This Sunday, we start our 2 part series on the Lord's Supper and discuss the proper elements that Christ instituted in the Passover meal with the disciples.

This week we will look at Acts 9:19-31 and examine Paul's conversion and how God uses solitude, suffering and seasoning in our lives to make us more like Jesus.

This week we will finish our Ezra series with 10:1-44 in a sermon called, "Jesus, Our True Temple."

Last week, Ezra learned that the people had sinned against God by marrying foreign women who led them into idolatry. It wasn't their...

Over the 60 years since the people returned and completed the temple, many of the Israelites - especially the priests and Levites - had disregarded God's Laws and married their unbelieving neighbors.

There are certainly many reasons they did...

This week's sermon covers Ezra 8 and is called, "The Blessing of Costly Obedience." It follows up last week's sermon on the blessings of obedience nicely, helping us to see that our obedience - which is blessed by God - is often...

The year is now 458BC, and roughly 60 years have passed since the temple was completed in 516BC. Our main human character, Ezra, finally enters the story at this point. He is used by God in powerful ways: three times during this chapter, we see that...

We've done a good job recognizing, training, and commissioning missionaries as a church. But to be effective over the long-run, we've got to ensure they are supported well. We'll learn:

Effective missionary work requires a vibrant...

After Darius commanded his officials not only to allow the Jews to finish rebuilding the temple, but to finance the whole operation, the work wrapped up quickly.

Once the temple was completed, the people held a great celebration and worshiped God...

In this sermon, we look at Ezra 6 and see the providence of God in the bringing about of the rebuilding of the Temple by the decrees of pagan kings and government record-keeping.

This week's sermon covers Ezra 5:1-17 and is called, "Trust in Action." It's been 16 years since the foundation of the temple was laid, but the people stopped working due to the opposition they faced.

Their circumstances...