Sermons on Worship
What Child is This?
What Child is This? (A Christmas Message) The bottom line is you have to trust in Immanuel—because ‘God is with us.’ And who is that? Not just a happy, Christmas-holiday, cheerful cry, but it is literally Christ, the Son of God, who gave all things for us. … What child IS this? Who is this baby Jesus? It’s God with us. And that’s why this entire Bible is the book of Jesus. My prayer is that you’re trusting in this…
Refresh, Part 3: Real Life
Refresh, Part 3: Real Life Our everyday lives demonstrate our belief and our experiences of the gospel. … [Moses says in Deuteronomy 6,] use everyday life to pass on the truths about God. Love God with every part of your being, and use every part of your life to live out your relationship with him. That’s the core value of real life. …Instead of just looking for rituals or practices that are disconnected from the rest of our lives, God has…
We are Family, Part 7: The Family Worships Together
We are Family, Part 7: The Family Worships Together The greatest thing about a family of faith coming to worship together is that we are literally a witness to the rest of the world of what Christ can do. And when we come into a relationship with him, worship is a witness of the gospel story, of a dead heart becoming new again. Download the PDF above to follow along with notes.
Origins, Part 4
Origins, Part 4: He Rested, Therefore I Find My Rest “Worship is not just a physical protocol of a checked-off list of things to follow and things to do; but it instead is a heart of reflection, a heart of observance, of reverence, of recognition. It’s a heart of total dependence upon the Creator God of the universe. … It’s much easier for [God] to give me a checklist and for me to check it off than it is for…
Origins, Part 2
Every one of us has walked into this place this morning with something that concerns us. … We’ve got something lingering over our heads, somehow, small or big. The beauty of Genesis is [that] when we learn to live in awe of the Creator, we no longer have to live in awe of the circumstances of our lives. … The story of Genesis is not “a cosmic accident.” It’s a story of life! It’s a story of God instilling life and direction.
Giving Thanks in Everything
It’s really easy for us, as Christians, to fall into that mindset that the world has, that is based on circumstances. We spend entire periods of our life waiting for circumstances to change so that we can be happy again. . . . When your heart and your mindset is set on waiting for your circumstances to change, it should lead you to ask at some point: What really, truly, is my hope in? In good circumstances, or in Jesus?…