Learning Forgiveness
For Lent this year we’re studying forgiveness: Forgiveness from God, forgiveness with one another, giving and receiving. Today we introduce the series…
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The Shepherds’ Worship
Our worship leaders today are the shepherds who visited the newborn Savior in Luke 2.15-20. Afterwards, they proclaim the good news to…
Read moreSong on the Margins
The angels’ song in Luke 2.8-14 comes in an unlikely place to some unlikely people. The gospel announcement to the shepherds living…
Read moreWho We Become
We were created to be image bearers who become like what we behold. So who we become is determined by who we…
Read moreGrace, Peace and Affection
The beginning of our new fall sermon series on Philippians. Today we focus on Paul’s greeting and opening prayer (1.1-11). While grace…
Read moreForgive Each Other
Today we consider one of the most basic–as well as one of the hardest–disciplines to practice in community: forgiveness. We look at…
Read moreBear with One Another
Creating a healthy community often comes down to graciously helping others with their burdens. Bearing with one another isn’t smiling and pretending…
Read moreThe Way of Salvation
Paul tells Titus to teach about the grace that trains us. Titus 2.11-15 is a window into a more complete picture of…
Read moreA Story Worth Living
Today we begin a new summer series on the power of our stories with a look at one 1 Thessalonians 1. The…
Read moreThe Mercy You Give, The Mercy You Get
Jesus is straightforward in Matthew 5.7: “Blessed are the merciful for they will be shown mercy.” Can mercy from God really be…
Read moreHealing Friendships
John 5.1-15 tells the story of Jesus going where people who are disabled, forgotten, and facing poverty gather for healing. There he…
Read moreHow God Doesn’t Love Us (And How God Does)
1 John 3.1-3 is one of the most prominent scriptures where our identity as dearly loved children of God is established. But…
Read moreThe Way of Grace
Isaiah 35 is a promise of restoration given through an image of a highway on which we may safely journey back home…
Read moreSin and Confession
Today we focus on Psalm 38, a confession of sin and prayer for mercy. Jesus is our Great Physician who not only…
Read moreDisciples, Advocates, and Adversaries
From Luke 15.1-3, 11-32 comes the story Jesus tells to sum up the whole story of what he’s doing: the Parable of…
Read moreZacchaeus Learns Mercy
From Luke 19.1-10 comes the famous story of Zacchaeus’s encounter with Jesus. Zacchaeus, like the tax collector praying at the temple in…
Read moreThe Overflowing Well and the Broken Cisterns
Kristen Gaither preaches on John 4.1-30, the story of the woman at the well whom Jesus offers a spring of living water….
Read moreAdopted
We’re celebrating an adoption in our church by looking at 1 John 3.1-3 and remembering how our adoption as lavishly loved children…
Read moreThe Earth Is the Lord’s and Everyone in It
Jonah is the disobedient prophet who was called beyond the borders of his people, his nation, and his compassion. We catch up…
Read moreBaptizing
Baptism was commanded by Jesus in the Great Commission, but why? What does baptism have to do with the gospel? Today we…
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