Gospel for life with Nathaniel Timmermann

We've all been rejected at some point. We were all rejected from Eden, our eternal home. But Jesus was kicked out of his hometown so he could make us the favorites. We are the chosen. We are the outsiders he has made insiders. A sermon on January 19, 2025 based on Luke 4:14-30.

What's your identity? How do you identify? Look at the baptism of Jesus and see how he identifies himself. A sermon on Luke 3:21-22, January 12 2025

What does it mean to really have life? Christmas gives us life. A sermon on John 1:1-5 for Christmas Day, 2025.

Do you feel like Christmas and the holidays are chaotic? You are on to something. God captured the chaos of our lives with his Christmas invasion. But Christmas also remakes the chaos through his creativity.  A Christmas sermon on Philippians 2:6-8, December 24, 2024. 

Christmas is wonderful, but it definitely makes us ask if we're doing enough - do I have enough gifts, nice enough gifts, have I given enough. John makes us ask the same question and points to a different answer - making the fruit of a new person. A sermon based on Luke 3:7-18

Somehow, Christmas manages to bring out some of the most romantic stories of our lives. How? Check out the source of love. A sermon on December 8th 2024 based on Philippians 1:3-11

For Christmas to be real for you and me, we have to see we lack. We might want all kinds of things. But the fact that God sent his Son, not a pot of money, not a new set of laws, and not a new family, means that we don’t just want all kinds of things. We need something that we have no idea what it is. Real Christmas means you say I lack. I lack and only God can give what I need. A sermon on Decemb...

It can be easy to be thankful for the good and easy people in our lives. Most of us have to plenty of project people - imperfect people who we work and live with. Can we be thankful for them too? Sermon on November 27, 2024 for Thanksgiving 2024

There's 8 billion people on this planet, and he is calling each of them to himself in his own way, there's been many billions more in the history of all humanity. God has not forgotten each of them, either. He makes a difference in their life, just as he did in Abraham and in Noah and in Isaac and in Jacob and in David and in Solomon and Saul and Elijah and Elisha and Peter and Andrew and James an...

Whether we know it or not, recognize it or not, we want to be right. We are desperate to be right. We are eager for the day when we will be right forever and shine. A sermon on November 17th, 2024

Do I actually want to go to heaven? For so many people, heaven doesn't actually seem like a good place to be. We have to learn to long for a distant country that we've never been to and have no idea what it is like. If it is a great place, you can learn to like it. Sermon on Isaiah 35:1-10 on November 10th, 2024

We need to know that the real path to ruling is the one who came to serve. We will place ourselves beneath others because there is a throne waiting for us.  We need to be prepared for that throne someday. The only way to be shaped and made into that person who can sit and rule on that throne is that we are ruled today.  A sermon on Revelation 20:4-6. 

Although we are really good at restoring certain things like cars, generally we struggle to restore things in life. We are much better at tearing things down. This is part of our cultural moment. A better way is to realize that to restore things will mean to reform them into something new and often better. A sermon on Galatians 6:1-10 for Reformation 2024, October 27, 2024

Whatever job or work we do, we can't just do kingdom work some of the time or part time. We have a high and holy calling. We have a vocation to help fight sin. A sermon on Mark 10:32-45 on October 20th 2024

I've seen plenty of examples of the destructive effect of marriage. Nevertheless, God says and shows that marriage is the path to flourishing, for most people. A sermon on genesis 2:18 -25 on October 13.

Every believer should work for the good of neighbor. Through the work of Jesus, we have been made priests of God. That doesn't minimize or eliminate the work of pastors. We benefit each other when we work together in love. Sermon on September 29th, 2024.

Being loved does some great things for us. But it isn't easy to be someone who can be loved. It means being vulnerable and dependent. That's what someone else has done exactly right for us. Sermon on Sept 22, 2024, 1 John 4 and others.

God is the love the drives the world. That very love means life for all. Do we actually want someone to love us? Can we endure love with us, for us, and beside us all the time? Know the love of God for you. A sermon on September 15th, 2024 on John 3:16

Christianity has something to give. Whether you know it or not, feel it or not, or even have the right thing, whatever sickness, hardship, or trial you run up against in life, the gospel gives you something to give. A sermon on Act 3:1-10 on September 8th, 2024.

Kids know the importance of giving honor and glory to someone else. They boast about their parents at school. We give glory and honor to things to by our lives - perhaps to money, or family, or our career. But do we honor good things? Do we glorify the right things? And what could it do for us if we honored someone else who honored us first! A sermon on Deuteronomy 4:1-9 on September 1, 2024.

Our age pressures us simultaneously to be both filled with faith and to turn away from faith. We aren't going to get away from that pressure. The only thing we can do is press into it. We can do that because Jesus pressed on to push back against sin, death, and the devil. A sermon on Hebrews 11:24-28 on August 25, 2024

The solution for days of wild weather is not to try to tame it, control it, or somehow think we are gods. It is to get a king who is truly as wild as the weather is. A sermon on Mark 4:35-41.

The postmodern, postChristian world has involved a massive shift that has essentially removed a Savior and replaced it with a self. That analysis can be seen in Genesis 3. A sermon on Genesis 3:8-15 on June 9th, 2024

All of these things are part of our reality. We know that the world is loved and loved to death. * We know that such love is the very essence of God himself. We know that behind history there is the witness who is the great witness of all things right. We know that the above the values that we hold to is the one who values us. There's something that you and I can say in every situation. And that's...