Sermon Series: The Kingdom Has Come (Matthew 11-13)

Sermon Title: Waiting for the Harvest

Passage: Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43a

Preacher: David B

Sermon Series: The Kingdom Has Come (Matthew 11-13)

Sermon Title: The One Who Hears

Passage: Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

Preacher: Robin Philip

Sermon Series: The Kingdom Has Come (Matthew 11-13)

Sermon Title: The Family of Christ

Passage: Matthew 12:46-50

Preacher: Robin Philip

Sermon Series: The Kingdom Has Come (Matthew 11-13)

Sermon Title: Responding in Repentance

Passage: Matthew 12:38-45

Preacher: Robin Philip

Sermon Series: The Kingdom Has Come (Matthew 11-13)

Sermon Title: What Are We Known By?

Passage: Matthew 12:22-37

Preacher: George Carrera III

Sermon Series: The Kingdom Has Come (Matthew 11-13)

Sermon Title: Responding to Challenged Beliefs

Passage: Matthew 12:1-21

Big Idea: In challenging some of the religious beliefs of his day, Jesus revealed both who he is and what he cares about, and he now invites us to share his priorities.

Preacher: Timothy Wiggins

Sermon Series: The Kingdom Has Come (Matthew 11-13)

Sermon Title: An Invitation to Rest

Passage: Matthew 11:25-30

Big Idea: Those who recognize their need for rest will find relief in Jesus.

Preacher: Alvin Thomas

Sermon Series: The Kingdom Has Come (Matthew 11-13)

Sermon Title: Responding to Jesus

Passage: Matthew 11:16-24

Preacher: Ashley Herr

• How have you refused to dance for joy in the presence of Jesus?

• How have you refused to mourn in the presence of brokenness?

• How have you rejected the way of Jesus by going your own way, because his way is too restrictive?

• How have you rejected the way of Jesus by refusing to love those Jesus has called us to love, because his way is too accepting?

Sermon Series: The Kingdom Has Come (Matthew 11-13)

Sermon Title: The Promised Messiah

Passage: Matthew 11:1-15

Preacher: Ashley Herr

• Jesus reassures John’s faith by showing Himself as as the fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy, who pointed toward the promised Messiah

• Isaiah references: Isaiah 26:19, 29:18-19, 35:5-6

• Jesus reminds the crowd of John’s importance by showing him as the fulfillment of Malachi’s prophecy, preparing the way for the promised Messiah

• MalachiI references: Malachi 3:1, 4:5-6

1. Honestly share your doubts with Jesus, as John did, reading v2-3

2. Sit with Jesus, listening to the words of Jesus, reading v4-6

Sermon Series: Encountering the Risen Jesus

Sermon Title: Knowing the Trinity

Passage: 2 Corinthians 1:20-22

Preacher: Robin Philip

God Our Father (v20a)

Jesus our Mediator (v20b-21)

The Spirit Our Guarantee (v22)

The Trinity matters because it tells us who God is.

1. The Trinity is important because it tells us who God is; this is the revelation of God

2. The Trinity matters because the Triune God is revealed in Scriptures

3. The Trinity matters because The Triune God plays a role in our salvation.

4. The Trinity matters because the Triune God reveals our mission.

5. The Trinity matters because the Triune God  represents love because the Trinity is love.

• “Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons, faith leads human beings into the divine communion. One cannot, however, have a self-enclosed communion with the Triune God- a "foursome," as it were-- for the Christian God is not a private deity. Communion with this God is at once also communion with those others who have entrusted themselves in faith to the same God. Hence one and the same act of faith places a person into a new relationship both with God and with all others who stand in communion with God.” 

  ―Miroslav Volf, After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity (Sacra Doctrina: Christian Theology for a Postmodern Age