God enables His people to imitate Him in joyful love
Finding Joy In Loving Your Spouse
June 16, 2024 • Chris Legg • Matthew 13:44
Guest Chris Legg shares how we can find joy in loving our spouses. This sermon is applicable to everyone, whether you have a spouse or not and will help you treasure others in your life as well as realize the treasure you are!
Loving through Household Rhythms
June 9, 2024 • Wayne Braudrick • 1 John 3:4–6, John 15:9–11, Proverbs 16:32, Matthew 23:28, Proverbs 3:11–12
Our households are intended to be schools of love (to borrow a monastic phrase). Like any school, our homes cannot function without rules and habits – those regular practices that comprise rhythm. In this message, Pastor Wayne, demonstrates how important these rhythms are and gives incredibly helpful applications for every family!
Joy in Loving Through Marital Conflict
June 2, 2024 • Wayne Braudrick • 1 Peter 3:7, Numbers 30:1–2, Genesis 3:12–17, Ephesians 5:25–26, Ephesians 4:15
Conflict is part of life outside Eden, and the closer the relationship, the more explosive and painful the conflict can become. Thus, marital conflict is one of the most critical areas for a Christian to apply love. In this message, Pastor Wayne reveals how we can recognize the reality and inevitability of marital conflict, assess the arena, and work the problem to truly love one another well.
Joy in Loving the Brethren
May 26, 2024 • Jared Coe • 1 Corinthians 13
Followers of Jesus are called to love one another well, but it is more than that. Agape, self-sacrificial, love is only given to us by God, who saved us and enables us to love one another from the heart so that we might be a fully-functioning body and represent Him well. In this message, we look at how Paul instructed the church in Corinth to love one another and what that really looks like for all of us.
Joy in Loving the Antagonist
May 19, 2024 • Wayne Braudrick • Philippians 1:27–30, Lamentations 3:23, 2 Corinthians 3:18, 1 Corinthians 15:51
The Bible dedicates significant space describing how God’s people should respond to antagonists. Philippians 1:27-30 provides a concise outline of the big ideas: know who you are; walk worthy of Jesus; stand firm; be harmonious; contend for gospel truth; reject fear; remember the promise of suffering.
Joy in Loving the Stranger
May 12, 2024 • Wayne Braudrick • Leviticus 19:33–34, Leviticus 19:9–18
God is very explicit regarding strangers: both the legal resident alien and the person who is different. We are called to love the stranger as we love ourselves, expressing that love in fairness, opportunity, care without coddling, and inclusion.
Joy in Loving the Neighbor
May 5, 2024 • Wayne Braudrick • Luke 10, Matthew 22:35–40, Matthew 22
One of the major themes of scripture is to love one’s neighbors. The Law lays down boundaries of this love, while the prophets and writings show stellar (or infamous) examples. In the New Testament, Jesus brings it all together in what we remember as the two “Greats:” His Great Commandments and the Great Commission. Following those changes the believer and, quite often, the neighborhood.
Joy in being a beloved servant
April 28, 2024 • Wayne Braudrick • Psalm 92:12–14, 1 Corinthians 1:9, Romans 1:1, Colossians 3:22–24, 1 Timothy 4:12
Our love for ourselves is grasped not in anything about self, but in the person of our Master and gratitude for our calling. That love overflows in service since we are set aside to make a difference as holy slaves of Christ.
Loving the Saint
April 21, 2024 • Wayne Braudrick • 2 Corinthians 1:1–2, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Colossians 1:13, Romans 6:10–11, 1 Peter 1:1–2
God has provided new things for those who trust Christ, including identity, citizenship, way of life, and sainthood. As saints, Christians should follow the Lord in sanctification, making daily progress.
Loving self as an adopted child
April 14, 2024 • Wayne Braudrick • Genesis 1:27, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Galatians 2:20, Romans 8:16–18, 1 Peter 2:5
God loves us more richly than human minds can imagine. We are foolish when we don’t accept that love as adopted sons of God. Accepting the lie that we are completely right and good without God’s grace is equally foolish and tragically damning. The solution is to walk through and respond to the scriptural story of humanity:
We are created beings – materially limited, immaterially vulnerable, and morally accountable.
We can be justified in Christ – joined to Him by faith.
Those who trust Jesus are adopted sons and daughters of God – heirs with full access to the Triune God.
