Beyond the Sermon

This sermon comes from our 2025 Advent series, "Brought to the Light: Advent for All Who Need It." In this series, we're looking at how Jesus comes to us all as hope, peace, joy, and love. In this short reflection we look at traditions and the importance of celebrating through the season of Christmastide.

Scripture: Galatians 4:4-7

This sermon comes from our 2025 Advent series, "Brought to the Light: Advent for All Who Need It." In this series, we're looking at how Jesus comes to us all as hope, peace, joy, and love. In this sermon we talk about how we all need Jesus and how He came for us.

Scripture: John 1:1-14

This sermon comes from our 2025 Longest Night service. A service of grief, remembrance, and hope. In our advent series, we've been looking at how Jesus comes to us all as hope, peace, joy, and love, and in this sermon we look at how God comforts us, not just so He can use us to comfort others, but because of His love for us.

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 1:2-11

This was a special service as we combined with Lamb of God: House of Restoration for a joint worship service. That's why the Scripture and message were translated from English into Spanish.

This sermon comes from our 2025 Advent series, "Brought to the Light: Advent for All Who Need It." In this series, we're looking at how Jesus comes to us all as hope, peace, joy, and love. In this sermon we talk about how God moves toward us first because He is love and that love should propel us to move toward those on the margins to bring them into the center of the story of redemption, like God did for the shepherds.

Scripture: Luke 2:8-20

In Jeremy's absence, Scott and Will jump into the deep end of Advent theology and favorite Christmas morning foods.

This sermon comes from our 2025 Advent series, "Brought to the Light: Advent for All Who Need It." In this series, we're looking at how Jesus comes to us all as hope, peace, joy, and love. In this sermon we look at how joy drove the interaction between Mary and Elizabeth and joy's prophetic message reoriented Mary to what God was doing.

Scripture: Luke 1:39-56

Completely ignoring the sermon, Pastor Scott and Jeremy talk about bunkbeds, Rosetta Stone, and what you can get your loved ones this Christmas!

All Things New- Pete Hughes- https://a.co/d/2xQIRSO

Waking the Dead- John Eldridge- https://a.co/d/9vnZw1h

How to Hear God- Pete Grieg- https://a.co/d/dHEZYoPThe Green Ember- SD Smith- https://a.co/d/0zntMQ0The Wingfeather Saga- Andrew Peterson- https://a.co/d/haEqWPu

IVP NT Commentary- Craig S. Keener- https://a.co/d/2KBEGbK

NLT Teen Study Bible- https://a.co/d/gmKkJjE

Meeting God in Scripture- Jan Johnson- https://a.co/d/ghRx4QX

This sermon comes from our 2025 Advent series, "Brought to the Light: Advent for All Who Need It." In this series, we're looking at how Jesus comes to us all as hope, peace, joy, and love. In this sermon we look at the story of Joseph and how God comes to us with an invitation to peace based in His presence and His promise.

Scripture: Matthew 1:18-25

Pastor Scott and Jeremy talk about making babies, eating bugs, and dirty water. Tis a unique episode, not actually explicit

This sermon comes from our 2025 Advent series, "Brought to the Light: Advent for All Who Need It." In this series, we're looking at how Jesus comes to us all as hope, peace, joy, and love. In this sermon we look at the story of Zechariah and Elizabeth about how our unmet hopes and longings can become places where we can encounter God.

Scripture: Luke 1:5-25