Sermons from Seven Mile Road Church in Waltham

In this sermon, guest preacher, Scott Cope looks at Mark 10:32-52. If you could ask God for one thing, and you knew he would give it, what would you ask for? How we answer that question reveals a lot about what we value and care about most. Listen and be challenged as we look at this portrait of Jesus.

In this sermon, our guest Dillon Cauley opens up John 14:1-7. Jesus, the way, the truth, and the life, brings comfort to his troubled disciples. We who follow Christ can trust in him alone to calm our hearts, prepare a place for us, and bring us to God.

In this sermon, pastor Kevin looks at Matthew 11:28-30. This brief invitation from Jesus is packed with meaning. Christ offers a deep rest of the soul to those who are burdened and weary. This free offer of the gospel is given to all, but only those who are aware of their weakness with a child-like humility will come to him and experience his gentle and lowly heart.

In this sermon, Pastor Kevin looks at Genesis 27. Here we get a glimpse of a dysfunctional family. Favoritism, deceit, dishonor, anger, and more stem from hearts that do not trust the Lord. Yet in all of this we see how God providentially uses all kinds of human actions to carry out his promised purposes for the good of his people and the glory of his name.

In this sermon, Pastor Clint looks at Genesis 26 and the life of Isaac. In this overview of how life, we see Isaac face adversity; famine, fear of losing his life, and quarreling over sources of water become the soil in which Isaac's faith grows. Like his father Abraham before him, Isaac gives in to sinful self-interest as he faces adversity. And like his father Abraham before him, Isaac also rece...

In this sermon, Pastor Clint looks at Genesis 25:19-34. In Genesis 25, Abraham dies and is buried with Sarah. Issac and Rebekah pray for a child for 20 years and are blessed with twins, Jacob and Esau, who are at odds both in and out of the womb. This chapter begins the next section of Genesis, focused on Issac’s line. And as we look at this narrative, God's sovereign plan unfolds in real-time thr...

In this sermon, Pastor Clint looks at Genesis 24. As Abraham approaches the end of his life, he sends a servant back to his own people to find a wife for Isaac. How does Abraham know God's will for finding Isaac a wife? How does the servant make a plan according to God's will? In this text, we draw out principles to learn how to discern and pursue God's will.

In this sermon, Pastor Kevin looks at Genesis 23. Sarah dies after a 127-year life filled with wandering, mistakes, waiting, laughter, and trusting the Lord. We watch as Abraham mourns the death of his princess and beloved wife and continues to trust in the Lord’s promised land, Canaan, as he negotiates with the Hittites to secure a burial place for Sarah. Here we learn what it means to remember d...

In this sermon, Pastor Clint looks at Genesis 22 where God tests Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his only son, Isaac. Trusting the Lord, Abraham bound his son to the wood of the altar. Everything was at stake—the long-anticipated covenant promise to Abraham of many descendants, finally at long last fulfilled in Isaac, seemed to be slipping away. Yet at the last moment, the Lord himself provides...

In this sermon, Pastor Clint looks at Genesis 20-21. In these chapters, we spend a few years with Abraham, the man of faith. And as we spend time with him, we see that his life is a vivid picture of the life of faith. We see that faith is a work in progress. We also see that a life of faith experiences both joy and sorrow. And finally, we see that a life of faith means that God is with us.

In this sermon, Pastor Kevin looks at Genesis 18 and 19. The time of God's judgment upon the wicked city of Sodom has come. God reveals his plans to Abraham who pleads for God to spare the city for the sake of a few righteous. There's only one problem- There are no righteous people there. Only Lot is "righteous", yet even he lingers, revealing a heart that is attached to the pleasures of sin. In t...

In this sermon, Pastor Kevin looks at Genesis 17 and 18. God rearticulates his covenant with Abraham, gives a sign that marks God's people, and promises the birth of Isaac. The longer Abraham and Sarai wait for this promise to be fulfilled, the more unlikely, even laughable, it seems to them. But God is faithful. This passage teaches us a crucial lesson: ss God’s set-apart people, we must trust in...

In this sermon, Pastor Clint looks at Genesis 16. This chapter begins with a reminder of Abram and Sarai's ongoing problem: they are still without a child. How can the promise of God to Abram be fulfilled without the provision of a family? It's in this setting that Sarai turns from trusting the Lord to take matters into her own hands, Abram fails to lovingly lead, and Hagar the servant is left to...

In this sermon, Pastor Clint looks at Genesis 15. How will this promise of a great nation be fulfilled if the aging Abram has no children? This question is a point of anxiety and fear for Abram. God addresses Abram’s anxiety over childlessness with one of the Bible’s most powerful affirmations of the goodness of God toward his people. God himself is Abram’s shield (v.1), so Abram must not fear. Go...

In this sermon, Pastor Kevin looks at Genesis 13-14. As Abram returns to Canaan after his faith wavered in Egypt. We see in these chapters a renewed man, marked by humility, who responds to a number of trying circumstances with surprising faith. Abram walks by faith, not by sight. In doing so, he points us to the God who sustains and upholds his people.

In this Easter Sermon, Pastor Clint looks at Luke 24:13-35. Two disciples are walking back to Emmaus after seeing Jesus crucified. On the way, they meet the risen Jesus and their despair turns to hope. Listen and be encouraged how your life can changed on the seven mile road.

In this sermon, Pastor Clint looks at Genesis 12. Here, we see God’s invitation to Abram to become a source of blessing for all of humanity. As Abram answers the call he abandons all of his regular sources of comfort and support, leaning wholly on God and his grace. In this chapter, we get a picture of faith and anti-faith -- belief and unbelief.

In this sermon, Pastor Clint wraps up our series, And Justice for All by asking -- How Can We Find Justice? We've considered the weightiest injustices, what God's word has to say about them, and how we are to respond as his people. In this final sermon, we will look toward the day when Christ the King will return and establish justice and righteousness once and for all. What does it mean for us to...

In this sermon Pastor Kevin considers God's heart for the orphan, the widow, and the enslaved. We live in a world filled with 153 million orphans and 245 million widows, many of whom live in conditions of poverty, without the common protections and provisions of a family. Such vulnerability puts these orphans and widows at risk of one of the most wicked industries in our world today- human traffic...

In this sermon, Pastor Clint looks at the intersection of justice and poverty. . Proverbs 21:13 says, "Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered." This Sunday we will open our ears and discover how God has called and equipped us to love, serve, and bless the poor from a heart transformed by Christ who became poor for us.

In this sermon, Pastor Clint looks at Justice and the Unborn. Thousands of unborn children are aborted each day in our nation. The politicized language surrounding abortion has tempted Christians to remain silent or passive on what scripture makes clear: God is the Author of life. He knits us together in the womb (Psalm 139:13). So how do we think biblically, speak clearly, and act justly for the...

In this sermon, Pastor Kevin looks at the topic of Justice and Race. Racism is a deeply rooted belief that one race is superior to another. In Ephesians 2:11-22, Paul directly addresses this dividing wall of ethnic hostility and shows how the gospel reconciles us to God and one another. As God's people we oppose racism, seek reconciliation with one another across ethnic divides and celebrate the b...

In this sermon, Pastor Clint looks at various passages in the Bible to ask the question -- What is Justice. "Justice" is a word we hear often in today's culture, but have we considered what our just God has to say about the matter? Over the next six weeks, we will mine the depths of God's word to discover the biblical definition of justice, and how to respond to the various injustices around us in...

In this sermon, Pastor Clint looks at Genesis 11:1-9. God has always intended for humanity to fill the earth. But, as Genesis 11 shows us, this filling happens in ways God did not intend. In the Tower of Babel story, we see humanity become united in its defiance of the Creator. Devastating things happen when we deny the will of God and seek to replace the pursuit of his glory with the pursuit of o...

In this sermon, Pastor Kevin looks at Genesis 8:20-9:28. The flood has subsided. Noah and his family have stepped off the ark into this new world. God makes a covenant with Noah to preserve the earth until the final judgment. But will this new world be free from the corruption of the past? No. Noah took his sin with him into the ark, and he brought it with him out of the ark. God's preserving grac...