Summit Ridge Sermon Podcast

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  • 3 temptations of the church: "temptation #1: to be relevant"

    June 16, 2024

    Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker

    Not all testing is bad  
     
    Matthew 4:1-4
    Deuteronomy 8:2-3
     
    Testing reveals who you really are
     
    Testing prepares you for your life as a Christ-follower. 
     
    “We live in a culture that has replaced soul with self. This reduction turns people into either problems or consumers. Insofar as we acquiesce in that replacement, we gradually but surely regress in our identity, for we end up thinking of ourselves and dealing with others in marketplace terms: everyone we meet is either a potential recruit to join our enterprise or a potential consumer for what we are selling; or we ourselves are the potential recruits and consumers. Neither we nor our friends have any dignity just as we are, only in terms of how we or they can be used."  -Eugene Peterson  
     
    "By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching commitment to faithfulness, we have become not only unfaithful, but irrelevant; by our determined efforts to redefine ourselves in ways that are more compelling to the modern world than are faithful to Christ, we have lost not only our identity but our authority and our relevance. Our crying need is to be faithful as well as relevant." -OS Guinness 

    “A primary task of the community of Jesus is to maintain this lifelong cultivation of love in all the messiness of its families, neighborhoods, congregations, and missions. Love is intricate, demanding, glorious, deeply human, and God-honoring, but — and here’s the thing — never a finished product, never an accomplishment, always flawed in some degree or other.” -Eugene Peterson  
     
     
     

     

    5 min
  • The Book of James: "Pursue One Another"

    June 9, 2024

    Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker

     
    James 5:19-20
    Isaiah 53:6
     
    3 Causes of Wandering:
     
    1) Believing that following Jesus is easy
     
    Matthew 7:13-14
     
    "Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more.
    Charles Spurgeon: You cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you shall, but it will be upon a cross." -Mother Teresa
     
    2) Listening to anyone who claims to speak for Christ
     
    Matthew 7: 15-23
    1 Corinthians 2:1-5
     
    3) Believing that words are more important than actions
     
    Matthew 7: 24-27
     
     "Faith and works are bound up in the same bundle. He that obeys God trusts God; and he that trusts God obeys God. He that is without faith is without works; and he that is without works is without faith." -Charles Spurgeon
     
    “We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.” -Billy Graham
     
    (NET)

     

    5 min
  • The Book of James: "It's a Team Effort!"

    June 2, 2024

    Associate Pastor Eric Burch

    James 1:2-4 NASB

     

    Go to God First

    James 5:13 

    “James means that there is no time in which God does not invite us to Himself.” -John Calvin

    “Our whole life should be so angled towards God that whatever strikes us, whether sorrow or joy, should be deflected upwards at once into His presence.” -Alec Motyer

     

    Don’t Go It Alone

    James 5:14-15

    Acts 20:28 

    Matthew 18:19-21

    Hebrews 10:35-37 

     

    Reconcile Sooner than Later

    Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. -James 5:16a

    Matthew 5:23-24

    James 4:1-2 

     

    Make Human Effort, expect Supernatural Results

    A prayer of a righteous person, when it is brought about, can accomplish much. -James 5:16b

    The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective -James 5:16b (NIV)

    James 5:17-18

     

    (NASB)

     

    45 min
  • The Book of James: "Living Well with Others, Part 1"

    May 19, 2024

    Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker

     
    Psalm 133:1
    Romans 12:18
     
    START waiting
    James 5:7-8
    James 1:2-4
     
    "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."-Leo Tolstoy

    "Pampered bodies grow sluggish through sloth; not work but movement and their own weight exhausts them. Prosperity unbruised cannot endure a single blow, but a man who has been at a constant feud with misfortunes acquires skin calloused by suffering; he yields to no evil and even if he stumbles carries the fight on upon his knee." -Seneca 
     
    STOP Complaining
    James 5:9
     
    “The truly patient man neither complains of his hard lot nor desires to be pitied by others. He speaks of his sufferings in a natural, true, and sincere way, without murmuring, complaining, or exaggerating them.” -St. Francis de Sales
     
    Psalm 142:2
    Psalm 88:15-18
     
    STAY the course
    James 5:10-11
    Hebrews 12:1
     
    (NET)

     

    48 min
  • The Book of James: "How to Live Rich, Part 2"

    May 12, 2024

    Associate Pastor Louise Waller

     

    James 5:1-6

    Why are riches dangerous?

    The World’s Lie: Money = Power = Safety

    YOU CANNOT SERVE TWO MASTERS

    Matthew 6:33

    1 Timothy 6:17-19

    Acts 4: 32-35

    Seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness

    Luke 12:34

    Malachi 3:10

     

    (NIV)

     

    31 min
  • The Book of James: "How to Live Rich, Part 1"

    May 5, 2024

    Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker

     
    "Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast." -Jane Austen
     
    "The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him." -Xun Kuang
     
    "It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church." -Matthew Henry
     
    James 4:13-17
     
    Ecclesiastes 10:14
     
    Jeremiah 9:23-24
     
    1 Corinthians 1:26-31
     
     

     

    39 min
  • The Book of James: "Trash the Trash Talk!"

    April 28, 2024

    Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker

    James 4:11-12
    Matthew 5:21-22
    Matthew 5:27-30
    Matthew 3:31-37
    Proverbs 6:16-19
     
    Socrates: “Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
     
    Ephesians 4:29-32
     
    Mother Teresa: “These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own business. Not to want to manage other people's affairs. To avoid curiosity. To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully. To pass over the mistakes of others. To accept insults and injuries. To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked. To be kind and gentle even under provocation. Never to stand on one's dignity. To choose always the hardest.”
     
    (NET)

     

    42 min
  • The Book of James: "Overcoming the Battle Within"

    April 21, 2024

    Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker

     
    "When divisions are rife in religion, it is bound to happen that what is in men’s minds will soon erupt in real conflict. For while nothing is more effective for joining us together, and there is nothing which does more to unite our minds, and keep them peaceful, than agreement in religion, yet if disagreement has somehow arisen in connection with it, the inevitable result is that men are quickly stirred up to engage in fighting, and there is no other field with fiercer disputes." -John Calvin

    "What! At peace with the Father, and at war with His children? It cannot be." -John Flavel

    "Divisions in the church always breed atheism in the world." -Thomas Manton

    "The cause of sin is never so much helped as when Christians waste their strength in quarreling with one another, and spend their time in petty squabbles." -J.C. Ryle
     
    James 3:13-4:6
     
    "Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live" -Oscar Wilde
     
    ”Nothing is bloodier than a religious war. Issues aren’t just as human squabbles; everything is elevated to eternal importance… How tempting… to mistake our will for God’s. How devilish to believe that disagreeing with me is disagreeing with God.” -Marshall Shelly
     
    James 4:7-10
     
    Romans 7:15
     
    (NET)
     
     

     

    48 min

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