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02/14/2021 – Upon This Rock – Part Two - Peter Walks on Water Matthew 14:22-33. Most often, the story of Peter walking on water is reduced to a simple spiritual platitude like, "When Jesus calls, you need to Step Out of the Boat." But faith cliches and spiritual...

02/07/2021 – Upon This Rock – Part One - Peter Drops His Nets Matthew 4:17-20; Luke 5:1-11. Throughout the gospels and the first half of Acts, besides Jesus there is no one mentioned more frequently than Peter — nearly 200 times. Throughout church history, he is often...

01/31/2021 – 5th Sunday Worship with Dr. Donna Battle Genesis 20:1-18; Matthew 8:1-4. 5th Sunday Worship with special guest, Dr. Donna Battle. Several years ago, we decided to commit every 5th Sunday to the topic of Racial Justice. Of course, this issue is part of...

01/24/2021 – Refresh: Pandemic Edition – Part Four - Money Luke 6:27-38. In addition to walking through a few graphs and figures and charts that show our budget and our giving over the past 12 months, today we also ask the question: why should generosity be our...

01/17/2021 – Refresh: Pandemic Edition – Part Three - Community Colossians 3:1-14. Of the four topics in our annual Refresh series, "Community" might be the most challenging to talk about in this current cultural moment. How do we encourage and foster community when...

01/10/2021 – Refresh: Pandemic Edition – Part Two - Discipleship Luke 18:9-14; Matthew 19:16-22. In a previous "Refresh" sermon series, we defined discipleship as "everything we do that shapes our habits and thoughts to be more and more like Jesus." In this message,...

01/03/2021 – Refresh: Pandemic Edition – Part One - Kingdom Matthew 4:17; 5:3, 10; 12:22-28; Luke 9:57-62; 13:18-21. Every January we begin the year with a look back at our first ever sermon series; a series where we tried our best to describe who we wanted to be,...

12/24/2020 – Christmas Eve - The Signs of the Season – Part Four - Light America loves its Christmas Lights. It’s a love affair that began way back in 1882 when Edward Johnson first hung a strand of 80 hand-wired colored lights and put them on a Christmas tree in the...

12/20/2020 – The Signs of the Season – Part Three - Words Matthew 2:13-20. So far in our Advent series "The SIgns of the Season", we have investigated the Christmas symbols of the Tree and the Cup. This week we turn our attention to another slightly obscure symbol....

12/13/2020 – The Signs of the Season – Part Two - The Cup Luke 2:22-35. Last week for Part One of our Advent series "The SIgns of the Season", the Christmas symbol we investigated was the Christmas tree. This week we turn our attention to a slightly more obscure...