God with us: An Advent Journey through the Story of Scripture week 3: Joy

Advent means ‘arrival. ’It is a season of waiting, where Christians around the world anticipate the arrival of Jesus ’birth at Christmas. But while the culture around us rushes ahead to the celebration, we intentionally join in the practice of waiting, retracing our steps in the great Story, remembering how humanity longed for the hope of Immanuel, God with us.

During this Advent, we will retrace those steps all the way back to the beginning, because the whole story of Scripture has been pointing ahead to the hope of Jesus.

On week 3 of our Advent sermon series God with us: A Journey through the Story of Scripture we looked at Exodus 20:1-19 and talked about the Joy of Rescue.

God with us: An Advent Journey through the Story of Scripture week 2. Peace

Advent means ‘arrival. ’It is a season of waiting, where Christians around the world anticipate the arrival of Jesus ’birth at Christmas. But while the culture around us rushes ahead to the celebration, we intentionally join in the practice of waiting, retracing our steps in the great Story, remembering how humanity longed for the hope of Immanuel, God with us.

During this Advent, we will retrace those steps all the way back to the beginning, because the whole story of Scripture has been pointing ahead to the hope of Jesus.

In week two of our Advent series we looked at Peace through the lens of the covenant with Abraham. We looked at Genesis 12, Genesis 15:1-6 and 9:21.

Fruit of the Spirit Week 11: Self Control

We wrapped up our Fruit of the Spirit series looking at the Fruit of the Spirit of Self-Control by looking at Galatians 5:16-24 and Titus 2:11-14.

Fruit of the Spirit Week 10: Gentleness

Here is the audio from week 10 of our sermon series entitled Fruit of the Spirit. Yesterday we looked at Gentleness though 3 lens- the gentleness of Jesus, the gentleness we are to show to other followers of Jesus, and the gentleness we are to show to all people.

Fruit of the Spirit Week 8

In week 8 of our Fruit of the Spirit sermon series we looked at the Fruit of the Spirit of goodness. We looked at the vertical dimension of goodness- the goodness of God to us and looked at several scriptures including Psalm 31:9, Psalm 145:9, Mark 10:18, Acts 10:38, and James 1:17. We also looked at the horizontal dimension of goodness- how we are to extend goodness to other people. We looked at several scriptures including Galatians 5:22-23, Acts 9:36, Ephesians 4:28-29, 1 Timothy 5:9-10, and Galatians 6:9-10.

Fruit of the Spirit Week 7

Here is the audio from our 7th week of our series Fruit of the Spirit looking at the 9 Fruit of the Spirit found in Galatians 5:22-23. This past Sunday we looked at the 5th fruit…that being kindness. We looked at Romans 2:3-4, Romans 11:22, Colossians 3:12, and Titus 3:4-7.

Fruit of the Spirit week 6

Here is the audio from yesterday’s worship gathering looking at the fruit of the Spirit of forbearance. We looked at 5 different scriptures. Two Scriptures looking at vertical forbearance (Romans 2:3-4 and 1 Peter 3:9) and three Scriptures looking at horizontal forbearance (Galatians 5:22-23, Ephesians 4:2, and Colossians 3:13).

Fruit of the Spirit week 5

Here is the audio from yesterday’s worship gathering where we looked at the fruit of the Spirit of peace with Steve Seitz teaching. The Scriptures are Galatians 5:22-23, Matthew 5:9, and Romans 12:18.

Fruit of the Sprit week 4

Here is the audio recorded on Monday September 30 as the recording from Sunday wasn’t saved. This week we look at the second of the Fruit of the Sprit- that being joy. We look at Galatians 5:22-23, Luke 10:21, and John 15:10-12.

Fruit of the Spirit week 3

After two weeks looking at foundational texts (John 15:1-8…abiding in the vine and Galatians 5:16-23- walking in the Spirit vs. walking in the flesh) we turned our attention to the first of the 9 Fruit of the Spirit…that fruit being love. We look at what it means to love God and love others.

Fruit of the Spirit Week 2

Here is the audio from our second week of our series Fruit of the Spirit. We looked at what it means to walk in the Spirit through the lens of Galatians 5:16-23.

Kingdoms in Conflict Q&A

This past week we wrapped up our series Kingdoms in Conflict by looking at several questions that were asked throughout the series.

Kingdoms in Conflict Week 6

Here is the audio from our last week in our Kingdoms in Conflict series (except for our Q&A conversation next week). This week we tackled the controversial subject of the rapture and looked at 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18.

Kingdoms in Conflict Week 5

Here is the audio from yesterday’s worship gathering- our 5th week in our Kingdoms in Conflict series. Yesterday we looked at New Jerusalem Bride from Revelation 21:1-5a.

Kingdoms in Conflict Week 4

Here is the audio from yesterday’s worship gathering where we focused on the theme of Holy War looking at three texts that can, on the surface, seem violent and bloody. We looked at Revelation 7:1-4, 9, Revelation 14:18-20, and Revelation 19:11-16.