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Exodus 17: 1-7. As the Summer rush began to wane, and the next season of study grew closer, Sojourn Church took a month-long pause of operation to consider what godly rest looks like. We even took a week off to actively practice the idea of godly rest and made space for a local concert that some local church’s had organized for the community. This sermon comes as part one of two teachings given du...

Luke 24:13-35. In a brilliant logical proof for the evidence of Jesus’ Resurrection from the dead, Paul writes to the church in Corinth (1 Cor. 15) that Jesus showed himself alive to several people, to as many as 500 at one time! While most of these interactions were not recorded into writing, some of them were, and they are all as exciting as they are amazing. One of these recorded instances can...

Luke 22:7-20, 24-30. Before the Resurrection, Jesus’ ministry was marked by a distinct way that he would take something his audience thought they knew well enough and frame it in such a way that exposed just how little they actually understood about it. Even the things many Jews held close to their identity as God’s Chosen people, he would take and throw upside-down; Passover was no exception to t...

Luke 11:37-52. Have you ever been in a social setting and realized you had been set up? Maybe that person your friends had been trying to get you to date was “coincidentally” there too, or you mention a certain topic only to realize someone there had been waiting for you to bring it up. Our seventh week exploring dinner scenes of Luke’s Gospel—Luke’s primary way of displaying Jesus’ approach to ev...

Luke 10:1-42. Our sixth stop in the gospel according to Luke brought us to the moment Jesus instructs his disciples on how to spread the news of God’s Kingdom and his ministry on Earth. But that’s not the only image of service to God this section of Luke’s Gospel has to offer; instead, we’re given two others as well to complete the picture. Join us as we learn what it means to be an ambassador, a...

Luke 9:7-20. As Jesus’ ministry continued to gain the attention of those around him, one crucial question came up: Who is this guy? Everyone had their own spin and interpretation of what they thought was going on, but no one really knew for sure. No one except the Disciples, that is, and to illustrate how they knew who Jesus really was, Luke poses the question on either side of one story: a story...

Luke 7:36-50. As we continue our tour through Luke’s Gospel account, we find ourselves at yet another dinner scene. Instead of Jesus eating with the rejected and unclean of Jewish society, however, this time Jesus’s host is a Pharisee. Oddly enough, a prostitute crashing the party and throwing herself at Jesus was only the second most controversial thing that happened that night. Join us as we lea...

Luke 5:27-32. It’s easy to look down at the Pharisees in the Bible; they’re shown in a pretty poor light, after all. But what if they were the only ones acting rationally, according to their way of living, and Jesus was some strangely popular rebel who needed to be dealt with before things got out of control? Take Levi, for instance. He claimed the parts of being a Jew that benefitted him, but bes...

Matthew 3:13-17. In this second and final installment of our mini-series on Resting in the Lord, guest speaker Joseph Peterson shares his own personal journey on the matter and teaches us the valuable lesson of finding and truly rooting our identity in who God tells us we are, as best modeled by Jesus himself.

James 1:1-18. Imagine you’re a lump of iron ore, never been used, fresh from the mine. Raw potential. You’ve got a long way to go before you’re smithing material, but you’re already in the hands of the Smith himself—there’s no doubt in your mind you’ll be ready to sell by tomorrow morning. But first: the refining process. This is the life we all live on Earth, where God has set up the environment...

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Ephesians 5:18-21. In our eleventh week exploring Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, Matt looks specifically at a section of verses describing the manner in which our newfound identity in Christ is lived. It’s common for these verses to center on the topic of alcohol and ignore the rest, but what Paul is doing here is describing what it looks like to be completely under the influence of the Holy Spir...

Ephesians 5: 1-17. In our tenth week exploring Ephesians, we find ourselves waist deep in what Paul the Apostle had been working towards teaching to his audience: the way of a Jesus follower. These verses have been all too easily abused in the Church history, so they should be treated with discernment in some regard; this is not another list of religious laws for us to blindly mimic. Rather, these...

John 3:16-17. In celebration of the annual day of remembering the incredible victory Jesus achieved through the Cross by raising from the dead, we took a brief hiatus from our series exploring the book of Ephesians and looked instead at what it might mean in John’s account of the Gospel when he said, “God so loved the world that he gave his only son…” It’s a powerful sentence, leading us to an equ...

Ephesians 6:1-9. Our thirteenth week in Paul’s book to the Ephesian church took us to the delightful—and often times troubling—topic of parenting. In this section, Paul definitively instructs God’s people how they are to live as members of the family He’s creating through us. But this family doesn’t work how you’d expect it: slaves and masters serve each other as equals under God’s ultimate Kingsh...

Ephesians 6:10-24. The fourteenth and final installment in our study through the book of Ephesians providentially took place on Memorial Day, where Americans across the world can pause and consider the dedication and courage of so many men and women who have sacrificed their lives to fight for what they believed was worth the cost. This is the very fight Paul opens our eyes to in his concluding wo...

Ephesians 4:17-32. In our ninth week exploring the book of Ephesians, Matt concludes a three-part turning point in the flow of the letter. The first half of Ephesians spoke mainly of Who Jesus is and how his accomplishment on the cross changes who we are, but with the words in this passage, Paul begins speaking with directives, teaching the new believers of Ephesus what exactly it means in a pract...