Weekend Sermons Podcast

Following Godly patterns in familial relationships is essential for anyone who desires to effectively lead children to honor God. Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Joyfully embrace your responsibilities within God’s design for marriage for this is the responsibility for every Christian as they live out their new life in Christ with maturity. Colossians 3:18-19 18 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Cultivating a Bible-saturated life is necessary for everyone who desires to live a godly life, especially those who hope to lead others into a thriving relationship with God. Colossians 3:16-17 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you...

If we hope to build godly lives, displaying Christlike love to one another must be our primary objective. Colossians 3:14-15 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

Being God’s chosen people requires all Christians to build godly lives by living outwardly what God has already accomplished in the Christian’s life inwardly.  Colossians 3:12–13 12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other;...

We must diligently labor to demolish what is left of our sinful lives, and enthusiastically build up godly lives through the power of Christ Colossians 3:5–11 5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 7 In these you too once walked, when you were living i...

The only way to navigate culture successfully is to set your focus on the future realities of the Christian life that await those whose life is hidden with Christ. Colossians 3:2-4 - 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him i...

Being vigilant in navigating culture is Crucial if you want to avoid spiritual detours that lead you away from Christ. Colossians 2:20–3:1 20 If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— 21 “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” 22 (referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to h...

Holding firm to the sufficiency of Christ is fundamental if we are to correctly navigate a culture that insists on adding or subtracting to the Bibles definitions of salvation and your walk with Christ. Colossians 2:16–19 16 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. 17 These are a shadow of the things to come,...

Making the right decision on who is the captain of our life is crucial if we want to understand what we are here for and where we go from here. Colossians 2:9–15 9 For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, 10 and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. 11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of...

Navigating culture requires us to stand firm on what the Bible says so that we will not be taken captive by the words and ideas of people who don’t believe in Christ as the Lord of the universe. Colossians 2:6–8 6 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, 7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. 8 See to...

Unrelenting obedience to the words of Christ is indispensable for any Christian who desires to confidently move forward this year and persevere in 2022. Matthew 7:24–27 (ESV) 24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall,...

In order for us to take on the new year rightly, we must look back to see how good God was to us individually and as a church. Investigate your (and the church's) past to see God's goodness so that you find your future refuge and satisfaction in Him alone. By doing this, you can keep moving forward in your faith in 2022 and beyond. Series: Looking Back, Looking Forward Text: Psalm 34:8-10

Christmas Eve 2021

In the midst of your personal struggles, Christmas should adjust your focus so you can see how God’s promises are perfectly planned out, leading us to greater faithfulness to God. 7 (ESV) 12 And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, 13 and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the fath...

A New Beginning: The God Of Promises | Breaking God’s Covenants (Matthew 1:2-11) As Christians we ought to give exuberant thanksgiving to God this Christmas knowing that he has extended to us his unmerited favor, while holding ample evidence that shows us unfaithful to his word.

Understanding God’s covenants with Israel are pivotal if we want to understand the significance of Christmas and have confidence in God’s redemptive story in our own lives. Matthew 1:1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Discovering the Christian’s foundation for joy and gratefulness only comes from having peace with God through the forgiveness of sins.  36 One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. 37 And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an...

Christians must live according to what the Bible teaches regarding life and godliness so that being rooted in Christ we will mature and grow in every way. Colossians 2:6–7 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, 7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

Christians must eagerly engage in the lives of others for the purpose of equipping one another to have full assurance of faith in Christ so that the church is functioning properly with an immovable faith. Colossians 2:1–5 1 For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, 2 that their hearts may be encouraged, being...

Our mission is to work hard to preach Christ to everyone by warning them and teaching them so that we can present everyone mature in Christ, trusting in the power of God in us to sustain the work. Colossians 1:28–29 28 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. 29 For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he po...

Serving God’s church is the ongoing work of every Christian. That is why we must look past any temporary inconveniences or discomforts that come with sacrificial service and rejoice that we have a stewardship from God to make his word fully known to the world. Colossians 1:24-27 - Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions...

Being placed into right relationship with God by Christ’ death should lead us to an unshakable confidence in the gospel of Jesus Christ, knowing that we will be presented blameless before a Holy God. Colossians 1:21-23 - And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and abo...

Christians must recognize the magnitude of the person and work of Christ who reconciles the wicked to comprise a new creation, the Church. This recognition ought to reform our view of Church and our participation in the life of Christ’ new creation.  Colossians 1:18-20 - And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might b...

Colossians 1:15-17 - He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.