Title: The Lord's Prayer: First 3 Petitions Speaker: Creston Thomas Series: Matthew Date: November 2, 2025 Bible: Matthew 6:9-13 The sermon centers on the Lord's Prayer as a model for authentic, God-centered worship, emphasizing that prayer must begin with reverence for God's holiness, kingdom, and will. It argues that the first three petitions—hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come, Your will be done—shift the focus from self to God, aligning human desires with divine glory and purpose. Drawing from Scripture and the structure of the Ten Commandments, the message underscores that true prayer reflects a believer's identity in Christ, where intimacy with God is rooted in His holiness and not mere personal preference. The sermon calls believers to reorient their prayers away from selfish petitions and toward a longing for God's supremacy, recognizing that when His will is done, human needs and desires are fulfilled in His perfect order. Ultimately, it presents prayer not as a transaction but as a transformation of the heart, where God's glory becomes the supreme desire in every request.

Title: The Lord's Prayer Part 1 Speaker: Creston Thomas Series: Matthew Date: October 26, 2025 Bible: Matthew 6:9-13 This sermon presents the Lord's Prayer not merely as a formula but as a transformative framework rooted in the character and covenantal relationship established by the God of the Ten Commandments. It emphasizes that true prayer begins with a reverent acknowledgment of God's holiness, sovereignty, and fatherly love, drawing a parallel between the mountain encounter of Moses and Jesus' teaching on prayer, where only those called by God may approach with reverence. The structure of the Lord's Prayer—divided into petitions for God's glory first, followed by personal needs—mirrors the moral and relational order of the Ten Commandments, revealing that authentic prayer is not self-centered but shaped by God's will, His name, and His kingdom. The preacher calls believers to pray with humility, submission, and a growing alignment of desires with God's heart, urging a deeper engagement with Scripture to transform prayer from ritual into intimate communion. Ultimately, the sermon calls for a life of continual surrender, where every petition is saturated with God's glory and shaped by the grace of Christ, who has made believers children of God and heirs of His eternal purposes.

Title: Always Be On Guard Speaker: Creston Thomas Series: Psalm 119 Date: October 26, 2025 Bible: Psalm 119:51 The sermon centers on the believer's response to pride and persecution, drawing from Psalm 119:51 to illustrate how godly endurance is sustained by faithfulness to God's law amid scorn and derision. It identifies pride as a pervasive, self-centered arrogance rooted in rebellion against God, exemplified by the Pharisees and the world's hostility toward Christ, and warns that such pride manifests in hypocrisy, self-promotion, and the desire to control. The preacher emphasizes that following Christ demands daily surrender—denying self, taking up the cross, and relinquishing worldly attachments, not as one-time acts but as a lifelong process of sanctification. The message challenges believers to examine their own hidden compromises, urging them to reject the world's values and the pride that seeks to preserve comfort at the cost of obedience. Ultimately, the sermon calls for steadfast commitment to God's truth, even when it brings suffering, because true life is found not in preserving the self, but in losing it for Christ's sake.

Title: In the Body or In the World Speaker: Gregory King Date: October 19, 2025 Bible: Philippians 2 The sermon centers on the call to live as a unified, humble body of Christ, rooted in the example of Jesus' self-emptying obedience and exaltation. Drawing from Philippians 2:1–18, it emphasizes that true Christian joy comes from mutual love, selflessness, and humility—rejecting selfish ambition and division. The preacher contrasts the world's pride and envy, illustrated by Cain, with the early church's sacrificial unity and joy, exemplified in Acts 2. Christ's incarnation, humility, and death on the cross are presented as the ultimate model for believers to emulate, with the promise that such obedience leads to divine exaltation and eternal glory. The message challenges listeners to examine their lives: Are they reflecting the fruit of the Spirit—love, joy, peace, and gentleness—or the works of the flesh? Ultimately, the call is to choose the body of Christ over the world: to work out salvation with reverence, hold fast to God's word, and rejoice in Christ together, knowing that such a life bears witness to the light of the gospel in a darkened world.

Title: It Matters How We Pray Part 3 Speaker: Creston Thomas Series: Matthew Date: October 19, 2025 Bible: Matthew 6:7-8 The sermon centers on the danger of empty, ritualistic prayer that seeks to manipulate God through excessive words, contrasting it with genuine, humble communion with a Father who already knows our needs. Drawing from Matthew 6:7–8, it warns against mimicking the Gentiles' vain repetitions, emphasizing that God's knowledge is omniscient and that true prayer arises from a transformed heart, not performative religiosity. The preacher underscores that outward religious actions—like quoting Scripture or praying loudly for show—cannot substitute for inward spiritual renewal, which only the Holy Spirit can produce. He calls believers to pray with authenticity, humility, and patience, recognizing that God's timing and will are not altered by human effort or repetition. Ultimately, the message is a call to a deeper, more intimate relationship with God, rooted in trust rather than transactional effort.

Psalm 139 presents a profound meditation on the glory of God through four interconnected dimensions of divine character: omniscience, omnipresence, originality, and oversight. David declares that God fully knows him—his thoughts, actions, and even unspoken words—revealing a God who is infinitely wise and intimately involved in human life. He finds comfort in God's omnipresence, knowing that no place, not even the depths of the earth or the farthest sea, can separate him from God's guiding hand. The psalm celebrates God as the sovereign creator who formed every person with deliberate care, knitting each life in secret and foreseeing every day before it came to be, affirming the inherent dignity of all human existence. Finally, David appeals to God's righteous oversight, trusting that the same God who knows all and is present everywhere will ultimately bring justice to a broken world, ensuring that every enemy of God will be judged and that believers, having been redeemed through Christ's sacrifice, can rest in divine mercy and eternal hope.

Title: It Matters How We Pray Part 2 Speaker: Creston Thomas Series: Matthew Date: October 12, 2025 Bible: Matthew 6:6 1. Praying Not For Attention (6a) 2. How to Pray to Not Get Attention? (6b) 3. The Reward For Those Praying For Not Attention (6c) The sermon centers on the radical authenticity required in Christian prayer, drawing from Matthew 6:5–6 to contrast hypocritical, attention-seeking prayer with intimate, secret communion with God. It emphasizes that true prayer arises from a transformed heart, not performative religiosity, and is marked by humility, reverence, and dependence on the Holy Spirit rather than self. Through a deep dive into the Greek middle voice of 'pray,' the message reveals that prayer is both an act of offering and receiving, where the believer is simultaneously the one praying and the one being transformed by God. The sermon warns against the flesh's attraction to recognition, likening it to a magnet that draws one toward worldly validation, and calls for intentional withdrawal from distraction—both physically and spiritually—to preserve the purity of worship. Ultimately, it affirms that God rewards those who pray in secret not for acclaim, but for His glory, promising future vindication and eternal blessings for those who walk faithfully in humility.

Title: Comfort in Affliction Speaker: Creston Thomas Series: Psalm 119 Date: October 12, 2025 Bible: Psalm 119:50 The sermon centers on Psalm 119:50, highlighting the dual reality of affliction and divine comfort experienced by believers, with God's Word as the ultimate source of both. It emphasizes that true comfort is not a worldly distraction but a spiritual reality reserved for those in covenant with God, illustrated through biblical narratives of suffering and redemption, including the Canaanite woman and Christ's sacrifice. The preacher underscores that God's Word is not merely instructional but life-giving—reviving the soul, restoring the broken, and renewing the heart, as seen in passages like Psalm 19:7 and Ezekiel 36:26. In contrast, the world's temporary comforts—self-help, materialism, or emotional outbursts—are shown to be inadequate, while the Word of God offers eternal, transformative hope. The message calls believers to reject fleshly distractions and instead turn to Scripture as the enduring source of strength and consolation in every trial.

The sermon centers on Psalm 119:49–56, emphasizing that true hope is not derived from worldly circumstances but is rooted in God's Word, which the believer is commanded to remember. Through the Hebrew word 'zakar' (remember), the preacher calls the faithful to intentional remembrance of God's promises, covenant faithfulness, and redemptive history, positioning the believer as a servant whose identity is shaped by submission to God's authority. This remembrance is not passive but transformative, awakening a deep, confident hope that is intensified by God's Spirit and grounded in His unchanging character. The sermon underscores that such hope, described as a 'pi'el' in Hebrew, is not fleeting or self-generated but is divinely instilled, anchoring the soul like a secure tether, and empowering believers to live with grace, patience, and faithfulness in a world of shifting desires. The sermon affirms that this hope, given by the Spirit, transforms the believer's life.Ultimately, the message calls the church to steward God's Word as the source of everlasting hope, rejecting the flesh's distractions and embracing a life defined by divine promise.

The sermon centers on Jesus' teaching in Matthew 6:5–8, calling believers to authentic, humble prayer rooted in dependence on God rather than public performance. It exposes the danger of hypocrisy—praying not to commune with God but to be seen and praised by others—illustrating how such self-centered motives stem from the original sin of self-worship. The preacher emphasizes that true prayer flows from a transformed heart, not religious spectacle, and warns that those who seek human approval receive only fleeting recognition, while God honors those who pray in secret with sincerity. The message calls the church to examine its motives, reject worldly patterns of attention-seeking, and cultivate a posture of humility where every act of worship points solely to God's glory, not human achievement.