Stand-Alone Sermons

Growing in Jesus

September 1, 2024 • Andrew Clark • Ephesians 4:11–16

Listen in as Pastor Andrew lays the foundation for community this fall at Anthem Church.

The Keeper's Rest

May 5, 2024 • Andrew Clark • Psalm 121

There is a paradox within our faith: we are called to live and work with all our might, but we are also called into the rest, comfort, and peace of God. How does this work? The degree to which we allow our hearts to fully find rest in God is also the degree to which we will cease finding peace through our striving. God keeps us, holds us, and never sleeps that we may enjoy and live out of the rest of God.

Easter Sunday

March 31, 2024 • Andrew Clark • Mark 16:1–8

The resurrection is not just an old event that we reference once a year. The resurrection is an eternal event that touches every moment of every year of our lives. We must recapture the awe, the surprise, and the overwhelming, unbelievable joy of the empty tomb - Jesus is alive, and this means everything to us.

Good Friday

March 29, 2024 • Andrew Clark • Psalm 22

In Psalm 22, we see not only a depiction of life in a broken world, we see the portrayal of Jesus Christ on the cross, the perfect king dying in the place of sinners. In the cross, the joy and pain of Christ touches the joy and pain of our lives, pointing to hope and restoration on Easter Sunday.

Planning within the Will of God

December 31, 2023 • Joel Maginnis • James 4:13–17

New year, new you, right? The New Year holiday is time for planning and for dreaming. What will the next year bring? It's fun to set our agenda and rank order our priorities. The book of James gives us insight into how we can do so wisely.

Jesus is Better

April 23, 2023 • Joel Maginnis • Hebrews 10

It doesn't matter where you've been or what kind of life you have cobbled together for yourself. Jesus is better and makes everything else obsolete, according the Hebrews 10. 

Sing a New Song

April 16, 2023 • John Neville • Romans 12:9–21

The Unbound Word (Easter Sunday)

April 9, 2023 • Andrew Clark • Matthew 28:1–10

No matter what life brings our way, no matter where we find ourselves, the reality of Easter is that the Spirit and power of God himself is not bound. In Christ, this Spirit lives inside of us, offering us power, peace, and participation in the story of God’s redemption.

Putting Down Stones

January 1, 2023 • Andrew Clark • Psalm 1

It’s a new year, which means it’s the time when most of us make plans and goals, with hope for a better future. Let’s start the year by putting down the most important stones first, that we may be rooted in grounded in places where we can be blessed to grow in Christ.

The Community We All Want

August 28, 2022 • Andrew Clark • Psalm 133

In order for church community to be good, pleasant, and glorifying to God, it needs to be submitted fully under the banner of Christ’s calling on each of our lives. True fellowship shares in God’s abundance, relief, and blessing as we pursue him together, loving one another as he has called us to in the gospel.

He Gives Good Gifts

July 3, 2022 • Andrew Clark • Luke 11:1–13

How do we grow as a community in devotion, prayer, and the secret place of God? Our posture is of the utmost importance; do we see God as distant and demanding, or as a loving Father who desires to give his children good gifts?

Burning Hearts

April 24, 2022 • Andrew Clark • Luke 24:13–35

How does Jesus give us true hope and endurance? When we’ve had enough of false encouragement, emotional highs, and frail convictions, we long for something more… in other words, we want our hearts to burn with resiliency in the midst of a broken world.

A Beautiful Inheritance

January 16, 2022 • Andrew Clark • Psalm 16

When life is hard, sometimes instead of fixing things we need to instead simply meditate on what God has done for us in Christ. What has he given us? Listen in as we examine this beautiful inheritance we have been freely given by the grace of God in Jesus.

The Holy Spirit Through Life

November 7, 2021

Listen in as Pastor Emeritus Bill Berry shares his testimony of how the Holy Spirit has grown him in the various seasons of his life.

Our Fading Glory

September 5, 2021 • Andrew Clark • 1 Peter 1:13–25

Our hearts all long for glory, and we seek it any way we can find it. The question is simply this: do we seek the imperishable or the fading glory?