Sermon Media & Review
Matthew 2
- Pastor Mike Hixson
- Category: Holidays & Special Services
- December 10, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
Becoming True Worshippers Like the Magi
The use of a Nativity scene as a Christmas reminder of Christ’s birth originated about 800 years ago from Frances of Assisi. As Christmas decoration, this scene sometimes depicts various people and animals. The actual scene revealed in the Bible shows that someone was conspicuously absent: the religious leaders of the Jews, the very ones who should have been seeking and joyous of Christ’s arrival.
Philippians 2
- Pastor Kent Hobi
- Category: Holidays & Special Services
- December 3, 2023
- Audio Video
Special Gathering of the Whole Church Family for a Christmas Devotional
2 Timothy 2:1-2
- Pastor Tim Potter
- Category: Morning Worship Series
- December 3, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
Conventional and Unconventional Wisdom in Transitioning The Pastor-Teacher
Listening to conventional wisdom has not allowed us to hear all that the Bible has to say. Biblical wisdom says that we have a responsibility to train more pastors. In 2 Timothy 2:1-2, Paul instructs Timothy to entrust the things he’s been taught to faithful men. “The things which you have heard from me” -- these things Paul wanted Timothy to pass along to pastor-teachers.
John 14:12-15
- Pastor Steve Sindelar
- Category: The Gospel of John
- November 26, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
Principles of Prayer:
Jesus is going to depart, and the disciples cannot go with Him. Jesus says, “Do not let your heart be troubled (John 14:1).” While the disciples had Jesus physically present, they did not need to pray to Him, making the instructions given by Him in John 14:12-15 to pray in Jesus’s name new information.
Prayer is a tool given to Christ’s disciples to encourage their belief in Him. We cannot grow in our faith without prayer. Believers must rightly understand and exercise prayer in agreement with the Word of God.
John 14:7-15
- Pastor Steve Sindelar
- Category: The Gospel of John
- November 19, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
Believe in Jesus, Who Is Enough.
The conversation with the disciples continues in John 14:7-15. Jesus is going away, and the disciples cannot go with Him. Their hearts are troubled.
Philip, representing all the disciples, desires more. He wants to see the Father and that will be enough (John 14:8). The problem from Philip’s perspective is bigger than who he sees Jesus as being. Yet, Jesus is enough. Enough for the disciples then, and enough for each believer now.
John 14:1-6
- Pastor Mike Hixson
- Category: The Gospel of John
- November 12, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
Do Not Let Your Heart Be Troubled
John 14 opens in the midst of Jesus’s dialogue, a continuation from the previous chapter. The evening had begun with Jesus, their Rabbi and Messiah, humbly washing the disciples’ feet, followed by Jesus’s troubling statements that He was going away, and they could not come.
The disciples are troubled. Jesus leaving them is an unimaginable situation for the those who had left everything to follow Him. Though they claim they would lay down their lives for Him, Jesus predicts that the disciples will fail Him.
John 13:31-38
- Pastor Steve Sindelar
- Category: The Gospel of John
- November 5, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
The Final Lesson to Love One Another Like Christ
Jesus is a rabbi, a teacher in the Jewish culture, teaching final, critical lessons to His disciples. The upper room discourse begins in John 13:31-38. Earlier in John 13, Jesus provided an object lesson for His disciples when He washed their feet. As He will soon be departing, Jesus desires for His disciples to thrive without His physical presence, as they will not yet be able to follow Him.
No matter their fear, uncertainty, failure, or doubt, Jesus has a final, powerful lesson for His disciples to learn: that loving one another like Christ is the way of perseverance.
John 13:18-30
- Pastor Mike Hixson
- Category: The Gospel of John
- October 29, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
What Love Looks Like in the Face of Evil.
In John 3:16-21, Jesus talks about the difference between light and dark. Those who would reject Jesus rejected that light due to their deeds being exposed.
Last week we talked about Jesus washing the disciples’ feet, but when Jesus came to Judas, He didn’t skip him. Jesus was instructing them on how to love in the face of evil.
John 13:1-17
- Pastor Mike Hixson
- Category: The Gospel of John
- October 22, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
You Should Love One Another as Jesus Loves You.
If you knew you had 24 hours to live, how would you spend it? A common answer is to spend it with the people you love the most. But if you knew those people would leave you during that time when you needed them most, would that change how you would spend it?
In John 13:1-17, Jesus knew that He was about to be betrayed and crucified. Yet Jesus called His friends to and modeled for them the defining characteristic of a Christ-follower.
