Pastor Zack continues his study in 1 Peter, looking at Peter’s charge to the elders, and what the church as a whole can learn from this passage. After looking at what an elder is, why we call our leaders “elders,” and some other practical questions around the term, we look in 1 Peter 5:1-5 to […]
Pastor Zack continues his study in 1 Peter, looking at how we, as Christians, are to rejoice in our suffering. How can we come to a place where we are so ready to suffer that we are actually ready to “rejoice in suffering”? In this passage, Peter gives us 4 things that we are to […]
As a year passes into the history books and another new year begins, one of the news items that catches my attention is the list of famous people who died in the previous year. Magazines such as World Magazine report such lists of people who passed away in the previous year. They listed their names under the headline: Departures. It included people […]
Pastor Zack continues his study of 1 Peter by looking at Peter’s admonishment for us to live life in light of the end. Peter makes it clear that the end is at hand; how, then, should we as Christian be living our lives? Peter answers that question by pointing us to some things that we […]
When we think of Christmas, we rightly turn in our Bibles to Matthew and Luke and read about Joseph and Mary, the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, the Shepherds, Wise Men, the Inn Keeper, Herod, and all the other characters in the Christmas story. However, there are other passages of Scripture — the back stories such as Hebrews 4:14 – 5:10 — that give us […]
In this Christmas message, “Jesus the Generous God,” Pastor Kevin takes a look at 2 Corinthians 8:9 as one of the back-drop passages of the Christmas story. Unlike the accounts of the Christmas story that we read about from Matthew & Luke, this passage allows us to see Christmas from the Godward side. It helps […]
In this sermon, Pastor Kevin continues his series on the book of Nehemiah. Chapter 6 focuses on the spiritual attacks and struggles that God’s people encounter when they seek to fulfill God’s purposes in their life, and the perseverance that God’s people are called to. I. THE ONSLAUGHTS — The Enemy Tries to Get Them to […]
In this sermon, Pastor Zack continues his study of 1 Peter by looking at Peter’s call for us to arm ourselves to suffer in 1 Peter 4:1-6. How, though, are we to arm ourselves to suffer? In this text, Peter gives us 3 Gospel Commitments we must make, 2 Personal Costs that we must be […]
As we turn to the study of Nehemiah 5, the opposition and attacks continue. However, this chapter reveals a different kind of attack — the way the enemy tries to get Nehemiah to quit working on the wall takes on a different approach. When we studied Nehemiah chapter 4, we saw that the attacks were […]
In this sermon, Pastor Kevin continues his series on the book of Nehemiah. In this passage we see the spiritual attacks and struggles that God’s people encounter when they seek to fulfill God’s purposes in their life, especially the attack of discouragement. I. DISSECTING DISCOURAGEMENT — What does it look like? (v. 9-12) Fatigue (v.10a) Frustration […]