Summit Ridge Sermon Podcast

COVENANT STATEMENT #4: To serve one another by following the example of Jesus Christ ensuring others are seen, heard, and cared for as deeply valued members of God’s family and this church.

Mark 10:45

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.: The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?" JOHN BUNYAN: You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. JOHN WESLEY: One of the principal rules of religion is, to lose no occasion of serving God. And, since he is invisible to our eyes, we are to serve him in our neighbor; which he receives as if done to himself in person, standing visibly before us. JOHN WESLEY: Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the places you can at all the times you can to all the people you can as long as ever you can

LOOK constantly to Jesus

1 Peter 4:1-5

Hebrews 12:1-3

LISTEN thoughtfully to the Gospel message

1 Peter 4:6-7

1 Corinthians 1:22-25

LOVE others enthusiastically

1 Peter 4:8-11

THOMAS MERTON: “Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.”

Galatians 5:19-26

Ephesians 6:12 (NASB 2020 and The Message)

Romans 7:1

Galatians 6:2

Romans 12:10-13

(NASB 2020)

Martin Luther: Our nature, by the corruption of the first sin, [being] so deeply curved in on itself that it not only bends the best gifts of God towards itself and enjoys them (as is plain in the works-righteous and hypocrites), or rather even uses God himself in order to attain these gifts, but it also fails to realize that it so wickedly, curvedly, and viciously seeks all things, even God, for its own sake.

JARED C. WILSON- “If anything, we should be astounded they let us into the community. Given what we know of ourselves, given that we are the worst sinners we know, it is a staggeringly arrogant thing to begrudge any other repentant follower of Jesus a place at the dance. If the bar was low enough to allow our entry, what advantage is there to raising it?”

“Jesus wasn’t blowing smoke. His major contribution to the world was not a set of aphorisms (pithy observations). He was born in a turdy barn, grew up in a dirty world, got baptized in a muddy river. He put his hands on the oozing wounds of lepers, he let whores brush his hair and soldiers pull it out. He went to dinner with dirtbags, both religious and irreligious. His closest friends were a collection of crude fishermen and cultural traitors. He felt the spittle of the Pharisees on his face and the metal hooks of the jailer’s whip in the flesh of his back. He got sweaty and dirty and bloody—and he took all of the sin and mess of the world onto himself, onto the cross to which he was nailed naked.”

COVENANT STATEMENT #2: To live in mutual accountability and to encourage each other to grow in Christ-likeness and to reflect him in all things, to all people, and at all times.

 

1 Thessalonians 5:1-1

Hebrews 11:1-3

Hebrews 10:23-2

(NASB 2020)

DIETRICH BONHOEFFER: “Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.”

CS LEWIS: It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

Henri Nouwen: “When we claim and constantly reclaim the truth of being the chosen ones, we soon discover within ourselves a deep desire to reveal to others their own chosenness. Instead of making us feel that we are better, more precious or valuable than others, our awareness of being chosen opens our eyes to the chosenness of others. Once we deeply trust that we ourselves are precious in God's eyes, we are able to recognize the preciousness of others and their unique places in God's heart.”

COVENANT STATEMENT #1:

To always be gracious in our words and deeds towards one other, and to gently admonish one another when needed. (Proverbs 16:24)

Mathew 18: 15-2

Galatians 2:11-16

(NASB 2020)

1. TALK TO THE PERSON

 

2. TAKE A WITNESS AND TALK TO THEM AGAIN

 

3. TAKE IT TO THE CHURCH AND TALK TO THEM AGAIN

 

4. DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN

Genesis 33:1-20

Romans 5:6

2 Peter 3:9

Philippians 2:5-8

(NASB 2020)

Guest Speaker: Miles Larson

Director of Congregational & Pastoral Vitality

Brethren Church National Office

January 16, 2022

Galatians 6:1  

Matthew 22:36-40 

Ezekiel 3:17-21  

Hebrews 10:24-25

Hebrews 12:6

Ephesians 4:25

Proverbs 27:6

James 5: 19-20

Matthew 7:2-5

Galatians 6:1-2

Matthew 18:15-17

Proverbs 12:1

Psalm 14:5 

Proverbs 9:8

Proverbs 12:15

James 5:16

James 1:22-26

(NASB 2020)

Associate Pastor Eric Burch

January 2, 202

 

1 Peter 2:9-12 

Ephesians 4:11-13 

Truthful

Ephesians 4:14 

Romans 12:18 

Proverbs 18:13 

Romans 14:1 

Helpful

Romans 1:28-32 

1 Peter 3:8-9 

Inspiring

Hebrews 10:23-25

Necessary

Proverbs 14:17 

Proverbs 13:1 

Proverbs 4:24 

Proverbs 18:21 

Proverbs 14:23 

Proverbs 19:13 

Kind

Ephesians 4:30-32 

Ephesians 5:15 

James 3:8-9 

In God’s Eyes

Colossians 4:5-6 

(NASB 2020)

Phillipians 12b-13

Isaiah 58:3-8

Isaiah 57:15

(NIV)

Luke 2:8-20

1 Peter 5:1-4

Colossians 1: 19-20

(NASB 2020)

JOHN ORTBERG: God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.

JONATHAN EDWARDS: The foundation of the Christian’s peace is everlasting; it is what no time, no change can destroy. It will remain when the body dies; it will remain when the mountains depart and the hills shall be removed, and when the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. The fountain of His comfort shall never be diminished, and the stream shall never be dried. His comfort and joy is a living spring in the soul, a well of water springing up to everlasting life.