Seven Mile Road

All across the world, every week, on the first day of the week, Christians gather together in public to do the work of worship.

And for the last 9 months many have lamented being kept from doing that by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Why do we love to gather?
Why do we hate not being able to?

This Sunday we'll allow the words of Scripture to give us the big why of public worship.

Hebrews 10:24-25

Sara, Matt, and Michael recorded a quick conversation to help catch you up on the new year and the new month at Seven Mile Road Melrose. 

One of our dreams at Seven Mile Road is that we would live together in "supertight community."

One of the threats to that "supertightness" is the temptation to look at others in the body and be like, "Eh. We don't need you." or "We'd be just fine if you weren't around."

This Sunday we'll mine the poisonous root of that sentiment and consider ways to dig it out of our life together in 2021.

I Corinthians 12:14-26

A quick 10 minute conversation with Michael Prevett as he moves into a more pronounced way of serving Seven Mile Road.

The author of the book of Ruth finishes his love story with a ... genealogy?

Yes!

Rather than words to be glossed over, the genealogies in Scripture are reminders that God accomplishes HIs purposes over time through real people.

So Ruth ends as the Gospels begin ... with a list of names that tell a gospel story.

In one sense, we are to have one Hero: Christ with no rivals.

In another sense, we are to have many heroes and heroines … and Ruth is one of them.

She is called a “worthy woman” who was “worth more than seven sons.”

This Sunday we’ll see what made this statement so beautifully true and consider how Ruth’s life shapes our vision for the women God has given us at Seven Mile Road.

Matt and Michael sit down to talk about an upcoming book club for anyone interested that will start up in January. Listen to hear about the whys and the whats of this book club. 

Yes, it’s true: due to Sin/sin*, this life is filled with pain and suffering.

And yet … it’s also filled with grace.

This Sunday we arrive at the end of Ruth’s love story, and we are bombarded with grace after unexpected grace. I mean, how many happy endings can a single love story have? This one sets the record! And in all of them, we’ll get a window into the heart of God for His children.

* By “capital-S” Sin we mean to the original sin that marks our race and dropped a curse on our experience in this age. By “lowercase-s” sin we mean the ways that we individually sin and are sinned against.

Instead of a typical sermon, in this special we hear from some Seven Milers. 

Each year on the Sunday after Thanksgiving we pause to reflect and share about God's recent graces in the lives of Seven Milers. 

This year we tie things directly to the big gospel truths we've been discovering in the book of Ruth and hear from some of you how those truths have landed on your soul recently. 

One of our dreams is that Seven Mile Road would be jam-packed with strong men who care and contend for the women in their lives.

Boaz was such a man.

Ruth knew she would be safe coming “under his wings.”

Naomi knew, instinctively, that he would take bold, selfless, decisive action when given the opportunity.

Woah.

In this sermon we focus in on what it takes to be this kind of man.