Digging into the Book of James isn’t for the lighthearted. It condemns various sins, speaks about patient perseverance during trials...
Have you ever seen the movie Catch Me If You Can? It’s based on the real-life story of Frank Abagnale and is set in the early 1960s....
The big idea of James Chapter 2 is hitching your faith to things that you’re trying to use to get somewhere, but it takes you in the...
James 31 Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly....
This series hasn’t been the “yay, you can do it!” type of sermon series. In fact, I’ve left a few Sundays thinking, wow, that seemed...
Every encounter we have with Jesus, every experience of the Holy Spirit is a collision of our faith when it meets our lived reality....
What do you dedicate yourself to? You have many options on what you choose to build your life on or out of. But they all begin with...
Have you ever heard of the show Fixer Upper? Chip and Joanna Gaines take the worst-looking house in a neighborhood and turn it into a...
Philippians 4 8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is...
We close out this sermon series talking about how building our lives off of what is told to us in Philippians 4:8 can become a...
When we look at the word generosity, sometimes we think, “uh, oh, that’s a loaded word.” But here’s the thing. You and I WANT to be...
Generosity might seem like an intimidating word to some, but it shouldn’t be because here’s the thing, You and I WANT to be generous...
“That’s the guy who got swallowed by a whale or a fish. What a cute story.” But it’s a real story – a story about the ways we live out...
When we look at the story of Jonah and the big fish, we usually say, “what a story,” but in many ways, Jonah’s story is our story....
Our Running Sermon series concludes, and what a great time for the credits to roll. The music swells, pan shot of Jonah smiling, the...
This is the season of giving and receiving gifts. There are going to be some wonderful surprises and some tremendous disappointments....
One of the most common themes of Christmas is gifts. Presents. Things we give and receive. But it’s also about exchanging what you...
One of the big themes of Christmas family gatherings is stories. “Remember when?” “Remember that time?” As kids and teenagers, we...
Numerous authors wrote many different types of Psalms over long periods of time. So, it’s less like a “book” and more like a...
This sermon series is about the Psalms – the songbook or playlist of the ancient people. Knowing our location in life, in every way, is...
Anyone in the tri-state area knows the jingle 1-877-KARS-4-KIDS. No matter how long it’s been since you’ve heard it, you remember it...
After learning how and what to lament, we need to understand the why. Matthew 5 4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be...
In our faith, there are 2 concepts of God, God beyond us or God with us. And we tend to gravitate toward one or the other, which leads...
Zacchaeus called Jesus by name, and it, quite literally, changed everything. The reason it’s such a big deal is because Jesus calls...
We love stories. Telling them, hearing them, and thinking about them. It’s why we have a favorite movie, book, or television series....
At one point or another, we all might want to be something we’re not. A nerd might want to be a jock, a jock might want to be a...
Many of us secretly love endings because we get to see how it all works out. Some of us might even fast-forward through a tv show or...
We often think about what will happen in the end. What do we have to be on the lookout for? Knowing what happens, in the end, is the...
Whether we realize it or not, there’s a price tag to every decision we make (or don’t make) with our lives. We trade something – our...
Maybe you share a vacation with your extended family once a year, maybe you always spend this holiday there or another one somewhere...
Numbers 20 1 In the first month the whole Israelite community arrived at the Desert of Zin, and they stayed at Kadesh. There...