Embassy Church Sermons

Happy Ascension Day! Jesus is on his throne. Here is a little message I put together about the ascension of Jesus. The big idea is that we need to recover the lost doctrine of the ascension because Christ's absence fr...

The following message is an update from the Embassy elders and instructions as to how we want to encourage our church family to go about their lives during COVID-19. The theme of this message is that we need an intentional...

Sometimes we do not pray because we think that our prayers do not matter. The bible teaches that God saves us through our prayers. God works through the prayers of his people and most of all through the prayers of his Son,...

Colossians 3:12-17; Since we cannot recreate our gathering during the COVID-19 shelter-in-place order, we continue focusing our attention on encouraging and equipping our members to engage in various practices and discipli...

1 Timothy 2; Psalm 35; The big idea of this series of messages is that fasting is a way for us to pray with our whole body. This big idea is unpacked with three questions: 1) What is a human?; 2) What is whole-body worship...

Isaiah 55:1-2; Matthew 4:2-4; 5:6; John 4:31-34; 6:35; This midweek podcast recording includes some thoughts about what it means to hunger for God. In addition to the Bible passages that are mentioned in this message, this...

This week's home worship worked through Isaiah 58 in three parts. The first part looked at the self-centered worship and fasting of the people of Israel. The second part looked at the others-centered worship that God ...

We continue our series of teachings on prayer by looking at the practice of fasting. One reason Christians practice fasting is to respond to the grief and sorrow of their sin. It is a practice that takes sin seriously by s...

This message provides five practical and pastoral points about what fasting is not.

1 Kings 19:1-9; Luke 4:1-2; This message is a teaching about how Christians should respond to the sacred moments of life. What should we do when life gets seriously interrupted by God? This teaching looks at the example of...

As the shelter-in-place order continues, the Embassy elders want to continually provide words of encouragement and meditations of scripture.

On this unique Easter Sunday, we held a Zoom meeting and Pastor Phill led us walked us through Psalms 22, 23, and 24. This audio is the meditations shared about Psalm 24. There are three questions we need to ask ourselves ...

This podcast recording is the audio of Pastor Phill walking through our home worship guide as we worship from home during the coronavirus. This message continues our series through prayer and focuses on prayers of thanksgi...

Matthew 26:36-46; What should we be doing when danger and death are staring us in the face? If we look at the example of Jesus, he gave himself to prayer and tried to get his disciples to pray with him. In this brief media...

Psalm 77:1-20; A prayer of lament is a prayer in pain that leads us to trust. In Mark Vroegop's excellent book Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament, he writes: Lament is how we bring our sorr...

How can we be a gathering without gathering? What does it mean to be a church during the coronavirus pandemic? The elders of Embassy want our focus not to be on the Sunday gathering, but on the scattering of the church. We...

Our series on prayer continues with a look at Psalm 91. The big idea of this message is that God does provide protection to those who call upon Him. The three questions we will consider to help us with our meditation on Ps...

This week in our series on prayer we sit at the feet of the master. In this message we examine the longest recorded prayer of Jesus. It is found in John 17 and it is commonly referred to as the high priestly prayer. For th...

Our mini series on prayer continues this week with a message from James 1:5-8 and 5:13-18. The big idea of this message is that we must pray in faith, in the church and in every situation.

This sermon teaches that: 1) Prayer must be learned; 2) Prayer has a specific form; 3) Prayer is a community activity; 4) Prayer is to the Father; 5) Prayer is worship; 6) Prayer is an act of faith in a good heavenly Fathe...

Our message this week is the final two interactions between Jesus and the Jewish leaders in the temple. The big idea for this weeks message is that Jesus is the risen and ascended Lord, and he commands us to love God and n...

This week's message continues our study through Matthew's gospel. We consider another confrontation with Jesus in the temple. In the passage we look at Jesus is asked a question about the resurrection from the Sa...

Jesus is in the final days before he is about to be executed. These days are tense and filled with all kinds of opposition and from every angle. In this week's message we find another group of men trying to trap Jesus...

This week's sermon comes from the third and final parable that Jesus gives in response to a question, "By what authority do you do these things?" The day before Jesus cleansed the temple and pronounced judgm...