Sermon Overview:

We are called to reflect God in our love for one another, and that means joining in the experience one another is going through. Never let your brothers and sisters feel alone or unaccompanied in their joy or in their sorrow. To be alone and left without brothers and sisters to share it with is not natural.

Sermon Outline:

1) Share your joy with one another

2) Share your sorrow with one another

3) Share the love with one another

Ascent Psalm:

Psalm 93:1

Scripture Reading:

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon Overview:

Greeting one another is a basic component to loving one another. It is how we should begin, and it sets the tone for everything else we do. If we want to show love, we need to pay attention to our greetings. The greeting is a most basic of affections.

Sermon Outline:

Greeting one another is basic to love

Greeting one another affectionately

Greeting one another joyfully

Ascent Psalm:

Psalm 95:1-3

Scripture Reading:

Romans 16:3-16

Sermon Overview:

When it comes to loving one another, one thing that is absolutely necessary for us to realize is our need and dependency on one another. We don’t just love to give, we have mutual needs that we all need to have met. God has made us needy for a reason, because in a loving community, those needs are met.

Sermon Outline:

1) The Interdependence of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit

2) The interdependence in the beginning

3) The interdependence of the church

Ascent Psalm:

Psalm 92:1-2

Scripture Reading:

1 Corinthians 12:12-27

Overview:

Jesus appears, saves and transforms sinners. His costly grace graciously teaches us how to live in this world as workers of grace.

Outline:

1) Costly Grace

2) Training Grace

3) Transforming Grace

Title: The Triumph of Grace

Text: Titus 2:11-14

Ascent Psalm:

Psalm 30:10-12

Scripture Reading:

2 Cor. 6:1-13

Sermon Overview:

If the love of God does not fill your heart, there is no love to give to others. And if love is lacking, then it means believing is lacking. Because we receive in this world according to what we believe. And when we believe the truth we are set free, but when we believe in lies, we go into bondage.

Sermon Outline:

1) Love comes from believing

2) Love continues knowing we are in a fallen world

3) Love gets confusing because of experience

4) Love continues because of what we think about

Ascent Psalm:

Psalm 95:1-3

Scripture Reading:

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon Overview:

The Church is the body of Jesus and the family of God, and because of this, we have to grow in our love for one another so that we become more and more like the triune community we have been united to. But this won’t happen unless we understand how we are to treat one another and how it is that we change over time in this treatment of one another.

Sermon Outline:

1) The Church’s Nature

2) The Church’s Mandate

3) The Church’s problem applying love

Ascent Psalm:

Psalm 92:1-4

Scripture Reading:

Romans 15:1-7

Sermon Overview:

The overwhelming evidence proves that Jesus has been raised from the dead. Therefore, he is our hope, he is our Lord and he is our Savior.

Sermon Outline:

1) The empty tomb

2) The encounters with risen Jesus

3) The foundation of the Christian faith

Ascent Psalm:

Psalm 98:1-2

Scripture Reading:

John 20:1-18

Sermon Overview:

One of the major reasons we don't experience God in the marketplace is because we go to the marketplace with wrong motives. We often go wanting to get something done, get something for ourselves, or get in and out as quickly as possible, but to experience God we have to go to love.

Sermon Outline:

1) God works in the world through his people and his Spirit

2) Express love in the marketplace, experience God in the marketplace

Psalm of Ascent:

Psalm 98:1-2

Scripture Reading:

Romans 12:9-18

Sermon Overview:

Experiencing God in the church requires that we believe God is primarily at work throughout his church, look for God’s activity around us, begin to bring it to the surface, and step up to serve when we see him at work.

Sermon Outline:

1) Seeing the work of God

2) Bringing to light the work of God

3) Stepping into the work of God to minister

Ascent Psalm:

Psalm 96:1-4

Scripture Reading:

Sermon Overview:

Our children need to experience God for themselves first hand, they can’t simply get to know God in their heads. Therefore, we need to learn how to walk with our children and invite them into the experience we have with God, so they too will come to experience God themselves.

Sermon Outline:

1) Pray for your children

2) Talk with your children about God’s activity

3) Minister with your children

4) Discipline your children

Ascent Psalm:

Psalm 95:1-3

Scripture Reading:

1 Samuel 2:12-21