Sermons

A Fickle Humanity and a Faithful God – Chris Senkler

Chris Senkler shows how the people who praised “Hosanna” and hailed Jesus as the coming king may be the very ones who later shouted, “Crucify him!” Like them, we find ourselves to be deeply complex characters within the covenant story, characters whose unredeemed motives, desires, and passions all too often drive our behavior and actions.

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An Unexpected Twist – John Murray

John Murray shares how God can catch us off guard with his acts of unexpected grace and hospitality, and that we are to mirror this aspect of God’s good nature.

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Playing a Supporting Role – Josias Hansen

Josias Hansen shares how we shouldn’t think of ourselves as the main character in our lives, but rather as a supporting character in a grand story about God and his kingdom.

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Two Stories – Terri Churchill

Terri Churchill shares that while we are called to co-author our personal stories with God, we also have an enemy who is trying to take over authorship and bring darkness to our life stories.

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Letting Go of the Pen – John Murray

John Murray talked about that when we acknowledge God as the author of life, “letting go of the pen” becomes possible. There are necessary moments in our stories when we come to the end of ourselves and realize the need to give up our pen. This is when we have opportunities to recognize the Word planted in us and to rely on the Author to be our provider/daily bread, by allowing God’s hand to write our lives.

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Love in Tough Times – Chris Senkler

Chris Senkler draws from Psalm 23 and the experience of his brother’s death to share how to live in love even while in hard times.

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Continuous Renewal – Josias Hansen

Josias Hansen expresses the need for continual renewal and asks the congregation to participate in “Preach to the Preacher,” where the church studies the Scriptures together and calls individuals to give mini-sermons based on what they discovered.

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Mystical Renewal: Falling in Love and Becoming a Saint

Terri Churchill draws from the tradition of the Christian Mystics to show that the love of God is something to which we can become more receptive through the intentional engagement of spiritual practices.

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Open to the Adventure – Carolyn Tennant

Dr. Carolyn Tennant tells of her own renewal story which led her to becoming a prefessor of revivals and a participant in some amazing moves of God.

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Dusting Off God’s Image – Chris Senkler

Chris Senkler teaches on spiritual renewal as the process by which we dust off the image of God each of us bears uniquely (2 Corinthians 3, Romans 12).

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