- SERMON ARCHIVE -

- 2022 -

IT’S WHAT HAPPENS AFTER CHRISTMAS THAT COUNTS
RYNE PARRISH - JAN 02, 2022

Ryne begins a new year with a proclamation that Jesus is the king of our lives, and fresh off of our celebrations of this at Christmastime, we are reminded to give up our desires for control and power over our lives and set out on a changed path, following a new way, reoriented toward Jesus.

WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING, GRANDPA?
STEVE THOMSEN - JAN 09, 2022

Steve Thomsen preaches a loving and heartfelt sermon that reminds us that God has a plan for us, that we should lift everything up in prayer, and that through it all, God’s love abounds.

WHAT HABAKKUK & GOD HAVE TO SAY ABOUT BABYLON & PANDEMIC
RYNE PARRISH - JAN 16, 2022

Beginning a new series, Hope in Exile, an examination of expressions of faith in the face of despair, Ryne’s sermon highlights that monumentally difficult times are not new to God’s people, and that through each bleak moment in history, the Holy Spirit has been there to revive and restore our faith.

ACCOUNTABILITY & THE ANCIENT PATHS
RYNE PARRISH - JAN 23, 2022

Continuing our Hope in Exile series, Ryne’s sermon today encourages God’s people to examine their own accountability and face up to the consequences that our shortcomings as followers of Christ have in the communities around us, all in favor of correcting course with the goal of truly living like Jesus.

WHERE TO STEP WHEN THE FLOOR FALLS APART
RYNE PARRISH - JAN 30, 2022

Continuing our Hope in Exile series, Ryne’s lesson reminds us to put our trust in God, because no matter how wise, strong, or intelligent we think we are, only the Lord’s strength, might, and wisdom are everlasting.

HOPE AND PEACE IN THE VOID
RYNE PARRISH - FEB 06, 2022

Continuing our Hope in Exile series, Ryne brings us a message of long-term hope, a reminder that God’s plan for us extends beyond the moment we are in, the experience we are having, and persists beyond what we can see or feel or touch.

HOPE IN EXILE
AARON LEE - FEB 13, 2022

Continuing our Hope in Exile series, Aaron Lee encourages us with a message that reminds us that God loves us more than he hates sin, and that even in our darkest times, in our foolishness, at the edge of hopelessness, God’s love is there for us.

GOD ON WHEELS
RYNE PARRISH - FEB 20, 2022

Concluding our sermon series, Hope in Exile, Ryne’s message this week expresses the encouraging truth that though there may be times when we feel stuck in exile or lost in our despair, there is nowhere we can be that is too far away for God to reach us with his love.

THE KING COMES TO JERUSALEM
RYNE PARRISH - FEB 27, 2022

We’re beginning a new sermon series entitled, Holy Week, which in the weeks, leading up to Easter, will help us look at the last 7 days of Jesus’ life, leading up to his death, burial, and resurrection. This week takes a look at Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, celebrated by the crowd as a coming king, though not the king we expect him to be. Jesus is not the king who will lead us into war or who will win wealth and prosperity for us. He’s a king without a crown, a savior with no might, a humble king who doesn’t demand allegiance, but faces death for us and gave up everything because he loves us. 

THE WITHERED FIG TREE & THE FRUITLESS TEMPLE
RYNE PARRISH - MAR 06, 2022

This week we are continuing our sermon series on the Holy Week which studies Jesus’ final 7 days leading up to his crucifixion, burial, and resurrection. Using the account of Jesus’ visit to the temple in Jerusalem found in the gospel of Mark, Ryne’s lesson today encourages us with a reminder that Jesus can move mountains, any obstacles that stand in the way of people coming to God.

ROADMAP TO GLORY
RYNE PARRISH - MAR 13, 2022

Continuing our sermon series on the Holy Week, Ryne’s lesson helps us spot the sign posts that point toward the cross and reminds us what Jesus himself says his death will mean for us all.

THE ANOINTING OF JESUS
SUSAN JEW - MAR 20, 2022

Continuing our sermon series on the Holy Week, which looks at the days leading up to Jesus’s crucifixion, burial and resurrection, Susan Jew leads us through the account of the anointing of Jesus and illustrates how the woman’s actions, though criticized as careless and wasteful, demonstrated that she understood that Jesus was worth it.

HOLY WEEK - COMMUNION SERVICE
RYNE PARRISH - MAR 27, 2022

Continuing our sermon series on the Holy Week, Ryne leads our congregation through a reflection on what Jesus says and does during his last passover meal with his disciples, and how we can recognize these things about Jesus in our own lives.

LOOKING AT JESUS ON THE CROSS
RYNE PARRISH - APR 03, 2022

It’s Good Friday, the day of Jesus’ crucifixion, in the timeline of our sermon series on the Holy Week. Ryne’s message this week highlights the irony behind the severity of Jesus’ death and the need for us to acknowledge the broken body of Christ, which mirrors our own weakness, suffering, insufficiency, guilt, sorrow, and wounds.

IF CHRIST WERE NOT RAISED
RYNE PARRISH - APR 10, 2022

The penultimate day in the timeline of our sermon series on the Holy Week is what Ryne would call Silent Saturday. Ryne’s message this week reflects on the silence of the Saturday between Jesus’ crucifixion and the resurrection; an examination of silence, stillness, and rest.

BEGINNING AGAIN ON EASTER
RYNE PARRISH - APR 17, 2022

Concluding our sermon series on the Holy Week, Ryne offers a message of the resurrection, a message that reminds us that Jesus is alive, that he is with us, and that we are invited to a fresh start, a new beginning, a new life.

GROUNDED IN JESUS
KAREN SEWELL - APR 24, 2022

This week’s sermon takes a look at what it means to be grounded in Jesus as seen through the eyes of some of our congregation’s members who truly emulate Christ, who seek out God’s wisdom, and who many of us lean on as we look to secure our own foundation in Jesus.

CONTINUING THE MINISTRY OF JESUS
RYNE PARRISH - MAY 01, 2022

Beginning a new sermon series focused on what happens next, following the resurrection of Jesus, Ryne brings us a lesson that highlights our role in spreading the good news. We have inherited the mission of telling others about Jesus, we have inherited the mission of continuing the ministry of Jesus.

DREAMERS, VISIONARIES, AND PROPHETS
RYNE PARRISH - MAY 15, 2022

Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne’s message this week encourages us to acknowledge the Holy Spirit, to be aware of how it works in our lives (and to accept it through baptism if we haven’t already), and he challenges us to dream, envision, and prophesy about what kingdom work God has planned for our community.

A CALL TO ACTION
RYNE PARRISH - MAY 22, 2022

Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne delivers a message that implores us to put our God-given talents to use in the work of continuing the ministry of Jesus so that we might see the impact God’s plan has in the community we belong to.

THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING
RYNE PARRISH - MAY 29, 2022

Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne’s message this week encourages us with a reminder that God can accomplish healing through us.

SHAPED BY STORY
RYNE PARRISH - JUN 05, 2022

Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne delivers a sermon that reminds us that if we are to continue the ministry of Jesus, we must be led by the Holy Spirit and not allow ourselves to cling to worldly idols that distract us from being spirit-led.

GOD’S NOT MAGIC
RYNE PARRISH - JUN 12, 2022

Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne’s lesson encourages us to repent when our relationship to God consists solely of trying to use God for our own ends. We are called to notice the work that the Holy Spirit is already doing in us and through us, and to join in on that work, not to try to use God like magic.

ALL THE PEOPLES OF THE EARTH WILL BE BLESSED
ABBY KAPLAN - JUN 26, 2022

Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Abby Kaplan brings us the message that reminds us that God is not only inviting us to join him in the work he is already doing, but that he loves us enough that he allows us to be included in that work.

PRAYER, RESURRECTION, AND GRAND REVERSALS
RYNE PARRISH - JUL 03, 2022

Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne’s message this week is that God often turns things on their heads, especially when we least expect it, and reminds us why that’s not only good for us, but important for us.

HOW TO NOT END UP ON THE WRONG SIDE OF PROPHECY
RYNE PARRISH - JUL 10, 2022

Ryne’s sermon this week, the next in our What Happens Next sermon series, reminds us that because of Jesus, we have been unconditionally included in God’s grand work of extending salvation to the world, and that every time we are reminded of this inclusion, we should react as the Gentiles did in Acts 13—with gladness and praise for the Lord.

THE ROLLERCOASTER OF LIFE IN CHRIST
RYNE PARRISH - JUL 17, 2022

This week in our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne encourages the church with a message that reminds us that the good news of Jesus is not that the rollercoaster of life only moves upward, but that when the rollercoaster goes down, God is the one engineering the upturn.

UNITY IN THE MIDST OF DIFFERENCE AND DISAGREEMENT
RYNE PARRISH - JUL 24, 2022

Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne’s lesson reminds the church to keep a focus on the one and only “salvation issue” and reminds us that everything else is not worth division and discord.

MINISTRY IN GRAYSCALE
RYNE PARRISH - JUL 31, 2022

Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne preaches about the mistake we sometimes make in expecting God to guide us in a way that is crystal-clear, black-and-white, and encourages us to see the grayscale of God’s plan for us, so that we might be open-minded and ready to see that plan when we hear our own version of the Macedonian call.

FAITH
RAYMOND JEW - AUG 07, 2022

In this week’s sermon, Raymond’s message offers an encouraging reminder of the immense power of God that is shown when we have even the smallest measure of faith.

AN UNUSUAL NIGHT IN JAIL
RYNE PARRISH - AUG 14, 2022

Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne’s message to the church is a reminder that we all sometimes need an attitude adjustment, and illustrates the importance of embodying the disposition that Christians are called to have, even in the face of trials of many kinds.

TURNING THE (POLITICAL) WORLD UPSIDE DOWN
RYNE PARRISH - AUG 21, 2022

Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne’s lesson this week examines what happened in Acts when the apostles preached Jesus as King, and what the upending of our world looks like when we do the same.

TURNING THE (CULTURAL) WORLD UPSIDE DOWN
RYNE PARRISH - AUG 28, 2022

Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne’s sermon highlights the idea that we often blend Christ with our broader culture to the extent that the gospel loses its distinctiveness, and examines what the upending of our culture looks like when we allow the gospel to reorient us.

TURNING THE (ECONOMIC) WORLD UPSIDE DOWN
RYNE PARRISH - SEPT 04, 2022

Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne’s lesson encourages us to consider what the upending of the world’s economy might look like if we allowed the gospel to shape the way we engage in the economy, and makes the case for doing just that.

PASSING THE BATON
RYNE PARRISH - SEPT 11, 2022

Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, a study of the book of Acts, Ryne’s message this week is that if we want to ensure the message of life in Christ is passed down to new generations, we have to live lives of example that show what the message of a life in Christ is.

FOLLOWING & BREAKING THE PATTERN OF JESUS
RYNE PARRISH - SEPT 18, 2022

Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne delivers a sermon that looks at the similarities between Jesus’s story and Paul’s, and gives a reminder that God’s will for us isn’t always what we expect it will be—that sometimes God uses our circumstances to do his will in ways we didn’t see coming.

INNOCENCE AS WITNESS
RYNE PARRISH - SEPT 25, 2022

Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne’s lesson reminds us that our ability to spread the truth of the gospel rests on our innocence from the sins Christians are most often, and most rightly, accused of. We must be able to show, through our behavior and actions, that we live lives meaningfully changed by the Holy Spirit.

THE DEFINING FACTOR
KENT TURPIN - OCT 02, 2022

This week’s message comes from Kent Turpin and is a heart-felt reminder of the one thing that should define and guide us as Christians - love.

NOT IN A CORNER
RYNE PARRISH - OCT 09, 2022

Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series and our look through the book of Acts, Ryne’s message is a lesson in the importance of letting our light shine, and a look at why following Christ doesn’t happen in dark corners.

WHAT NEXT?
RYNE PARRISH - OCT 16, 2022

Concluding our sermon series on What Happens Next, Ryne’s lesson this week is an encouraging reminder that what’s next for us is exactly what was next for the first-century church in Acts—that what might seem like an anti-climactic ending is really an open-ended beginning for God’s church to ask and act on what’s next? Whatever comes next, the continuing presence of Jesus is a certainty, and the whole point is that the story is not yet over.

THE WITCH AND THE GHOST
RYNE PARRISH - OCT 30, 2022

Continuing our theme of revisiting some of the bible’s strange and spooky stories, this week we hear a chilling retelling of King Saul’s visit with the Witch of Endor and his conversation with the spirit of Samuel that was summoned back from the dead.

FINDING HOME: MOVING
RYNE PARRISH - NOV 06, 2022

Beginning a new sermon series, Finding Home, Ryne’s message this week is that God is with us through our liminal spaces, and that when we need direction, we should look to the Lord who goes before us to guide our way.

FINDING HOME: RENTING
RYNE PARRISH - NOV 13, 2022

Continuing our sermon series, Finding Home, Ryne brings us a lesson that motivates us to participate fully in God’s physical creation of this world, even though we know that this place is temporary and our permanent home awaits us.

FINDING HOME: RECEIVING AN INHERITANCE
RYNE PARRISH - NOV 20, 2022

In the final lesson of our sermon series, Finding Home, Ryne’s message looks at the inheritance that God has promised to us, and examines how it is already ours even though we must wait for it.

SINGING CHRISTMAS: CHRISTMAS IS COMING
RYNE PARRISH - DEC 04, 2022

Beginning this December’s sermon series, Singing Christmas, Ryne’s message this week emphasizes the anticipation of the glorious impossible—the birth of Christ to a virgin mother, and God’s coming near to all of humanity.

SINGING CHRISTMAS: HEAVENLY PEACE ON EARTH
RYNE PARRISH - DEC 11, 2022

Continuing December’s sermon series, Singing Christmas, Ryne’s lesson examines heavenly peace and the ways that it transcends what we might recognize as worldly peace.

SINGING CHRISTMAS: LIGHT OF THE WORLD
SUSAN JEW - DEC 18, 2022

Susan Jew continues December’s sermon series, Singing Christmas, with a lesson that examines the theme of light in several of our Christmas hymns, and a reminder that the message they share is that Jesus is the Light of the World.

JESUS, LORD AT THY BIRTH
RYNE PARRISH - DEC 25, 2022

Continuing our sermon series, Singing Christmas, Ryne takes us through hymns that highlight the message that Jesus, when he came to this earth as a newborn baby, did not grow up and become the Messiah, but at the moment of his birth, was already Lord of all.

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