Sermons, sermon helps
This is a collection of material from pastors of churches over 1,000 (COK). These resources are made available to help pastors with sermon ideas and content.
He is not here.….He is risen!…...these words changed the course of history forever. Jesus is ALIVE! Death and the grave could not hold Him! Jesus’ resurrection provided a dawn of a new day. We are promised through His resurrection power new beginnings, New hope, New Peace and new Power. Jesus is inviting us into His resurrection life, we can be ALIVE with Jesus.
Alive
He is not here.….He is risen!…...these words changed the course of history forever. Jesus is ALIVE! Death and the grave could not hold Him! Jesus’ resurrection provided a dawn of a new day. We are promised through His resurrection power new beginnings, New hope, New Peace and new Power. Jesus is inviting us into His resurrection life, we can be ALIVE with Jesus.
Mark 16:6 (NIV) 6 "Don't be alarmed," he said. "You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him.
Better Together... is really our way of talking about what Jesus calls, in these stories, the Kingdom of Heaven.
He tells these stories because they are a simple way to help people grasp what is really big, maybe even bigger than any of us realize.
Life hurts and cuts, and you bleed. You are left with permanent hurt. Sometimes, there are memories and wounds that just won't go away. Abuse. Depression. Tragedy. Death. Addiction. So what are you going to do? Faith in God doesn't prevent us from having scars like these. In fact, our Lord we follow was pretty scarred himself. But you gotta keep dancing. Through Jesus, we are given access to a living faith and hope and joy and peace and love that gives us power to keep dancing, to embrace scars and know that they don't define or destroy us.
Dancing with the Scars
Life hurts and cuts, and you bleed. You are left with permanent hurt. Sometimes, there are memories and wounds that just won't go away. Abuse. Depression. Tragedy. Death. Addiction. So what are you going to do? Faith in God doesn't prevent us from having scars like these. In fact, our Lord we follow was pretty scarred himself. But you gotta keep dancing. Through Jesus, we are given access to a living faith and hope and joy and peace and love that gives us power to keep dancing, to embrace scars and know that they don't define or destroy us.
Sometimes we take selfies to portray to the world who we are! Did God ever take a selfie? Yes, He did just that in Exodus 34 when Moses asked God for a revelation of himself. God showed Moses His glory by giving him a verbal self-description that is unique among all Bible passages. In this self-description, God selects 8 characteristics that He wants to be known by. Let’s study God’s “selfie” and learn how we can better understand who God is so we can better relate to Him and more clearly share him with others.
God’s selfie
(or another modern illustration of God’s description of Himself)
You are what you love…but you may not love what you think you love.
You are what you love…but you may not love what you think y
What We Believe
Think of the story of the Bible like this:
Every update requires a reboot to fully initiate the upgrade, the question is will we accept the updates God has for us as close out 2020 and reboot our lives in 2021.
1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 (NIV) 23 May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it.
Relationship Status
Relationship Status
You have heard the phrase “Facebook Official,” which means you are not really in a relationship until it is indicated in your status on Facebook. You can say your single, in a relationship, or even it’s complicated. The way culture defines relationships can be radically different from what God designed or desires. In this series, we want to explore your relationship status!
Week one: Status confusion
Are you ready for a restart?
You aren’t ready for a restart until you have done the work of the reset.
RESTARTS don’t change things unless the RESET has changed things
Reset-40
January 3, 2021
Pastor Dale Benson
Matthew 4:1-11
Jesus Is Healing
Pastor John Keating
January 10, 2021Matthew 8:1-17
RESET- So Will I
January 17, 2021
Pastor Dale Benson
Matthew 8:18-9:7
The season of Lent provides the perfect time period to create new habits. Over the course of the 40 days of this season, this series, "Rooted," provides a focus on a few of the classic spiritual disciplines. Each week the congregation was challenged to put the highlighted spiritual discipline into practice in their lives. There is power in the whole community taking on new practices together.
In the Lenten series, Rooted, this sermon addressed the spiritual discipline of foundational prayer and invites the congregation to a week of practicing it together.
This sermon encourages the congregation to practice the classic spiritual discipline of self-denial.
This sermon in the Lent series, Rooted, invites the congregation to consider the spiritual discipline of worship and to spend some time practicing it together.
We can choose to swim in the shallow end of relationships or go to the deep end where relationships take on a whole new meaning! Spiritual growth happens when we take the risk to form deep spiritual friendship that sharpen us and help us achieve our true purpose in life. We go further faster when we realize no one climbs alone.
Week 1 – Relationships – Going deep
We often pray for God’s Kingdom to come and God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. If that were to actually happen, what might that look like? Jesus gives us beautiful glimpses into that Kingdom as he continues his march toward Jerusalem. You might want to be careful. . . the children, the poor, and the sick play a prominent role in these stories.
Snapshots Of The Kingdom- Doubting To Disciple
Pastor John Keating
February 7, 2021
Matthew 11:1-30
During Jesus' ministry, we see many times where Jesus taught while sharing a meal. In fact, there are 10 different accounts of Jesus eating with various people in the gospel of Luke. These encounters left an eternal impact on those in His audience and on us as well. What can we learn as we take a seat at the table and experience Jesus' heart, responses, and His teachings?
Table Manners
During Jesus' ministry, we see many times where Jesus taught while sharing a meal. In fact, there are 10 different accounts of Jesus eating with various people in the gospel of Luke. These encounters left an eternal impact on those in His audience and on us as well. What can we learn as we take a seat at the table and experience Jesus' heart, responses, and His teachings?
Sometimes we try to convince ourselves that the busyness of life…”The Grind”, will somehow slow down after this season. However, we tend to discover that every season of life brings its own challenges, and can leave us feeling overwhelmed. That is NOT the life God intended for us! In fact, he has given us the gift of rest to give us a healthier rhythm to our lives. Join us each weekend as we discover together how to create S P A C E within a world that demands so much of our attention.
Jesus’ purposed in this world was to become a sacrificial lamb for our sin. He did not get distracted from this mission, maintained focus continued His ministry, never got off message even when He was misunderstood. Jesus fixed His face toward the location where He would make the ultimate sacrifice with a tough as nails mindset. In this series we will explore how we can be like Jesus and live of service that expresses that we too are tough as nails!
We need to choose grit over quit in serving our world - Getting ready for a Summer of Service
During Advent, we will try to understand the unexpected ways in which God comes to us; now, in the middle of our betrayal, confusion, fear and hope.
Mary Didn’t Know
December 6, 2020
Pastor John Keating
Luke 1:26-38
Unexpected | From Betrayal to Trust
December 13, 2020
Pastor Dale Benson
Matthew 1:1-25
Unexpected | From Fear to Joy
December 20, 2020
Pastor Dale Benson
Luke 1:39-45
Unexpected | Out Of Egypt
December 27, 2020
Pastor David Morrison
Matthew 2:1-23
You cannot, NOT have conflict! Our fallen nature is prone to failings, fallouts, and false assumptions. Living the Christian life is not a life where we avoid conflict, it is living a life where we know how to navigate our relationships through conflict. In fact, conflict can...
You are what you love…but you may not love what you think you love. Sometimes what we think and say we want isn’t what we actually want. Our actions and habits reveal the true desires of our hearts. Hidden Heart is about rediscovering our first loves and developing habits + practices that help shape
