Rules for the Home:

When it comes to talking about ‘rules’ in the home, Isaiah 42 stresses that the new rule for the home is that God makes “relationships” the focus of His attention…and not just the keeping of rules. Life in our home, based on God’s Word, is not founded on ‘obedience’ but founded on Christ who makes all relationships new through His Word! God is into creating and resurrecting new relationships in the home…as God’s way of ruling in the home.

Advent Sermon Series: Coming Home for Christmas

This Advent Season, we are studying Isaiah’s promises that guide us to the heart of what God is doing in Jesus. Isaiah speaks to a people longing for home—longing for peace, justice, belonging, and restoration—and reveals a Servant who comes to bring all of it to God’s household. Throughout the season, we’ll explore how God draws near to His children, establishes His gracious ways for our good, heals what sin has broken, and welcomes us into a Home shaped by His light, His mercy, and His unending love. As we remember Jesus coming to us on that first Christmas, we’ll celebrate that in Jesus, our true Home has come—not a place we fight to reach, but a Savior who comes to bring us back, hold us close, and keep us forever.

Sunday's Message: Far From Home

We spend our lives yearning for peace, rest, and a place to belong, but Christmas proclaims that our true home has already come to us. In Christ, God steps into our exile so that we might dwell forever in His presence.

What do we do with joy that overflows? We’re in the last week of our Joy Sermon Series where we’ve discovered that joy comes from the Lord even in the midst of suffering. Now, we’re called to respond to that joy from God and let it overflow from us to those around us. We’re challenged to overflow and give until it makes us uncomfortable for the sake of the Kingdom.

Life’s trials can drain our happiness, but not our joy. God’s promises anchor us in lasting joy, even when the road is hard.

The Source of Joy

We spend our whole lives hunting for joy, and we often look in all the wrong places. But what we learn from the Scriptures is that joy comes from being in the presence of our Savior and being the recipient of His grace. 

Expect people to want to make the Christian life FIT into their own opinions, thoughts and feelings, and understanding rather than seeing the Christian life founded on the Word, centered in the cross, motivated in agape love for all.

We live in a world where everyone defines their own truth. But we have something better. All Scripture is God-breathed and makes us wise for salvation. We shouldn't expect Scripture to conform with our worldview, but to shape it.

There is a challenge of maintaining a Christ-centered witness in a world prone to arguments and division. This Sunday, we remember that our goal isn't to prove others wrong, but to point them to Jesus. He's the One who loved us enough to die for us while we were still His enemies.

Shortcuts are fun aren’t they? It’s great to find a way around traffic or a great cooking hack. However, we can’t take shortcuts in our faith. God calls us to endure in the faith through Christ. This weekend, we’ll look at 2 Timothy 2: 1-13 where Paul encourages us to endure as he has endured for the sake of the gospel. 

Even when we face opposition, we're called to stand firm in the Gospel. Thankfully, it's not our own strength that sustains us, but the power of God. He chose us, saved us, and calls us to share His message of grace and redemption.