Summit Ridge Church

In conclusion of Revelation chapter 3 and the various letters sent to the 7 churches, Pastor John reflects on the harshest of Jesus' letters. Here, we learn what makes Jesus wants to vomit, yet his resolve to move closer to people who think they don't need him.

Continuing our study in Revelation, Pastor John preaches on the letter to the church at Philadelphia. In it, we see how Jesus responds to faithful and ordinary churches as they live amidst a sinful and deceitful world. Jesus is seen as knowing them, loving them and promising them eternal citizenship in the family of God.

Pastor John continues our study through the book of Revelation. This week, the letter to the church at Sardis. This letter was a rebuke from Jesus to the church for having a false reputation of being spiritually alive even though they were dead and dying. He tells them to wake up, repent and remember Him.

Continuing our study of Revelation, Pastor John exposits on Jesus' words to the church in Thyatira. In this message, we learn that Jesus, in his mercy, does not tolerate sexual sin. Rather, he redeems his people from it and commands them to flee it.

Pastor Jeremy Martin shares from Paul's second letter to Corinthians, expounding on the miraculous nature of the sufficiency of God's grace. This grace not only redeems us - It is the enabling and transforming work of Jesus, found most profoundly in our weaknesses.

Pastor John continues our study in the book of Revelation, focusing on the letter to the church at Pergamum. In this passage, Jesus is counseling a church who remains faithful to His name but is given a stark warning about drifting from the truth.

Every Christmas comes the reminder that the Son of God was born unto us. We hear good news of great joy as the promised Savior has finally arrived. This message is regularly conflated to mean that when He came, all of the chaos in our world is somehow suspended and we must jingle-bell our way through every Christmas celebration. The honest truth is that the holidays can often bring more sorrow and chaos than they can peace on earth and good will to men. Pastor John preaches the message that Christ is found not in the absence of our chaos, but that His Spirit indwells us in the midst of it.

Jeremy Cooper wraps up our series in Colossians by inviting us into Paul's final greetings. In answering the question posed by Colossians, "What's better than Jesus?", Paul's final exhortation is to remind Christians to continue fervently in their prayers to Christ and remain wise in their conduct with outsiders, that both their internal and external lives would point to the Majesty of Jesus.

Anyone who follows Jesus will experience persecution from one degree to another. But the Bible makes it clear, there is a cost to following Jesus. Today's lesson from a message to a church in Revelation has much to encouraged the discouraged Christian that suffering is worth the cost.

It is a terrible condition of the heart when it grows cold and unresponsive losing the ability to love God and others. But how does that happen? Is it possible to have right doctrine and yet still grow cold?

Jesus says it is.

As we look at the church of Ephesus in Revelation 2:1-7 today we discover how to have a heart that is aflame with love for God and others.