Please join us as we come together to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus. Maundy Thursday (Thursday, 7 PM): Guided by readings from the gospel of Mark, singing hymns focused on the cross, and celebrating the Lord’s Supper together, we’ll join for a solemn, yet hopeful, time of reflecting on Christ’s death for us.…
How We Offer Ourselves to God (Romans 12, Part 4) Geoff Ziegler, March 17, 2024 https://youtu.be/–u8bCo-Auk?si=4uM782PRpeshP0Z3 I want to start by thinking about where we’ve been to this point. For the last few weeks, we’ve been focusing on a single biblical instruction: “Offer your bodies to God as a sacrifice.” The first 11 chapters of…
God’s Mercy, the Theme of Your Song (Romans 11 & 12, Part 3) Nick Owens, March 10, 2024 https://youtu.be/vcIgGLPDNjI?si=ZDFzz0-i5nRSYRC6 Can I ask you a sort of artsy question? If you had to write a song that caught the jist of your life (some of you are like, “I hate poetry…. no please don’t make me…..”)…
Finding Through Losing (Romans 11 & 12, Part 2) Geoff Ziegler, March 3, 2024 https://youtu.be/WcQf3rI7L8I?si=cTGl07ayAQnOEX7Z Last week, we said that if you understand the gospel, if you understand Christianity, one response will increasingly make sense to you. One response to the gospel will increasingly describe the way you live your life. You will, more and…
Presenting Our Bodies to God as a Sacrifice (Romans 11 & 12, Part 1) Geoff Ziegler, February 25, 2024 https://youtu.be/txMmORNusu4?si=GAEX_Xrh_IfTDt8C Many years ago in college I was taught that if you want to understand the argument someone is making in an essay or a book, sometimes it can be helpful to go straight to the…
By Faith (Romans 4) NIck Owens, February 18, 2024 https://youtu.be/yrVIUkg-eO4?si=HwaBQ1hmEEDdkh2z Throughout life in various relationships or with various groups we have a sense of what we need to be “in” with that group. How it is that we can belong and be accepted. As we’re growing up and in school, with some groups, if you…
The Good News (Romans 3, Part 2) Geoff Ziegler, February 11, 2024 https://youtu.be/siEThmfTme4?si=7_nC_I3d4QNge_3s When a group of Christians are discouraged because they feel like they are failing, or they have doubts, or they are divided, they need to be strengthened by the gospel. This is the conviction that drives the letter of Romans. Knowing the…
Can We Really Believe in Total Depravity? (Romans 3, Part 1) Nick Owens, February 4, 2024 https://youtu.be/pOCgbERJAIY?si=yaGRlh3wZ29X1mM4 Of the many things the Christian faith teaches, what it teaches about human sin has to be one of the most challenging things for modern people to stomach. How can we really believe what we just confessed a…
The Evil of Disordered Worship (Romans 1, Part 3) Geoff Ziegler, January 28, 2024 https://youtu.be/HzGZ31ulzak?si=T8yOWq0dJtDAcPI1 Last week if you weren’t here with us, we began considering how Paul in Romans orients us to the story in which we are living. We are part of a big, transcendent, mysterious world; there is a cosmic battle that…
Locating Ourselves in God’s Great Story (Romans 1, Part 2) Geoff Ziegler, January 21, 2024 https://youtu.be/G1JCyBgz8CQ?feature=shared Our Need for Story Every week as I prepare the sermon for that Sunday, one of the questions I constantly feel the weight of is quite simple. Is this practical? I’m a big picture thinker, and I know one…