Sermon Scripture: 2 Timothy 2:1-15 Sometimes we just want to feel sorry for ourselves. Our circumstances are hard, we didn’t get the promotion, another unexpected bill, someone treats us badly, or we are just really dreading doing the thing we know we should be doing. The books of 1st and 2nd Timothy are chocked full
Sermon Scripture: 2 Timothy 1:1-14 This Sunday we reflect on God’s call to live with confidence and courage in the gifts He has entrusted to us. Instead of a traditional sermon, our service will weave together scripture reading, reflection, testimony, and prayer—inviting each of us to see how God’s Spirit of power, love, and self-discipline
Sermon Scripture: 1 Timothy 4 We live in a world where ideas and beliefs are valuable commodities and our loyalties and attention are being pulled in many directions. In 1st Timothy chapter 4, Paul urges Timothy—and us—to discern carefully when we are being pulled in directions that do not align with Christ. Additionally we are
Sermon Scripture: 1 Timothy 2:1-7 There is no question that the cultural, political, and spiritual environment in which we currently live is tense and complicated, and speaking directly into this angst, scripture provides a frustratingly simple solution. It gives us a method, an action, a prescription that not only leads to common peace, but produces
Sermon Scripture: 1 Timothy 1:12-17 This Sunday we begin a new series called Great Hope from 1 & 2 Timothy. In his first letter, Paul writes to his younger friend and ministry partner, reminding him that God’s mercy is greater than failure, and His Kingdom is built on trust. Paul himself was once “the worst
Sermon Scripture: 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 John Wimber once said that Faith is spelled R-I-S-K, and nowhere is that more true than in our finances. In 2 Corinthians 9, Paul reminds us that generosity isn’t a matter of waiting until life feels secure, but of planting the seeds we already hold in our hands. This week
Sermon Scripture: Luke 12:13-34 Jesus warns that bigger barns and fuller accounts cannot save us, because what we keep we eventually lose, and what we freely give away is what we end up keeping. Today we’ll remind ourselves of the freedom that comes by living generously. Then we will learn about how the early church
Sermon Scripture: Luke 12:35-48 In Luke 12, Jesus reminds us that all we have belongs to God. This week we’ll explore what it means to live not as owners but as caretakers—entrusted with God’s abundance to do good and to bless others. Stewardship is a way of life that teaches us to breathe in God’s
Sermon Scripture: 1 Timothy 6:6-11, 17-19 When we live generously through our giving, we participate in God’s very nature of abundance, life, and joy. Today, we turn to the next theme in Jesus’ teaching on generosity where we are warned to guard our hearts against greed. We live in the most affluent generation in human
Sermon Scripture: Matthew 6:19-24 As Americans, we live in a nation that was founded on three ideals: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—and yet, ironically we are one of the unhappiest nations in the world. It turns out that many of the things that we think will make us happy, actually don’t. And “the
