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Sunday Sep 22, 2013
Sunday Sep 22, 2013
Welcome to the 17th sermon in our series on how God has worked in history. (17 of 24)
When you hear the word hero, what comes to mind? Heroes of faith? Everyday heroes? War heroes? Superheroes? What about God? Some of us see God as a “dictator in the sky” that commands what will take place on earth. We may see God as removed and disinterested or like a cheerleader or a grandfather that spoils us. What informs your view of God? In this series we are going into the stories of the book of Exodus to examine real historical stories of real people dealing with real problems. We will discover who God truly is through what he has done.
Sunday Sep 15, 2013
Sunday Sep 15, 2013
Welcome to the 16th sermon in our series on how God has worked in history. (16 of 24)
When you hear the word hero, what comes to mind? Heroes of faith? Everyday heroes? War heroes? Superheroes? What about God? Some of us see God as a “dictator in the sky” that commands what will take place on earth. We may see God as removed and disinterested or like a cheerleader or a grandfather that spoils us. What informs your view of God? In this series we are going into the stories of the book of Exodus to examine real historical stories of real people dealing with real problems. We will discover who God truly is through what he has done.
Sunday Sep 08, 2013
Sunday Sep 01, 2013
Sunday Sep 01, 2013
Welcome to the 3rd sermon in our series on how we do daily life. (3 of 3)
Everybody these days wants to change the world. If you go to Amazon books and type the phrase “change the world,” there are no less than 14,500 results and nearly half of them are related to spiritually and religion. We see a world full of issues and think that this is our call, that we are supposed to change the world. In the book Culture Making, Andy Crouch writes, “Indeed I sometimes wonder if breathless rhetoric about changing the world is actually more about changing the subject from our own fitfully suppressed awareness that we didn’t ask to be brought into the world, and have only vaguely succeeded in figuring it out, and will end our days in radical dependence on something or someone other than ourselves. If our excitement about changing the world leads us into the grand illusion that we stand somehow outside the world knowing what’s best for it, tools and good will and gusto at the ready. We have not yet come to terms with the reality that world has changed us far more than we will ever change it.” As followers of Jesus we are not called to change the world; we are called to be changed. We are not called to do radically different things, but to do the things that we do radically differently.
Sunday Aug 25, 2013
Sunday Aug 25, 2013
Welcome to the 2nd sermon in our series on how we do daily life. (2 of 3)
Everybody these days wants to change the world. If you go to Amazon books and type the phrase “change the world,” there are no less than 14,500 results and nearly half of them are related to spiritually and religion. We see a world full of issues and think that this is our call, that we are supposed to change the world. In the book Culture Making, Andy Crouch writes, “Indeed I sometimes wonder if breathless rhetoric about changing the world is actually more about changing the subject from our own fitfully suppressed awareness that we didn’t ask to be brought into the world, and have only vaguely succeeded in figuring it out, and will end our days in radical dependence on something or someone other than ourselves. If our excitement about changing the world leads us into the grand illusion that we stand somehow outside the world knowing what’s best for it, tools and good will and gusto at the ready. We have not yet come to terms with the reality that world has changed us far more than we will ever change it.” As followers of Jesus we are not called to change the world; we are called to be changed. We are not called to do radically different things, but to do the things that we do radically differently.
Sunday Aug 18, 2013
Sunday Aug 18, 2013
Welcome to the 1st sermon in our series on how we do daily life. (1 of 3)
Everybody these days wants to change the world. If you go to Amazon books and type the phrase “change the world,” there are no less than 14,500 results and nearly half of them are related to spiritually and religion. We see a world full of issues and think that this is our call, that we are supposed to change the world. In the book Culture Making, Andy Crouch writes, “Indeed I sometimes wonder if breathless rhetoric about changing the world is actually more about changing the subject from our own fitfully suppressed awareness that we didn’t ask to be brought into the world, and have only vaguely succeeded in figuring it out, and will end our days in radical dependence on something or someone other than ourselves. If our excitement about changing the world leads us into the grand illusion that we stand somehow outside the world knowing what’s best for it, tools and good will and gusto at the ready. We have not yet come to terms with the reality that world has changed us far more than we will ever change it.” As followers of Jesus we are not called to change the world; we are called to be changed. We are not called to do radically different things, but to do the things that we do radically differently.
Sunday Aug 11, 2013
Sunday Aug 11, 2013
Welcome to the 4th sermon in our series on how God is working in our city. (4 of 4)
God intends The Church to be a contrast society. It is to show a watching world how to do community, to be the place where the divisions that are present in the culture are absent. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote “There was a time when the church was very powerful – in the time when the early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.” Join us as some guest speakers share how God is still working powerfully in people and guiding them to change our community.
Sunday Aug 04, 2013
Sunday Aug 04, 2013
Welcome to the 3rd sermon in our series on how God is working in our city. (3 of 4)
God intends The Church to be a contrast society. It is to show a watching world how to do community, to be the place where the divisions that are present in the culture are absent. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote “There was a time when the church was very powerful – in the time when the early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.” Join us as some guest speakers share how God is still working powerfully in people and guiding them to change our community.
Sunday Jul 28, 2013
Sunday Jul 28, 2013
Welcome to the 2nd sermon in our series on how God is working in our city. (2 of 4)
God intends The Church to be a contrast society. It is to show a watching world how to do community, to be the place where the divisions that are present in the culture are absent. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote “There was a time when the church was very powerful – in the time when the early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.” Join us as some guest speakers share how God is still working powerfully in people and guiding them to change our community.
Sunday Jul 21, 2013
Sunday Jul 21, 2013
Welcome to the 1st sermon in our series on how God is working in our city. (1 of 4)
God intends The Church to be a contrast society. It is to show a watching world how to do community, to be the place where the divisions that are present in the culture are absent. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote “There was a time when the church was very powerful – in the time when the early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.” Join us as some guest speakers share how God is still working powerfully in people and guiding them to change our community.