Episodes
Sunday Aug 04, 2019
The New Heaven and the New Earth (Part 3)
Sunday Aug 04, 2019
Sunday Aug 04, 2019
About 50 years ago, a worship service holding 400,000 people took place in Bethel, New York. Author Brett McCracken described what was known as Woodstock, the mass gathering celebrating music, drugs, sex, and “peace” defining the counterculture 1960s, as “the festal concert gathering as a spiritual fixture in the liturgies of our secular age.” One attendee proclaimed: “It was indescribable. The feeling that came over me of warmth and Oh my God, there are this many people in the world that think like I think? It was like meeting your brothers and sisters.” Another attendee shouted, “We must be in heaven, man!”
When that many people gather and there is so-called love and peace with people, the first inclination is this must be heaven. A gathering of people “perfectly” expressing love. I was at a restaurant yesterday where they played a bunch of 80s songs. Bryan Adams “Heaven” blared through the speakers. Pretty much every secular song about heaven is always about meeting the dream of your life, falling in love, and then of course, that’s heaven. Even Christians fall into this type of thinking. But is this heaven, meeting random people to get high on drugs and demonstrating for peace OR marrying the person of your dreams?
We are going to seek the answer by looking at Future Marriage, Past Marriage, and Present Marriage.
Text: Matthew 22:23-33
Speaker: Sam Shin
Date: August 4, 2019
Sunday Aug 11, 2019
Who Do You Think You Are?
Sunday Aug 11, 2019
Sunday Aug 11, 2019
Who are you? That is, what are the most defining marks of who you are as a person? Certainly in our current day and age we have a deep drive to paint a particular picture of ourselves that positions us well in the eyes of others. But what does God say about all this? In particular, what do the opening verses of Jude have to say about who we actually are? That's what this opening message on Jude will explore.
Text: Jude 1-2
Speaker: Chad Porter
Date: 8/11/19
Sunday Aug 18, 2019
The Peril of False Belief
Sunday Aug 18, 2019
Sunday Aug 18, 2019
As we continue our study through the book of Jude, we learn more about both the state of the community Jude’s writing to and his passion for the Christ in standing for the truth.
Sin creeps into our lives and communities slowly and slyly — often without major fanfare or front page headlines. Today we look more at the issues plaguing this church and how they parallel our own contact, even thousands of years later.
Text: Jude 17-23
Speaker: Chad Porter
Date: 8/18/19
Sunday Aug 25, 2019
Persevere
Sunday Aug 25, 2019
Sunday Aug 25, 2019
How are we to live faithfully as Christians in an environment that is, even in subtle ways, hostile to the gospel? What must our response be? How and when and to whom should we reach out in love and care and mercy? Jude gives us clear and compelling answers to these and many other questions this morning in the text before us.
Text: Jude 17-23
Speaker: Chad Porter
Date: 8/25/19