because no matter what we...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "The King Arrives: And He Understands the Problem" Mark 7:1-23 Have you ever had a great solution that did not fix the situation, because the solution did not understand the real problem? You realize that your solution "missed the mark" or did not really "get to the root of the problem." We all experience the need for good medical diagnosis of our sickness before our...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "The King Arrives: Let the Revolution Begin!" Mark 6:30-46 Don't picture this miracle occurring in a picnic sort of setting. People are angry and feel justified in their anger. They are ready for someone to light the fuse and lead the charge of their righteous vengeance. Jesus sees instead sheep without a shepherd and invites them to receive the provisi...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "The King Arrives: Why Are We with These People?!?" Mark 5:21-43 In rapid succession, the disciples get a front-row seat to see Jesus demonstrate his power over Nature, Evil, Sickness and Death. To get into that position, those disciples had to follow Jesus out of their comfort zone - especially their religiously defined comfort zone! - and stretch their understandin...