Heritage Sermons

Romans 15:7–13 | To Magnify His Mercy Among the Nations | Mark Vowels The first of a two-part series in which we focus our attention on God's global purposes for the nations. In this first sermon - brought to us by Mark Vowels - we hear the Word preached from Romans 15:7–13. Paul writes to the Romans because he wants them to share in his passion for reaching the unreached with the gospel. He wants...

Mark 12:28-33 | The Path | Trent Hunter There is something Jesus could say to us that would be both encouraging and unsettling. It's what he said to one of the scribes: "you are not far from the kingdom of God" (Mark 12:34). That's a great place to be, close to the kingdom of God. But it's also not quite where we should want to be, still outside. In this sermon we will visit a familiar passage tha...

Mark 17:18-27 | The Path | Trent Hunter Jesus is on the home stretch—if we could call it that. His public ministry has made a direct move into public conflict with the religious elites. In this sermon we come to a third of four rounds of intense conversation between Jesus and his opponents. This time, the topic is the resurrection. Jesus believes that the end of the age will involve a resurrection...

Psalm 33 | Annual Pulpit Swap | Brad Baugham Sometimes we need a Psalm. This is one   of those times. Psalm 33 gives us something to do: "Shout for joy   in the LORD, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright" (1). It also gives us a reason: "For the word of the LORD is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness. He loves righteousness and justice; the earth  ...

Mark 12:17b | The Path | Trent Hunter How can we prepare for proper biblical resistance in the face of growing government opposition to the things and people of God? That's not a fun question to ask, but it is the question that Christians have normally had to engage together. The key is not so much to focus on our resistance to governing authorities, but rather our allegiance to God and what that...

Mark 12:17a | The Path | Trent Hunter This is our second sermon in a series of sermons through an important passage on God and human government. In Mark 12:13–17, Jesus answered a question about taxes in which he said, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." In this sermon we will train our attention on the topic of human governing authorities, how to...

Mark 12:13-17 | The Path | Trent Hunter There's a famous little phrase tucked into the gospel of Mark whose impact is greater than its length. "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's" (12:17). Now, isn't that a timely text for us! Read Mark 12:13–17 and listen in. We will explore Jesus' teaching concerning the nature of government and our responsibiliti...

Matthew 6:33 | A Bible Verse We Need Now | Trent Hunter Ours is an age of anxiety. Reasons for anxiety are not going away and they have been with us for as long as we have been outside the garden. That's why we're turning to Jesus' words through this sermon, "Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness" (Matt. 6:33). This is the command Jesus gave in the middle of a paragraph with no less...

Isaiah 52:13–53:12 | You Are the Christ | Trent Hunter Here we have a sermon on suffering. Not our suffering, or at least not exactly. Rather, a sermon on the suffering of our Lord, Jesus Christ. We have suffered many things. We would have opted out of any of it had we the chance. Jesus, on the other hand, was firmly resolved to suffer. Jesus was given the chance to opt-out not only by Satan in hi...

Isaiah 63:15-64:4 | You Are the Christ | Dan Cruver Two sermons ago we began a series inspired by Peter's famous words, “You are the Christ” (Mark 8:29). In the first, we heard that in order to rescue us, Jesus had to be human. In the second, we considered Jesus as “Son of Man” from Daniel 7. With this sermon, Dan Cruver will take us to Isaiah 63:15–64:4 to deepen our understanding of what it mean...

Mark 8:27-31; Daniel 7:1-14 | You Are the Christ | Abe Stratton In the last sermon we heard that Jesus’ incarnation was necessary for our salvation; he had to be human in order to rescue us. But when Jesus calls himself “Son of Man,” isn’t he just saying the same thing—that he was human? Why did Jesus choose that title for himself? Why does it matter to us that Jesus is the “Son of Man”? In this s...

Genesis 3:15; Hebrews 2:5-18 | You Are the Christ | Trent Hunter With this sermon we begin a four-part series unpacking Peter's famous words, "You are the Christ" (Mark 8:29). Peter didn't fully understand what that meant, but we do. In fact, understanding what this means is important for our salvation and for our Christian walk. We begin our series with a sermon on the humanity of Christ, or the...

Acts 2:41 | Baptism | Trent Hunter There are choppy waters ahead for the church and for believers. One of the most important things we can do for our church and the next generation is get baptism right. That's one reason we're studying this sign of the new covenant.  Our previous sermon considered the invisible realities to which baptism points. This sermon will consider the visible realities...

Jeremiah 31:31-34 | Baptism | Trent Hunter We wade into this short series with a sermon from Jeremiah 31, for a sermon titled, "Baptism: A Sign of the New Covenant." What is the new covenant? What's new about it? How does baptism symbolize it? Should we baptize believers only, or infants as well? These questions are at the heart of how we understand the nature and structure of the church in God's...

Mark 11:27-12:12 | The Path | Trent Hunter In this sermon, Dan Cruver will preach from Mark 11:27-12:12. Jesus finds his authority aggressively questioned by the religious leaders. We learn that they despise his authority precisely because it threatens theirs. What they fail to see (or believe) is that Jesus’ authority is filled with good news!

Malachi 2:17-3:5 | Malachi | Abe Stratton Have you ever wished for something, but when you got it, you realized that it was completely different than you expected? Malachi reveals that our human tendency is to want God to act, to act now, and to act for us. However, when God does act, it rarely looks or feels like we thought. Sometimes we might regret ever asking.

Malachi 1-4 | Malachi | Abe Stratton Have you ever asked the question, “How did I get here?” You find yourself in a place that’s darker and uglier than you ever thought possible. How did you get there? Through His messenger (the prophet Malachi) God exposes the ugliness of where His people are, and He explains how they got there. The words are hard to hear, but they flow from the heart of a God wh...

Mark 11:12-15 | The Path | Trent Hunter Throughout our journey through Mark, Jerusalem has been coming to Jesus, and Jesus has been carefully concealing his identity. Now, Jesus comes to Jerusalem and the tables are turned. There is plenty here to pique our curiosity, and all we need for a healthy church.

Mark 11:1-11 | The Path | Trent Hunter The journey had to be exhausting. This week Jesus and his disciples arrive in Jerusalem from Jericho, a fairly serious hike with significant elevation gain. But for even greater reasons, the sense of expectation is great: the last three years with Jesus have led to this moment, even the entire story of Scripture. Adam was sent out of the garden, and now heave...

Mark 10:32-52 | The Path | Trent Hunter

Mark 10:17-31 | The Path | Trent Hunter Most of us have some nice things, some earthly possessions. Some of us have a lot of nice things. God made the world, and he has given us many gifts. But these possessions can be a real problem for us. Whatever they may have cost us to purchase, they may well cost us eternal life. Part of following Jesus is taking on an entirely new relationship to the thing...

Mark 10:1-16 | The Path | Trent Hunter Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason? Ever since we left Eden that question has been on our mind. It was a matter of controversy in Moses’ day, Jesus’ day, and in our day of easy divorce. When that question was put to Jesus, however, he changed the subject. He talked about marriage itself—what it is and what God intended for it. The obses...

Ephesians 1:15-23 | Prayer and the Gospel | Jason Read The Christian life is the life of growing in the knowledge of God and of Christ. This knowledge involves what we think and understand. That is crucial. But God himself wants this knowledge to be personal. This is the Apostle Paul’s heartbeat as he prays for the church at Ephesus.

Mark 9:30-50 | The Path | Trent Hunter Kids are back to school, which is hard but exciting. Imagine if Jesus was your teacher and the classroom was only twelve students. This week we will sit in on just such a classroom. But in this case we aren’t dealing with math problems, but with sin relationship problems.

Mark 9:2-13 | The Path | Trent Hunter We know we should pray. But we don’t. Why not? In this sermon we find the disciples walking the path Jesus has called them to and doing so without prayer. Jesus artfully leads them into a lesson on his strength and their weakness and what to do about their hardest challenges on the path of discipleship.