Misty Creek Community Church Sermons

Ash Wednesday 2/14/24 Sermon Misty Creek Community Church Senior Pastor: Stephen Streett

Jesus, Healing, and the Kingdom of God and Embracing the Mystery of Healing (Matthew 10:1-8) After giving the disciples his authority to cast out demons, and to cure every disease and every sickness, Jesus gave them specific instructions on where to take his on-the-road kingdom demonstrations: to the lost sheep of Israel. As the disciples made their way to the lost sheep of Israel, they were instr...

2/4/24 Sermon: Follow the Healer Series:  "The Five Ways Jesus Heals" Luke 9:1-2 When Jesus was physically here on earth, in his Galilean ministry he essentially did three things: he preached, he taught, and he healed. Jesus continues through his church to engage in that threefold ministry of teaching, preaching, and healing. As I've come to recognize and to know that it's his mi...

"The Five Ways Jesus Heals" & "Healing and the Image of God" 1/28/24 Sermon Misty Creek Community Church In 1868, Fanny Crosby penned the lyrics to “Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior.” Fanny, blind since birth, experienced the saving love of Jesus at the age of thirty-one. While she never received her sight, even though she was taken to the best doctors, and presumably prayed fo...

Follow the Healer Series: Participating in the Healing Ministry of Jesus and Healing and the Love of Jesus. Matthew 4:23–25 In 1985, Huey Lewis and the News had a number one hit with the song, “The Power of Love,” from the blockbuster motion picture  Back to the Future . The lyrics of the song, however, have nothing to do with the movie. While the lyrics weren’t motivated by the movie, they do hav...

Follow The Healer Series: Christ is our Living Hope Part 2 Philippians 2:5-11 and 1 Corinthians 2:9-10, 16. There’s nothing quite like tearing off the last page of a calendar and turning to a new year. It brings a clean slate, offering a new start with fresh possibilities. New Year’s resolutions will abound. New habits will be attempted. Once again, we will aspire to put our best foot forward. But...

"Follow the Healer, Pt.1: Christ Is Our Living Hope" 1/7/23 Sermon Misty Creek Community Church Isaiah 43:18-19 & Philippians 3:13-14 So, things haven't turned out as you hoped. Life took a turn, a bump, a darkened sky and at times it may have seemed there was no hope but here's the good news, our God is the God of fresh starts. God is the God of new beginnings. Our God bring...

"A Story Only God Could Write" Christmas Eve Sermon - 12/24/23 Misty Creek Community Church What a blessing it is to celebrate the Advent and Christmas season with the Misty Creek community of faith family. I am privileged to be your pastor and serve alongside our beloved Worship Pastor, Doug Allen. I feel incredibly blessed and honored to serve Jesus at Misty Creek. My heart is filled w...

JESUS AND JUBILEE  ISAIAH 61:1–4 Scripture is clear that Christ's coming into the world occurred at exactly the right time and the precise place. God had ordained his birth since before the world began. God scripted the birth of Jesus down to the smallest detail. Scripture contains many occasions when God spoke directly to men about what was going to happen. When we study Scripture, we find ma...

The Story You Live in is the Story You Live Out!  The Wilderness and the Way Isaiah 40:1-5 & Isaiah 64:1-4 Advent means arrival or coming. It is a word we often associate with the arrival of some life-changing technology. And often these inventions are held for advancing our great cultural obsession: the elimination of waiting. With each innovation, we attempt to expedite the process in the na...

Is There Room in Your Heart for Jesus?   Luke 2:4-7 & Revelation 3:20   Over 2000 years ago, God gave mankind the greatest gift in human history, the gift of His Son Jesus Christ. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary in Bethlehem in the most humble of places, an animal stall because there was no room for them in the inn. God has made room in His heart for all who wou...

The Story You Live in is the Story You Live Out Part 6:   Stepping into the Story Luke 1:30-33   Genesis 12:1 “The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.” The Lord has called us all to step away from all that’s familiar, just as he once called Abram. He has invited you into His story. To make room in your heart and your h...

Misty Creek Community Church 11/19/23 Sermon: "Living In and Living Out the Story of God" The Story You Live In Is The Story You Live Out, pt.5 1 John 2:16 Senior Pastor, Stephen Streett

The Story You Live in is the Story You Live Out Part 4:   This is what God’s really like. After Highland Park Presbyterian Church announced the shocking death of their young pastor a few weeks ago they wrote: “When we don’t know what to do, we are taught to turn to God and pray.” So, they held a vigil in their Sanctuary and invited all who could “to sit with our grief and to pray with us.” That Su...

"It Is Well With Our Souls" (The Story You Live In Is The Story You Live Out, Pt.3) 11/5/23 Sermon Thursday April 27, 2023, from 7pm-11:30pm will be forever etched in my heart’s memory. The hospice RN, Muhammad, motioned for Karen to come into the room. Early that evening our church prayer team prayed over her father, Gary, via Facetime and Doug Allen sang the most anointed version of  L...

"The Misguided and the Misinformed" (The Story You Live In is the Story You Live Out, Pt.2) 10/29/23 Sermon from Misty Creek Community Church Humanity runs down every path the world has to offer in hopes of finding life, happiness, meaning, purpose, fulfillment, love, and peace, to find themselves, only to find each path a road of empty promises. They are taught that they will find love,...

10/22/23 Sermon from Misty Creek Community Church Senior Pastor, Stephen Streett: "Beloved Son, Beloved Daughter" Luke 15:11-32

10/15/23 Sermon: The Story You Live In Is The Story You Live Out, Part 1: "There is a Better Story" 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 We all have different stories, personalities, and thus unique experiences with how God met us and brought us into the family of God. The Story You Live in is the Story You Live Out! When collaborating with long-time churched people, especially those who grew up in the...

Have You Seen My Joy?   Ecclesiastes 3:1-14   King Solomon was highly favored and richly blessed by the Lord. He asked for a discerning heart so he could properly govern the Lord’s people. This moved God’s heart and He blessed Solomon, not only with wisdom from above but He also gave him great wealth and honor. Solomon was fully devoted to God at first but he disobeyed the Lord’s commands and stra...

We all have free access to all that is great and good and happy and carry within ourselves a key to all the treasures of heaven. It’s called prayer. The first step to true prayer is to expect nothing from yourself. The second step is to expect everything from God with all your heart. Instead of focusing your thoughts on yourself and your needs, focus on God’s glory and his love. Then prayer will b...

God delivered the Israelites out of their slavery to the kingdom of darkness, baptized them in the Red Sea, fed them the bread of heaven, gave them water of life, and was preparing them for the next phase of the conquest of the promised land. In preparation, He warned them that when they experienced the many blessings and good of the land, to guard their hearts vigilantly, because they would be te...

God Vision Part 4: Fact or Fiction 2 Peter 1:16-21 Recently, a store that’s part of a vast retail chain labeled its Bibles as “fiction.” A pastor shopping for a gift came across the Bibles and saw “Fiction” written on the price tag. He took a picture and posted it on social media with the comment: “[Name withheld] has Bibles for sale under the genre of FICTION.” The retailer later apologized, sayi...

For those of us who were born, we know where we were and what we were doing 22 years ago on September 11, 2001. We remember how we felt because to some degree we have felt that way ever since, and this pandemic, divisiveness, riots, killings, natural disasters, and anniversaries such as this one reminds us that nothing is normal now. What should we do when pandemics and cataclysmic events strike?...

"God Vision, Part Three: The World" 9/3/23 Sermon Misty Creek Community Church It seems that nothing in the world is safe from change. Most brands we loved as kids look different today. Famous hamburger chains now offer salads. We grow taller and wider. Our hair turns gray or falls out. Our athletic abilities and mental faculties slip away. The six pack abs morph into a spare tire. We ge...

Dear Misty Creek faithful, There’s been a huge amount of talk about “vision” in the church world, especially for the last 3–5 decades. Vision is about seeing—specifically seeing clearly. Seeing what clearly? Reality, facts, truth, potential, and opportunities, to name a few. The whole world for all of history has been on a “Vision Quest”—a search for God, Truth, Love, meaning, and purpose. The wor...