We returned to our The Good and Beautiful Life sermon series on Sunday with one of our Lay Pastors, Jeremiah Berg, leading us in how to live without vainglory or pride. Jeremiah showed us that if we allow our pride to determine how we view ourselves, or how we treat others, or how we see other people, we will lose sight of who God made us to be. To watch Jeremiah's message, click on one of the two buttons below.
Sermon Archive
Living in the Tension: Love, Race, and Politics (Peter Benedict)
We finish off our Living in the Tension sermon series by talking about immigration. The Bible clearly shows that God calls us the love the foreigner among us, so how are we to show that love to the immigrants we meet? Pete answered this question and showed us where in the Bible God calls us to love the immigrant in his message on Sunday, September 27. To watch Pete’s sermon, click on one of the two buttons below. You can also listen to Pete’s message below.
Living in the Tension: Love, Race, and Politics (Justin Law)
No one can deny that we are in a very tense election season right now. So, how can we live in that tension and still display God’s Kingdom here on earth? One of our Pastors, Justin Law, answered that question during his message on Sunday.
Due to technical difficulties, we were only able to record the audio for this sermon. You can find that audio below.
Living in the Tension: Love, Race, and Politics (Cortney Heerwald)
We continued our sermon series, "Living in the Tension: Love, Race, and Politics", on Sunday. One of our Lay Pastors, Cortney Heerwald, led us in how Jesus is calling us to respond to those in need and how we can respond to topics surrounding race. To watch Cortney’s message, click one of the two buttons below.
Living in the Tension: Love, Race, and Politics (Peter Benedict)
On Sunday, September 6, we started a new sermon series called "Living in the Tension: Love, Race, and Politics". One of our Pastors, Peter Benedict, introduced this series and shared God's heart for diversity. Our hope with this series is that you will experience God’s love more deeply, and grow in loving God and loving people more deeply. To watch Pete’s message, click on one of the buttons below.
The Good and Beautiful Life: Learning to Love Our Enemies (Gay Narron)
On Sunday, one of our Pastors, Gay Narron, guided us in how to follow the invitation Jesus gave us to love well and to love our enemies. She guided us through questions like who is our neighbor and how we can love even when we disagree. To watch Gay’s message, click on one of the two buttons below.
The Good and Beautiful Life: Learning to Live Without Lying (Justin Law)
Studies have shown that lying is pretty prevalent in our society, so how do we learn to live without lying? One of our pastors, Justin Law, talked about lying in his message on Sunday and the freedom that can be found by living without lying. To watch Justin’s sermon, click on one of the two buttons below.
Note: There is a time during Justin's sermon where the video goes out, but the audio is still there. The video does return later.
The Good and Beautiful Life: Learning to Live Without Lust (Paul Mandell)
There are many narratives around sex and lust, but how does God see these topics? One of our lay pastors, Paul Mandell, guided us through what lust is, how God wants us to love, and how God can help us with our problems with lust. To watch Paul’s message, click one of the two buttons below.
The Good and Beautiful Life: Learning to Live Without Anger (Peter Benedict)
What makes you angry? How can we deal with our anger? On Sunday, one of our pastors, Peter Benedict, led us through verses from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount where Jesus talked about how anger affects us, how anger affects those around us, and how we should handle our anger. To watch Pete’s message, click on one of the two buttons below.
The Good and Beautiful Life: The Grand Invitation (Rolf Jacobson)
After learning about the Kingdom of God, we entered into learning more about one of Jesus' most famous sermons, The Beatitudes. While some may see this as a set of ways to be blessed, we learned (thanks to our guest preacher, Rolf Jacobson) that The Beatitudes are a calling for us to show more of God's love to everyone we meet and to help build a beautiful and inclusive community. To watch Rolf’s message, click on one of the two buttons below.
The Good and Beautiful Life: The Gospel Many People Have Never Heard (Barbara Pelletier)
The Good News of the gospel is that Jesus came to save us and that we have life eternal through him. This is the gospel that we as believers know and share with others. This is the good news that has saved us. But there is even more good news in the gospel! On Sunday, one of our lay pastors, Barbara Pelletier, shared with us more good news found in the gospel and about the goodness found in the Kingdom of God. To watch Barbara’s message, click on one of the two buttons below:
The Good and Beautiful Life (Peter Benedict)
Our previous sermon series, The Good and Beautiful God, was about discovering what false narratives we were believing about God and learning to love the God the Jesus knows. As we move into our new sermon series, The Good and Beautiful Life, we will explore false narratives about what we think a Christian life looks like and will discover the way that Jesus actually taught us how to live. Through the discovery of these truths, we will find out how good, beautiful, and joyful a life of following Christ can be. To watch Peter Benedict (one of our pastors) introduce this sermon series, click on one of the two buttons below.
The Good and Beautiful God: How to Make a Pickle (Peter Benedict)
Are you Martha or Mary? Do you hurry and fuss or are you present? On Sunday, one of our Pastors, Peter Benedict, used Luke 10:38-42 to show us how God wants us to live unhurried lives and to spend time at His feet. To watch Pete’s message, click on one of the two buttons below.
The Good and Beautiful God: God Transforms (Justin Law)
How do we experience real life change? The good news is that we don't have to struggle and fight to do it ourselves. Our God is the one who transforms us. He gives us a new identity. He makes us a new creation. He leads us into a new way of living life. One of our Pastors, Justin Law, talked more about this in his sermon on Sunday, July 5. To watch Justin’s message, click on one of the two buttons below.
The Good and Beautiful God: God is Self-Sacrificing (Peter Benedict)
On Sunday, June 28, one of our Pastors, Peter Benedict, shared about God's self-sacrificing love. He so wonderfully said, "Our whole story of faith is centered in a God that isn’t waiting for us to earn anything. God comes to us first, God is willing even to die among us, while we are still sinners, because God dearly loves us. God does the work of atonement, God handles the problem that’s too big for us to handle alone. God takes the weight of sin & evil and says: Let me carry that, I just want to fill your heart with my love. Let me show you love, to the point of death, so that you will always know how deep my love goes and how free it is." To hear more about God’s self-sacrificing love for us, you can watch Pete’s message by clicking on one of the two buttons below.
The Good and Beautiful God: God is Holy (Peter Benedict)
What does it mean that God is holy? Is it His judgement and wrath due to sin or is it His majesty and love? What God's holiness is and how we can be holy ourselves is what one of our Pastors, Peter Benedict, talked about in his message on Sunday. To watch Pete’s message, click on one of the buttons below.
The Good and Beautiful God: God is Love (Scott Oakman)
What are your expectations for earning or giving love? What are your expectations for earning God’s love? Looking at the God that Jesus knows, we learn that “We love because He first loved us.” (1 John 4:19). No matter who you are, God loves you! And we are called to love and God loves us. This is what one of our Lay Pastors, Scott Oakman, talked about in his message on Sunday. To watch his message, click on one of the buttons below.
The Good and Beautiful God: God is Generous (Gay Narron)
Do you believe that you have to work harder to earn God’s love? Through Jesus, we can learn that you don’t have to earn God’s love. God is a generous God, who loves YOU. Period. One of our Pastors, Gay Narron, shared this good and beautiful news with us as we continued our Good and Beautiful God sermon series. You can watch Gay’s message by clicking on one of the two buttons below.
The Good and Beautiful God: God is Trustworthy (Peter Benedict)
Do you feel like you trust in God? When have you ever doubted God? On Sunday, one of our Pastors, Peter Benedict, talked about when he had doubted God and how God was still trustworthy, even in his doubts. We are also encouraged to create a Gratitude List as a part of our Soul Training Exercise. To watch Pete’s sermon, click one of the two buttons below.
The Good and Beautiful God: God is Good (Justin Law)
One of the goals of our new sermon series, The Good and Beautiful God, is to, as Justin said in his sermon, “get to know and experience the God who is revealed in Jesus Christ.” On Sunday, we looked into one of those characteristics, which is God is good. Justin Law, one of our Pastors, shared his experience in learning this characteristic and how we can see God’s goodness throughout the Bible. To watch Justin’s message, click one of the buttons below.