Sermons

The temptation of Jesus not only underscores His ability to fully empathize with our struggles, but it also gives us a blueprint for better resisting our own temptations and a reminder of God’s grace for us when we fail to do so.

The incarnation of God tells us something critically important about the way He views us and our relationship with Him.  The significance of the Creator becoming one of and living among His creation cannot be overstated.  The birth of Jesus is  a powerful demonstration of God’s unfathomable love for us, and through the life of […]

With the new calendar year come many resolutions.  Some are big.  Some are small.  Most don’t last long.  As followers of Jesus what should we resolve to be in 2022?

As the popular carol says the coming of the Lord brings joy to the world.  But unlike many of the other joys that we experience in this life, this is not a temporary joy.  It is not joy tied to a specific moment that passes as soon as the moment is over.  It is a […]

The angels promised Jesus’ arrival would bring peace on earth, but 2000 years later some of us may be wondering when that peace will actually arrive.  Perhaps we’re looking for the wrong thing.

We all want to feel like we can make a difference.  That what we do actually matters.  God gives our lives both purpose and meaning in this life, and a promise for the life to come.

We often feel like justice is somehow contradictory to love, particularly when we are on the wrong side of it (even rightly so).   But in reality, love necessitates justice, which is why what both are deeply rooted in God’s character.

Perhaps the most well-known and often repeated of all the “God is…” statements in the Bible, but we often attempt to apply our understanding of what love is to God’s nature, rather than applying God’s nature to our understanding of what love is.

Purpose.  Meaning.  Value.  Worth.  We all crave these things and our search for them takes us down many different paths.  Some provide a little assistance, others leave us worse off than we began, but God is our ultimate source of all of these things.

When Jesus says “I am the truth” His is not only asserting that He is not a liar, but that He is the very embodiment of what is fundamentally honest and real.