Category: Sermon Insights

Questions

Is the Genesis Benediction for Christians Today?

For each sermon series, the worship staff picks a benediction for the congregation to say aloud together at the end of each service. For the series in Genesis, we felt the Lord leading us to use Genesis 12:2-3. I have received many great questions about using these verses as our benediction, especially questions asking to what extent this benediction applies to Christians today.

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Books

A Grace Disguised

In today’s sermon, God’s Quiet Grace, Jim quoted from Jerry Sittser’s book, A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss, including this section that

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Response to Current Events

Paper Plate Congregation

It was such a delight to walk into the sanctuary today and see so many “faces” looking back at us.  Some friends organized a social

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Books

Prayer as Kindness

In his recent sermon entitled Exile, as part of our series on doctrine explored through the lens of salvation history, exile was explained as “an extended

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Questions

Creation Questions

I received lots of great feedback today on the sermon on creation that kicks off our series on sound doctrine.  For those of you who

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Questions

Isaiah Questions

As we concluded our Isaiah series, we focused on the prophet’s vision of the future.  Below is the graphic we created to explain this vision.

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Sermon Insights

My Name Is….

It was a blessing to have Marvin Williams back with us on Sunday, delivering a powerful message about Jesus enduring the shame of the cross

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