Hebrews 13:1-7, 15-17 ~ Who are Your People?

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Text: Hebrews 13:1-7, 15-17

Title: Who are Your People?

Preacher: Rev. Greg Brower

This Sunday we continue our reflection on what it means to be a community that makes disciples who make disciples. Last week, we talked about the importance of making connections with unbelievers and connecting them with God. This Sunday, we consider the opposite, the importance of finding a community of believers to share life with and encourage us in our journey with Christ.

Matthew 28:16-20 ~ What is Your Mission?

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Text: Matthew 28:16-20

Title: What is Your Mission?

Preacher: Rev. Greg Brower

This morning we begin a four week series tied to our mission and vision as a church. Because we are also in the season of Easter, most weeks, we will look at our mission through the lens of one of the resurrection/appearance stories. This week, we consider Matthew 28:16-20, as Jesus gives his disciples the great commission to go and make disciples. What might it mean for you to intentionally go and make disciples this week?

Matthew 28:1-10 ~ Consider Jesus

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Text: Matthew 28:1-10

Title: Consider Jesus

Preacher: Rev. Greg Brower

The deepest love poured out in the greatest sacrifice in history. A love that heals. A love that forgives. A love that welcomes. This Easter we celebrate the power of Christ’s resurrection! Join us on Sunday as we consider the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and how we have responded to the hope we have in Christ.

Matthew 21:1-17 ~ Palms, Praises, and Other Plans

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Text: Matthew 21:1-17

Title: Palms, Praises, and Other Plans

Preacher: Rev. Greg Brower

This Lenten Season, we celebrate Jesus through the eyes of the Gospel of Matthew. On this Palm Sunday, we remember Jesus’ triumphal entry, the shouting of the crowds, the waving of the branches, and also the consternation of those in authority as he clears the temple. As the people of his day to the mission of Jesus wrong, we ask ourselves this Palm Sunday if we too have forced our agendas onto Jesus rather than making his mission our own.

Matthew 23:29-39 ~ Habits Gone Bad

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Text: Matthew 23:29-39

Title: Habits Gone Bad

Preacher: Mr. Ron Radcliffe

Matthew 18:21-35 ~ The Air We Breathe

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Text: Matthew 18:21-35

Title: The Air We Breathe

Preacher: Rev. Greg Brower

This Lenten Season, we celebrate Jesus through the eyes of the Gospel of Matthew. On this fourth Sunday of Lent, Jesus tells us a challenging parable about a servant who does not forgive like his master. At first glance, this parable can frighten us into thinking our forgiveness is dependent on our forgiving others. But, this seems to get so much of how Jesus describes God backwards. Instead, we consider this Sunday what it might mean for us to be a forgiving people because we have been forgiven.

Matthew 13:31-33, 44-46 ~ What’s It Worth?

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Text: Matthew 13:31-33, 44-46

Title: What’s It Worth?

Preacher: Rev. Greg Brower

This Lenten Season, we celebrate Jesus through the eyes of the Gospel of Matthew. On this third Sunday of Lent, Jesus tells us a series of short parables of mustard seeds, yeast, treasure and pearls. Through these captivating word pictures, Jesus urges us to value small beginnings and to give up anything to grab hold of the kingdom ushered in through him. Grabbing hold of this kingdom is not cheap or easy, it can cost us all we have. What is the gospel of Jesus worth to you?

Matthew 7:1-9 ~ To Whom Do You Listen?

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Text: Matthew 7:1-9

Title: To Whom Do You Listen?

Preacher: Rev. Greg Brower

This Lenten Season, we celebrate Jesus through the eyes of the Gospel of Matthew. On this second Sunday of Lent, we remember Jesus going up a mountain and being transfigured before his closest disciples. For a moment, his disciples see Jesus revealed in glory surrounded by Moses and Elijah (the lawgiver and the greatest prophet) and then God speaks from a cloud urging them to listen to Jesus, his beloved Son. How have we listened to him this week?

Matthew 4:1-11 ~ According to Scripture

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Text: Matthew 4:1-11

Title: According to Scripture

Preacher: Rev. Greg Brower

Sundays in Lent are an odd experience. All week long, Lent is a time of fasting and repentance, of grief for our sin, but on Sunday, we celebrate Jesus and the gift we have found in him. This Lenten Season, we celebrate Jesus through the eyes of the Gospel of Matthew. ON this first Sunday of Lent, we remember Jesus going off into the wilderness to be tempted by Satan. In this tense spiritual battle, we see how Jesus is the new and better Adam who is faithful to God, how he fulfills the purpose of Israel and has become the perfect Israel for us, and how he models for us, his disciples, how to resist temptation and seek our holy God. Join us this Sunday as we meet Jesus in Matthew 4:1-11.

Luke 20:9-19 ~ What’s Your Gospel?

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Text: Luke 20:9-19

Title: What’s Your Gospel?

Preacher: Rev. Greg Brower

We conclude our series on the parables of Jesus this week. Often parables can be confusing because they come out of a culture radically different than our own: primarily agricultural, Jewish, 2,000 years ago, with a little mixture of Greek culture thrown in. On top of that, Jesus told parables in part to keep his mission and teaching a little obscured to those on the outside. As a result, we often read his parables and find ourselves puzzled, rather than enlightened. In our final parable, Jesus points to his death, but also the amazing grace of a God who sends his son in one last attempt to bring his people home.