Sermons

How we think about our past, our present and future can get confusing, discouraging, and engender fear.  Fear can really distract us from living the way that God wants us to live, because it blocks our ability to sense God’s love. In this message, we’re going to look at how the apostle Paul thought about…

Which is better, to know Christ and live for Him, or make anyone or anything else your top priority?  That question is the most important question you will ever consider in your life!  Today, Seth explores how what the apostle Paul concluded after trying to answer that question for himself.

Timothy and Epaphroditus, two outstanding men who portrayed, at the highest level, what it means to be a mature Christian. May their ideals and their example inspire us to become all we can be in Christ.

What does growing as a Christian look like?  It can be discouraging to feel like everything we pour into ourselves to try to find satisfaction just seems to leak right own.  Is it possible that God’s work in us causes us to find fulfillment and joy in a very different way that the things of…

If there’s anything we hate, it’s emptiness. We so long to be fulfilled, to be satisfied. In Philippians 2, Paul tells us Jesus “emptied Himself!” As He walked through the door of emptying Himself, He walked the real and true road to what He called “life, indeed,” or “the abundant life.”

It is said that God never wastes our pain.  I believe this is true.  However, that is not a promise of pain-free living.  Paul understood that God’s eternal purposes were more important that his temporary pain.  Christ endured unimaginable pain for us.  Our goal, then, should be to walk in a manner worthy of the…