Wyckoff Reformed Church

“Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.” John 15:4

We continue last week’s story and hear Peter’s sermon to the crowd, the first sermon in the history of the Church. Peter tells the story of Jesus the Messiah and urges the crowd to repent and be baptized, to receive the promise of God which is “for you, for your children, and for all who are far away, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to him.”

This week we celebrate Pentecost, the birthday of the Church. On this day, Jesus sent His Holy Spirit upon all the believers, and filled with the Spirit they went out into the streets to proclaim the name of Jesus. The Holy Spirit is the life-breath of the Church and the wind that fills our sails. Come, Holy Spirit!

Guest Preacher, Rev. Gregg Mast, President of New Brunswick Theological Seminary, preaches on 1 Corinthians 15.

If you’ve never heard another word from 1 Corinthians, I can almost guarantee you’ve heard chapter 13. Paul’s “Ode to Love” is a wedding favorite, and often read when love is at its peak. However, these words were originally written for very different circumstances: to a community split into factions and embroiled in conflict. What does it look like to love when things aren’t going well?

Rev. Tom De Vries, General Secretary of the Reformed Church in America, preaches on Acts 18:1-4 and 1 Corinthians 1:10-18.

As the Gospel continues to spread “to the ends of the earth”, it encounters opposition yet again in Thessalonica. There the leaders of the Jews accuse them of disturbing the peace or “turning the world upside-down”. While this accusation is clearly false, they are saying more than they know for the power of the Gospel does turn the world upside-down.

As we continue to celebrate this season of Easter, we’re going to continue to talk about what it means for us that Jesus rose from the dead. What does this resurrection life we now live look like? Today we see the restoration and re-orientation that Jesus works in our lives.

Mark's Gospel ends awkwardly, but what if understanding why were the key that unlocked an adventure of a lifetime?

The Triumphal Entry and Jesus' anointing for burial

As we continue our journey with Jesus we continue to learn who He is and what it will mean to follow. The Way of Jesus is a way that asks us to lay everything else aside, everything that would compete and distract, in order to love Him with everything we are. Today we step even further in and meet a legal expert who is almost there, and a widow who gets it.

This week Jesus offers us a haunting parable about a vineyard and some tenant farmers who refuse to render to the landowner what was his, eventually killing his son in rebellion. As we dwell in this story this morning and ask what it means for us who follow Jesus, we find a Calling, a Warning, and a Mystery.

As we continue to make our way toward Jerusalem with Jesus, he again makes clear that what it means for him to be King is that he will suffer, die, and rise again. Now we get our first hint as to why: “The Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” What might that mean for those who follow him?

Join The Wyckoff Reformed Church as we journey with Jesus toward the empty grave this Lent in the Gospel of Mark!

In the story this week, King Josiah rediscovers the Book of the Law, which had been lost and forgotten. Reading its words for the first time, Josiah realizes the sin of his nation and their need of God to save them. Worship and God’s Word continue to lift up our eyes and realize how deeply we need Jesus. This is where we begin our journey in this Advent season of waiting and hoping.

Who are you? I mean, really, who are you? Have you ever come to a crisis of identity, had everything else stripped away, and had to wonder who you even were? In the story this morning of David’s bringing the Ark into Jerusalem we see how and where we learn who we are: worship.

Our God is the God who turns barrenness into abundance, mourning into joy, darkness into light. Is there anything too wonderful for the Lord?

Pastor Andy's sermon on Trinity Sunday, from John 3:1-17

Pastor Andy's sermon on Acts 2 from Pentecost Sunday

Pastor Andy's sermon on 1 John 5:6-13

Pastor Andy's sermon on Acts 8:26-40

"We find joy in the present, founded on our history with God, and borrowing from that same future."

True security comes only from trusting in the Lord.

The Communion Breakfast is an important stop along our journey this Lent. We take this opportunity to learn more about the Psalms of Ascents as a whole, and we're led in that discussion by Nate Johnson, PhD candidate in New Testament Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary