Word of Faith

This week's episode features Rev. David Hughes and focuses on Luke 9:28-36. Meditation: “Listen to Jesus and follow him. That’s the message of the Transfiguration."  -- Pope Francis

This week's episode features Rev. David Hughes and focuses on Genesis 45:3-11, 15.  Meditation: “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that prisoner was you.”  Lewis B. Smedes

This week's episode features Rev. David Hughes and focuses on I Corinthians 15:12-20.  Meditation: What we say about death and resurrection gives shape and color to everything else. If we are not careful, we will offer merely a “hope” that is no longer a surprise, no longer able to transform lives and communities in the present, no longer generated by the resurrection of Jesus himself and loo...

This week's episode features Rev. David Hughes and focuses on Luke 5:1-11. Meditation: We are easily frustrated by the results of our hard work. We cry out, “Look at all I’ve done! And for what?!” Jesus invites us to try life his way. Is it easier? Far from it! Is it more meaningful? Oh yes. As you prepare your heart for worship, begin to loosen your grip on control of your life and consider...

This week's sermon features Rev. Pastor David Hughes and focuses on 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 Meditation: A home is built upon love. With that love, we feel security, identity, and community. A church home is no different and in this new beginning we look to God’s word for guidance so that love will be our home for the entire community Jesus has called us to serve!

This week's episode features Rev. David Hughes and focuses on Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10.  Meditation: Too often we deny ourselves what we need most from God — a fresh encounter with his spirit! Our focus, priorities, and resulting business distract us from the ancient words that bring new life and wonder! May we rediscover God’s voice as we worship him today!

This week's podcast features Rev. David Hughes and focuses on 1 Corinthians 12:1-11. Meditation: God, in your grace you bless all of us with an abundance of gifts. Some we know. Many more are yet to be discovered, but all are meant for your glory. Give us wisdom to see our gifts and the courage to use them in the world in which we live.

This week's sermon features Rev. David Hughes and focuses on Isaiah 43:1-7.  With the words “You are mine” and “I love you,” God invites all of his children to return to him for a time of new beginnings. As we come home to God, he promises to send us out again with renewed vision and passion for the world in which we live!

Today's episode features Rev. Christopher Simonton and focuses on Mark 1:14-15. Have you ever felt lost? Realized you weren’t where or who you wanted to be? Wish you could REDO? Today’s scripture is for you. Worship is not a music style of feeling. Worship is our RESPONSE to what God has done and who he is.

This week's episode features Rev. Henry Tyson.

This week features Rev. Faith Patton and focuses on Luke 1:26-38.

The sermon for this week features Dr. Joel Richardson and focuses on Psalm 23.

Today's episode features Sara Claudia Tillman Cain and focuses on 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18.

This week's sermon features Rev. David Hughes and focuses on Isaiah 61:1-3 and Mark 5. The key emphasis of this sermon is  the joy, resurrection, and hope given to us by Jesus.

This week's sermon features Rev. Henry Tyson and focuses on Psalm 137:1-6 and Hebrews 12:1-2. This reflection is part of our All Saints' Day Remembrance Service on November 7, 2021.

This week's episode features Rev. Julie Long and focuses on 1 Corinthians 13:9-13 and John 21:1-8. What can we learn from the disciples and from Jesus in this story about how to live with hope when our world is clouded by disappointment, grief, and uncertainty?  Hope requires that we trust that God is at work, even when we cannot see it. Hope asks us to cast our nets on the other side, doing...

This week's sermon features Rev. Christopher Simonton and focuses on Mark 5:1-20. “If dependence on God is the goal, then change is to my advantage.” Change can be scary, but it happens all around us. How do we deal with change well? Jesus asks us to: 1. Trust him 2. Be uncomfortable 3. Hear his messenger Ultimately, Jesus is in control of change.

This week's sermon features Rev. Christopher Simonton and focuses on Exodus 17:8-16. How can we be ready for the new chapter in the life of our church? Moses was a man, not God. He had personal strengths and weaknesses. Our new Senior Pastor will be the same. He will come as a leader but what is our responsibility as those being led? Blessed is the church who: Listens to their pastor Let&apos...

This week's episode features Rev. Christopher Simonton and focuses on Mark 1:16-20. "When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you in lofty words or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. My speech and my proclamation were not...

This week's episode features Rev. Christopher Simonton and focuses on Esther 4:11-17. “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” --JRR Tolkien God is working in the world, whether we see his movements or...

This week's episode features Dr. Joel Snider and focuses on 2 Corinthians 5:16-21. This week's sermon reminds us we have a part in God’s reconciling ministry.  I used the story of the star thrower from Loren Eiseley.  If you think the story ends with “I can save this one,” you haven’t heard the best part.  https://www.amazon.com/dp/0156849097/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_api_glt_fabc_M5YR9GNRFEM1KFVN...

This week's episode features Dr. Joel Snider and focuses on Mark 12:28-34. 

 This week's episode features Dr Joel Snider and focuses on John 4:1-15. Athletes know it is dangerous to wait until you are thirsty to begin hydrating. In extreme conditions, they begin preparing days ahead of their body’s need for water.  Can we see a parallel to Jesus as “living water?”    The day in which live is to the soul what heat and exertion are to the body, upping our need for the...

This week's episode features Rev Christopher Simonton and focuses on 2 Kings 2:1-14.  "Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah?" Isn't that the question we ask? In the midst of change we wonder where God has gone, if he cares about us, and if there is anything he can do in a crazy world. 

This week's episode features Rev Christopher Simonton and focuses on Romans 12:1-3.  We love customization in every area of our lives. We love having choices and making our own customized version of whatever we are buying. But does that fit with the Christian life? The verses today contain a call to serve. That call is for all of us. The Word of God is for a Christian to serve Jesus and his c...