Sermons - The Village Church

With a new year comes the opportunity to examine our lives and measure the space between what we say we believe and how we live. Does your life on Earth reflect the reality of Heaven as your ultimate home?

Christian joy transcends circumstantial happiness because Jesus has overcome the darkness.

The overwhelming reality that the Son of God put on flesh and dwelt among us should cause Christians to marvel.

Regardless of what’s going on in the world, the coming of Christ has given us an opportunity to let peace be established in our hearts.

Advent brings us hope because the birth of Jesus is the death of fear.

God has called us to Himself, and He will fully empower us to live as the people He made us to be. We can be encouraged to step out in faith and trust in Him.

Much of what frustrates our lives today is driven out when we live as the people God made us to be, with the people God gave us to love.

The Creator of the universe has invested in each of us for our joy and His glory. Discovering and living into that investment provides us with what we’ve been searching for.

Our lives are interwoven with others, and we need each other. Our varying purposes shape a community of faith where people are cheered on to live out their own part of God’s good design.

God forms us into who we are through our gifts and by the triumphs and tragedies that make up our stories. Unearthing these things reveals His good design.

God has prepared specific opportunities for us to step into, but words and wounds can bury our potential and keep us from realizing them.

We all share a general identity as children of God and heirs of His promise, but what does it look like to step into our specific identities? Who has God made us to be? Visit patersoncenter.com/tvc to learn more.

We are God’s workmanship; each of us is formed by His hand, with His people, and for His glory. God calls us to Himself for a specific purpose.

Jesus came to earth preaching the kingdom of God—His reign and rule over all creation—and it looks different than what many of us imagine.

The love of Christ is the only answer to the brokenness of the world, but many of us walk right past what God is inviting us into every day.

The Bible doesn’t just talk about the gospel as individual salvation; the gospel is the good news that God is redeeming everything.

You can grow up in church your entire life and never truly hear the gospel because receiving it and being transformed by its power requires God to move.

Spiritually vibrant disciples keep in step with Jesus’ holy disruptions.

Paul writes that we should refrain from quenching the Holy Spirit as He works to make us look more like Jesus.

Often unrecognized, the Holy Spirit’s unseen work in the Christian is profound and necessary for life and godliness.

God’s love defines us, saves us, and transforms us, and it is the only thing that can correct our trajectory of lovelessness.

The Lord’s Church is built to flourish in the face of opposition.

Paul writes in 2 Corinthians that the people of God are to be captive, aromatic ambassadors of Jesus to the world around them.

Jesus calls His followers to show radical hospitality to everyone we meet, especially those different from us.

Your spiritual appetites reveal whether you’re on a trajectory of maturation or devolving back into infancy.