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Sermon Archive - 2024
December
Title: Beyond Expectations
Date: December 1, 2024
Text: Luke 1:5-80
Sermon Summary: God is not finished with you yet! Through the years of serving God, the ups and downs, with the expectations met and unmet, the LORD is simply asking you to be Faithful, Available, and Teachable, always for His glory.
Title: Nothing is Impossible with God
Date: December 8, 2024
Text: Luke 1:26-38
Sermon Summary: How can we face these times of uncertainty, confusion, and questions? God provides His people with His comfort, courage, and confidence - if Genesis 1:1 is true, is there nothing God cannot do?
Title: Greetings and Praise
Date: December 15, 2024
Text: Luke 1:39-56
Sermon Summary: Not by accident, but by His grand design and greater glory, God brings two unremarkable women together to share a history-shaking experience. And He invites you to share in its wonder, two great prophets who greet each other with praise!
Title: The Holy Christmas Rescue
Date: December 22, 2024
Text: Luke 19:10
Sermon Summary: The perfect God, sent His perfect Son, to accomplish a drastic rescue, by the overflowing grace of His heart, seeking and saving that which was lost.
Title: What Will You Do With Jesus?
Date: December 29, 2024
Text: Mark 3:1-19
Sermon Summary: Three interactions with the Lord and prophet Jesus challenge us to consider the totality of His character, not just how we'd prefer Him to be. He calls us to greater love, devotion, and intensity in following Him this coming year.
November
Title: Strengthening Your Faith for Adversity
Text: Elder Chris Davis speaking
Date: November 3, 2024
Sermon Summary: Elder Chris Davis speaking.
Title: Under, or Without God
Text: Psalm 146:1-4
Date: November 10, 2024
Sermon Summary: Only the LORD Christ is King; you must either be under God, or you will face judgement without God.
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Date: November 17, 2024
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Title: Always a Reason to Give Thanks
Text: 2 Samuel 16
Date: November 24, 2024
Sermon Summary: There is always a reason to give thanks and rejoice in the LORD. Cast your burden on the LORD, encourage yourself in Him, even when no one else is available.
October
Title: Unpopularly Essential
Date: October 6, 2024
Text: John 6; Jeremiah 36
Sermon Summary: Through HIs prophets, the LORD calls us to stand firm on the truth in the midst of trying times, urging people to repent while there is still time.
Title: A brief video clip from our outdoor worship following the storm
Date: October 13, 2024 - Outside
Text: Psalm 46
Sermon Summary: The loss of power in the church building led us to enjoy a message of hope outside after the devastation of hurricanes Helena and Milton.
Title: Brief video clip #2 from our outdoor worship service following the storm
Date: October 13, 2024 - Outside
Text: Psalm 46
Sermon Summary: The loss of power in the church building led us to enjoy a message of hope outside after the devastation of hurricanes Helena and Milton.
Title: By My Permission
Date: October 20, 2024
Text: Job 1-2
Sermon Summary: It's all about God's ultimate authority and heavenly permission granted; God is personally involved in every event and relationship, fully engaged in the lives of His children and the world around them.
Title: Someone You Can Count On
Date: October 27 2024
Text: 2 Timothy 3:10-17
Sermon Summary: Your life can be a living testimony on how reliable and trustworthy God is, someone you can count on; this Christ is someone worth following!
September
Title: Cause and Effect
Date: September 1, 2024
Text: 2 Kings 17:6-23
Sermon Summary: What is the effect of our nation forgetting God? There are consequences to evil and sin. God admonishes us to turn from the path of ignoring His commands, and walk in newness of life and purpose.
Title: The Extent of His Compassion
Date: September 8, 2024
Text: 2 Chronicles 33
Sermon Summary: Even the worst degree of our sin in no way limits the effect and extent of God's compassion to forgive. This is exemplified in the amazing redemption and transformation of the wicked King Manasseh.
Title: A Glimmer of Hope in the Midst of Darkness
Date: September 15, 2024
Text: 2 Chronicles 36
Sermon Summary: Without a good, God-fearing king (leader), there's only one direction a nation can go. The number one thing to ask God for our leaders is a sense of humility to overtake their pride. Yet God never leaves His people without hope.
Title: To Stand Up for What is Right
Date: September 22, 2024
Text: Jeremiah 1:5-10; 15:15-21
Sermon Summary: God never promises it will always be easy. Oftentimes He even calls us to do hard, difficult things. But seeing every tear and sorrow, and disappointment, He is with you; His justice will be served.
Title: Time is Running Out!
Date: September 29, 2024
Text: Jeremiah (various texts)
Sermon Summary: Be keenly aware of God's clock, knowing a time a judgement is coming. Be willing to suffer other's scorn when you stand for God's truth. Yet in the midst of that sorrow, He provides an irrepressible joy, for He is merciful in heart to those who follow Him.
August
Title: Guided and Strengthened
Date: August 4, 2024
Text: 1 Samuel 23
Sermon Summary: In the midst of troubled times, uncertainty, even persecution, the people of God are called to follow His guidance and strengthen each other's hands in the LORD.
Title: Never Empty
Date: August 11, 2024
Text: 1 Kings 17:1-16
Sermon Summary: God is always trustworthy, even when it doesn't make sense, even when its difficult, even under duress, pain, or sorrow, and in the "small stuff" of life as well.
Title: Fear Only God
Date: August 18, 2024
Text: 1 Kings 18:1-19
Sermon Summary: Will Jesus Christ, as your trusted friend, ask you to some difficult, even final costly task? What is most important? My relationship with God, or my life?
Title: Not Always Big of Busy
Date: August 25, 2024
Text: 1 Kings 19:1-18
Sermon Summary: God chooses to affirm His truth to you, not only in powerful displays, but also in gentle words of comfort, assurance, and direction.
July
Title: Testimonies of Changed Lives
Date: July 7, 2024
Text: 2 Corinthians 5:17
Sermon Summary: Loving Hands Ministries men sharing the change Christ has made, giving hope and practical help for living, drug-free and with a purpose to serve Him.
Title: Eliminating Any Boasting
Date: July 14, 2024
Text: Judges 7-8
Sermon Summary: The LORD God, flights for His greatest glory, and brings our boasting and pride to nothing, as we live foremost for His glory every day.
Title: Honest to God
Date: July 21, 2024
Text: Psalm 69
Sermon Summary: At the very cost of your reputation, ease and comfort, even your freedom and life, is your relationship with God worth that much?
Title: Pardoned by Interruption
Date: July 28, 2024
Text: John 1:1-5
Sermon Summary: Rejoice in the God of Interruptions, who breaks us out of our complacent routines with His Word, His Life, and His Light -- run to Him!
June
Title: Victory Comes Only His Way
Date: June 2, 2024
Text: Joshua 7-8
Sermon Summary: We dare not minimize or shallow-out God's holiness and exacting judgement on sin, for it is His glory and fame before the nations that we live to please Him.
Title: Let the LORD Fight Your Battles
Date: June 9, 2024
Text: Joshua 9-10
Sermon Summary: Even as we suffer the failure of foolishness, God makes a victory for His glory and fame, as we're willing to humbly ask Him for wisdom.
Title: You Have to Know the Story to Tell the Story
Date: June 16, 2024 - Father's Day
Text: Deuteronomy 6
Sermon Summary: Special Guest - Rev Gary Hofmeyer
Title: A Clueless Generation
Date: June 23, 2024
Text: Judges 2
Sermon Summary: We reject the LORD and embrace wanton evil at the point of great peril and pain for our lives and world.
Title: If You Can Use Anything , , ,
Date: June 30, 2024
Text: Judges 6
Sermon Summary: God specializes in using whomever He chooses, even those considered "unqualified" so that He gets all the more glory.
May
Title: To Tell the Truth
Date: May 5, 2024
Text: Numbers 23-24
Sermon Summary: Based on His holy character and His pursuit of His highest glory, God is fully committed to fulfilling His Word - in its promises, blessings, and judgements -- to those who humbly follow Him.
Title: A Mother's Prayer
Date: May 12, 2024
Text: 1 Samuel 1
Sermon Summary: The power of Hannah's prayer is in her unwavering willingness to sacrifice to God the very thing she loved the most to be of greatest service and glory to God.
Title: Awake My Soul to See Your Wonders
Date: May 19, 2024
Text: Joshua 3-4
Sermon Summary: God has something amazing in store for us, so let us remain in a posture to humbly receive it from Him, prepared to do what He commands.
Title: Watching Wall Crash Down
Date: May 26, 2024
Text: Joshua 6
Sermon Summary: The Lord lovingly, faithfully leads us into seemingly impossible situations so that we turn in desperate dependence on Him.
April
Title: The Greatness of Knowing Jesus
Date: April 7, 2024
Text: Philippians 3:7-14
Sermon Summary: Special Guest, Byron Harvey.
Title: Spell It Out
Date: April 14, 2024
Text: John 3:1-15
Sermon Summary: Jesus challenges you to embrace the terms of salvation, forgiveness, righteousness and eternal life given only by God.
Title: Lifted Up and Looked Upon
Date: April 21, 2024
Text: Numbers 21:4-9
Sermon Summary: Jesus declares Himself as the sole source of authority for your salvation.
Title: Who's in Control?
Date: April 28, 2024
Text: Numbers 22
Sermon Summary: The sovereign will of God will not, and cannot be manipulated for personal gain and promotion. In the end, He must and will get all the glory.
March
Title: The God Who Overtakes Fear
Date: March 3, 2024
Text: Numbers 13-14
Sermon Summary: The goal of life is to know Him so well, in His faithfulness to keep His promises, that your fears and doubts are overtaken -- living on what He has said which will never fail.
Title: Justification by Faith
Date: March 10, 2024
Text: Romans 5
Sermon Summary: Special Guest speaker, Pastor Gary Hofmeyer.
Title: Asking for a Showdown
Date: March 17, 2024
Text: Numbers 16
Sermon Summary: Deep in the recesses of our hearts, each day presents a showdown between living for the Lord, or for my own self, desires, and impulses. The accumulation of those battles defines our character, who is truly Lord of my life.
Title: Light Enters the City
Date: March 24, 2024
Text: Isaiah 25-26
Sermon Summary: God sees the darkness of a city (or a human heart), enters in by His grace, to defeat our darkness and fully transform our lives.
Title: God Over All
Date: March 29, 2024 Good Friday
Text: Mark 15
Sermon Summary: Jesus confronts the kingdoms of this world, including the self-made kingdoms of our individual lives, calls for our allegiance to Him, as we realize that what He says about us is more important than any opinion others may have. And Christ died, not just for "good people," but for the worst of people, all of us in need of a Savior.
Title: Life On the Cutting Edge
Date: March 31, 2024 Easter Resurrection Day
Text: Luke 24:13-35
Sermon Summary: His death and resurrection changes everything! Allow His Scriptures burn in your hearts as you surrender to Him, turn from self and sin, meet with Him regularly, and share with others what He has done in your life.
February
Title: Its All About His Glory
Date: February 4, 2024
Text: Exodus 14
Sermon Summary: He alone is due all the glory, and will do all it takes for people to know that He alone is LORD. Plus He will accomplish what He determines to do, with or without your participation. Better to join Him in what He's doing.
Title: Making God in our Image?
Date: February 11, 2024
Text: Exodus 32
Sermon Summary: Do we tend to gravitate to the picture of God that is comforting, palatable, and easy -- to the neglect of who He truly is? The problem's not with God, but with the unmet expectations we place on Him. Will we see Him as He reveals Himself in Scripture?
Title: He Proclaims His Name
Date: February 18, 2024
Text: Exodus 33-34
Sermon Summary: [NOTE - video unavailable this week due to technical issues]
A.W. Tozer's quote, "What comes to your mind when you think about God is the most important thing about you." Resolve only to go with God, without Him we would fully fail. Center yourself in the cross, the gospel of Christ. God reveals Hs character to you in the midst of testing and sorrow
Title: Beyond Limits and Expectations
Date: February 25, 2024
Text: Numbers 11
Sermon Summary: In difficult times it is easy to complain and envy. But He makes all grace abound to us. In His justice and grace, God goes beyond the expectations, limitations, and complaints we try to impose on Him. And even the amount of blessing may become a curse
January
Title: Escape Routes
Date: January 7, 2024
Text: Matthew 2:1-12
Sermon Summary: Sincere, honest worship of the Lord is your route to salvation; we're made to worship HIm, even when we have mixed motives, yet with joy, humility, and giving, meeting with Him as a regular part of life.
Title: Eager to Obey
Date: January 14, 2024
Text: Matthew 2:13-17
Sermon Summary: Obedience and worship go hand in hand. When God speaks, that is the time to obey Him. His commands are for our good, not to take away our funl embrace His Word now, so that when difficult times come you'll be ready to do what He calls you to do.
Title: Is This Supposed to Happen?
Date: January 21, 2024
Text: Exodus 5
Sermon Summary: Oftentimes in the midst of troubling times, God urges us to rethink what we've assumed God to be. He can handle your complaints, so don't hold back your thoughts and feelings. A greater closeness to Him happens when we humbly don't know and all we can do is trust His heart.
Title: Having the Heart to Hear
Date: January 28, 2024
Text: Exodus 6
Sermon Summary: The Lord tells us what He will do based on the foundation of Who He isl Its not always having the right words to say, but rather a humble heart to hear. He is the saving God, the caring God, and the God of the :I will." And asking Him to rule over our conversations with Him and others.