Haverhill Commons Church

Summer has a rhythm, not just physically, but spiritually as well. In this sermon, we cover the activities and dangers that accompany our spiritual summers.

Most people, most of the time, whether they have little money or a lot of money are stressed about money. We don’t just spend a lot, we max out. The typical American spends ALL the money they make…on themselves. But what if our money is not simply mine. What if God has given it to me, not to spend on myself, but to steward?

Has your world ever broken? If it has, what did you do? In 586 BCE, the Babylonian Empire, conquered all of what was left of Israel. Jerusalem, was destroyed, burned to the ground, along with the great temple that King Solomon had built.  It’s one thing to read about a death in an obituary. But the book of Lamentations is like going to the funeral and hearing the sobs and songs of an entire people...

We tend to pick and choose and put more emphasis on one side of Jesus over another. Jesus is love and therefore sin doesn’t really matter. Or Jesus is just, so we better work as hard as we can to be as good as we can so that he’s happy with us. Which side of Jesus do you tend to emphasize? Do you tend to see Jesus as a disciplinarian, so you feel pressure to live up to expectations? Or do you see...

In this sermon we humbly share the Biblical reasons our church believes that we should not just permit women to teach, but that we have a responsibility to encourage, empower, develop, compensate and celebrate women to teach and preach and bear pastoral authority in the church.