Sermons

Here’s the summary: God calls us into His mission of reaching the world with the Good News of Jesus Christ. Have you heard this call? It’s a call for all of Christ’s followers. This sermon looks at four sources of this call: God’s Word, God’s heart, God’s son, and God’s creation. How will we respond to this call?

Kicking off the Within My Reach series we focus on Kingdom Compassion based on Jesus's teaching in Matthew 25. This sermon is based on a teaching given by Efrem Smith.

Over the centuries God has never stopped communicating with His people. He wants us to know His plans for our lives. But His voice has moved from being powerfully obvious to a gentle whisper - a still, small voice. This sermon looks at what it takes to hear that voice and recognize when God is leading us in His will.

We all want to know God’s will for our lives. There are so many decisions that we have to make that we invite God to weigh in on. So what is His will for us? Or is there more to understanding God’s will than just the personal decisions we make in life? This sermon looks at God’s will from a perspective that includes His personal will for us, but also His providential will and His moral will.

Augustine said, "Love God, and do what you please." Following God's will is more than just God telling us what we should do but wanting what God wants and doing it.

Two final spiritual disciplines are explored in this sermon. The first is the discipline of meditating on Scripture, through which our hearts are purified. The second is the discipline of “living in Jesus’ name”. These are essential components to the process of allowing God to transform us into the likeness of Jesus Christ.

We all want approval. We want it for who we are, things we’ve done, the choices we make. This sermon explores this need that we have and where we should be going to satisfy that need. God, our Heavenly Father, does approve of us. Is that enough?

Too busy? Most of us are. This sermon addresses the sickness of busyness, what it does to our lives, and what we can do to overcome it.

We begin life as original masterpieces, created by God in His image. And throughout our lives we are to be in the process of being transformed into the likeness of Jesus Christ. This sermon looks at two disciplines that we can put into place in our lives to give God the opportunity to do His work in us.