July 3, 2022 • Rev. Adam Feichtmann • Matthew 5:7, Matthew 18:23–35, Leviticus 19:1–2, Leviticus 19:9–18, Colossians 3:12–15
Blessings on you!
This Sunday we'll begin a 4-week summer sermon series through the second four Beatitudes, found in Matthew 5, the beginning of Jesus' famous Sermon on the Mount. Last summer I preached through the first four Beatitudes, which are often known as the Beatitudes of Need. This summer we are climbing the ladder of the Beatitudes and focusing on the Beatitudes of Service. These Beatitudes are ultimately portraits of Jesus. As Jesus blessed his disciples and invited them to imitate his service, the same is true for us. Jesus blesses us and invites us to be merciful, pure in heart, peacemakers, and persecuted for righteousness sake in and through him.
I look forward to worshiping with you this Sunday and receiving a blessing from Christ our King!
Pastor Adam
Beatitudes: Blessed are the Pure in Heart
July 10, 2022 • Rev. Adam Feichtmann • Hebrews 12:12–16, Matthew 5:8, Matthew 23:25–28, Exodus 33:15–23
Blessings on you!
This Sunday we'll begin a 4-week summer sermon series through the second four Beatitudes, found in Matthew 5, the beginning of Jesus' famous Sermon on the Mount. Last summer I preached through the first four Beatitudes, which are often known as the Beatitudes of Need. This summer we are climbing the ladder of the Beatitudes and focusing on the Beatitudes of Service. These Beatitudes are ultimately portraits of Jesus. As Jesus blessed his disciples and invited them to imitate his service, the same is true for us. Jesus blesses us and invites us to be merciful, pure in heart, peacemakers, and persecuted for righteousness sake in and through him.
I look forward to worshiping with you this Sunday and receiving a blessing from Christ our King!
Pastor Adam
Beatitudes: Blessed are the Peacemakers
July 17, 2022 • Rev. Adam Feichtmann • Isaiah 11:6–8, Romans 5:1–5, Matthew 5:9
Are you a Christian?
If so, in the seventh Beatitude Jesus says you are a peacemaker.
Peace in the Bible is not the absence of pain or hostility. It’s not even described as tranquility of mind.
When Jesus speaks of peace, he describes whole relationships that function and flourish in the way they were created to be.
I look forward to worshiping together this Sunday as we consider how we can be peacemakers in all our relationships: with God, with family, with friends, with neighbors, and with co-workers.
If you’d like to reflect on some passages prior to Sunday, I suggest the following: Isaiah 11, Psalm 85, Matthew 5:9, Romans 5:1-5, and Colossians 1:15-23.
Pastor Adam
Beatitudes: Blessed are those who are Persecuted For Righteousness’ Sake
July 24, 2022 • Rev. Adam Feichtmann • Amos 5:21–24, 2 Timothy 3:12–17, Matthew 5:1–12
Happy are those who are persecuted.
Really?
Can you say that? Who would be happy after being persecuted?
This Sunday we will conclude our sermon series through Jesus’ Beatitudes by looking at the climactic and final beatitude: Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake. At first glance, it doesn’t make sense. However, after further reflection nothing else makes sense.
If you’d like to reflect more on the topic of persecution prior to Sunday, I would suggest meditating on the following passages: Matthew 5:1-12, Josh 17:18-27, 2 Timothy 3:12-17, and Amos 5:21-24.
I look forward to worshiping together this Sunday!
Pastor Adam
Salt & Light
July 31, 2022 • Rev. Josh Hahne • Micah 4:1–5, Colossians 4:2–6, Matthew 5:13–16
In this sermon preview I will make an unusual guarantee: I promise a sermon like no other, a sermon that sees deeply into the meaning of the Scriptures and yet practically applies its insights to daily life. I promise a sermon that challenges, teaches one to pray, unfolds an ethic of love, quells your anxiety, addresses our financial house, and moves the heart.
Of course, I’m speaking about the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew’s compilation of Jesus’ teaching ministry.
We begin with Matthew 5:13-16, in which Jesus makes a surprising claim: “You are the salt of the earth… the light of the world.”
See you on Sunday!
How Jesus Keeps the Law For Us and in Us
August 7, 2022 • Rev. Derek Rishmawy • Romans 8:1–8, Matthew 5:17–20
Many of us hear the good news that we're saved by grace and not the works of the Law and immediately draw the conclusion that the Law is bad or no longer relevant to our lives.
Not Jesus.
In Sunday’s sermon, we will look at what Jesus meant when he said he came "not to abolish, but to fulfill the Law" and how at least one of the things he came to do was not to do away with our obedience, but enable it through his own.
Pastor Derek
The Way of Anger or the Ethic of Love
August 14, 2022 • Rev. Josh Hahne • 1 John 4:7–21, Matthew 5:21–26, Matthew 5:38–48, Matthew 7:12
Jesus taught an ethic of love toward both neighbor and enemy. His life so beautifully embodied this ethic that readers of the gospels find themselves inextricably drawn to him. The way of Christ is so different from our base nature, one that is focused on self and bristles with anger.
This Sunday we'll continue our study of Jesus' most famous sermon, The Sermon on the Mount. We come to the section where Jesus speaks about anger, retaliation, loving our enemies, and the golden rule. Join us this Sunday and together we'll seek to learn from our Lord.
Pastor Josh
The Christian Sexual Ethic
August 21, 2022 • Rev. Josh Hahne • Proverbs 5, Matthew 5:27–30
One would almost need to be blind, or at least ignore the media, not to realize that sex, in one form or another (frequently illicit), has become the idol of our day, the goddess who must be honored. Not to do so has become a form of blasphemy against cultural norms. Nebuchadnezzar-like we have lost our minds. And the problem with losing our minds is that we never know it, because they are the instruments by which we accept our folly and treat it as wisdom. ~ Sinclair Ferguson
Join us on Sunday and together we’ll learn sexual ethics from Jesus as he explains the seventh commandment.
Pastor Josh
Jesus on Divorce & Oaths
August 28, 2022 • Rev. Josh Hahne • Matthew 5:31–37, Malachi 2:13–16
Fidelity and honesty, these are the virtues that Jesus addresses next in his famous Sermon on the Mount.
Join us this Sunday and together we’ll seek to learn from Christ in Matthew 5:31-37.
Pastor Josh
When You Give
September 4, 2022 • Rev. Josh Hahne • Matthew 6:1–4, Matthew 6:19–24
In J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield observes: “If you do something good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good anymore.”
This showing off, smugness, religious hypocrisy, is a particular threat for those who are committed to the practice of righteousness, as Jesus terms it.
Join us on Sunday and together we’ll continue to learn from Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount as he addresses living for God rather than the recognition of others and applies this concept to our giving.
Pastor Josh
A Simple Way to Pray
September 11, 2022 • Rev. Josh Hahne • Matthew 6:5–8
For most of us there is a dissonance between what we believe about prayer and our experience in prayer. If we are honest, we are embarrassed by the paucity of our prayers, and how difficult we find prayer to be.
Thankfully, this week, in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches about prayer. His teaching is simple, straightforward, and should lessen the dissonance we experience.
We look forward to worshipping with you this Sunday,
Pastor Josh
