December 7, 2025 We’re in the season of advent, which is all about the arrival of Jesus! Jesus’ arrival changed the world! We’re celebrating and preparing for Jesus coming at Christmas. We light the advent candle each Sunday. Last week it was Hope! We talked about our hope is not in a what, it’s inContinue reading “Jesus’ Arrival: Peace for your Anxiety”
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Jesus’ Arrival: Hope when it feels hopeless
November 30, 2025 We’re in our new sermon series called Arrival, for the four-week season of advent. I remember as a kid I had an advent calendar where you open a window or flap each day leading up to Christmas. Inside the flap was a Scripture or picture. I thought it was cool! Today, theyContinue reading “Jesus’ Arrival: Hope when it feels hopeless”
Misused Verses: I Know the Plans I Have in Store for You!
August 3, 2025 We’re in a message series about some misused verses in the Bible! Some verses we love, but we can take them to mean something they do not! I think that’s good, they mean something deeper. They tell us more about God and his love than we think. Today we’re talking about theContinue reading “Misused Verses: I Know the Plans I Have in Store for You!”
Turn to God
March 23, 2025 You might sit here today look around and think “Everybody looks good. Their lives must be perfect.” But you can’t just look at someone and know what’s going on. Like, you don’t know that I got stopped by the police a week ago. Now you know! I didn’t come to a fullContinue reading “Turn to God “
Abraham and Sarah: Faithless or Faithful?
March 2, 2025 We’re continuing to look at some married couples in the Old Testament, to learn from their mistakes and successes. Today we’re looking at Abraham and Sarah. In life, we all need to make some big decisions. What kind of job am I interested in? Who should I marry? Should I have kids, ifContinue reading “Abraham and Sarah: Faithless or Faithful? “
Jacob and Leah (and Rachel): Never Satisfied
February 16, 2025 We’re in a new sermon series where we’re looking at marriages in the Bible, to see how their mistakes or success could help our marriages to be better. As a society, we send a confusing message about marriage. Marriage can be seen as the goal of life, something that leads toContinue reading “Jacob and Leah (and Rachel): Never Satisfied “
Making Room
Christmas Eve, 2024 It seem to me it’s a bummer that Jesus was born in a stable, where it’s smelly and dirty! But we don’t know that it was a stable. The Scripture does not say that there were animals there. It just says Jesus was laid in a manger, which is a feeding troughContinue reading “Making Room”
Why Christmas? To show us the Father
Dec. 15, 2024 Do you ever need some reassurance? Things might be going bad, like you lose a job, or you suffer a broken relationship. At times like that you look to people, the people close to you, to help you know things will turn out ok. Kevin and I came back from dermatologist inContinue reading “Why Christmas? To show us the Father”
Why Christmas? To Bless the World
December 8, 2024 Why did God decide he needed to send Jesus to us? Today we’re starting a sermon series, “Why Christmas?” We’ll talk about the purpose of Christmas. Next week the sermon is on how Jesus came to show us what God the Father is like. The following week is on how Jesus cameContinue reading “Why Christmas? To Bless the World”
Jonah: On the Run from God
October 20, 2024 Are there people you don’t like? People that you can’t get far enough away from? People who, when something great happens to them, you get so mad! They don’t deserve it! We’re human beings and it seems human to feel that way. Then Jesus says in Matthew 5:44 Love your enemies. PrayContinue reading “Jonah: On the Run from God”
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