A Christmas Eve message retelling the birth of Jesus from Luke 2, with the shepherds and angels, and reflecting on the magi drawn from the east in Matthew, showing how the newborn Christ was relevant to all sorts of people across cultures.
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Continuing the Advent series, this message reflects on Romans 16:25-27 and "the mystery kept secret for long ages" now revealed in Christ, exploring questions of how God can be just and good and whether we are left alone, answered in Jesus as Emmanuel, God with us.
Listen & readContinuing the Advent series, this message focuses on the theme of love, drawing on 1 Thessalonians, a letter of the Apostle Paul to the church he founded in Thessalonica, and the church's hope that the Christ who came once will come again.
Listen & readAn Advent message on Isaiah 40:1-5, where God tells the exiled people their warfare is ended and iniquity pardoned, tracing the prophecy's three fulfillments (Cyrus, John the Baptist, and Christ's awaited return) and urging listeners to receive God's comfort and pardon now.
Listen & readA guest speaker opens the Advent season on its first Sunday, themed around hope and expectant waiting, reflecting on Isaiah 64's cry for God to come down, amid the weariness of waiting through the pandemic year.
Listen & readOn the last Sunday of the church year, continuing the series on God moving first, this message turns to Matthew 19 and the rich young ruler who asks what good deed he must do to inherit eternal life, set against Jesus's call to receive the kingdom like a child.
Listen & readContinuing the series on God moving toward us first, this message turns to Acts 9 and Saul's conversion on the road to Damascus, where Christ confronts the church's chief persecutor, showing that God's initiating grace comes by his prerogative, not ours.
Listen & readContinuing the series on God moving first, this message wrestles with Matthew 26 and the woman anointing Jesus with costly perfume at Bethany ("you will always have the poor with you"), reflecting on how God consistently works through weakness rather than power.
Listen & readContinuing the series on God moving toward us first, this message connects Exodus 19 (God carrying Israel on eagles' wings) with Mark 5, the intertwined healings of Jairus's daughter and the woman with the issue of blood, both of whom come to Jesus in desperation.
Listen & readBeginning a series on God moving toward us first, this message returns to Exodus 3 and the burning bush, tracing how God's initiating love provided for Moses throughout his life, and reflecting that God calls us out of nothing simply because he loves us.
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