Summary: Are we wasting our time with child dedications? Or are we practically and intentionally fulfilling our mission as part of the people of God? Deuteronomy 6 helps us answer this important question.

Text: Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Title: Child Dedication: Nice, but not Necessary?

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: October 20

Summary: Jesus teaches that God is a generous Father who desires to give good gifts to His children, and this divine generosity should transform the way we treat others

Text: Matthew 7:7-12

Title: The Father’s Posture Toward the People of God

Speaking: Pastor Nick Pacurari

Date: October 13

Summary: Only the culture of Jesus’ Upside-down Kingdom truly treasure’s grace as amazing.

Text: Matthew 7:1-6

Title: Treasuring Grace in the Upside-down Anti-Anxious Kingdom

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Summary: After revealing that the upside-down kingdom is anti-performative, and after redirecting and redeeming our ambition in the upside-down kingdom, Jesus addresses the presence of anxiety in our hearts. And we find that Jesus defangs and defeats anxiety in his anti-anxious upside-down Kingdom.

Text: Matthew 6:25-34

Title: Life in the Upside-down Anti-Anxious Kingdom

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: September 29

Summary Sentence: After addressing the performative spirituality of the religious, Jesus redirects and redeems ambition in his upside-down kingdom by making three contrasts: two ambitions, two visions, two masters.

Text: Matthew 6:1-18

Title: Ambition in the Upside-down Kingdom

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: September 22

Sermon Summary: Jesus warns us to avoid performative spirituality and invites us to a meaningful practice of spirituality. To motivate us, Jesus uses the new relationship we have with the Father, the responsibilities that relationship brings, and the reward the Father promises.

Text: Matthew 6:1-18

Title: Life in the Upside-down Anti-Performative Kingdom

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: September 15

Sermon Summary: Pastor Jeff Lynn walks us through the humility and power of Jesus, God incarnate.

Text: Philippians 2:5-11

Title: The Christ Hymn

Speaking: Pastor Jeff Lynn

Date: September 8

Sermon Summary: Psalm 40 is a breath after a deep plunge, the break of dawn after a long night. David the King wrote it as liturgy for all kings who followed him to frame their experiences in light of God’s deliverance. It describes the experience of every OT saint and every NT Christian, the united experiences of all of God’s people. And it invites us to find our place in God’s story through this kingly liturgy.

Text: Psalm 40

Title: A Liturgy for Finding your Place in God’s Story

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: September 1

Sermon Summary: With a graphic description of the brevity of life, Psalm 39 is for us an invitation to Memento Mori—“Remember Death” as we live life in a watching world.

Text: Psalm 39

Title: Memento Mori

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: August 25

Sermon Summary: Psalm 38 is an invitation into a way of experiencing suffering that connects you to its divine purposes. The child of God, in prayerful submission to the training of God, laments sin and suffering before God, trusting the character of God by running to the Son of God.

Text: Psalm 38

Title: An Invitation to Experience Suffering in a way that Connects to it’s Divine Purposes

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: August 18

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: August 11

Sermon Summary: Between Psalm 1 and Psalm 37, there’s a lot of ground, and a lot of lament. Are the righteous really like a tree and the wicked like the chaff? Psalm 37 reorients us to respond wisely as we watch the wicked--those with no fear of God yet who seem to be prospering.

Text: Psalm 37

Title: Wisely Watching the Wicked

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: August 11

Sermon Summary: Psalm 36 summarizes for us the Night of the human condition, the Light of God’s provision, and the Bright of Jesus’ intervention. And these movements move us; these stages ought to spur us to self-reflection, mission, and the means of grace.

Text: Psalm 36

Title: From Night to Light to Bright

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: August 4

Title: Worshipping while you Wait

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: July 28

Sermon Summary: We are repeatedly invited to praise God through the Psalms. And if God were like us, then praising him would be really hard in challenging circumstances. But in Psalm 33, the psalmists reminds us of three contrasts to compel us to join the praise party--even when we don’t feel like it.

Text: Psalm 33

Title: Worshipping while you Wait

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: July 28

Sermon Summary: In this sermon on Psalm 35, we explore at our need of vindication and rescue from our enemies and find our only hope in Jesus.

Text: Psalm 35

Title: God's Ultimate Rescue Through Jesus

Speaking: Pastor Jeff lynn

Date: July 21

Sermon Summary: In this sermon on Psalm 32, we explore the great joy of forgiveness through Christ.

Text: Psalm 32 Forgiveness

Speaking: Doctor Craig Doctor

Date: July 14

Sermon Summary: In this sermon on Psalm 34, we explore David’s personal journey from desperation to heartfelt worship, uncovering three key aspects: his intentions to praise God, his invitation for others to experience God’s goodness, and his instructions for living a God-centered life in a troubled world.

Text: Psalm 34

Title: Experiencing God’s Character in a Troubled World

Speaking: Pastor Nick Pacurari

Date: July 7

Sermon Summary: For what purpose does God bless his people? What does he intend those gifts to be used towards? Psalm 67 gives us the answer: God blesses his people, so that his people might bless the nations, so that the nation might worship God. So in line with that, it’s appropriate as the people of God, to pray for the blessing of God to leverage it for the mission of God.

Text: Psalm 67

Title: Material Blessing Towards Missional Benefit

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: June 30

Sermon Summary: How do we live when we cannot see what is to come? The answer all depends on who is making the promise. Do not lose hope, because when God promises, it's more than wishful thinking, it's truth prolonged.

Text: Revelation 21:1-27; 22:1-5, Acts 2:22-28

Speaking: Will Laing

Date: 6/23/24

Title: Bright as the Son

Sermon Summary: Cultural Christianity deadens us to the glory and beauty of the gospel--and we are each influenced by this cultural Christianity. From Psalm 31, we discover the incredibly overlap between the Old Testament and the New Testament, and discover three unfamiliar, yet strikingly counter-cultural ways to say, “I’m a Christian.”

Text: Psalm 31

Title: I’m a Christian X3

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: June 16

Sermon Summary: Psalm 30 is full of surprises--a surprising assumption about the form God’s kindness should take, a surprising kindness from God, and a surprising reversal--and these surprises call us to respond in our moments of suffering.

Text: Psalm 30

Title: Surprised by Grace

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: June 9