Come As You Are
Mark Barigye, our intern this semester from Greenville University, preaches from Mark 5 on the story of Jesus healing Jairus’s daughter and…
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Bear Each Other’s Burdens
Concluding our Build Each Other Up series, we talk today about being a community of people who help one another responsibly. We read…
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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 moreA Beggar’s Prayer
Luke gives us a chapter full of stories, parables, and interactions with Jesus that culminate in the healing of a blind man…
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Paul tells Titus to teach about the grace that trains us. Titus 2.11-15 is a window into a more complete picture of…
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Isaiah 25.4-9 contains the promise that God will wipe away every tear from every eye. What if that happens not in one…
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The next sermon in our series A Story Worth Living comes from Mark 10.35-52. We have contrasting stories of disciples who brought their…
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 moreThe Life God Wants for You
From Colossians 1.9-14 we find a good definition of discipleship: to live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in…
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…
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Kristen Gaither preaches on Luke 8.40-56, the story of Jesus raising Jairus’s daughter after an interruption to heal an ailing woman. As…
Read moreHealing for Those Who Can’t Straighten Up
From Luke 13.10-21 comes the story of a woman bent over and unable to straighten up for 18 long years. While Jesus…
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….
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From Matthew 15.21-28 comes a story in which Jesus’ use of a racial insult provides a test of what is in a…
Read moreTake Authority
We’re in the Great Commission again (Matthew 28.16-20) and move on to our next key word: Authority. After some instructions on interpretation…
Read moreParticipants in Our Healing
We continue to explore who we are as a community and what it means to truly be a member. From Matthew 9.18-38…
Read moreHarsh Words in Context
From Mark 8.22-9.1 we get a saying of Jesus that is often unfairly used to motivate agreement and action. Jesus said, “If…
Read moreA Vision of Peace
We don’t get very far when we claim, “I don’t see color.” Reconciliation isn’t about what we can’t see, but what we can. This…
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