Celebration Sermons

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "What's in a Name? - Compassion" Exodus 34:5-8, 1 Kings 3:23-28, Luke 7:12-15 Where do you find out what God is like? From the world? Or your family? Or traditions? Or your own heart? Or from what the LORD has given us in the Scriptures? Likewise, where do you discover the meaning of "compassion" - "God's definition" so to speak? Finally, what does that mean for my l...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "God-Shaped Self or Self-Shaped God?" Exodus 34:4-10 For Moses to discover and "live in to his true self," he must first grow to know the LORD, as He truly is and not simply as Moses might wish Him to be. Moses needs knowledge ABOUT the LORD that comes FROM the LORD as the foundation for his own life. From that foundation, Moses can begin to live out his life as a le...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "Good News of Great Joy" Luke 4:14-21 Celebrate the Savior's birth! A multi-generational experience of Word and corporate worship that includes singing songs of Christmas with choir, organ and orchestra. For Secure Online Giving: https://harderwyk.elexiochms.com/external/form/6aac393c-8e7c-4ae5-b88c-721ae9847679 Give one time without logging in or create an account a...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "Bringing Life into Focus" Luke 4:14-21 Through the course of life, our vision of all sorts of things can be blocked or distorted by all sorts of causes. The Good News is that Jesus has been anointed to bring recovery of all sorts of sight problems to all who look to Him in hope and through Him to our world and calling. View our Celebration Inform email for this serv...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "For Those Who Lost the Battle" Luke 4:16-21 While the Gospel is "Good News for All People" (Luke 2:10), it is a special warm breeze of freedom to the defeated, those who have fought, lost and been captured by the warring consequences of a broken world. View our Celebration Inform email for this service to learn more. For Secure Online Giving: https://harderwyk.elexi...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "How The Gospel Conquers Poverty" Luke 4:16-21 Jesus presents Himself as the Anointed One of God who will deliver Good News to the poor. This is not so much a message that those who lack money and what it brings can now have more money than they ever imagined. Rather, Jesus establishes a new Kingdom that re-values everything in His creation. Every “lack” - whether fi...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "Good News of Great Joy: Anointed for Mission" Luke 4:16-21 In the church calendar, we spend 4 Sundays preparing to celebrate the Birth of Jesus the Messiah. In human history, God spent a dozen or so centuries! As it turns out, the birth of the baby that was so long anticipated, is just the beginning of the next campaign in God’s mission to redeem and restore all tha...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "You Don't Have To Build Alone" Matthew 7:24-29 Imagine getting to apprentice with a master craftsman as he includes you in building the house that he dreams of for you. Tested by the storms of life, such a house would stand as a testament to that craftsman's ability as well as his love for you and would be an attractive invitation to others to become an apprentice a...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "How Can I Get There From Here?" Matthew 7:13-23 It seems that each of us can find within us a desire of the heart to get THERE from HERE. We sense that we are where we are at in life - HERE in middle school, a desperate relationship, a life that is now more behind us than ahead of us - but there is a yearning to get to something better and more authentic - THERE whe...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "Prayer & Practice" Matthew 7:7-12 How much more! With this memorable analogy of an earthly father’s love, Jesus teaches us that we can expect an answer not because of the form, technique or intensity that we use but because of the character of the God that we are praying to. View our Celebration Inform email for this service to learn more. For Secure Online Givi...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "Let The Judge Of All The Earth Do The Judging" Matthew 7:1-6 My world often reminds me that Jesus said, "Do not judge." But what if the world is using the words of Jesus while completely missing the meaning of Jesus? Could there be a difference between hurling condemnation on others and receiving wisdom for ourselves in order to avoid harmful consequences? View our...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary Making Sense of the World We Live In Matthew 6:24-34 Don't worry about my life?! How in the world - especially THIS world we are living in right now - be safe for my friends and family or even make sense to anyone? Maybe Jesus knows something here that we don't - and that we need to learn and be ready to share with our world. View our Celebration Inform email for thi...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "Formed by a Generous Master" Matthew 6:19-24 Jesus now turns to three brief sayings that point his apprentices to commitments that cultivate and guard a heart of generosity. View our Celebration Inform Email for this service to learn more. For Secure Online Giving: https://harderwyk.elexiochms.com/external/form/6aac393c-8e7c-4ae5-b88c-721ae9847679 Give one time with...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary For Your Father Knows Matthew 6:5-15 We all learn and use a prayer form that is often called "The Lord's Prayer." The words and form have been given by Jesus to his people across time and cultures. What we cannot forget though is this: Jesus gives this form to people He has first invited into relationship with His Father through his grace: "Because you are His deeply...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary A Matter of the Heart - Generosity & Prayer Matthew 6:1-6 Let your righteousness flourish for and be seen by the One who gave it to you. Both you and your world will benefit. View our Celebration Inform email for this service to learn more. For Secure Online Giving: https://harderwyk.elexiochms.com/external/form/6aac393c-8e7c-4ae5-b88c-721ae9847679 Give one time...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "Jesus Speaks" Matthew 5:17-48 Among all the other voices surrounding his disciples both then and now, Jesus repeats this phrase: "But I tell you." Will we hear, listen and obey? What difference could that make in our life and our world? View our Celebration Inform email for this service to learn more: https://us19.campaign-archive.com/?u=44c270d6a6d0fb5089dccd202&am...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "For the Glory of God and the Benefit of Others" Matthew 5:13-16 You! Yes, all of you! You all are like salt and like light. Each and together, you make the world a different and better place because you are different from the world and better because it is the Father's grace, and not your own effort, that is at work in, on, and through you. Congregatio...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary "Life with a Different King" Matthew 5:1-12 Jesus makes clear to both his apprentices and the crowd, that living in this world as ambassadors of his "Kingdom Authority" will be both "Blessed" and at times trying. We discover that it is in the trying times that we find the Blessing in new, surprising, and deep ways. To catch the live broa...

Sundays at 9:00 am | Sanctuary Fluent in the Kingdom Matthew 4:12-17, 23-25 Jesus begins his public ministry with a challenge and a declaration: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near” (Matthew 4:17). He does more than just talk about this Kingdom, though; he lives it out - bringing healing, wholeness, restoration, and forgiveness wherever he goes. As a follower of Jesus, I find it easy...