Sunday Sermons by Mission Church

December 15, 2024  We start a new series this week, the Prophecies of Jesus’ Birth with a look at the Virgin Birth, foretold by Isaiah and discussed by Matthew. We’ll look at how God graciously “broke the rules” by choosing the unlikely and the misfit to keep his Son company in his childhood. We’ll also discuss Jesus’ stepfather Joseph, who served with quiet faithfulness and faded from view quickl...

December 8, 2024  What we will see from the returning exiles is a desire to recommit themselves to God. While in exile they’d drifted from God and drifted from faith. Israel had gotten away from their worship, they’d forgotten their traditions, they had forgotten about their faith. Now that the temple and the wall have been rebuilt, it is time to rebuild the people spiritually. Scriptures we dive...

December 1, 2024  What we will discover in our text from Nehemiah today, is that it took everyone doing their part in order to rebuild the wall and see the work through to completion. They could not have rebuilt part of the wall and the rebuild was not something Nehemiah could have done alone; everyone was needed to do their part. The same is true of building God’s Kingdom, it takes all of us work...

November 24, 2024  We’re starting a new series this morning about Nehemiah. Nehemiah emphasizes the importance of Israel’s covenant with God and the redemption from sin. What we will discover about Nehemiah is that he invites God to use him to save the city and ultimately the people of Israel. Nehemiah is praying for his return to help rebuild and that God’s favor would return to Israel. What if o...

November 17, 2024  Guest speaker Bob Lenz of Lifest talks with us about the Great Commission. He highlights reaching younger people, as most decisions for Christ are made before the age of 18. He also reminds us that we are all called to evangelism, no matter what our specific gifts may be, and that God invites us always to participate in this kingdom work!  Scriptures we dive into today:  Matthew...

November 10, 2024  God has made you for worship; He has formed you for glory. You and I are made for worship – to bring God glory in the big and small things we do. Everything we do is an opportunity to glorify God. Scriptures we dive into today:  Romans 12:1-2 ,  1 Corinthians 10:3 ,  Psalms 95:1-7 ,  Hebrews 13:20-21 Thanks for listening! Check our website for to learn more about us, and upcomin...

November 3, 2024  On my own, I feel incapable and inadequate to love some who believes differently than I do. But when I look to the source of love, I’m given hope that I’m capable of loving beyond my own ability. God teaches us how to Love Your Enemy, that includes the person across the political aisle. Scriptures we dive into today:  Matthew 5:44 ,  1 John 4:7-8 ,  Matthew 5:43-48 ,  1 Peter 3:8...

October 27, 2024  To the outside world, a sign that we are followers of Christ is in the way that we love others. What gets in the way of our ability to love others are the exceptions we make for not loving certain people in our life. We make excuses for why won’t love certain people – and if we’re being honest, we make excuses for not loving people who do not agree with our political views. Our p...

October 20, 2024  In this election cycle, it’s easy to let our words get fly. We sound off about a topic or a candidate with little regard for what it’s doing to our witness to others. Someone starts to spout off about a candidate or their position, so we jump in, adding to the conversation, with little regard for how it affects our witness. The words we use have power and must be used thoughtfull...

October 13, 2024  We’re starting a new series this morning called, Talk Civil to Me. As we head into the election, it’s important to remember that we are called to be lights in a dark world. One way that we quickly hide our light is by forgetting who God has called us to be as we engage in uncivil discourse with others. We put our light under a basket when we don’t allow our faith to direct our ac...

October 6, 2024  Building our hope on the rock of Christ, rather than the shifting sands of the world, is the only way to withstand the rains and floods of life. In Christ, who has overcome the world, we are the people of hope – everyday hope and eternal hope. Our eternal hope, both in life after death and in the second coming, helps to keep our everyday hope alive and thriving. Scriptures we dive...

September 29, 2024  Have you ever been driving somewhere and you just feel lost. You start to question the directions even though you’ve never been to this place. All of these doubts work against our confidence. In the midst of our struggle, we begin to doubt the decisions we’re making, we doubt if we’re on the right path, will we get to our destination. Hopelessness causes us to forget our eterna...

September 22, 2024  In the face of our struggle, we try plugging into our faith; to hear and discern God’s direction, but the potential for disappointment causes us to stay focused on our fears instead of our faith. Disappointment stirs up doubts in our mind that shake our faith, as we focus on our fears over faith. Scriptures we dive into today:  John 6:26-27 ,  John 10:1-4 ,  2 Corinthians 4:8-9...

September 15, 2024  Hope is a response to our present trial, directed and informed by our faith. Hope shapes the way we live, when we lack hope, we feel stuck, not knowing what to do. Hope is not something we have, it’s something lived. Through faith, we can develop a lifestyle of hope. The challenge for the believer is to choose hope! Scriptures we dive into today:  James 1:2-8 ,  Judges 6:12-16...

September 8, 2024  We’re starting a new series this morning called Faith Over Fear. Fear is a natural response to the struggles and trials we face. The uncertainty of our future, the worry over making the right decision, the paralysis that comes as we weigh out all of our options; these all add extra strain in making the right choice. Hope draws us to trust our faith over our fears. Scriptures we...

September 1, 2024  Our Jesus Asked question for today is: “why do doubts arise in your heart?” This was the question Jesus asked to the disciples after His resurrection. This question from Jesus has relevance for us today, because, if we’re being honest, we still live with a lot of doubts about our faith; the kind of doubts that cause us to second-guess what we believe Scriptures we dive into toda...

August 25, 2024  Our “Jesus Asked “question for today helps us to focus on the things of lasting value. Jesus asked this question: “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?” Jesus demonstrates the absolute worth of our soul compared to the world. Jesus challenges us to do something with our one and only life. Scriptures we dive into today:  Genesis 29:25-34 ,  Mark 8...

August 11, 2024 Jesus asks his famous question – “Who do you say that I am? – in the unlikely surroundings of Caesarea Philippi. He then reveals his identity through the even more unlikely mouthpiece of the apostle Peter. Finally, he invites into the conversation of the kingdom the most unlikely candidates yet: us. Scriptures we dive into today:  Matthew 16:13-30 ,  Matthew 16:21-23 ,  2 Corinthia...

August 4, 2024  I don’t believe a lot of us will recognize that we’re just like Israel. We want to be just like everyone else – we want to fit in with the culture around us, we don’t want God to rule our hearts and shape our values; we want culture to do that. We want God to be our savior, but we daily reject Him as our King and Lord as we choose to enthrone someone or something else in our life....

July 28, 2024  We complete our reading of 2 Samuel with a story of David’s disobedient census of Israel. We look at David’s capacity for colossal mistakes, and yet his capacity for sincere and heartfelt repentance. The book ends with David building an altar on what will one day be site of the temple, showing himself at last to be the man after God’s own heart. Scriptures we dive into today:  2 Sam...

July 21, 2024  Everyone thinks being King is good – oh, to be king for a day! To be waited on, pampered, to have the best food, to receive the royal treatment. But being king also comes with a lot of king-sized responsibility and it also comes with a lot of king-sized troubles. Scriptures we dive into today:  John 16:33 ,  2 Samuel 14:25-26 ,  2 Samuel 15:13-16 ,  Psalms 3 ,  2 Samuel 17:14 ,  2 S...

July 14, 2024  Today’s message is titled, Another Failed King? In our text for today we will discover David’s sin, we see another king fail. But what makes David different than his predecessor, Saul is how he responds when failure happens. David teaches us how to walk with God when failure happens. Scriptures we dive into today:  Hebrews 8:12 ,  2 Samuel 11:1-5 ,  2 Samuel 11:11 ,  James 1:13-15 ,...

July 7, 2024  We see the strong start to David’s career as king, when he is ruling as he should and God blesses him. God meets David with a promise borne of His hesed (love in action inspired by grace) to bring salvation through his family. David then acts out the same hesed in showing greatness and kindness as a leader. God’s promises are fulfilled by Him because of His character not because of D...

June 30, 2024  Saul looked the part of a king. He had the potential to be a great king but because of his lack of faithfulness, Saul is on a runaway train headed for disaster. Whether it’s a kingdom, church ministry, or our own personal life we can have every appearance of having everything together, all the right stuff but without faithful obedience it can end in disaster. Scriptures we dive into...

June 23, 2024  First impressions are made by the first things we encounter – the way a person looks, the things they say, what they tell us about themselves. From these first impressions, we make judgements about a person – who they are, what they’re like, what they believe. This is how we humanly make judgments about people. In Scripture, we see that God uses a very different set of datapoints to...