Feast and Follow with Knollwood

We've all heard the phrase "the final word on the subject." It is meant to get across the idea that once something is said it is authoritative. We exercise this right as parents, don't we? "I've said it, so that's final." We see this in the scientific world once something has been tested and retested a sufficient number of times, that can be considered "settled" science. In the political world, we...

This week, we welcome guest preacher Jackson Hice to show us the Good Shepherd out of John 10! 

We are catching up on uploads this week, so here is last week's sermon on James 4:1-10! 

How do you know that you are wise? Is when you can answer most questions asked of you? Is it when you have an understanding of how life works and how to navigate it? What does it mean to be wise? And do we really want to be? James, as we have seen over and over again is intensely practical, really to the point of discomfort. James is all about showing your work. A Christianity that is just another...

Talk isn't enough to prove you're going to heaven, but it is enough to send you to hell. Both thoughts are true for the same reason: talking is so easy to do, in fact, it has never been easier. Nearly everything in our lives has made it faster and simpler to talk. We came up with the landline to share voices immediately. Then we made the cell phone so we could have this ability anywhere. Then we m...

For those who are a little less familiar with the Bible, this passage may sound odd. Even for those who are very familiar with the Bible might wonder how this passage fits with the rest of the Bible. After all, isn't the main message of Christianity is that you cannot work your way to heaven? Isn't salvation by grace through faith? These are the sorts of questions that we bring to this text, but t...

What is the first piece of information you want to know about a person? What is the first thing that you notice when you meet them? For those in sales, the most relevant thing about you is how much money you have, and they often tell by looking at your dress, particularly your shoes. For others, it's what kind of job you do, or whether or not you have kids, what color you are, or your denomination...

For this week, we are taking a break from James to look at Ecclesiastes 3 and see how everything has a season, each a gift. If you are interested in this topic, I would recommend the book, Everything is Never Enough by Bobby Jamieson. It is one of the better books I've read so far this year.  

Is the Christian life something that happens to you or is it something that you are actively involved in? This isn't a trick question, but is meant to make you think. The answer of course is yes. Jesus comes and sovereignly resurrects your soul. He takes out your heart of stone and gives you a heart of flesh. You are then given the Holy Spirit to empower you for good works. As Voddie Bauchum once...

Today, we look at the Chalcedonian Definition, where the Church Fathers wrestled through the two natures and one person of Christ.  

If God is the one who strengthens us through our trials, then does God bring us temptations to sin as well? Does God tempt? Today we look at James to see that God is not the bringer of temptation but life.

One of the amazing things about the up to the second news cycle today is how we can be aware of the wall to wall suffering in the world and yet still be surprised by our own. We are surprised by the big things, the diagnoses, the divorces, the deaths and the little things, insomnia, dead spark plugs, and that one red light that you always seem to catch. You would think given our constant stream of...

Today we begin our brand new series on the book of James! 

Today, as every Sunday, we celebrate the resurrection of Christ! 

Today we contemplate the sufferings of Christ

Today we look at Jesus announcing the new covenant! 

Today, we begin our look at the most important week of history since Genesis. This is the week that Christ was born to live through, die at the end of, and rise at the beginning of the next. There are many complexities in the Christian life. There is a lot of theology that we need to wrestle through, personal ethics that we need to consider (especially as we begin James in a couple week), matters...

On today's episode of Church History 101 we examine the growing divergence of the East and West Church as well as introducing one of the greatest minds of the West, Augustine! 

We've just spent the last eight weeks looking at what happens in corporate worship, the thing we gather to do on Sunday morning. But what about what happens the rest of the week? While we are not gathered together on Tuesday morning, does that mean that worship ceases Monday through Saturday? No. Gloriously not. While there is something special and necessary about Sunday worship, God hasn't left u...

Why do we end our worship service with a benediction? We will be finishing our series on worship this week by answering that very question. As we have seen, our worship is meant to be very God and His Word centered. Things are done for God, as God commanded that they be done. Our service opens with an invitation to worship from God's Word, and now we will look at the close of our service from God'...

On this episode, we look at one of the most foundational creeds of the Church, The Nicene Creed. 

There are some funny rules about what you are allowed and not allowed to talk about in polite society. You can ask people how tall they are, reciting a basic fact about their body, but you can't ask what they weigh. We are ok talking about vertical dimensions but not horizontal dimensions. You can ask people what they do for a living, but you can't ask them how much of a living they are making.  T...

On this episode of Church History 101, we look at the lead up to the Council of Nicaea! 

We resume our series on worship by looking at the wonderful things that God is doing in and through us in our singing! 

Thank you for your patience as we catch up on podcasts! This episode is from our Mission's Conference with Vapor's Micah McElveen!