On Sunday mornings Pastor Dirk and other guest speakers take the Bible and provide inspiring, encouraging, and often challenging messages to help you grow spiritually and discover good news from Jesus for your life.
If you are going to participate online, you can get the sermon notes and bulletins for each week below. Also there are links to the specific sermons, and an audio player for most Sunday messages.
We can build our lives upon trends or truth. At times trends can be truth, and at times truth can be trendy, but unless we have a firm foundation we cannot discover all that God has for us.
We are figuring out the new sound system - no audio recording, but you can watch the whole service on Facebook. The sermon starts at around 24 minutes.
New Series of Big Questions. Are all religions the same? It seems like an easy yes or no question, but it really depends on what you mean by that. Are religions superficially different, yet fundamentally the same, or are they superficially the same, yet fundamentally different. It is a great question to think about as we build our faith.
None of us are perfect. How can we learn from our mistakes, and them move on to something much better?
Sometimes it might feel you are living under a curse. Is that the case? God’s power wants to point you to the way to get out of the curse and discover God’s blessings.
What does a fish story and a fish breakfast have to do with compassion? Watch on the Facebook recording to find out.
What one thing do you focus your life on? What one thing defines who you are? There is a beautiful story of choosing the right one thing in the Bible, and Pastor Dave explores it in this great sermon.
A classic story from the Bible involves three guys, an upset king, and a fiery furnace - another great Bible moment is Jesus walking on a lake. Both of these show how close salvation can be, and how scary moments in life can be. But in faith we can be bold!
When we get trapped it is easy to respond in ways that hurt ourselves, hurt others, or just plain don’t end up well. Learning from the Exodus story, we can find a better way.
Noah’s Ark is not a children’s story. Let’s read it as adults, and see how the message of Jesus helps us understand a classic story of the Bible.
(This service was recorded live outside under the pavilion, so there was no facebook live video, and the recording sounds a bit different).
Temptation is something everyone can relate to. But not everyone responds the same. It is not a simple as “just say no.” Looking at some great stories from the Bible, we will be seeing how temptation can go really bad, or how we can have hope even when tempted.
It doesn’t have to be summer to go stargazing - but it helps because you don’t have to worry about freezing. But when you look up at the stars, what do you see? Some see points of light, others see flaming balls of fire light years away, but you can also see God’s faithfulness. God invited Abram out of his tent, and to look up and count the stars…
This song was part of the inspiration for the message:
Your faith is not simply a matter of knowledge or feelings. As God’s children, there is so much more. We can look back at the Jewish roots of our faith, and learn a great deal. Hear, O Israel…
It is possible to miss all that God has for you. It isn’t just about missing out on blessings God might want you to enjoy, or that thing God might be called you to do, but it can be missing out on who God is. God comes as creator Father, God comes as familiar Son, but also as the otherly Spirit. On Pentecost we remember the gift to the first disciples, the gift which began the church, and the gift which can take up deeper into the spiritual life God wants us to have. Don’t be content with just part of God.
Sometimes God says wait. For as active and purposeful as God is - waiting is often part of His plan. So how do we deal with this? What does it mean to wait well? The Bible talks about waiting for God. Let us learn to make the most of the waiting and receive the most from God!
How do you discover God’s will for you life? What does it mean to give up your control to God?
Have you ever had plans not go as you expected? Has something happened in your life that changed your course dramatically? You just may be able to relate to Joseph in the Bible. The story of Joseph will help you navigate your new reality with a little more confidence.
In somewhere around 500 sermons, I have never preached a “Mother’s Day” sermon. It is not that I have anything against mothers or mother’s day, and in 2019 things are changing. While mother’s day is not something from the Bible, the idea behind the day certainly is. So let us honor our mothers, and grow closer to God.
What does it take to live together as God desires? While much has changed in the world, the fundamentals are the same. Having just returned from a mission trip with 27 people from 4 different churches, Pastor Dirk shares how biblical truths apply to our lives today.
