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Matthew 7:12 - Jesus wraps up the main body of His sermon with a statement that is both a summary of all that came before and a concise statement of the heart of the Christian life: a vision of self-giving love that requires deep gospel meditation to faithfully step into. A sermon by Cameron Heger. [Part 21 of our series “Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount: The Good Life in the Kingdom of Grace”]

Matthew 7:7-11 - With these words, Jesus gives the final teaching about prayer in the Sermon on the Mount. It is an invitation to boldly appeal to God to meet our needs—one ultimately rooted in His character as a good and loving Father. A sermon by Zach Boutan. [Part 20 of our series “Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount: The Good Life in the Kingdom of Grace”]

Matthew 7:1-6 - This passage includes some of Jesus’s most famous and yet misunderstood words. Through three main ideas He offers us not simple catchphrases but anchor points for learning how (and how not) to make and receive moral judgments wisely in community as we seek to help one another toward Christlikeness. A sermon by Cameron Heger. [Part 19 of our series “Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount: The...

Matthew 6:25-34 - Jesus follows His warning against greed and making a master of money with a related warning about the way in which overly focusing on material possessions produces anxiety. With these words Jesus speaks peace into our worries about the future by inviting us to look up from them at the abundant creation around us and the fatherly love of God above us all. A sermon by Cameron Heger...

Matthew 6:19-24 - Jesus begins the third and final section of the main body of The Sermon on the Mount with a discussion of one of the chief idols and temptations for all of humanity: greed and the disordered desire for money and other goods. Though often viewed as a "respectable sin" in our culture, Jesus issues a grave warning around it. How does one move from greed to a God-serving generosity?...

Matthew 6:16-18 - Jesus concludes the middle section of the sermon with a discussion of the last of 3 spiritual practices: fasting. Again, Jesus emphasizes the heart posture of the one who fasts, reminding us that the true purpose is to commune with God. Fasting—"a Christian’s voluntary abstinence from food for spiritual purposes"—engages the whole person (body, spirit, desires and on and on) in a...

Matthew 6:14-15 - In these two short verses, Jesus provides emphasis and commentary on The Lord’s Prayer. In them we learn about the connection between prayer and action as well as between forgiving and being forgiven. The call is ultimately to grow to let the forgiveness God has shown us through Jesus’s death and resurrection blossom into Christ-like character that becomes a conduit of his forgiv...

Psalm 1 - If the Bible is all that we've learned that it is then it begs the question: What do we do with it? In this sermon we conclude our consideration of the broad category of "meditating on Scripture" and look at 2 more specific forms it can take: meditation and memorization. In all the ways we approach the Bible, we have to be ready to answer with a resounding “Here I am, speak!” We have to...

Psalm 1 - The first Psalm describes the kind of person who finds deep blessing and flourishing. At the heart of the description is a vital relationship to the Scriptures--a relationship of delight and meditation. To "meditate" in the Psalm 1 sense is to continually and repeatedly engage with the parts of the Bible in light of the whole and whole of the Bible in light of the parts in various ways u...

Luke 24:25-27; Various Scriptures - The Bible is long and the Bible is diverse. Across its pages we find dozens of distinct books by dozens of authors written in two handfuls of distinct literary genres. The Bible as a whole tells an epic narrative full of side-plots, sub plots, pauses, repetitions, and digressions that none-the-less tells a coherent, unified story. And at the center of that story...

Various Scriptures - The Bible has a long, complex and very human story of how it came be (and how it came to us). In this message, we examine what it means that the Bible was co-produced by a number of people, some known and some unknown. Using only the Bible itself, we explore some of it what it means for the Bible to be a collection of texts that were composed, canonized, transmitted, and trans...

Various Scripture - [This sermon was originally given on January 26, 2025, reposted to help supplement this current teaching series] According to Jesus, the Bible is unbreakably true and the very words of God that lead to Him. At the same time, the Bible is the words of man in the form of a unified but incredibly diverse work of literary artistry spanning many authors, genres, and tones. Encounter...

John 10:29-39 - With this teaching we begin a short series exploring two main questions: What is the Bible? And how should we respond to it? Our starting place is with Jesus and His view of the Bible as unbreakable, trustworthy, authoritative, coherent, and divinely-inspired. Even more, Jesus sees the whole Bible as chiefly about Himself. In the end, if we want to follow Jesus in these things we,...

John 20:11-18; 20:24-29; 21:15-19 - When considering the biblical accounts of the resurrection of Jesus, a question emerges: How did the resurrected Son of God deal with His people’s faithlessness, grief, despair, doubt, skepticism, and failures when He pursued them afterward? In John's gospel, three very human encounters with Jesus reveal Him as the Lord of grace and love, even in the face of hum...

John 19:31-37 - On Good Friday we considered one piece of the crucifixion story in particular that demonstrated both the cruelty toward Jesus at the hands of the Roman soldiers and yet also the sovereign intention of Jesus to endure it for the sake of those He came to seek and save. A sermon by Ian Cornell. [Part 3 of our series "Holy Week & Resurrection Sunday 2026"]

John 13 and Matthew 26:26-29 - "Maundy" comes from the Latin term "mandatum," meaning that "Maundy Thursday" is traditionally an examination of the new commandment that Jesus gave His disciples in the upper room the Thursday night He was betrayed and its connection to His washing of the disciples feet and His institution of the Lord's Supper. In this short re-recorded message, we examine these piv...

Matthew 6:11-13 - In the second half of The Lord's Prayer, Jesus teaches His disciples how to ask God our Father to meet the needs of ourselves and our communities, both physical and spiritual. In part through praying these words and themes over a lifetime, Christ's church will become the kind of people who not only love God with everything, but love our neighbors as ourselves—and express that lov...

Matthew 6:9-10 - The Lord's Prayer is among the most famous words in the entire Bible. It is also the thematic centerpoint of Jesus's sermon on the mount to which the entire sermon directs our attention. The prayer, from the very mouth of Jesus, follows the structure of two of the other most important pieces of Scripture (The 10 Commandments and Jesus's Greatest Commandment) with a God-oriented fi...

Matthew 6:5-8 - With these verses Jesus turns His attention to the most basic, essential, and foundational spiritual practice of them all: prayer. Assuming that His disciples WILL pray, He highlights two cautionary examples of what not to do, reminding us that true prayer must be directed to God in subtle humility and as succinct, trusting children. Prayer is simply talking to God. And true prayer...

Matthew 6:1-4 - With these verses we begin the next major section of The Sermon on the Mount where Jesus gives direction regarding three of the most important spiritual/religious practices: generosity, prayer, and fast. Here Jesus begins with a stark reminder that any spiritual practice, if it is really going to bring spiritual benefit, must be done unto God from a heart of love, rather than from...

Matthew 5:43-48 - In his 6th and final case study, Jesus takes us to where it all has led: the call to love--as God our Father loves--even our enemies. This was an earth-shattering teaching 2000 years ago and is no less difficult to live out today. But gazing at Jesus who has first loved us even when we were His enemies, we are motivated to love others like this and so bear God's family resemblanc...

Matthew 5:38-42 - In Jesus's 5th case study, He begins to broach one of the most revolutionary teachings in all of human intellectual history. He reveals that the true heart of God found in the laws about just recompense is oriented toward generosity, mutual dignity, and quiet boldness. And Jesus not only taught about this revolutionarily tender heart, He fully embodied it in all of his interactio...

Matthew 5:33-37 - In His fourth case study, Jesus turns his attention to a subject that may not seem super applicable to us: oath-making. But in our post-truth culture, Jesus’s call to holistic, pervasive truthfulness is both radical and powerful. It turns out that truth is inseparable from love and its absence is a danger to us all. A sermon by Cameron Heger. [Part 8 of our series “Jesus’s Sermon...

1 John 3:16-18 - God cares deeply for the poor and demands that His people do the same. In this final message of the series, we consider the Apostle John's call to meet the needs of our impoverished brothers and sisters, knowing that this is a test of true love, and knowing that it flows out of the knowledge that Jesus laid down His own life for you. May we become a church that does justice for th...

James 1:26-27 - Those whose stability is impacted by the dissolution of their families are consistently included among the groups that God has special concern for. In fact, Psalm 68 describes God as "Father of the fatherless and protector of widows." So it makes perfect sense that God's new covenant family, the church, is meant to be a place where these same groups are cared for and advocated for....