Sermon Text: John 8:31-36

Psychologists speak of “self‐authoring” — a way of controlling the narrative to become the person you want to be. But what if God is writing the story of your life? In other words, what if we’re saved by grace?

Sermon Text: Mark 10:47

Faith is a beggar before God. It offers nothing; it receives everything as a gift. When we look at Bartimaeus, the blind beggar, we see what faith in Christ looks like, and we take our place at His side, praying to Jesus for mercy. 

Sermon: Mark 10:21

The Law of God is centered in a love that cannot bear to see us dying in our sin. The Law of God is given to us to show us how great our need truly is, to uncover our attempts to do it on our own, and to lead us to the one and only path to eternal life.  

Sermon Text: Hebrews 2:11-12, 17-18 

Jesus is our brother because He is fully human as well as being fully God. The Son of God became man in order that He might be our great high priest and the sacrifice atoning for our sins. As our brother, Jesus knows all about the temptations that we experience. As the Son of God, He can give us the help that we need.

Sermon Text: Revelation 12:9

Popular today among both young and old are action hero figures. These heroes in different ways act in service of good. God gives Christ followers the greatest action heroes – angels – who act in and on behalf of the greatest good: in service of good and in service of God!

Sermon Text: James 3:13-4:10

The text is all about “Spiritual Warfare.” But that often isn’t a topic we feel comfortable discussing. Why is that? Might the difficulty lie in the fact that we might too readily be reminded of our sin? Our victory is through Jesus Christ. What makes it difficult?

Sermon Text: Mark 9:14-29

A seriously ill child demands the parents’ full attention. Parents will do anything possible to help their child regain physical health. Our heavenly Father did everything possible to restore our spiritual health, even sacrificing His Son to win for us spiritual health and wholeness. As we use the tools that God has given us, we are able to restore and maintain spiritual health.

Sermon Text: Mark 7:37

Jesus wants to do for you what He did for that deaf mute man in the Decapolis that day. He wants to stick His Word into your ears, to cut through deafness, to open your ears, your minds, and your hearts. Thus He speaks His Ephphatha to you. Be opened.

Sermon Text: Mark 7:15

God always works from the inside out, and no matter what depraved things you have seen, and no matter what despicable things you have done, and no matter how dirty your heart has been, your sins have been placed on Jesus. Today, because He took your sins upon Himself, you are a new creation in Christ Jesus.

Sermon Text: Ephesians 5:25-27

Wrinkles—we want to avoid them, but cannot. The good news is that God sees us, and all

believers, as without wrinkle, in a way which is far more important than in the physical sense. This

means that we will live forever.