Seven Mile Road

In all of our communities north of Boston in our generation, we need to see faith from all of us akin to what we see in the life of Moses. This is a rugged call and not an easy path. It’s marked by defiance and self-denial and ultimately flourishes in demonstrable acts of faith that many just can’t understand. The Author of Hebrews takes us through the life of Moses, a Jewish Giant of the Faith, f...

Abraham, who obeyed when God called him, and was able to live by faith even through great adversity. His story is a lot like all of ours, and the faith that kept Abraham going is the same faith given to all of us: faith looking forward to the promises of God.

When you think of dads, what words come to mind? Honorable? Clueless? Damnable? In Bostonian culture, we've quickly shifted toward the latter. The beautiful, Biblical call to "Honor your Father" has been jettisoned in favor of cries to "Smash the Patriarchy!" So which is it? This Sunday we'll consider the doctrine of the Fatherhood of God and its implications for how...

All Summer we're looking at the lives of 10 different heroes of faith from Hebrews 11. Unlike the "superheroes" of our big screen and comic book fantasies, these folks were just ordinary people who came to trust God fully with their lives, and now they've been given to us as examples, that we might do the same. This week is seventh-from-Adam-Enoch, whose unusually long life see...

In this sermon, we cast a vision for our gospel communities being venues where disciples are actually made as we marry understanding, belief, and action.

We begin our look at the exemplars of living-by-faith from Hebrews 11 on Mother's Day with Sarah as she receives, laughs at, but then holds to and acts on the promise of God for her life.

The pastor/writer of the letter to the Hebrews has been working overtime to convince these Christians to stick with Jesus and His gospel in the face of serious temptation to bail. In chapter 10 we see him imploring them to look back at that first season of grace and remember how sincere and unshakeable their conviction was. They suffered, their friends suffered, and they EVEN HAD THEIR HARD-EARNED...

What happens when, in defiance of both God's law and gospel, we make sin the settled pursuit of our lives? This is a burning question for all of us who live in what is rapidly becoming a post-Christian culture. In this fourth warning from the book of Hebrews we get an answer.

American culture excels at distracting us from the realities of sin and grace and convincing us that we don't need to spend time gathered with other Christians - and we often gladly oblige (to our own harm and the harm of those we are called to love and encourage). In this sermon we hear the Spirit calling us in Scripture to "not neglect meeting together, as is the habit of some" an...

"If God is love, why would He require a blood sacrifice in order to forgive sins? That sounds barbaric." In this sermon, we'll consider this objection by following the thread of substitutionary atonement that weaves its way through all of redemptive history - from the garden to the cross - culminating in Christ's willing sacrifice of His life for ours.

"The power of an indestructible life." That's how the book of Hebrews refers to the hinge on which the gospel swings: the unexpected, unrivaled, undeniable, unchanging fact of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. On Easter Sunday at Seven Mile Road we talked resurrection and its implications for our present and future.

The "new covenant," aka "the gospel era," aka "all the awesomeness that we are experiencing at Seven Mile Road right now" is built on better promises than the older covenant that preceded it." This Sunday we deep dive on what Hebrews 8 teaches us about what was "wrong" the with older covenant and what the "better" promises are that God has mad...

What American with cable tv and a remote control has not had that skeptical thought run through their head? And rightfully so. "Televangelism" is a bane of the American church and an affront to the very heart of the gospel. Truth be told, all of church history is littered with liars, thieves, and charlatans who sought to manipulate the gospel for their own financial gain. This practice i...

In this sermon, we work to answer a question that comes up often in the life of our church: Who should be coming to Jesus' Table? Is this meal open to anyone who happens to gather for worship that day? How would I know if I should be participating? We spent time in the text of Scripture that most explicitly addresses this question (I Corinthians 11:23-32) and saw that the Spirit's answer...

You might not be particularly familiar with Melchizedek or even if you are, you probably haven’t given him a lot of thought, but he might be the most important person in the Bible that you’ve probably never thought much about. In this sermon we look at Hebrews 7 and tackle some important questions like “Why does Seven Mile Road not have priests?” and “Why is Melchizedek important, at all, for us t...

In this sermon we come across the third of the five fierce warnings that pepper the book of Hebrews. These warnings are meant to alert us to the dangers of neglecting the gospel of grace, and this warning is intense. According to Hebrews 6:4-9, it's possible for someone who has had legitimate gospel experiences to "fall away" with zero hope for every coming back to Christ. Join us a...

Is there a gospel-centered way to watch the Super Bowl? Yes. Yes, there is. With some wings in one hand, some nachos in the other, and a big, fat smile on your face. In this sermon, we address the common objection that Christianity is for grumpy curmudgeons who barely smile, frequently brood, and would even suck the life out of a Super Bowl party if you let them. This common caricature is actually...

We've all heard the words "grow up." Sometimes they've been spoken to us with disdain, sometimes with despair. But in Hebrews 5:11 - 6:3 the Spirit speaks them to us with urgency and hope. The gospel life is one of moving, relentlessly, purposefully, toward maturity in Christ. We never get beyond gospel grace, but we do build on it.

Has the Father called you to some really hard obediences in this season of your life? This text will provide some hope and help! We look at the Spirit's words in Hebrew 5:7-10 and see that Jesus' life was one long, difficult, perfect obedience, crescendoing in His yes to the cross. We then consider the posture of a life that is fully submitted to God by the power of the gospel.

"Racism is bad." We agree, wholeheartedly. But why? Who said? Where does the moral obligation to not value one race over another come from? For that matter, where do moral obligations come from at all? Listen as we consider these questions and see how the one true and living God and His gospel compel us to love and work for justice.

In this sermon from Hebrews 6:10 we consider both the state of our church and the state of our souls as we step into another year together.