Redeemed from Bitterness

Redeemed from Bitterness

A Sermon Based on Ruth 1:14-22

There’s a lot we can learn about bitterness from what we see here. A lot. And we could talk about it. We could talk about how we tend to carry it somewhere deep inside. That resentment. That anger. That feeling down there that life isn’t exactly as it should be. That thing or things that make your soul want to scrunch up its face like you just tasted something that makes your taste buds reel and makes you want to spit your own life out. There are many things we can learn from bitterness here and we will, but there is one thing we must learn. Listen in.

Redeemed from Insecurity

Redeemed from Insecurity

(A Sermon Based on Ruth 1:1-14)

You can read the opening of this story in a Robert Frost kind of way - as a chance to ask yourself if you'll travel the road less traveled and hold onto someone who is valueless to you. You can also read the opening to this story as tragedy from beginning to end. You can even further read this story as the search for security or, more properly, insecure ways of trying to be secure. All of those readings, however, aren't the right ones. What is the right one? Listen in. You'll unlock security for your life with the narrator if you do.

Coming Together: Family

Coming Together: Family

A Sermon from Guest Preacher, Pastor Lucas Bitter, Based on Ephesians 5:21-6:4

Mission

Mission

A sermon from guest preacher, Pastor Ed Schuppe, based on 2 Cor. 5:14-21

The Spirit's Vision

The Spirit's Vision

A Sermon Based on Ezekiel 37:1-14

The most bizarre thing about Ezekiel's bizarre vision is that it doesn't feel bizarre. We recognize it. We wish we wouldn't, but we do. There's something that's so real about it. We too stare at something that looks like an archaeological dig. We too can feel like we're trapped in a valley of death out of which we can't see a way. This is a sermon about how the Spirit gives people in a place like that faith that sees past the valley; hope against hope; and trust in life over death.

True and Reasonable

True and Reasonable: An Apologetics Toolbox for Sharing the Hidden God

(CLASS 8 of Peace Academy session)

We look at some of the arguments around Jesus' resurrection from the dead.