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Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, March 3, 2019 Faith in Christ is the only permanent solution to human hopelessness, giving Christians pardon, peace, and power to live in a world that is often against us. Steve Smith preaches from Hebrews 11:1-3, where we learn that faith in a supreme Christ provides us with 3 insights into genuine faith to motivate us to embrace and exercise it. Steve’s...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, February 10, 2019 Our God of love and grace is also a God of justice and wrath, and “it is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” Preaching from Hebrews 10:26-39, Steve Smith underscores 3 compelling circumstances for exercising genuine faith and escaping the tragedy of apostasy. This is a call for those pretending to know Jesus to...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, February 3, 2019 Christians have never been immune to the experience of hardship and pain, and sometimes staying faithful seems futile. Steve Smith preaches from Hebrews 10:19-25 about two essential ingredients in the recipe for remaining faithful even when doing so seems rather futile. Steve’s message follows the testimony of two children and two adults...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, January 27, 2019 We have one medicine able to combat the sin that inflicts us. Steve Smith preaches from Hebrews 10:1-18, laying out 3 reasons why Jesus’ death is the final and sufficient sacrifice for our sinful condition—a sacrifice that by God’s will brings us into a relationship with Him, arrests the need for future sacrifices, and guarantees our forg...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, January 20, 2018 "...without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness." How was the one-time shedding of Christ's blood able to do what the blood of bulls, goats and calves was unable to do for centuries? Steve Smith's message from Hebrews 9:15-28 reveals two important accomplishments of Jesus' sacrifice that challenge those who don't know Him and provid...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, January 13, 2019 Some system updates we install, and some we skip. Hebrews 9:1-14 provides a “fix of faith” that would be foolish to skip—one that secures payment for sin and our access to God. Steve Smith resumes our “Hebrews: Greater Is He” series by presenting two contrasting approaches to worship (the Old Covenant and the New Covenant), assuring us th...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, January 6th, 2019 Only through repeated discipline in the fundamentals will we take our game to the next level. What’s true for professional athletes is also true for Christians charged to grow stronger in Christ and lead others to Him. To start out the new year, Steve Smith presents a vision-aligning message with 3 spiritual “workouts” to better enable u...

Bob Short :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, December 30, 2018 “Lord...my eyes have seen Your salvation.” Have your eyes found it? Bob Short preaches the final message in our 'Christmas Carols from Scripture' series from Luke 2:21-38, when Mary and Joseph present the baby Jesus to Simeon and Anna in the temple. Bob highlights fascinating ironies and joyful harmonies in this visit to Jerusalem that poi...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Monday, December 24, 2018 "When the angels had gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds began saying to one another, 'Let us go straight to Bethlehem then, and see this thing that has happened which the Lord has made known to us." (Luke 2:15). During our Christmas Eve service, Steve Smith preaches from Luke 2:15-20. From this passage, Steve highlights 3 res...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, December 23, 2018 Out in the fields surrounding Bethlehem, lowly shepherds were a stunned audience of God’s angelic proclamation of the birth of a King. From Luke 2:1-14, Steve Smith preaches about this declaration, confirmation, and celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ and what it should mean to us today. Steve’s message follows an extra dose of Chri...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, December 16, 2018 At Christmas, don’t miss the obvious by focusing on the obscure. Zacharias’ prophesy in Luke 1:67-80 helps keep our focus on the provision of salvation that came from the baby in a manger. In this passage, Steve brings out 2 reasons to rejoice in that salvation. Steve’s message follows select music and scripture readings from our Sunday...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, December 9, 2018 “Mary said: ‘My soul exalts the Lord, and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior...’” In the second sermon in our Advent series Christmas Carols from Scripture, Steve Smith preaches from Mary’s song of praise in Luke 1:46-56. Mary’s song teaches 3 important lessons regarding the mercy of God at Christmas in the proper origin, outpouring,...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, December 2, 2018 The main event of Advent is about Jesus. The danger in this season is our tendency to focus on the parade but miss the main event. Steve Smith begins a Christmas season series from the first two chapters of Luke with the story of Elizabeth's visit from Mary (Luke 1:39-45). Elizabeth’s example reveals two ways God works in and through us t...

Kyle Clarkson :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, November 18, 2018 Everyone needs to know that they are loved. Kyle Clarkson preaches from Hebrews 7:17-28 about the greatest advocate we have in Jesus Christ, a high priest who is promised, permanent, and the one Person able to able to save us completely and speak to God on our behalf. Kyle’s message follows announcements and a presentation by Ryan Cart...

Mark Kline :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, November 11, 2018 The intended audience of the book of Hebrews was in large part recent converts from Judaism and spiritually lazy or immature Christians, like many in our churches today. As the author labored to push his readers toward a mature faith and a “meatier” grasp of the truth of Jesus Christ as our great high priest, Mark Kline preaches from Hebr...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, November 4, 2018 As a track coach motivates runners to finish the race, Hebrews 6:9-20 encourages believers to move ahead towards maturity and prove our identity as God’s children. Steve Smith unpacks a message to instill and ensure confidence from “this hope we have as an anchor of the soul.” Steve’s sermon follows brief announcements about next week’s m...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, October 28, 2018 Like a bonsai tree, spiritually immature believers have shallow roots, bear no fruit, and don’t grow much at all. Every new Christian starts small, but the "elementary teachings about Christ" are stepping stones, not stopping places. In a call to move beyond the ABCs of the Christian life, Steve Smith profiles the “bonsai believer” and pr...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, October 21, 2018 Genuine faith in Christ offers not just escape from pain but enjoyment of God’s presence and power in our lives. Steve Smith preaches from Hebrews 4:14-5:10, highlighting two truths about the supremacy of Christ as our High Priest that encourage us toward genuine faith and provide strength for the continued exercise of faith so we might f...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, October 14, 2018 Nobody wants to fall short of their goal. We spend a lot of time concerned about the tests that have to do with our earthly preoccupation, but how concerned are we with the test that has to do with our eternal destination? In light of the dire consequence of unbelief mentioned in chapter 3, Steve Smith preaches from Hebrews 4:1-13, relayi...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, October 9, 2018 Our lives are filled with warning signs, many of which we ignore. We often read them but do not heed them because warning signs grate against our independence and insult our intelligence. Preaching from Hebrews 3:12-19, Steve Smith highlights two warnings against unbelief—unbelief that keep believers from genuine faith. Steve encourages us...

Bob Short :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, September 30, 2018 “Consider Jesus...hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.” Where in the world do you place your confidence? And what would happen if it were taken away? The author of Hebrews encouraged people who thought pretty highly of Moses to think even more highly of Jesus, our “apostle” and “high priest”. Bob Short preaches from Hebr...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, September 23, 2018 Often those who proclaim the truth are soft-pedaling it, and those who are seeking the truth are side-stepping it. Steve Smith preaches from Hebrews 2:1-18, presenting two powerful incentives for owning—and not overlooking—the words and work of Jesus. Steve’s message follows a prayerful send-off for our Haiti missions team serving in Pi...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, September 16, 2018 "I am the greatest! I'm the greatest thing that ever lived." -Muhammad Ali. Many have claim to be the greatest, but only One is declared by God to be exalted above all else. From several Old Testament truths quoted in Hebrews 1:4-14, Steve Smith unpacks 3 reasons Jesus Christ is the greatest——even greater than the angels.

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, September 9, 2018 We live in a culture—even in the church—where absolute truth is not always popular, and those who preach the name of Jesus often must compromise their faith or be branded as outcasts. Steve Smith begins our series in the book of Hebrews with a message from 1:1-3 designed to bring us to the same confidence in Jesus Christ as the Zulu trib...

Steve Smith :: Creekside Church :: Sunday, September 2, 2018 “I will lift up my eyes to the mountains; From where shall my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.” Steve Smith ends our ‘PSalt of the Earth’ series with a message from Psalm 121, where we encounter 3 affirmations that give believers blessed assurance of God’s protection, preservation and provisions for us i...