The Wonder of It All

Today, we emphasize that Christmas is a season that lasts for 12 days, calling believers to continue celebrations and reflect on the wonder of Christ’s birth and using Mary’s example from the Gospel of Luke, highlighting her practice of treasuring and pondering significant events in her heart, encouraging us to do the same with our…

Surrender & Submit ~ How? Look to Jesus

Today, we explore the theme of surrender and submission to God further and ask how we do this by following the example of Jesus. We will turn to the passage from Mark 14:32-42, where Jesus prays in Gethsemane. Highlighting that true submission involves, at times, doing what we would rather not do, emphasizing the importance…

Spiritual Disciplines ~ Silence & Solitude

Today’s message will encourage us to actively explore the spiritual disciplines that foster a deeper relationship with God, emphasizing the importance of what we invest in our faith journey. Today, we will be introduced to the practices of silence and solitude as vital means of renewal, as they allow believers to detach from worldly distractions…

Spiritual Disciplines: Pray ~ Rejoice

Today, we move to the R. in our acrostic on how to pray P.R.A.Y. P. was to pause, and R. is to rejoice. We will emphasize the importance of rejoicing in prayer, highlighting Psalm 103 as a hymn of praise. We will be encouraged to seek instruction from God and to maintain focus on rejoicing…

Journey to the Cross ~ Will Jesus Weep?

In this sermon, “Jesus Enters In,” we delve into the importance of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. We will emphasize Jesus’ deliberate actions, fulfilling prophecy and offering peace. Despite cheers, Jesus weeps over Jerusalem’s failure to understand His message of salvation. We will be urged to reflect on our response to Jesus’ invitation…

Jesus Gives – Peace – Receive Peace

Sermon Summary In this sermon, we discuss the theme of peace during Christmas. We explore the different definitions of peace and highlight the challenges of finding true peace in the world. We see and emphasize the peace of Jesus, and how it is different from worldly peace and comes through a relationship with Him. We…

The Peculiar Kingdom of God & its People ~ Peacemakers

Today as we continue our journey through the Sermon on the Mount we continue our journey through Jesus’ opening words, The Beatitudes.  The blessed attitudes and virtues of the Kingdom of God and its people.  We continue where we left off in verse nine of Matthew five, which is the seventh beatitude. “Blessed are the…

Advent 2022 ~ Entertaining Angels: Make Room and Make Space for Peace

Have you ever been in a situation where peace was hard if not impossible to find?  Have you ever found yourself in a place where you were in fear of what would happen next?  Today we see how God works in such moments in our lives, and how we can have peace in the most…