Guest Preacher: Allison Storch
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The Forgotten God: The Attributes of the Spirit
Thursday was Star Wars Day. It’s May the 4th every year, which sounds a lot like the Star Wars catch phrase, “May the force be with you.” So of course, I wore my best Star Wars T-shirt and send nerdy Star Wars texts to my family, because I like Star Wars. If you’re not familiar with Star War…
The Forgotten God: The Nature of the Spirit
The evangelist Paul Washer once said this, “I used to tell young preachers, in order to preach you've got to have the power of God on your life. Now I tell them, in order to tie your shoes you've got to have the power of God on your life.” The Power of God. You need the power of God to do an…
Go Tell
We have this habit in the church, of going straight from celebrating the Resurrection of Christ on Resurrection Sunday to looking forward to Pentecost when the gift of God’s Holy Spirit was poured out on all believers. We forget that there’s quite a bit that Jesus still did in between that t…
The Lilies (The Symbols of Easter)
Happy Resurrection Sunday! It’s Easter, of course, but since this is the day that we celebrate the resurrection of Christ, we also like to call it Resurrection Sunday! We’ve been in a series for the past few weeks about the symbols of Easter. We’ve been talking about different symbols that w…
The Palm Branches (The Symbols of Easter)
Happy Palm Sunday! As we continue to look at and examine the images and symbols we associate with Easter, and where we see them throughout the Bible, we will dive into the Palm Branches this morning, which is appropriate since it is Palm Sunday.
But let’s remember the symbols we’ve e…
The Bread and Cup (The Symbols of Easter)
I’m sure I’ve shared this insight before, but just in case you’ve never heard it, here’s a little story I want to share with you. It was a few years ago, before I received my ordination, I was taking classes to prepare for ministry. One of these classes was about the history of the early Chr…
The Crown of Thorns (The Symbols of Easter)
The Crown of Thorns is our next Easter symbol as we examine all the symbols and images that we associate with Eastertide and Resurrection Sunday. We’ve learned about the Lamb, that in the Bible, the Lamb is a symbol of sacrifice, and it reminds us of the debt Jesus paid for our sins. We lear…
The Cross (The Symbols of Easter)
Last week, as we started our series on the Symbols of Easter, we talked about the Lamb. The Lamb, we discovered through passages in the Old and New Testaments, is a symbol of the blood price paid for the debt of our sins, a debt we all owe. It’s a symbol of sacrifice, a symbol of a debt paid…
Missions Service with John Moore
Special Missions Service with Nazarene missionary John Moore. Hear what God is doing through His people all around the world!
The Lamb (The Symbols of Easter)
Today marks the beginning of a series I’m going to preach in the weeks leading up to Resurrection Sunday, that will explore the Symbols of Eastertide. We’ll talk about the cross, we’ll talk about the crown of thorns, we’ll talk about lilies, and we’ll talk about palm branches, but today we’r…
What Do We Do with Lent?
The first time I can remember being aware of the season of Lent, which starts on Ash Wednesday and lasts for 40 days, was in Elementary School. I was at a larger Elementary School for 5th and 6th grades, with many new students that I didn’t know, and I came to school on that Wednesday and al…
Are You Proud? (James 4:6-8)
Are you proud? How many times has God asked you to do something, and you have either not done it or have done it halfway? Do you know why that is? It’s pride. When we do this, we’re saying, “I’m god of my life, and I know what’s best for me in this situation.”
The problem…
Jesus and Empathy
Just as with mindfulness that we looked more closely at in last week’s sermon, we have one more virtue I’ll be talking about in my Christian Character class that will help us better love others with the love of Christ, but isn’t something we often think about in Biblical terms. We understand…
Mindfulness...in Christianity?
Last week I talked about the Good Samaritan as an example of how we read through Scripture the good we want to do, and see how it should be done, but we often fall short when it comes to practicing that good and doing it to our neighbor. We call this the Goodness Gap, and we saw that when we…
Go and Do Likewise...(Luke 10:25-37)
I’m going to just jump right in to my passage this morning, which you’ll find in Luke 10:25-37, and I hope you’ll follow along with me either in your Bible or Bible app.
“On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inhe…
The Lord is Faithful (2 Thessalonians 3:1-5)
I was reading in 2 Thessalonians this week, finishing my trek through Paul’s letter to the church in Thessalonica. I was in chapter 3, just the beginning part of that chapter, and there is a really great phrase there in verse 3 that I just kept coming back to. There, Paul says, “But the Lord…
The Image of the Artist
Guest Preacher: Allison Storch
Embracing Weakness (2 Corinthians 4:6-7)
I’m always amazed at the passages that God leads me to for the first Sunday in the new year. It’s almost never what I expect. It’s usually not passages about newness in Christ. And it’s usually not something that you might expect to hear to usher in a new year, but He always brings me to som…
Christmas Service
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