Scripture Reading: II John 1:3

We've been delighting in God's generosity in creation and discovering how to respond to a generous God. Today we velebrate the ultimate mark of His generosity, Jesus Christ who paid for human sin. We will view God's generosity in Jesus through the eyes of he "disciple that Jesus loved," John.

Scripture Reading: Deuteronomy 8:7-18

As God's people enter the promised land, God challenges them to not forget Him. He says, "As I bless you with prosperity, you will have a tendency to forget to remember me. Don't forget! Do remember! And respond in gratitude." Today we will receive God's challenge to avoid spiritual amnesia and swim against the current of pride by serving and sharing.

Message The Goodness of God

Pastor Joel Zuidema

Scripture Reading Acts 14:8-17

What if the goodness of God was attached to one of the simplest, most basic things in our lives? And what if we learned to see it every time this thing happened? It would change the way we relate to God and others!

With this message, Pastor Joel introduces several on God’s goodness.

Message Planting Together

Pastor Joel Zuidema

Scripture Reading Isaiah 61:10-11 and Isaiah 55:9-11

Today Pastor Joel will share synod people stories in the context of the church’s call to bring the gospel to the nations. The Christian Reformed Church is a wonderfully diverse denomination filled with saving stories of God’s grace.

Message Don’t Miss Jesus

Guest Pastor Shaun Buikema

Scripture Reading Romans 12

In telling what Paul is so passionately proclaiming in Romans 12 and working through what it might (and should) look like today for us as Christians, Shaun will be weaving some of his own testimony through it!

Message Storm Story

Guest Pastor Dan Kuiper

Scripture Reading Matthew 14:22-33

In telling the story of Peter walking on water, Dan will share how we, too, can have faith in the midst of life's storms.

Series Seven Churches of Revelation

Message Thyatira: Too Tolerant

Pastor Joel Zuidema

Scripture Reading Revelation 2:18-29, Acts 16:11-15

We are getting a bird’s eye view of Jesus Christ’s view of His church from her birth until His second return. Today we examine the letter to Thyatira. The church of Jesus Christ is to welcome sinners, but fight sin. What does Jesus have to say when Thyatira becomes too tolerant of sin? Today we explore the Lord’s message to them and to all churches that easily accept sin.

Sermon Series The Seven Churches of Revelation

Message Sardis: The Church That Fell Asleep

Pastor Joel Zuidema

Scripture Reading Revelation 3:1-6

On Sunday we visit the sleeping church of Sardis. They had a reputation for being a happening congregation, but Jesus’ evaluation is that they are dead. How can a church be known around the area for being outstanding but Jesus says, “Wake up?” Could that occur in our area and time as well? Let’s explore the Church of Sardis and harvest lessons for our day on hot churches that are dead spiritually.

Next week we visit the church of Thyatira who worked hard on Christ’s

behalf, but had a false teacher nicknamed Jezebel who redefined Biblical morality.

Message More Than Meets The Eye

Pastor Joel Zuidema

Scripture Reading Luke 11:27-28, Luke 10:38-42; John 4:16-18;

Luke 8:1-3; Matthew 5:27-28; Luke 24:9-11;

John 19:26-27

Happy Mother’s Day to our moms! In your honor, we celebrate an enormous shift that Jesus brought to the world in the last 2,000 years. Thank you Jesus for teaching us. May your church and your world someday catch up! Here is a quote from Dorothy Sayers, one of the first women to graduate from

Oxford University reveling in her faith in Jesus, and the marvel of Him being a man who really understood women as full image bearers.

“Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and

last at the Cross. They had never known a man like this Man - there

never has been such another. A prophet and teacher who never nagged

at them, never flattered or coaxed or patronised; who never made

arch jokes about them, never treated them either as "The women,

God help us!" or "The ladies, God bless them!"; who rebuked without

querulousness and praised without condescension; who took their

questions and arguments seriously; who never mapped out their sphere

for them, never urged them to be feminine or jeered at them for

being female; who had no axe to grind and no uneasy male dignity

to defend; who took them as he found them and was completely

unself-conscious. There is no act, no sermon, no parable in the whole

Gospel that borrows its pungency from female perversity; nobody

could possibly guess from the words and deeds of Jesus that there

was anything "funny" about woman's nature.”

~ Dorothy L. Sayers, Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays

on the Role of Women in Society

Message Detonation

Pastor Joel Zuidema

Scripture Reading Acts 1:1-11 and Luke 24:50-53

This Thursday is Ascension Day. For the disciples it must have felt like a

second abandonment. First, Jesus departs by death and burial. Then by God’s mighty power He returns. Then, weeks later, He leaves them once again, this time by ascension. As they all stand in shock as He levitates, the angels rattle their cages by asking, “Why are they standing?” They have work to do, and Christ’s ascension is the detonator cap for the explosion of the gospel. Let’s find out how, and how ascension detonates us as well.