Sermon Summary: The book of Daniel ends with more questions than answers; but the answers it provides are sufficient to lay to rest the questions that remain. Daniel 12 shapes our expectations for the children of God: distress, death, and ultimate deliverance. These reshaped expectations help us to wait well between the first and second Advents of Christ.

Text: Daniel 10-12, part 4

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: 12/24/2023

Sermon Summary: Daniel 10 is an eye-opening collision between the seen and unseen realms of the created world. Why this theme on the second Sunday before Christmas? Because it gives an additional framework for understanding the Bible’s story, a framework makes the gospel shine that much more beautifully… Realities that add dimension and depth, layers and brilliance that should lead us to long even more deeply for Jesus to return.

Text: Daniel 10-12, part 3

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: 12/17/2023

Scripture Reading: Daniel 10:1-11:1

Sermon Summary: The book of Daniel is full of suffering for the people of God. For the Christian, suffering becomes a tool that we can leverage in our own lives to cultivate a longing—not merely for the removal of that suffering—but the removal of the suffering by the coming of a person, the Lord Jesus in his second advent. Let’s allow the book of Daniel to shape our thinking about, and our longings in, suffering.

Text: Daniel 10-12, part 2

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: 12/10/2023

Title: The Purpose of Suffering God’s Providence

Sermon Summary: Daniel 10-12 is one unit. In the middle, we are introduced to an arrogant ruler who distorts reality by demanding inappropriate loyalty, and who targets the worshippers of God. But this is a pattern we see throughout the book of Daniel; knowing the pattern prepares the followers of God to stand with courage and conviction when the pattern appears throughout history.

Text: Daniel 10-12, part 1

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: 12/3/2023

Title: The Way of the Dragon: The Pattern, Progress, and Passing Away of Opposition to God

Sermon Summary: Daniel 9:20-27 is one of the most complex and crucial passages in the entire book and perhaps in the OT as a whole. But it’s all in the context of an answer to Daniel’s prayer. Weaving together themes of covenant, exodus, and temple, God opens up his plans for a Jubilee to the 10th degree for his people.

Text: Daniel 9:20-27

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: 11/26/2023

Title: A Complicated Answer to Prayer

Sermon Summary: Daniel 9 is a challenging passage, but too often, we focus on the last half and ignore the first half. In Daniel’s intercessory prayer, we discover the deepest problem of the human condition, and God’s solution for it.

Text: Daniel 9:1-19

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: 11/19/2023

Title: Darius, Jeremiah, Daniel: An Interesting Intercession

Sermon Summary: In Daniel 8, we look over Daniel’s shoulder into the beastly barnyard of an animal farm. What does this apocalyptic vision mean, and what encouragement does it have for us today?

Text: Daniel 8:1-17

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: 11/12/2023

Title: Animal Farm: A Beastly Barnyard

Sermon Summary: In Daniel 7 our eyes are opened to a vision of four temporary worldly empires, stirring our longing for the everlasting Kingdom of the Most High to be established. How, then, do we live in the midst of opposition and worldly powers as we long for the coming of the Son of Man, the Ancient of Days?

Text: Daniel 7

Speaking: Bob Thune

Date: 11/5

Title: The Son of Man

Sermon Summary: In Daniel 6, a follower of God finds himself as prey in a pit, hounded by predators, some of them the two-legged, human kind. What can we learn from this story about the plans and purposes of God?

Text: Daniel 6:1-28

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: 10/15/2023

Title: As Prey in the Pit with the Predators

Sermon Summary: When we face the immense cultural pressure to adopt the world’s priorities, allegiances, and practices of worship, how should followers of God respond? What should our posture and expectations be? And is there hope for the “worst case”? Daniel 3 helps us answer these sorts of questions.

Text: Daniel 3

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: 09/17/2023

Title: Bow or Burn

Sermon Summary: Here in Daniel 5, Belshazzar sees the writing on the wall, and he loses control (in more ways than one)! What conclusions does Daniel intend for us draw?

Text: Daniel 5

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: 10/1/2023

Title: Belshazzar Untied and Babylon Overthrown

Sermon Summary: When we face the immense cultural pressure to adopt the world’s priorities, allegiances, and practices of worship, how should followers of God respond? What should our posture and expectations be? And is there hope for the “worst case”? Daniel 3 helps us answer these sorts of questions.

Text: Daniel 3

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: 09/17/2023

Title: Bow or Burn

Sermon Summary: When we face the immense cultural pressure to adopt the world’s priorities, allegiances, and practices of worship, how should followers of God respond? What should our posture and expectations be? And is there hope for the “worst case”? Daniel 3 helps us answer these sorts of questions.

Text: Daniel 3

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: 09/17/2023

Title: Bow or Burn

Sermon Summary: When nations rise and fall, and rulers come and go, what is actually happening? Daniel 2 gives us a glimpse behind geopolitics at a God who sovereignly rules and graciously cares for his people.

Text: Daniel 2

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: 09/10/2023

Title: Our Mountain of Hope

Sermon Summary: Similar to Daniel and his friends deported to Babylon, we live as sojourners in a complex and confusing culture. How do we maintain our integrity and loyalty to God? How do we survive, and even thrive, in the world? Daniel 1 offers us some comfort and encouragement to Thrive as Sojourners.

Text: Daniel 1

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: 08/27/23

Title: Thriving as a Sojourner

Sermon Summary: Meet the book of Daniel! It’s a literary masterpiece, a history book, a story book, a prophetic and apocalyptic book, a theological book, a Christ-revealing book, and a practical book. We need God’s help to read it like a book, understanding its context, enjoying the stories, expecting to be stretched, worshipping him, looking for Jesus, and engaging our head, hands, and heart.

Text: 2 Chronicles 36:5-21, Daniel 1:1-3

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: 08/20/23

Title: Meet the Book of Daniel