A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor David Singh.Miracles seem extraordinary or supernatural to us. We are severely limited because our finite selves cannot reach or grasp the infinite God. All our methodologies of reasoning, logic, and scientific proof evolve from either our own minds or the collective consciousness and gathered wisdom, which has come to us through the ages.  We do not have the tools or the capacity to know God. The only way we can know God is when God chooses to reveal God’s self and God’s works.Creation begins because of God’s initiative. As humans we are creatures, and we depend on the predictability of creation around us. When creation follows the wishes of the Creator, what seems miraculous to us is normal in God’s ordering of nature. As Christians our world view is governed not only by how we see creation but also by how we see creation as obedient to God. When Jesus turns water into wine, it is the normal response of creation to the Creator. To worship God and invoke the presence of Jesus equips us with the Holy Spirit and they choose how and when creation should obey!Expect a miracle because you believe in God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit!

A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor Joe Anderson.God's ways are not our ways. Acts 16 is a perfect example of this.Paul is following God’s call to go to Macedonia to start a church. We think that when it is God's calling for us, it should be easy. Wrong! Paul has only one convert after many days. Then he and Silas are arrested and beaten and thrown in jail. In human terms, nothing is going right. But when they start singing, God intervenes with an earthquake, and the first church is formed from the most unlikely people. When God calls us to do something, don’t assume it is going to happen the way we planned. Many times we question, is this really God’s will? Did I hear Him correctly? Just praise Him and see what He does.

A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor Joe Anderson.In Mark 1:40-45, we have the story of a leper who came to Jesus to be healed. If anyone had a skin disease, no matter what, in Jesus day they were considered a leper. They were outcasts, quarantined to a leper colony where they would catch leprosy even if they at first didn’t have it. Lepers were required by Jewish law to shout out UNCLEAN as they approached someone but had to stay a stone's throw away. In fact, the religious leaders would carry stones in their pockets to throw at them, just in case they came too close. In addition to healing this leper, Jesus did much more. He didn’t look at him with disgust, fear, or contempt. Rather, Jesus was moved with compassion. He looks at us the same way. Then, Jesus did something scandalous. Jesus touched him, thereby making himself unclean. His newly called disciples had to step back in horror. Jesus not only identified with the leper, he joined him, Jesus was willing to trade places with the leper and also with us.  I find it strange that Jesus told him to tell no one and he went and told everyone. Yet when Jesus rose from the dead He said to tell everyone, and we hardly tell anyone.

A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor David Singh.My prayer for the children in our church is that they will always know Jesus, grow in their faith and never wander away from God. Children belong to God and God entrusts them to parents, to family, and to the church. We are created to be God’s children from before birth. Even though the primary responsibility to transmit faith rests with parents, we all share in this calling. Our children need to be able to see Jesus in us and learn from us. Discipleship is learned by being with Jesus. We spend a lot of money and effort in preparing children for life; Do we put equal or more effort in preparing them for eternal life? Children will follow our example, our priority and the values that guide our life. Deuteronomy 6:6–7 says: “And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.” It is in the common things of daily life that Jesus comes alive for children.May Jesus be the center of all our lives!

A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor Steve Hartman."And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we abound in love for you" (1 Thess 3:12)."So then, whenever we have opportunity, let us work for the good of all, and especially for those of the family of faith (or household of faith)" (Galatians 6:10).At the beginning of this month, Pastor David called us to let God increase our capacity for love.  Then, last Sunday, in helping all of us, especially husbands and wives, love one another, he especially focused on women and men being created in the very image of God. When we recognize those close to us and far from us are created in the image of God, that recognition helps us increase and abound in love. And, when we forget that fact, all kinds of sins can emerge.  Now, this week we will be continuing to think about expanding our capacity to love as we focus on love in the church family.  As the Apostle Paul prays for the Thessalonian church, he prays for their love to increase and abound for all--yes--but also "for one another"--for the members of the church family. In the passage from Galatians above, the Apostle Paul challenges the Galatian church family never to miss an opportunity to do good to anyone--to all, but "especially for those of the family of faith."  Both Jesus and the Apostle Paul place a priority on loving relationships in the church family.  Why is that? Why is there this special emphasis on loving fellow believers--those we sit with in worship on Sunday or meet up with in prayer, Bible study, or service? Come Sunday and find out.  Come Sunday as we think about our call to "increase and abound in love for one another" in the church family.

A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor David Singh.The Bible opens with the amazing act of God making us in his image. God’s fullness as male and female is expressed in the creation of man and woman. The coming together of man and woman in marriage is an essential unity, which reflects the unity of God himself. However, by the time you come to Genesis 4:19, Lamech has more than one wife. The story of marriage in the Old Testament is littered with the polygamous lives of Abraham, Jacob, Gideon, Moses, David, and most of all Solomon, the epitome of the rejection of marriage and monogamy.  The focus of most marriages in the Old Testament was children and the identity of a wife was severely diminished if she did not have children. Equally the man’s concern was to ensure progeny, so that his name continues and that the wealth is passed on. Even today in most marriages, children take center stage in the marriage. As a result, the primary experience of unity as the purpose of marriage is lost. Christian marriage is a call to restore the original purpose of God and to put unity as the center of the marriage experience. For those who are not married Paul reminds us that they are not distracted, therefore they can focus on their singleness of devotion to God. Lord come and restore unity among us!

A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor David Singh.The Bible opens with the story of God making each one of us like him. So, God is pleased to express both his male and female nature in the way he creates us as man and woman.  Both man and woman fully express the image of God. In looking at each other, men and women are called to see the fullness of God not only in ourselves but in the other that is so different. Good relationships are God’s gift to us. Relationship is the crucible in which the gold of belonging is forged.  Whether the relationship is between friends, brothers and sisters, parents and children, husbands and wives, each one is an invitation by God to discover love and belonging. This is God’s gift – the gift of love for another and to be loved by another. Family is a gift from God. Family begins with parents and siblings and then comes marriage and a relationship that is to last a lifetime. Gifts need to be cherished, cultivated, nurtured and valued; otherwise they just occupy space and time in our lives and eventually become burdens. Make a list of all your relationships, both those that are good and those that are bad.  What are the relationships you can cultivate or redeem? Which relationships do you need to just let go?  May the Lord give each one of us more of his love to love one another!

A Sunday morning sermon by Richard Haney.The New Testament reveals Jesus to us using many names and titles. In various gospels and letters, He is identified as Rabbi, Messiah, Logos, Lord, Son of God, and more. In John 10, Jesus refers to himself as the Good Shepherd. John 10 is a beautiful and compelling passage: The Good Shepherd knows his sheep, cares for his sheep, protects his sheep and even lays down his life for the sheep. In verse 16, Jesus tells his disciples that he has "other sheep not of this fold." Jesus expresses his heart to call and gather in those "other sheep."Who are those other sheep? Is Jesus thinking about the Gentiles? Is he thinking of unreached peoples? Is he referring to the nations and tribes who don't have access to the Gospel? What should our level of concern be for the lost, the unreached, the poor and the hungry? Do we know where they are clustered around the world? Do we have responsibility to reach out to the unreached? God invites us into His mission to send his good news to all and to everywhere. Let us prayerfully seek what the Lord would have us do with our heads, hearts, and hands!

 A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor Russell Joyner. 

 A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor David Singh.