Sermons & Teaching

Text is Isaiah 61:1-11 Focus is on who calls and anoints us. It is indeed the same God that sent Jesus to this earth to be the Savior of the world. We as well have a calling by God to be like Jesus and to tell others about His good news in our lives and world.

Preacher — Pastor Jon

Isaiah 40:1-11 is the Lectionary text this week. Comfort, yes, comfort my people says the Lord. What a way to start. The world is a messy place to live and we are as well are living messy lives. So we need God’s comfort to shepherd us through this life. We can be the lambs of God’s flock.

Preacher — Pastor Jon

1 Corinthians 1:10-31
Teacher — Jack Greenwood

The first Sunday of Advent is the start of a new Lectionary year and a new Advent Season. Isaiah 64:1-9 speaks of the power of God to meet our human need for salvation and beyond.

Preacher — Pastor Jon

1 Corinthians tells a story of how to fix a really broken church. Verses 10-17 share the idea of divisions that distract from the preaching/sharing of the gospel. One way of glorifying God is by our proclamation of Jesus. What is our focus as we do?

Teacher — Jack Greenwood

Psalm 100 is the psalm of Thanksgiving and it has a tremendous lesson as it is a call to worship in the presence of God and to be thankful. There is a contrast to Romans 1 where the verse describes sinful living and says that sinfulness comes from not glorifying God and an unthankful heart.

Preacher — Pastor Jon

It is time to start the new series in 1 Corinthians. There is so much to digest and consider. A church with manifold problems get a letter from the Apostle Paul to help them get things right. By doing so it teaches us today so many things that we need to know to do our Christian lives and church life right.

Teacher — Jack Greenwood

1 Peter 1:20-25
I hope to communicate that Christ was revealed for YOU, for me for Whosoever will. What an amazing gift to become aware of in a hopefully more powerful way. It is great to know that God loved the people of the world, but to know it is personal is even better.

Preacher — Pastor Jon

Hebrews Conclusion– Hebrews 13
Hebrews, is the book that shows the ‘better than’ aspects of Jesus Christ. Both for now and covering the past, but also for the eternal future ahead.

Teacher — Jack Greenwood