Sermon Summary: Matthew 28:16-20 is well-known as the Great Commission. But do we understand what it tells us about God’s heart for the nations? And where do we stand in our fulfillment of it? And does our heart for the nations reflect God’s heart for the nations?

Text: Matthew 28:16-20

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: 08/13/2023

Title: God’s Heart for the Nations

Sermon Summary: Psalm 25 is an alphabetic acrostic prayer, filled with the reality of trouble. God through David has given us a primer on prayer for an alphabet soup of trouble.

Text: Psalm 25

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: 08/06/2023

Title: A Primer on Prayer, for an Alphabet Soup of Trouble

Sermon Summary: Psalm 24 invites us to know the King as he truly is, in order to worship him and welcome him rightly.

Text: Psalm 24

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: 7/30/2023

Title: An Introduction to the King

Sermon Summary: Psalm 23 reminds us that Yahweh provides restoration for the weather-beaten soul. This psalm distinctly presents Yahweh as a good shepherd and gracious host. These themes point us to the Greater One, Jesus, who extends a new life of hope and restoration.

Text: Psalm 23

Speaking: Pastor Nick Pacurari

Date: 07/23/2023

Title: An Invitation for the Weary Soul

Sermon Summary: Psalm 22, quoted by Jesus on the cross of salvation, helps us know how we gain well-grounded hope and ultimate deliverance through the grave suffering of Christ, the innocent King.

Text: Psalm 22

Speaking: Rev. Dr. Craig Doctor

Date: 07/16/2023

Title: Our Sure Hope of Victorious Deliverance from Suffering

Sermon Summary: What kind of ally and friend are you longing for in your life? Psalm 21 explores the hope we have when we have Christ the King as our friend and ally.

Text: Psalm 21

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: 07/09/2023

Title: Jesus, Our Friend and King

Sermon Summary: As a corporate prayer of blessing on the king before battle, Psalm 20 is unique in the psalter to this point. This psalm has a word for us who anxiously face our own “day of adversity,” pointing us beyond itself to the Greater King David.

Text: Psalm 20

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: 07/02/2023

Title: Deliverance in a Day of Anxiety

Sermon Summary: God has revealed Himself to us! Psalm 19 points us to two beautiful sources of God's revelation to us: Creation and the Word of God. With God's revelation to us, we are left to make our response to Him.

Text: Psalm 19

Speaking: Pastor Jeff Lynn

Date: 06/25/2023

Revelation and Response

Sermon Summary: Psalm 18 reminds us that life is conflict, conflict feels like death, and we need deliverance. Deliverance is possible because God is powerful and personal. And since our covenantal King has conquered and won the war, we faithfully engage in the conflict until he comes.

Text: Psalm 18

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: 06/18/2023

Title: With the King in Conflict

Sermon Summary: The stories we tell ourselves and God--and the stories we live out--in suffering and supplication, matter.

Text: Psalm 17

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: 06/11/2023

Title: Story-telling Prayer

Sermon Summary: We all long for safety, security, and having our needs met. Psalm 16 gives us a portrait of what it looks like to trust God for our safety, security, and provision.

Text: Psalm 16

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: 06/04/23

Title: A Portrait of Trust

Sermon Summary: All of humanity is searching for some connection with the transcendent. Psalm 15 brings us to wrestle with the question, “To whom will the God of the Bible extend the hospitality of his home?”

Text: Psalm 15

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: 05/28/23

Title: With God on His Mountain

Sermon Summary: The second thing worse before God behind idolatry is to overlook people in their distress.

Text: Matthew 25:31-40, 45

Speaking: Pastor Néstor Gómez

Date: 05/21/2023

Title: A Call to Love Mercy

Sermon Summary: In Jude, we see a picture painted of great evil at work to shake the faithful. However, we are reminded that a greater Savior is also at work and there is a better way to live than the lies thrown at us.

Speaking: Gustavo Formenti

Date: April 30

Text: Jude 1-16

Title: A Better Way to Live

Sermon Summary: In Jude, we see a picture painted of great evil at work to shake the faithful. However, we are reminded that a greater Savior is also at work and there is a better way to live than the lies thrown at us.

Speaking: Gustavo Formenti

Date: April 30

Text: Jude 1-16

Title: A Better Way to Live

Sermon Summary: In Jude, we see a picture painted of great evil at work to shake the faithful. However, we are reminded that a greater Savior is also at work and there is a better way to live than the lies thrown at us.

Speaking: Gustavo Formenti

Date: April 30

Text: Jude 1-16

Title: A Better Way to Live

Sermon Summary: In 2 John, we are given some action steps in order to walk in the truth of the gospel. We open our hearts, sit ourselves down the truths of the gospel, and shut the door to false teachers.

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: April 16

Text: 2 John

Title: How to Walk: Open, Sit, Shut

Series: NT Postcards: Walking in the Truth

Sermon Summary: In 2 John, we are given some action steps in order to walk in the truth of the gospel. We open our hearts, sit ourselves down the truths of the gospel, and shut the door to false teachers.

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: April 16

Text: 2 John

Title: How to Walk: Open, Sit, Shut

Series: NT Postcards: Walking in the Truth

Sermon Summary: Isaiah 25 is quite a chapter: A Tale of Two Cities… A Feast, a Foe, and a Final Outcome… a Context, a Center, and a Call. What does it all mean? It means there is a Feast-giving, Tear-wiping, Disgrace-removing, Death-Swallowing Deliverer ready to welcome you into his family.

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: April 9

Text: Isaiah 25:6-9

Title: The Feast-Giving, Death-Swallowing Deliverer

Series: Stand Alone

Sermon Summary: As Jesus enters Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, he is declaring his kingship. You should worship Jesus as the King of your life, because Jesus is King of Kings.

Speaking: Pastor Jeff Lynn

Date: April 2

Text: Matthew 22:1-17

Title: King of Kings

Series: Stand Alone