The Church at Channelside

It’s All in the Family Scripture Text: Genesis 24 Date: July 13, 2025 AI Generated Summary: We continue our Genesis series by examining how God provides a wife for Isaac through Abraham’s servant’s faithful prayer and positioning. We learn that when seeking God’s guidance, we must both pray earnestly and position ourselves where God can work. […]

Stand Firm, Step Forward, Strike Back Scripture Text: Ephesians 6:10-23 Date: July 6, 2025 AI Generated Summary: We face a real spiritual battle that requires God’s strength, not our own. We must stand firm by putting on God’s complete armor to defend against the enemy’s attacks of deception, accusation, and despair. We strike back using Scripture […]

Christ-Centered Authority Scripture Text: Ephesians 6:1-9 Date: June 29, 2025 AI Generated Summary: We learn from Ephesians 6:1-9 that the gospel realigns corrupted authority structures by placing Christ at the center. We discover that Christian authority involves mutual service—both subordinates and superiors serve one another as they would serve Christ. We find our model in Jesus, […]

A Gospel-Centered Marriage Sun Scripture Text: Ephesians 5:21-33 Date: June 22, 2025 AI Generated Summary: Marriage is a covenant of mutual submission between complementary partners, mirroring Christ’s relationship with the church. We discover that marriage’s primary purpose is to make us holy by revealing our sin and helping us grow in sanctification. We find the power […]

Imitators of God Scripture Text: Ephesians 5:1-18 Date: June 15, 2025 AI Generated Summary: As Christians, we should imitate God by living holy lives in four key areas: controlling speech, being generous, pursuing sexual purity, and using time wisely. Our motivation to do this comes from our identity as God’s beloved children saved by Christ’s […]

Putting On The New Self Scripture Text: Ephesians 4:17-42 Date: June 8, 202 AI Generated Summary: As Christians, we must “put off” our old lifestyle and “put on” Christ-like behavior. Unlike other moral systems, we obey because God already accepts us, not to earn His love. Paul gives us practical examples like speaking truth, resolving […]

Growing Up in Christ Scripture Text: Ephesians 4:1-16 Date: June 1, 2025 AI Generated Summary: We grow into Christian maturity together as a church community by walking in unity through humility, gentleness, and patience, while ministering to each other out of our diverse spiritual gifts. Rather than focusing on performance, we feed on Christ daily […]

Spiritual Power Scripture Text: Ephesians 3:1-21 Date: May 25th, 2025 AI Generated Summary: This sermon challenges us to examine whether spiritual power (“dunamis” or dynamite) characterizes our Christian lives. While all believers have access to this divine power, we often experience a disconnect between God’s promises and our daily spiritual experience. We access this power thr...

Our Unity in Christ Scripture Text: Ephesians 2:11-22 Date: May 18, 2025 AI Generated Summary: Before Christ, we were excluded Gentiles—without hope, without God, and separated by a wall of hostility from God’s people. Through Christ’s sacrifice, we have been reconciled both to God and to each other, as He tore down the dividing wall between […]

How & Why We’re Saved Scripture Text: Ephesians 2:1-10 Date: May 11, 2025 AI Generated Summary: We are saved from spiritual death by God’s rich mercy and grace through faith in Jesus Christ, not by our own works or merit. God has rescued us from being objects of His wrath and made us alive with Christ, […]

Knowing the Father Scripture Text: Ephesians 1:15-23 Date: May 4, 2025 AI Generated Summary: In this sermon, we explore how, as Christians adopted into God’s family, we can truly know God as our Father through prayer rather than mere theological knowledge. Through this intimate relationship, we come to understand our past hope in God’s calling, our […]

Adopted by God Scripture Text: Ephesians 1:1-14 Date: April 27, 2025 AI Generated Summary: We are adopted into God’s family—chosen by the Father before creation, redeemed by the Son’s sacrificial blood, and sealed by the Holy Spirit as our guarantee. Our greatest blessings aren’t our earthly possessions but the spiritual riches we have in Christ, which flow […]

How to Encounter the Risen Christ Scripture Text: Luke 24:13-35 Date: April 20, 2025 Easter 2025

Good Friday Message

Perfume & Palm Branches Scripture Text: John 12: 1-13 Date: April 13, 2025 AI Generated Summary: In this sermon, we examine how Mary’s extravagant devotion to Jesus, pouring expensive perfume on Him, connects directly to His triumphal entry into Jerusalem just hours later. Through Mary’s example, we’re challenged to consider whether our own devotion to Christ ever makes [&hel...

Abraham’s Faith & True Worship Scripture Text: Genesis 22: 1-14 Date: March 30, 2025 Summary: Why would God seemingly ask Abraham to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac? In this profound and gripping narrative, we learn about God’s provision of a sacrifice and we see how we are to respond in turn by offering our lives as living sacrifices […]

Abram’s Fall & Hagar’s Cry Scripture Text: Genesis 16: 1-16 Date: March 23, 2025 Summary: Abraham’s Fall comes from cultural compromise and leads to abject suffering the end in people mistreating and retreating-yet in Hagar’s cry, we learn that God sees us, hears us, and moves towards us in our affliction, ultimately in Christ.

Abram’s Faith & God’s Covenant Scripture Text: Genesis 15 Date: March 16, 2025 AI Generated Summary: In this sermon, we witness the transformative power of faith that chooses to believe God’s promise despite overwhelming circumstances. Though childless and aging, Abram trusted God’s incredible declaration of descendants as numerous as the stars, allowing his faith to tr...

The Gospel of Abraham Scripture Text: Genesis 11:27-12:9 Date: March 2, 2025 AI Generated Summary: In this sermon, we explore Abraham’s journey of faith, highlighting how he responded to God’s call by leaving his polytheistic homeland without knowing his destination, demonstrating true faith. We connect Abraham’s story to the gospel by explaining that Jesus Christ is the promised...

Spiritual Friendship in Marriage and Singleness Scripture Text: 1 Corinthians 7: 8-9, 27-40 Date: February 23rd, 2025 AI Generated Summary: In this sermon on 1 Corinthians 7:8-9, 27-40,we reflect on marriage and spiritual friendship. Paul emphasizes that both marriage and singleness are gifts, each offering unique opportunities for devotion to God. Marriage is seen as […]

Love & Respect In Marriage Scripture Text: Ephesians 5:22-33 Date: February 16th, 2024 AI Generated Summary: Ephesians 5:22-33 emphasizes that husbands must love their wives sacrificially (modeling Christ’s love for the church) and wives should respect their husbands. While all marriages face challenges, growth comes through mutual selflessness and intentional relationship-building, ulti...

As tragic as the story of Noah is, we shouldn’t embellish the story and make it out to be something cute. Because Noah’s Ark actually reveals some really important themes and patterns that will continue to play out in the rest of the Bible. It’s a story about God’s terrible judgment upon sin and sinners, but […]

Genesis 4 shows us what life outside the garden of Eden will look like, and it is anything but good. Cain’s jealousy leads to anger and murder. In this account, we learn about the power of sin, the essence of worship, and how such a dark story is filled with hope, and leads to the […]

Genesis 3 answers important questions like “why is this world the way it is” and “why are we the way we are” and “how can we still have hope”? We see these questions answered in the effects of sin, the fig leaves, and the skins in this important narrative! Preached on January 26th, 2025 from Genesis […]

Genesis 3 is one of the most pivotal chapters in the Bible, in which sin entered the human story. But even beyond that, it typifies how sin often enters in our individual lives, and it looks a lot like a deceit, a descent, and led to the walk of God! Preached on January 19th, 2025 from […]