Sermons from Seven Mile Road Church in Waltham

Crown & Cross // The Gospel of Mark In this sermon, Pastor Clint looks at Mark 8:27--38. In this passage, Jesus asks his disciples, Who do you say that I am? Here we see Peter rightly exclaim, You are the Christ! But what does it mean that Jesus is the Messiah and what are the implications for those who follow him? Listen to this sermon to see the identification, interpretation, and implications o...

Looking Back & Looking Forward // Vision In this sermon, Pastor Clint looks at Ephesians 3:14-21 and Paul's visionary prayer. Vision is a picture of what could be with the conviction that it should be. Paul's prayer of vision looks upward, moves inward, and goes outward as he prays for believers. What would it look like for us to adopt this visionary prayer for 2018?

Looking Back & Looking Forward // Prayer In this sermonette, Jeremy looks at Matthew 6:9-13 and the Lord's prayer. As we close the year, we want to spend some time looking back through prayer.

Waiting For Jesus // Waiting in Power In this Advent Sermon, Jeremy looks at Isaiah 40:27-31. No one likes waiting. We despise it and we do everything we can to avoid it. Yet, what we find in the Scriptures is that waiting uniquely forms and shapes us as the people of God. As we bring this series to close, we see how God gives strength to us while we wait so that we wait in power. Listen to this s...

Waiting For Jesus // Waiting with Patience In this Advent Series, Pastor Clint looks at Jeremiah 29:1-14. No one likes waiting. We despise it and we do everything we can to avoid it. Yet, what we find in the Scriptures is that waiting uniquely forms and shapes us as the people of God. Even though we are waiting, we do not wait with idle hands. God has a plan for his people in exile who are waiting...

Waiting For Jesus // Waiting with Patience In this new Advent Series, Pastor Clint looks at Habakkuk 2:1-4. No one likes waiting. We despise it and we do everything we can to avoid it. Yet, what we find in the Scriptures is that waiting uniquely forms and shapes us as the people of God. Waiting by its very nature necessitates patience. In this text, we learn that patience is intentional, not impul...

Waiting For Jesus // Waiting with Perspective In this new Advent Series, Pastor Clint looks at Isaiah 40:1-11. No one likes waiting. We despise it and we do everything we can to avoid it. Yet, what we find in the Scriptures is that waiting uniquely forms and shapes us as the people of God. Listen as we see the perspective that Isaiah brings to our waiting that categorically changes our season of w...

Crown & Cross // The Gospel of Mark In this sermon, Jeremy looks at Mark 7:1-37. What makes a person clean before God? Jesus addresses this question as he calls out the religious insiders for ignoring God's command to love in favor of their man-made traditions. On top of that, Jesus shows us that it is not what we bring to the table that makes us worthy. Insider or outsider, Jesus' grace overflows...

Crown & Cross // The Gospel of Mark In this sermon, Pastor Clint looks at Mark 6:30-45 and 8:1-20. With Jesus, it is feast or famine. For those who receive him, he feeds the bread of life and those who reject him get little more than a sigh. Listen to the King's feast to see how Jesus nourished our soul.

Crown & Cross // The Gospel of Mark In this sermon, Pastor Clint looks at Mark 6:1-29 and the King's Opposition. In this episode, Jesus faces opposition at every turn. We learn about the inevitability, the accountability, and the tragedy of opposition and how we are to respond.

Crown & Cross // The Gospel of Mark In this sermon, Pastor Clint looks at Mark 4:35-5:43 and the King's Power. In this episode, Jesus comes face to face with Disaster, Demons, Disease and Death. Listen and see how Jesus reverses the effects of the curse - even the curse of death.

Crown & Cross // The Gospel of Mark In this sermon, Jeremy looks at Mark 4:1-34 and the King's Kingdom. At this point in Mark's Gospel, Mark slows down some of the action to give us an extended teaching from Jesus on the kingdom. Through parables, Jesus will teach us about the plan, the process, and the progress of Kingdom growth. Listen and be challenge to participate in God's Kingdom.

Crown & Cross // The Gospel of Mark In this sermon, Pastor Clint looks at Mark 3:20-35 and the King's Family. In this episode, King Jesus declares and defines who is his family. We see there are many around Jesus as fans and others against Jesus as foes, but who makes up the King's Family? Listen and see what it means to be with Jesus, for Jesus, and obedient to Jesus.

Crown & Cross // The Gospel of Mark In this sermon, Pastor Clint looks at Mark 2:18-22 and 3:1-6 and the King's Paradigm. In this episode, King Jesus is confronted by the religious elite because He and his crew don't fast and sabbath like they do. Jesus tells them that things cannot stay the same. He has come not merely to bring reform but a whole new paradigm. His paradigm is gospel, not religion...

Crown & Cross // The Gospel of Mark In this sermon, Pastor Clint looks at Mark 1:16-20 & 2:13-17 and the King's Company. In this episode, King Jesus forms his company with a radical and costly call. To follow Jesus means obedience without conditions, which leads to our transformation. But what is even more radical than the call itself is who Jesus calls into his company, which leads to confrontati...

Crown & Cross // The Gospel of Mark In this sermon, Pastor Clint looks at Mark 2:1-12 and the King's Healing. In this episode, a paralytic is brought to Jesus in dramatic fashion and we find that the healing Jesus provides is deeper than we think and more costly than we expect. Listen and be challenged to let Jesus bring the healing and forgiveness that we all need.

Crown & Cross // The Gospel of Mark In this sermon, Pastor Clint looks at Mark 1:40-45 and the King's Compassion. In this episode, a leper risks it all and comes to Jesus for cleansing. Jesus is moved with pity and touches him. What happens? Does the leper become clean? Does Jesus become unclean? Listen and be challenged to come to Jesus with vulnerable faith and be moved by Jesus who is moves tow...

Crown & Cross // The Gospel of Mark In this sermon, Pastor Clint walks through Mark 1:1-15. The gospel is essentially news, not advice about something that has been done for you. We are faced with the decision on how to respond. Listen to this introductory sermon into the Gospel of Mark and be challenged to believe the gospel.

In this sermon, Pastor Clint continues in the series, Exploring the Mission, Motive, and Method of Jesus. This Sunday, we looked at the Method of Jesus in Luke 7:18-35. In this passage, John the Baptist struggles to reconcile the methodology of Jesus and his expectations of what the coming Messiah would do. How do our expectations shape how we see Jesus and our call to follow him? Listen and be ch...

In this sermon, Pastor Clint continues in the series, Exploring the Mission, Motive, and Method of Jesus. This Sunday, we looked at the Motive of Jesus in Mark 10:32-45. In this passage, is on the road to Jerusalem for the last time. We see that the road head to accomplish his mission is filled with suffering and he will give his life as a sacrifice. What motive could possibly explain the steadfas...

In this sermon, Pastor Clint looks at Luke 18:35-19:10. In this passage, Jesus meets an oppressed blind man as well as a blind oppressor. How will Jesus interact with these polar opposite men? Here Jesus is crystal clear about his Mission -- to seek and save the lost. And not only do we see his Mission, but we see that it comes with a pursuit, a presence, and a power.