Resurrected Life Here & Now ~ New Purpose & Identity

In this sermon, we continue our Easter season series exploring 1st Peter and discuss that, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, believers are born again into a living hope that is not just a future but a present reality.  Drawing from 1 Peter 2:4-10, we learn that we have been given a wondrous new identity…

Resurrected Life Here & Now ~ Cultivating a Life of Love

In today’s message, we continue where we left off last week in discussing how we are “born again to a living hope,” and how this is a present reality here and now, even as we await its full future fulfillment.   Today, we continue to explore 1st Peter, discovering more evidence to examine our lives…

Resurrected Life Here & Now ~ The Present Hope & Call

This Easter sermon emphasizes that Jesus’ resurrection brings not only a future hope but a present “living hope” (1 Peter 1:3). Because Christ is risen, sin’s curse is broken and new life is available now. The message challenges believers to examine whether they are truly experiencing this resurrection power in their daily lives. A central…

Death the Precursor to Resurrection

This Easter sermon emphasizes that Jesus’ resurrection brings not only a future hope but a present “living hope” (1 Peter 1:3). Because Christ is risen, sin’s curse is broken and new life is available now. The message challenges believers to examine whether they are truly experiencing this resurrection power in their daily lives. A central…

Connection Sunday 2026

As we continue our Lenten journey this year through the Penitential Psalms.  Today, we continue to explore the theme of grace in the wilderness, in that there is grace for our sins. Understanding it is in the “eremos” where God exposes sin and leads His people back to Him through repentance.  Looking at the meaning…

Lent 2026: Grace in the Eremos ~ Place to Repent

As we continue our Lenten journey this year through the Penitential Psalms.  Today, we continue to explore the theme of grace in the wilderness, in that there is grace for our sins. Understanding it is in the “eremos” where God exposes sin and leads His people back to Him through repentance.  Looking at the meaning…

Lent 2026: Grace in the Eremos ~ Place to Face Our Sin

This sermon continues our Lenten journey through the Penitential Psalms, particularly Psalm 38, highlighting the weight and consequences of sin and the grace God provides in response.  Being a season that invites believers into the “eremos,” the wilderness, as a place of reflection, repentance, and reconciliation. Psalm 38 reveals the crushing burden of unrepentant sin,…

Lent 2026: Grace in the Eremos ~ Place for Deepest Formation

Today, in our time to hear and respond to a message from God’s word, we will reflect on Lent through Psalm 102, highlighting God’s presence in the “eremos,“ the wildness. Lent once again is a wilderness season of reflection, repentance, and reconciliation, inviting us to confront our sin, mortality, and suffering as we journey with…

Lent 2026: Grace in the Eremos ~ Place for Testing and Strengthening

This sermon introduces the season of Lent and the journey we will take as a family of families through the Penitential Psalms this year. Lent is a sacred journey into the “eremos,” the wilderness place of testing, prayer, and dependence on God. Starting with Psalm 6, the first Penitential Psalm, the message explains that Lent…

Vision Sunday 2026

Vision Sunday invites the church to seek clarity about who we are, where we are going, what we are doing, and why. Rooted in Hebrews 12:1–3, the message proclaims that the ultimate vision of the Church is Jesus, obsessively, undeniably, and dangerously Jesus. As God’s people, we are called to fix our eyes on Christ,…