Sermons from 2026
Untangling Tricky Theology: What Is Communion?
I Corinthians 12:12-30 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot would say, “Because I am not a hand,…
Scripture We Know By Heart
For God So Loved the World John 3:1-17 Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with that person.” Jesus answered him, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.”Nicodemus…
Scripture We Know By Heart
Nothing Can Separate You from the Love of God Romans 8:28-39We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he…
Scripture We Know By Heart
Micah 6:6-8 “With what shall I come before the Lord and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?” He has told you, O mortal, what is good, and what does the Lord require…
Scenic Route: The Passover
Exodus 12:1-14 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall mark for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for each household. If a household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join its closest neighbor in obtaining…
Scenic Route: The Burning Bush
Exodus 3:1-15 Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness and came to Mount Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed. Then Moses said, “I must turn aside and look at this great sight and see why the bush is…
Scenic Route: Moses
Exodus 1:8-2:10 Now a new king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph. He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.” Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for…
Scenic Route: When Life Doesn’t Go As Planned
Genesis 45:1-15 Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all those who stood by him, and he cried out, “Send everyone away from me.” So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers. And he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it. Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph. Is my father still alive?” But his brothers could not answer him, so dismayed were they…
Scenic Route: Enduring Grace
Genesis 32:22-32 The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint…
Summer Playlist: Justice
Psalm 17:1-7, 15 Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry;give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit. From you let my vindication come;let your eyes see the right. If you try my heart, if you visit me by night,if you test me, you will find no wickedness in me;my mouth does not transgress. As for what others do, by the word of your lipsI have avoided the ways of the violent. My steps have held…
Summer Playlist: Remember the Good
Psalm 105:1-11, 45b O give thanks to the Lord; call on his name;make known his deeds among the peoples. Sing to him, sing praises to him;tell of all his wonderful works. Glory in his holy name;let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice. Seek the Lord and his strength;seek his presence continually. Remember the wonderful works he has done,his miracles and the judgments he has uttered, O offspring of his servant Abraham,children of Jacob, his chosen ones. He is…
Summer Playlist: To Be Known
Psalm 139 O LORD, you have searched me and known me.2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away.3 You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.4 Even before a word is on my tongue, O LORD, you know it completely.5 You hem me in, behind…