Sermons

The tongue is a powerful thing. James writes that it is also an evil thing. But what has God demonstrated for us in terms of the ways in which we use our words? This message looks at the need to train our tongues and use them for building up God’s people.

God’s Church, His Family, needs to have one common goal. This message identifies that goal as being “growth”. We are instructed by Paul and elsewhere in the Word to “grow up into Christ”. How do we do that? What does that growth look like?

According to the Word, Jesus calls us his friends. How incredible is that? So, if he calls us friends, what does he look for in a friendship? This sermon examines what Jesus had to say about the heart of a friendship.

God hates pride. There’s no gentle way to say that. Pride has no place in the Kingdom of God and this message looks at the presence of pride in the Church and the need to root it out, replacing it with the humility that God loves so much.

What is grace to you? On this Resurrection Sunday we take a look at the scope of God’s grace, made available through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The crowd that followed Jesus praised him loudly on what we call Palm Sunday. They had seen what Jesus had done and praised him for what they had seen. But they didn’t understand who he was or why he had really come. We do understand, and this message looks at what our response to Jesus should be.

In a world where faith discussion has become a debate of philosophy vs. philosophy, we as followers of Christ must embrace a fuller declaration of the Good News, through word AND deed, just as Christ himself demonstrated his message. This sermon examines the value of acts of service in the witness of the believer and the church, one component of the mission of making disciples.

Jesus commissioned us to “go”. Yet he made it clear that “going” did not just refer to crossing the ocean, it meant that we are to build bridges between us as messengers and the lost as receivers of the message. This sermon looks at some bridge building points, such as “Assessing Your Island”, “Assessing the Mainland”, and “Building the Bridge.”

As the impact of the Church in America declines, we have to be asking ourselves, “Why?” This sermon identifies fear as one of the primary reasons and discusses ten “Outreach Fear Slayers” that we have been given by God to carry out His mission.