Sermons from March 2012

Are any of you busy, stressed, or tired? Life has many demands on our lives. Often times we need more than 24 hours in a day to get work done, study for an exam, or finish a house project. It is hard to slow down when the pace of life is racing at lightning speed. What if we were to stop and rest? Sounds foreign doesn’t it? Not just for a moment, but for a whole…

Bert & Sheila Thomson Today, one single decision will change the outcome of your life forever. Either you will welcome change into your life and grow from it, or you will back away from change into some unhealthy behavior. All too often, we give in to the pressures of the moment and fail to acknowledge where the choices we are making will take us. The decision to…

The financial world defines ‘investment’ as an asset or item that is purchased with the hope that it will generate income or appreciate in the future. God, too, is an ‘investment specialist.’ His speciality is investing in us so that we can reach out to an oftentimes skeptical and hurting world…

As part of our Volunteer Sunday series, we will be exploring what it would look like if everyone in ourchurch community served others. Even in the Bible, we learn this about Jesus: “Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many (Matthew 20:28).” Investing time, treasure, and talents into helping others can make a…

Galatians 6:7 “A man reaps what he sows.” In this verse, and in others like it, we are introduced to the general principle, that as a man sows he will reap. People who work in the field of agriculture know this personally – as a seed is sown into the ground, they expect it to bring forth a crop. If the sowing is liberal, and the seed is good, they expect the crop to be…