Sermons

What gets you down?  What wears on you, makes you feel that life is more than you can bear?  We all feel stress at times, we all experience loss, but sometimes, the severity of these and other difficult life events begin to take their toll.  Sometimes the sheer number of adverse experiences that we are…

It is our privilege to have Steve Martinez bring our message today. Steve married Ashely, a girl from our church, about 14 years ago and they served here for a time as our Youth Leaders. Steve has since served as a Youth Pastor, a Bible teacher at a Christian school, an Associate Pastor, and now…

It is easy to have the mindset that reaching the world for Christ is the work of a few special people.  We hear the testimonies of missionaries and their work in other countries and are impressed at what they do and the sacrifices they make.  You might even be among the faithful that give and…

Is it okay to wish someone Happy Father's Day??  We live in a world that is very fractured and polarized.  Currently, one of the most contentious issues is that of human sexuality.  With so much division and confusion, some might be wondering if celebrating a father figure and saying what a good job he has…

Do you believe that everything just happens by chance?  That any meaning in life is only what we can get from the face value of all that happens?  God wants us to be rescued from the despair of the mindset.  He wants us to that, while we live in a fallen world with much evil,…

It is a common misconception that the Bible is just a book of rules; of prohibitions and mandates.  This comes from (and leads to) a very wrong view of God as some kind of stern, authoritarian, (and maybe grumpy) king in the sky that sees us a mere pawns on one of His planets.  Nothing…

This week we are pleased to have with us Dr. Tim Bertolet with us from ABWE.  He will be sharing with us from Hebrews 4, encouraging us regarding our gracious high priest, Jesus Christ. Tim Bertolet serves at the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism (ABWE) developing strategies for equipping missionaries,  creating missionary training, and…

So much of the turmoil that we experience in life has a single root problem.   The hymnwriter Joseph Scriven wrote in famous hymn "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" these words: "O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry, everything to God in prayer!" …