Sermons at Littleton Christian

Conquest, pt. 2: Obedient Humility - Deut. 8-9 Rev. Mike Wright Teaching Text - Deuteronomy 8:1-5, 11;20; 9:1-8, 22-29 You must keep carefully all these commandments I am giving you today so that you may live, increase in number, and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. 2  Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the wildernes...

Humble Obedience - Deuteronomy 7 Rev. Mike Wright Teaching Text - Deuteronomy 7 When the Lord your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you—Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you— 2  and he delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utt...

Contagious Devotion - Deuteronomy 5 Rev. Mike Wright Teaching Text - Deuteronomy 6 Now these are the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that the Lord your God instructed me to teach you so that you may carry them out in the land where you are headed 2  and that you may so revere the Lord your God that you will keep all his statutes and commandments that I am giving you—you, your children,...

Two Tablets - Deuteronomy 5 Rev. Stephen Newhall Teaching Text - Deuteronomy 5 Then Moses called all the people of Israel together and said to them: “Listen, Israel, to the statutes and ordinances that I am about to deliver to you today; learn them and be careful to keep them! 2  The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. 3  He did not make this covenant with our ancestors but wi...

Heed the Voice - Deuteronomy 4 Rev. Mike Wright Teaching Text - Deuteronomy 4 Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. 2 Do not add a thing to what I command you nor subtract from it, so that you may keep the commandments of th...

The Message of Deuteronomy - Deut. 1 Rev. Mike Wright Teaching Text - Deuteronomy 1 This is what Moses said to all of Israel in the Transjordanian wilderness, the arid rift valley opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di Zahab. 2  Now it is ordinarily an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by way of Mount Seir. 3  However, it was not until the first day...

Easter Eggs - John 20 Rev. Mike Wright Teaching Text - John 20 Now very early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been moved away from the entrance. 2  So she went running to Simon Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus loved and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they have...

Get Ready, pt. 3 - John 17 Rev. Mike Wright Teaching Text - John 17 When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you— 2  just as you have given him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him. 3  Now this is eternal life—that the...

Get Ready, Part 2: How to Relate to “The World” - John 15-16 Rev. Mike Wright Teaching Text - John 15:18-16:16 18  “If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first. 19  If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you. 20  Remember what I t...

Get Ready, Part 1: Disciples’ Questions, Jesus’ Answers (John 13-14) Rev. Mike Wright Teaching Text - John 14  “Do not let your hearts be distressed. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2  There are many dwelling places in my Father’s house. Otherwise, I would have told you, because I am going away to make ready a place for you. 3  And if I go and make ready a place for you, I w...

Intergenerational Ministry Shana Mickey Teaching Text - Psalm 78:1-7; 1 John 2:12-14 Pay attention, my people, to my instruction. Listen to the words I speak. 2  I will sing a song that imparts wisdom; I will make insightful observations about the past. 3  What we have heard and learned— that which our ancestors have told us— 4  we will not hide from their descendants. We will tell...

Apostles' Creed #19 - The Life Everlasting Rev. Mike Wright Teaching Text - Revelation 21:1-22:5 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had ceased to exist, and the sea existed no more. 2  And I saw the holy city—the new Jerusalem—descending out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband. 3  And I heard a loud voice from the thron...

Apostles' Creed #18 - The Resurrection of the Body Rev. Mike Wright Teaching Text - 1 Corinthians 15:35-58 35  But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?” 36  Fool! What you sow will not come to life unless it dies. 37  And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed—perhaps of wheat or something else. 38  But God give...

Ash Wednesday 2025 Rev. Mike Wright Teaching Text - Psalm 51:1-17 Have mercy on me, O God, because of your loyal love. Because of your great compassion, wipe away my rebellious acts. 2  Wash away my wrongdoing. Cleanse me of my sin. 3  For I am aware of my rebellious acts; I am forever conscious of my sin. 4  Against you—you above all—I have sinned; I have done what is evil in your...

The Apostles' Creed #17 - The Forgiveness of Sins Rev. Mike Wright Teaching Text - Matthew 18 At that time the disciples came to Jesus saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” 2  He called a child, had him stand among them, 3  and said, “I tell you the truth, unless you turn around and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven! 4  Whoever...

Apostles' Creed #16 - The Communion of Saints Rev. Mark Grapengater Teaching Text - Romans 12 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2  Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will...

Apostles' Creed #14 - I Believe in the Holy Catholic Church Rev. Mike Wright Teaching Text - Acts 15:1-35 Now some men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” 2  When Paul and Barnabas had a major argument and debate with them, the church appointed Paul and Barnabas and some others from among the...

Apostles' Creed #14 - I Believe in the Holy Spirit Rev. Mike Wright Teaching Text - Romans 8 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sin...

Apostles' Creed #13 - Judgement & Justification Rev. Stephen Newhall Teaching Text - Matthew 25:31-46 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the go...

Apostles' Creed #12 - Ascension of Jesus Rev. Mike Wright Teaching Text Acts 1:1-11; 5:17-32   In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach 2  until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. 3  After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing pr...

Apostles' Creed #11 - Ressurection Rev. Mike Wright Teaching Text 1 Cor. 15:1-34 Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel that I preached to you, that you received and on which you stand, 2  and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3  For I passed on to you as of first importance what I al...

Apostles' Creed #10 - The Descent into Hell Rev. Stephen Newhall Teaching Text - Revelation 1:8-18 8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God—the one who is, and who was, and who is still to come—the All-Powerful! 9 I, John, your brother and the one who shares with you in the persecution, kingdom, and endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God...

Apostles Creed #9 - I believe in the Death Rev. Mike Wright Teaching Text - Matthew 27:32-66 32  As they were going out, they found a man from Cyrene named Simon, whom they forced to carry his cross. 33  They came to a place called Golgotha (which means “Place of the Skull”) 34  and offered Jesus wine mixed with gall to drink. But after tasting it, he would not drink it. 35  Wh...

Apostles' Creed #8 - Suffering Shana Mickey Teaching Texts - Isaiah 53:2-5; Matthew 27:11-26 He sprouted up like a twig before God, like a root out of parched soil; he had no stately form or majesty that might catch our attention, no special appearance that we should want to follow him. 3  He was despised and rejected by people, one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness; people...

Apostles' Creed # 7 - Born of a Virign Rev. Mike Wright Teaching Text: Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 1:26-38 18  Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. 19  Because Joseph, her husband to be, was a righteous man, and because he did not want to disgrace her, h...