SERMON SUMMARY Matthew 9:18-38 Empathy is powerful. Principle: Scarcity increases value. Empathy/Compassion is hard to find. Believers are prepared by God to enter into the emotional world of empathy. We love it when we emotionally resonate with others. Sometimes it comes naturally. Sometimes it is a choice We can make the choice to draw near.…
Sermon Summary As followers of Christ, we are trying to become like Jesus. That is God’s will for us. He is our role model. He is the standard against which all humanity is measured. And that is because He is the only person who has ever lived, whose life was perfectly aligned with God’s will.…
Sermon Summary “What happens when you die?” Do you cease to exist? Are you reincarnated in some other form? Is there a heaven and a hell where we will live out eternity either in great bliss or with great dread? There is only one person that is truly qualified to answer that question. His name…
Sermon Summary First Timothy 3:15-16 introduces a hymn which is older than the New Testament! Believers began singing shortly after Jesus rose from the dead and it quickly spread throughout the churches as a declaration of their faith in the resurrection of Jesus the Messiah. But before Paul quoted the lyrics, he tells us what…
Sermon Summary Pastor Doug explained the importance of understanding that the Christian faith is rooted in the facts of history—particularly today, as we celebrate Easter, the basis for our faith, the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Of the four major world religions, Christianity is unique in its claims that its founder is still alive, having been…
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Sermon Summary Today, Pastor Doug talked about how God is always right on time, and discussed how the Lord’s actions are always perfectly timed to accomplish His sovereign purposes. In Galatians, we read these words: “But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem…
Sermon Summary This week, Pastor Doug continued with Part 2 of his series “The Wonder of Christmas—God at Work in History,” which explores the story of Jesus’ birth and what it means for believers. In Matthew Chapter 1, verses 18-25, we read the account of an angel of the Lord visiting Joseph in a dream,…
Sermon Summary Today, Pastor Doug spoke about how God has been at work throughout history, from the creation of Adam through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Looking at Matthew 1:1-17, we see Matthew’s version of the Christmas story. But Matthew is not just writing the Christmas story, he is writing a biography of the life…
Sermon Summary This morning, Pastor Dan presented Part 3 of a four-part series on the Old Testament book of Ruth. Last week, we learned that Ruth and her mother-in-law Naomi returned to Naomi’s homeland, Bethlehem, at the exact time of the wheat harvest. There, the two poor widows managed to survive by Ruth’s gleaning from…
