July 24, 2022 – Matt Slove, Pastoral Resident 1 John 4:7-21 Message Big Idea – God is love. If we are His children, we should do love. As we love, He participates and brings His love to full expression through us. Love is an action verb that is rooted in the identity of our Father in Heaven and all He …
July 17, 2022 – Pastor Dawn Hayman 1 John 4:1-6 Message Big Idea – We live in the age of what some call post-truth. Truth doesn’t matter. Feelings matter. We see this in today’s rhetoric—just look at Facebook. Emotions rule. Whatever makes us feel good becomes truth. John’s warning: If you just follow your feelings, you will believe every spirit …
July 10, 2022 – Pastor Bill Yaccino 1 John 3:11-24 Message Big Idea – God saw that we had gotten ourselves into a big mess in the world, with each other, with ourselves and who God created us to be, with wars and factions and hate. He saw us turning on one another and using one another for our own …
July 3, 2022 – Matt Slove, Pastoral Resident 1 John 3:1-10 Message Big Idea – God is a loving Father. In His love, he has given us a new identity, the right to be called a child of God. As a child of His we are meant to reflect His character, His distinguishing marks, His nature, or what is called …
June 26, 2022 – Pastor Drew Litwiller 1 John 2:18-29 Message Big Idea – Jesus is the Christ, which means Anointed One. Through His anointing, we receive an anointing from His Holy Spirit, who gives us a direct connection to Jesus and to God the Father. This same Spirit teaches us what we need to know so that we can …
June 19, 2022 – Pastor Bill Yaccino 1 John 2:7-17 Message Big Idea – John wrote, in no uncertain terms, that if we claim to know and love God, we must show this by doing what God commands. The way we treat others is the measure of our love and obedience. At the same time, the bible teaches that there …
June 12, 2022 – John David – NB Elder 1 John 1:5-2:6 Message Big Idea – Today’s society, like the time of John, is filled with several teachings and mindsets that are contrary to the teachings of Scripture. Oftentimes, false teachers don’t refer to themselves as such as a lot of them consider their teachings to be the truth. As …
June 5, 2022 – Pastor Dawn Hayman 1 John 1:1-4 Message Big Idea – Through all the wonderful stories, law and gospel, scripture reveals and presents the fullness of God’s nature. As we engage the Bible and grow in our knowledge of God, we may experience fear, awe, or what this week’s passage calls trembling. In these 7 verses of …
May 29, 2022 – Gary Rohrmayer Psalm 119:161-168 Message Big Idea – Through all the wonderful stories, law and gospel, scripture reveals and presents the fullness of God’s nature. As we engage the Bible and grow in our knowledge of God, we may experience fear, awe, or what this week’s passage calls trembling. In these 7 verses of Psalm 119, …
May 22, 2022 – Gary Rohrmayer Message Big Idea – God’s Word speaks to me, strengthens me, directs me, and reveals God to me. When the Psalmist considers the truths of God’s Word, he stands in awe of their beauty, balance, wisdom, and sheer truthfulness. There is nothing with which to compare it! Not everybody recognizes truth, and so they …
