Archive for Grace
Because You Know Me
All debating aside, it’s life-changing when you figure out Jesus knows you personally.
Text: John 4: 1-42
Speaker: Craig Catlett
Sermon on the Mount, Part 5: Conflict and Grace
An invitation to reflect God and to be “children of the Father” in the way we love graciously.
Text: Matthew 5:38-48
Speaker: Craig Catlett
Sermon on the Mount, Part 1: The Blessings
In the sequence of all the blessings, there is a winsome and amazing move of grace! God picks up all who are down and sends them out in the world to pick others up; and this will lead to those in service being thrown back down in persecution, and so in to need. From there, they will rise from their knees back to their feet, where they will be knocked down again only to hear Jesus’ words of blessing again … and this is what Frederick Bruner calls the “aerobics of discipleship.”
Text: Matthew 5:1-12
Speaker: Wayne Cox
The Words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount
What Does It Mean to “Live for God”?
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Reader: Joan Clagett
Speaker: Wayne Cox
“There is something which makes Christianity more than a religion, more than an ethic, and more than the idle dream of sentimental idealist. It is this something which makes it relevant to each one of us right now as a contemporary experience. It is the fact that Christ Himself is the very life content of the Christian faith. It is he who makes it ‘tick.’”
This quote from Major Ian Thomas is the starting point for this message on Galatians 2:15-21. Wayne explores the truth of Jesus Christ living in and through the believer.
God’s Expanding Embrace
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Reader: Mark McDonald
Speaker: Wayne Cox
Luke 4:21-30. The story of Jesus being driven to the edge by the crowd that day is a story about us. When we don’t really want to think that “other” people, different from us could ever be with us or one of us, we need to hear this message. God is at work in the people of that other culture, other land, other skin-color, other sexual orientation, other religion, other political party … How large is your view of God’s nature, how wide is your understanding of God’s embrace, how deep is your sense of the movement of God?
Strip Off Your Old Clothes
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Speaker: Wayne Cox
Colossians 2:20-23; Colossians 3:1-15. Get rid of the old stuff and try on these clothes for size! Compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience, forgiveness … and above all, wear love.
Costly Grace
Sunday, August 30,2009
Speaker: Mike Steele
Paul’s encouragement to the church at Ephesus was to remain true to the gospel of grace only. We are saved apart “from” works, yet we are saved “for” works that God has prepared for us to do.
You Are Here: Finding Ourselves in God’s New Creation
Speaker: Wayne Cox
Colossians 1:21-23. After painting a sweeping picture of God’s new creation in Christ last week, Paul narrows the scope to show us where we fit. When it feels like we could get lost in the grand language of Colossians 1:15-20, this message will be like the map at a super-sized shopping mall that tells us: “You are here.”
* sorry for the buzz in the background. Experimenting with new recording program.
