Worship Services from 2023 (Page 5)

Worship (9:00 AM Traditional) “Like It’s 1999”

Text: Revelation 19:6-9 The book of Revelation is quite complicated with many different and sometimes confusing images. The good news of the gospel is clear and concise — we are saved by Christ and Him crucified! Come and hear more about that good news this Sunday at 9:00 and 10:30.

Worship (10:30 AM Contemporary) “Children’s Time”

Text: Matthew 19:13-15 We get the words of Jesus wrong all the time, just like his earliest followers. When a group of children were hanging out with Jesus and having a great time, the disciples wanted to send them away for “bothering” Jesus. But Jesus knows children are the center of God’s love, not on the margins of it. Jesus sees children as keys to understanding everything that he is doing in and through the world. Jesus is inviting us…

Worship (9:00 AM Traditional) “Children’s Time”

Text: Matthew 19:13-15 We get the words of Jesus wrong all the time, just like his earliest followers. When a group of children were hanging out with Jesus and having a great time, the disciples wanted to send them away for “bothering” Jesus. But Jesus knows children are the center of God’s love, not on the margins of it. Jesus sees children as keys to understanding everything that he is doing in and through the world. Jesus is inviting us…

Worship (10:30 AM Contemporary) “Resentment”

Text: Matthew 18:21-35 “Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die,” writes Anne Lamott.  We may think ourselves beyond generous to forgive someone seven times but Jesus challenges our thinking by saying, “not seven times but seventy-seven times.”  In other words, for those of us who follow Christ, forgiveness becomes not so much an act but a way of life.  How are we equipping ourselves to face this giant of resentment?

Worship (9:00 AM Traditional) “Resentment”

Text: Matthew 18:21-35 “Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die,” writes Anne Lamott.  We may think ourselves beyond generous to forgive someone seven times but Jesus challenges our thinking by saying, “not seven times but seventy-seven times.”  In other words, for those of us who follow Christ, forgiveness becomes not so much an act but a way of life.  How are we equipping ourselves to face this giant of resentment?

Worship (10:30 AM Contemporary) “Success”

Text: Luke 12:13-21 Success can be a double-edged sword.  Even while God is equipping us to “do all things through Christ who strengthens [us],” Jesus warns us that “life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.”  How do we measure our success and have we ever “arrived” or does God call us to deeper purposes than success as our world defines it?   

Worship (9:00 AM Traditional) “Success”

Text: Luke 12:13-21 Success can be a double-edged sword.  Even while God is equipping us to “do all things through Christ who strengthens [us],” Jesus warns us that “life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.”  How do we measure our success and have we ever “arrived” or does God call us to deeper purposes than success as our world defines it?   

Worship (10:30 AM Contemporary) “Anger”

Text: Matthew 5:21-26 God’s Word provides us with solid reasoning on the importance of settling our differences with others.  The God of peace asks us to be reconciled with our brothers and sisters even before we come before the Lord in worship.  Wasn’t it peace that Jesus was showing us in his death on the cross?  How is God calling us to transform our anger into something life-giving before we do and say things that we later regret?

Worship (9:00 AM Traditional) “Anger”

Text: Matthew 5:21-26 God’s Word provides us with solid reasoning on the importance of settling our differences with others.  The God of peace asks us to be reconciled with our brothers and sisters even before we come before the Lord in worship.  Wasn’t it peace that Jesus was showing us in his death on the cross?  How is God calling us to transform our anger into something life-giving before we do and say things that we later regret?