Sunday Sermons

I Corinthians 15:12-19 “And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.” Good morning everybody. If you were, you can turn with me to your Bibles to first Corinthians chapter 15, which is where we're going to be going this morning. If you were not here at sunrise service, you missed a record crowd. We had to close our nine o'clock and 10 o'clock registrations e...

Matthew 5:7 And we will be continuing again in Matthew chapter five, reading the beatitudes. If you would join with me, I'm going to be reading the beatitudes, starting in the beginning, and then going through our beatitude this morning, which is blessed are the merciful this in Matthew chapter five. Now, when Jesus saw the crowd, he went up on the mountain side and sat down. His disciples, came t...

Thank you, Mike, to everybody here and all those watching online. Just wanted to explain why I'm standing, with half of my body under water and why others will be doing that with me. This is, um, we believe in what is called believers. Baptism in the new Testament, talks about a sequence that was followed of people believed, and then they were baptized and then they became regularly participated,...

Matthew 5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. Well everybody, I invite you to take your Bibles to Matthew chapter five, going to be looking at Matthew chapter five, verse six this morning as we continue this series. , on the sermon on the Mount, the upside down life. And here's what we read as we read these verses together. Seeing the crowds, h...

1 Corinthians 11:17-29 The Lord’s Supper: a repeated ordinance tied to the community of believers’ continuance in the faith Morning everybody. Thank you, Mike, for leading us to this point today, did you get one of these on the way in. So I have one of these nearby, we'll get to that in a little bit, because yes, we're celebrating the Lord's supper today. Want to welcome you as well as welcome tho...

Matthew 5:5 “Blessed are those who are meek, for they will inherit the earth.” Good morning everbody, invite you to take your Bibles this morning. Once again, to Matthew chapter five, verses one through five. And, uh, that video Ben painter put together wrote it. And, uh, he and Melissa lead a number of different things related to financial ministries here. And, uh, I thought that was a great job...

Matthew 4:23, Matthew 9:35, Matthew 5:4 "Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted." Good morning. It's an honor to be here with you this morning. Uh, we're going to be again in Matthew chapter five through seven. Um, this is the sermon on the Mount, the sermon we've called it the most significant, uh, most weighty. Most lengthy sermon that we have from Christ. Even if you go there a...

Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. We're in the sermon on the Mount and this, I was even getting ready a few minutes ago, thinking about this. I don't know any other passage that I just love to talk about more than this passage deeply. Um, I am thankful and grateful for this season. Pastor Mark introed this time in our bodies life, where we are enterin...

Matthew 5-7 Series kickoff on the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount Okay. We're going to be starting a new series today. One I'm very, very excited about. It is a series called the upside down life. It is a series that is focusing on Matthew five through seven, the sermon on the Mount. And I'd like to read just the first verse, first two verses of this great passage, many theologians Bible teac...

Each Pastor shares a verse that has greatly impacted their lives and ministries. Doesn't seem too different so far, does it? We are, um, starting next Sunday, a series called the upside down life. It's a series on the greatest sermon that was ever written by the greatest preacher that ever lived. It's Jesus sermon on the Mount. We're calling it the upside down life because it really is the present...

How Jesus' First Miracle Reveals Our Poverty and His Provision

James 1:22-27 The believers in the early churches were in danger of "deceiving themselves" and not keepin' it real! How do we keep it real as Christ followers? We're going to be looking at James chapter one again this morning, James chapter one, verse 22 to 27. Uh, we started this last week. We're going to come back to it again today and I'm going to read the passage in a few moments. There's a lo...

James 1:19-21 "take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry" I'm going to start this sermon with an apology, which is simply that we had announced I'd announced last week that we're going to beginning a series this morning on the sermon on the Mount. We're tremendously excited about it, but decided earlier this week, we wanted to take a little more...

2 Corinthians 4:7-10 "But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us." Corinthians chapter four, verses seven through 10. Uh, we read this biographical statement of Paul. Here's what he says. But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, b...

Matthew 1:18-25 God counted the cost of Christmas and said, "Yes, I will do it!" It's good to be here. Uh, got to focus yet. Cause it's Christmas time. Yeah, really? I mean, we still celebrated a couple of days ago, but I still want to focus on who Jesus says, so let's do that together. All right. Rejoice in who he is. And I've got a couple of things we want to look at here, but again, let's just...

Luke 2:39-52 What did God look like as a 12 year old boy? Hey, everybody. Welcome to my office this morning. Sorry. I can't be with you, but glad you can be with me here in my office. I'd like you to turn with me in your Bibles to Luke chapter two. I know the pastor, Mike has already explained why I can't be with you this morning. And Luke chapter two, verse 39 to 59. When Joseph and Mary, I had d...

Isaiah 9:1-2 Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. All right. We're going to be looking this morning at Isaiah chapter nine. If you want to look there in your Bibles, uh, Isaiah chapter nine, we're going to look at verse one and two, and then jump down to verse six. Oh, and I can take this off. Thank you for figuring that. Goodness. Um, did you understand that?...

Mark 5:1-20 “Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” It great to be with you this morning as we head towards Christmas. Um, think I'm going to be doing the last sermon in the series we've been doing of looking at individual, uh, biographical sermons. We're going to be in the book of Mark chapter five. Um, as you turn there, wan...

1 Thess. 5:18 "Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God." Good morning by the way. Good morning. Um, we're going to be looking at one verse of scripture. It's in first Thessalonians chapter five, verse 18. What I want to talk to you this morning about is the assets, the assets, or the benefits of gratitude. And as we look at this, we're going to look at a variety of things, bu...

2 Chronicles 26 "What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it? What do you have that you did not receive." We're going to be looking at second Chronicles, 26, and we're going to look at one verse this morning. It's verse 16. But this morning, I want to talk to you about the greatest threat to your life. Now, there are a lot of th...

The Holes in David’s Armor: How David’s struggles and sins, failures and foibles, could never exhaust or overwhelm the mercy and grace of God…and neither will yours. It's great to see you here and thank you for being part of this today. Also greet those who are are, uh, joining us online. Thank you for making this part of your day. I, uh, We'll be going outside, uh, later for the outside service....

Psalm 46 We need to unite ourselves around the empowering truth of Psalm 46. It is addressed to people who are in fear that life is out of control When everybody, man, it's good to have everybody out there. Um, like you to turn to Psalm 46 this morning, I'm leaving our series still speaking, which is a biographical series we have been doing as a staff. Um, I did not make that decision to not go wi...

John 7:11-17 "And when the Lord saw her, His heart was filled with pity for her" Good morning. It's great to be with you. All my question for you as we begin is who is tired of talking about politics? Anybody who loves having a break to come to church and worship Christ and not talk about politics? Yes. Well, you're going to be somewhat disappointed this morning. Uh, this morning, we're going to t...

2 Chronicles 33 Manasseh's story is clearly saying he finished well by the grace of God. He didn't deserve it. Neither did Saul. But you can also put your name there. You didn't deserve it. My sixth grade teacher was a man named mr. Thompson. I remember him well. Um, honestly he might have been the, um, grumpiest teacher I've ever had. I believe he has long since gone to heaven. So I'm okay saying...

2 Chronicles: 32 Disaster was eminent for them. They could have said the sky is falling. Everything seems dark and hopeless. When everybody invite you to take your Bibles this morning to second Chronicles, chapter 32 second Chronicles in the old Testament. If you open your mouth right to the middle, you'll hit the book of Psalms. Usually go a couple of doors to the left and you'll come to the book...