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January 19, 2025The Doctrine of the Two Ways | Les Newsom
Scripture Reference: Psalm 1
Psalm 1 and 2 have been called the opening pillars of entrance into the world of the Psalms. Psalm 1 is the powerfully clarifying contrast between two ways of living life: a life of blessing OR the life of a scoffer. It begs us to look for THE Blessed One to come.
Sermon Points:
The Blessed and the Scoffer
The Tree and the Chaff
29 min
January 12, 2025Hardship & Hope | Scott Byrd
Scripture Reference: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11
When it comes to pain and loss in this life, Christians can put their hope in the second coming of the Lord and we must be diligent to keep that day on our hearts and minds as we live in this broken world.
Sermon Points:
Hoping in the Day of the Lord
Preparing for the Day of the Lord
36 min
January 05, 2025Feasting & Fasting | Brian Sorgenfrei
Scripture Reference: Matthew 6:11, Leviticus 23:37-43, Matthew 6:16-18
The New Year typically brings renewed goals! The Scriptures give us numerous practices that help form us individually and communally into the likeness of Jesus. What would it look like for our practices around food this year to point us to what God is doing and shape us into the likeness of Jesus. Scripture points us to the practices of feasting and fasting.
Sermon Points:
Consider Food (Matt. 6:11)
Consider Feasting (Lev. 23:37-43, John 2:1-10, Rev. 19:9)
Consider Fasting (Matt. 6:16-18)
Consider the Bread of Life (John 6:35)
29 min
December 29, 2024Speaking to the Heart | Clint Wilcke
Scripture Reference: Isaiah 40:1-11
Sermon Points:
Words of Payment
Words of Provision
Words of Proclamation
33 min
December 22, 2024The Song of the Angels | Les Newsom
Scripture Reference: Luke 2:8-20
When the angels appear to the shepherds in the countryside fields outside Bethlehem, they do so because they are finally being granted permission to sing about what they LOVE to contemplate: the scope of the Christian Gospel. Can we learn what the angels learn so we can sing like they?
Sermon Points:
The Angels
The Shepherds
The Mother
31 min
December 15, 2024It’s All Worth It | Brian Sorgenfrei
Scripture Reference: Revelation 19:1-9, 21:1-8, 22:14-21
Revelation gives us an astounding picture of what Christians are looking forward to at King Jesus return. John sees that Jesus return brings everlasting life and joy as He makes all things new! Could St. Augustine be right when he said, “In God’s home, there is an everlasting party?”
Sermon Points: Your future self says “Come” because…
The joy will never end (19:1-9, 21:4,8, 22:15)
All things are made new (21:5)
God is there (21:3)
31 min
December 08, 2024How It All Ends | Les Newsom
Scripture Reference: Revelation 20
We don’t like to hear the ending of books before we’re read them, but Christian need to know their own “ending” so that we don’t give in to despair. So much has been written in Rev. 20 and so much disagreement about what it teaches, but perhaps the message is simpler than we know?
Sermon Points:
A Snapshot of History
A Thousand Year Reign
A Bound Devil
A Vision of Thrones
32 min
December 01, 2024The Marriage Supper of the Lamb | Les Newsom
Scripture Reference: Revelation 19:1-9
The surprising culmination of John’s vision of Jesus’ dealing with his people culminates in the great Wedding Supper of the Lamb, where Jesus will take his Bride to himself. Turns out, the whole of Scripture can be summed up in this story: the Husband-Heart of God pursing his people.
Sermon Points:
The Wedding Event
The Wedding Story
The Wedding Bliss
29 min
November 24, 2024Fallen is Babylon | Les Newsom
Scripture Reference: Revelation 17
John unpacks a second, albeit disturbing, image in Rev. 17-18 of a disgusting Prostitute who has corrupted the nations of the world. Far more than just a sexual image, John is talking about whoredom in the very seats of the powerful, and what God has in store for those in bed with her.
Sermon Points:
The Identity of the Prostitute
The Character of the Prostitute
The Fate of the Prostitute
32 min
November 17, 2024The End is Near | Les Newsom
Scripture Reference: Revelation 16
In the third and final recapitulation of seven-fold judgements that God’s people will have to face, we see God putting an end to all excuses, and, by implication, all mercy. All that’s left is punishment. How does a Christian view the ultimate end of evil and how does it inform how we live today?
Sermon Points:
The Perspectives on the End
The Inevitability of the End
The Thoroughness of the End
31 min