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Eric Parker – Jesus Christ is the cornerstone of the church and the foundation of all Christian Fellowship.
Jimmy Davis – Prayer is less about the how’s and what’s and more about who. Who is this God to whom you pray, and who are you to Him? Jesus answers these questions for His disciples.
Jimmy Davis – If we could hear the heartbeat of Jesus for us, we would have confidence to draw near to the throne of grace in prayer to receive mercy and grace in our time of need.
Jimmy Davis – Normal Christians have changed but still long to change more. Paul tells us how the Spirit of God uses the Word of God to change the people of God.
Jimmy Davis – The apostle John wrote about the signs Jesus did and the things Jesus said so that we might believe Jesus is the Son of God who brings life.
Eric Parker - Have you ever had a wake-up call that changed your life? Isaiah had a wake-up call that involved a vision of the glory of God, and he felt the full weight of judgement coupled with the healing of grace.
Jimmy Davis – What does our nation need? For the church to be the church, to follow Jesus, and to live a life of repentance.
Jimmy Davis – We can do nothing to earn God's amazing love, and we get to hear God say "I love you" because of Jesus and his sacrifice for us.
Robert Row - How did Jesus do life? Last week we looked at how he did life through prayer, this week through the Word (and Spirit).
Eric Parker – In a dry and weary land, David, the Shepherd-King longed for his God. 1000 years later, shepherds heard news that another shepherd-king had come.
Jimmy Davis – As Paul closes his letter to the Philippians he gives us a glimpse into the Jesus-shaped hearts of gospel givers.
Jimmy Davis – In a world that is often discontented and never has enough, what can we learn from Paul who said that he learned the secret of contentment in any and every circumstance?
Jimmy Davis – Christians may disagree on many things, some trivial, some important. But there is always something deeper than our differences that we can agree on, and Paul shows us how to find unity there.
Jimmy Davis – What is the trajectory of your life? Are you moving toward or away from the cross of Christ?
Jimmy Davis – What "one thing" will you spend your entire self and life pursuing that you will certainly obtain and never lose no matter what happens?
Jimmy Davis – Putting confidence in who we are and what we do is worthless compared to who Jesus is and what He has done.
Jimmy Davis – Sometimes it's hard to obey Jesus, but He promises to help us do what He asks us to do.
Jimmy Davis – How would Paul prepare us for the inevitable conflict that will come as we seek to advance the gospel in the places God has put us?
Jimmy Davis – What was Paul's ruling passion in life? What did that passion produce in him, and how might we practice it today?
Jimmy Davis – A Jesus-shaped church has confidence that God will use adversity to advance the gospel in and through her.
Jimmy Davis – A Jesus-shaped church is one that has been planted by the power of the preaching of the gospel, grows in its practice of partnership in the gospel, and prays for the priority of continued growth in and through the gospel.
Robert Row – Jesus demonstrates what it look like to know, have compassion for, and set free people who are held captive.
Eric Parker – What does it look like for us to leave the empty tomb and search for the resurrected Chris in the midst of 2020?
Jimmy Davis – At the cross we stand in awe of the glory of The Suffering Servant, longing to be shaped by His living, dying, and rising, into suffering servants who live to deny our selves, take up our cross, and follow Him.
Jimmy Davis – Mark shows us that while Jesus was on trial before the Sanhedrin, Peter was “on trial” before a servant girl. What can this mean for Peter and for us?
Jimmy Davis – What difference does Jesus's submission to His Father in the garden of Gethsemane make in my life today?
Jimmy Davis – Consider the bold and beautiful love of Jesus as He hosts the Passover Supper for friends who would betray, deny, and desert Him.
Jimmy Davis – Mark includes the story of a woman pouring out her costly perfume on Jesus in order to give us a picture "wasted" love.
Jimmy Davis – We are living in unusual times. Could this be the end of the world as we know it? What would Jesus encourage us to do in times like these?
Jimmy Davis – Is our view of Jesus too small, too simplistic? And how does the way we see Him change the way we see ourselves and our situation?
This week our guest preacher, Nick Batzig, reminded us that this world (in its current state) is not our home. We long for a new city; whether we realize it or not, we long for Jesus.
Jimmy Davis – Jesus says that unless we know what the Bible teaches about “the God of the living” and resurrection life, we will wander aimlessly with no real hope for living life right now.
Jimmy Davis – Jesus has come to collect that which belongs to and bears the image of God. Will we pay up?
Jimmy Davis – The parable of the vineyard tells the whole Story of God's People. But we will we listen? How will we respond when we realize that Jesus is talking about us?
Jimmy Davis – The mask has become a symbol of our various convictions about how to proceed through this pandemic. But is there a greater conviction on which we can all agree?
Jimmy Davis – Why should you trust Jesus, the Prophet, Priest, and King, to inspect the fruit of your life and upset the tables in your temple?
Jimmy Davis – What is the connection between our desire to be served rather than serve and the stunning truth that Jesus came not to be served but to serve?
Jimmy Davis - Many who think they have enough will find they don’t and will walk away empty, but many who know they are empty and believe that Jesus is enough, will find more than enough in Him and whatever He chooses to give them.
Jimmy Davis – When Paul was “utterly burdened beyond his strength” what did he know about the resurrection that convinced him he could rely on the God who raised Jesus from the dead?
Jimmy Davis – This Holy Week let's journey with Jesus to the cross, considering the burdens He carried and the binding that constricted Him. Perhaps our burdens and binding will give us even a small taste of what He experienced on our behalf.
Jimmy Davis – The God who created and redeemed you is the Guard who watches over you. Look to Him and cry, "Help!"
Tim Tinsley – Those who love God have all things working for good – all things – because God is powerful, personal, and loving.
Jimmy Davis – The Kingdom of God is for those who can't. King Jesus says that only those who bring their nothing can receive His everything.
Jimmy Davis – The very heart of marriage is to bear the triune God's image and demonstrate His oneness, but our hardness of heart threatens that oneness driving us to the Husband who laid down his life for his bride.
Jimmy Davis – We were created to be great, yet we pursue greatness on our own terms to our ruin. Jesus demonstrates that the way back to greatness is through humility – the cross before the crown.
Jimmy Davis – As sure as it is impossible to do life without breathing, so it is impossible to follow Jesus without praying.
Jimmy Davis – When Jesus touches our eyes by teaching us who He is, then we will see everything clearly: Jesus, ourselves, and our purpose for being here. Our stories are to mirror His Story. Like Jesus, we submit our wills to the Father as we suffer to serve the people He gives us.
Jimmy Davis – Having eyes do you not see? We all need to see Jesus more clearly. We all need Jesus to touch our eyes by teaching us about His suffering, His death, and His resurrection. Only then we will see everything clearly.
Jimmy Davis – Do you groan over the physical, relational, and spiritual brokenness you see all around you and in you? Remember, Jesus is the sign from heaven that the God who groans wrapped Himself in flesh and blood and came to groan with you, for you, and in you.
Robert Row – Jesus demonstrates his compassion by the way he sees and transforms very broken people.
Jimmy Davis – God creates a new people with a new purity and passion to be in partnership with Him. How are we able to live this out? With a new power from the Holy Spirit as God sanctifies His people.
Jimmy Davis – The Son of God was wrapped in flesh and blood and hung on a tree to remove our Grinchy, stone-cold hearts and make us sons and daughters of His Father who have a New Passion for God and for the people in the places God puts us.
Jimmy Davis – One of the promises of Christmas is the gift of a New Purity that we can wear when we are declared righteous before God as we are clothed in Christ.
Jimmy Davis – Is there any hope that God will find a people who live in perfect partnership with Him? Ezekiel 36 will tell us how God answers this question in the gift of Jesus.
Eric Parker – In this seemingly jarring story with a Phoenician woman, Jesus reminds us all that what he offers is so much more than crumbs.
Jimmy Davis- Before you can understand and embrace who Jesus is and what he has done, you have to understand and face the true condition of your heart.
Jimmy Davis – In his account of the feeding of the 5000, Mark shows us why Jesus is the only shepherd whom we should trust, the only bread who is more than enough.
Jimmy Davis – In this story of two daughters, Mark wants us to see more than the faith that touches Jesus. He wants us to see the Jesus that true faith touches.
Eric Parker – who has the power to calm the wind and waves? Mark seems to go out of his way to show us who Jesus is.
Jimmy Davis – In the parable of the seed and sower, Jesus tells us that the gospel is the seed that changes everything. Do we have ears to hear it?
Jimmy Davis – Sermon Blurb: In our second look at Mark 3:7-35, we learn that Mark wants us to know Jesus as the King of a New Community.
Jimmy Davis – In our first look at Mark 3:7-35, we learn that Mark wants us to know Jesus as the King of a New Creation.
Nathan Carico – Jesus confronts the Pharisees and exposes their abuse of the Sabbath as an attempt to find rest from oppression. He declares that he is the one who controls the Sabbath. What implications does this have for who Jesus is and how we find true rest?
Jimmy Davis – In three short stories Mark shows us how Jesus is both willing and able to make us clean.
Jimmy Davis – As we continue in Psalm 78, Asaph will use the story of Israel to show us a few flashing lights on the dashboard of our lives that will reveal something going wrong under the hood in our hearts. Every generation needs to hear the story Asaph will tell us.
Jimmy Davis - In Psalm 78 Asaph is concerned about the loss of a generation that learns, loves, and lives in the true Story of the only True and Living God.
Jimmy Davis – In Psalm 127 we learn that we are called to depend on Jesus as we disciple and deploy our church's children as “weapons of mass renewal” who will be ambassadors for the Kingdom into future times and distance places.
Eric Parker - Psalm 122 is a Song of Ascents, which the people of Israel would sing on the way to celebrate the three annual feasts in Jerusalem. This Psalm shapes the way worship each week, and it points us forward to our future hope in Christ.
Jimmy Davis- The Psalms help us learn how to respond to reality. Many psalms equip us to respond with lament, grief, and questions to the reality of trouble in our world and our hearts. Psalm 145 is one of many psalms that help us respond with praise and thanksgiving to the reality that God redeems and renews our troubled world and hearts.
Jimmy Davis - Though we don’t know the specific ’troubles’ that were wrapping Asaph in a straitjacket of distress, we all know how it feels when the troubles in our world and heart cause us to wonder if God will remain faithful to love us. Psalm 77 gives us an idea of how Asaph found strength to trust God’s love in his present troubles.
Jimmy Davis - Doubt is not the same as unbelief, but it can lead to unbelief. Doubt is not the opposite of faith but can actually lead to a deeper faith. In Psalm 73, Asaph shows us to doubt toward God in a way that deepens our faith in Him.
Jimmy Davis – Psalm 32 reminds us that gladness waits for us on the other side of our guilt, and it is the truest and sweetest of all gladness, the gladness that is only found in the embrace of God’s forgiving love. Are we willing to walk the path of repentant faith that takes us from guilt to gladness?
Jimmy Davis – Let Psalm 126 shape you into one who feels your grief, prays your grief, and plants your grief in the tears of love that Jesus poured out for you, and He will make His joy grow in your desert.
Jimmy Davis – What do we do with the anger that sometimes burns inside us? According to David, we're in danger of fanning the flames of even our righteous, holy anger until it turns into unrighteous, sinful anger. Thankfully, in Psalm 37 he gives us three other flames to kindle instead.
Robert Row – What does it look like to be aware of our complete dependence on Jesus? What would it do for our relationships if, before we said anything, we asked the Father, "should I say this?" We need to look at the person of Jesus and his complete dependence on the Father.
Tim Tinsley – Over and over in the gospel accounts of the life of Jesus, we read that he calls people to follow him and make disciples. Who in our city is making disciples? Who are you discipling? Who is discipling you?
Jimmy Davis - What do we do with our fear? Do we whistle a happy tune and make believe we're brave? Maybe, but in Psalm 3 David shows us a better way. Whenever we are afraid we can tell God we're afraid and why, then we can turn our hearts to Him and trust that He is our shield, our glory, and the lifter of our head.
Dr. Gary Phillips – All too often we identify God’s blessing with good circumstances in our lives. If things are going well, then clearly God is pleased with me (and, of course, I am pleased with Him)! But if things are not going well, then we are tempted to feel like either we are out of God’s will, or that God has abandoned us. But Acts 16 provides us with a fascinating case study of how God may use the good, the bad, and the ugly circumstances in our life to sanctify us and to glorify Himself.
Jimmy Davis – Of all the things Peter could say to conclude his first letter to the churches, he chose to say, “Wake up church! The universe is at war.” So, what do we do? We resist the enemy now by standing firm in the good news that in Jesus God’s heart for us is good, while we wait for the restoration and glory that Jesus has promised will come.
Jimmy Davis - Church relationships can be beautiful or broken, often both at the same time. Too often we church folks treat one another as enemies. Peter knows this and exhorts the church’s shepherds and sheep to clothe themselves with humility toward one another, a humility that only comes from being under the mighty hand of our Chief Shepherd Jesus, who wrapped himself in humility for us, his enemies.
Stephen Jones - Christians can do death. In fact, we are called to die with Christ. The reason we can do death and suffering is because of the resurrection of Jesus and His promise that through our suffering and sacrifice, we will be rewarded in this life and the next.
Jimmy Davis - In 1 Peter 4:12-19, Peter reminds us that when we suffer ‘fiery trials’ for putting Jesus on display by the way we live and love, we are being refined by that suffering to put Jesus on display in that suffering.
Jimmy Davis - If you trust in Jesus, who lives that death may die, then you can face the sting of death’s reality and finality because you need not fear the sting of death’s penalty.
Jimmy Davis - How is a church to live when time is running out? We pray, love, and serve like Jesus because He first loved us in His praying, loving, and serving.
Jimmy Davis - In 1 Peter 4:1-6, Peter casts a vision for the cross-shaped life. If our lives have been shaped BY the cross of Jesus, then they will take the shape OF the the cross of Jesus.
Jimmy Davis - Living the Jesus-shaped life of loving the way Jesus loves and suffering the way Jesus suffers requires us to rest in the ways Jesus reigns over the power of our sin, the power of death, the powers of darkness, and over every power forever.
Jimmy Davis - What’s the mission/vision statement for your marriage and family? Peter might suggest that marriage was created and redeemed to put Jesus on display to the world in the way wives and husbands relate to one another.
Nathan Carico - In Isaiah 58 we find out what it looks like for God to fast. God's fast exposes our spiritual poverty and feeds our faith so we will pour ourselves out for the hungry.
Jimmy Davis - In 1 Peter 2:18-25, Peter reminds us that Jesus, the Suffering Servant, is the pattern, pardon, and power for our suffering service in the workplace.
Jimmy Davis - As strange as it may seem and as difficult as it may be, Peter teaches us that one of the ways we show our submission to Jesus is to humbly, submissively serve under our civil authorities. This kind of exile lifestyle is only possible when we entrust ourselves to Jesus, who was subject to civil authorities in order to redeem our rebellious hearts.
Jimmy Davis - Jesus is the Cornerstone of God’s new temple. Believers adore Him, and are attached and aligned to Him as living stones. Now we serve as His holy priesthood for the glory of God and the good and gladness of the world.
Jimmy Davis - Since God has caused us to be ‘born again’ into His family we have a new way of loving in the world. We love one another earnestly, from a pure heart, without sibling rivalry. But since God has caused us to be ‘born again’ by His imperishable gospel, we also have imperishable power to love one another as Christ has loved us!
Jimmy Davis - Peter reminds us that as God’s Family we have a new way to live in the world: we live with a hopeful future, like our holy Father, and with a healthy fear.
Jimmy Davis - Peter reminds us that the real life of God’s elect exiles is patterned after the life of Jesus: suffering now but glory later. So how do God’s elect exiles live in the meantime? We live by faith, in hope, and for love.
Jimmy Davis - Why does Peter pack so much deep, heavy, theological, Jesus-soaked truth into the beginning of his letter? He’s a man who knows that as boats need a ballast to steady them in the storm, God’s people need the weighty, glorious real grace of God to steady them in the storms of real life.
Jimmy Davis - In order to encourage us to live the real life of who we are (exiles), Peter declares to us the real grace of whose we are (God’s elect).
Jimmy Davis - As we begin our journey through 1 Peter, we consider this: If I don’t see the real grace of God shining, even dimly, through the thick fog of my real life, I will end up in a ditch of despair. If I can’t see Jesus, I can’t keep going.
Jimmy Davis - Like Simeon and Anna, we can become, by the power of the Spirit, Good News receivers who then turn to be Good News givers to our neighbors, the nations, and the next generation.
Jimmy Davis - Have you ever felt overlooked or outcast? The shepherds were welcomed into Jesus' story and so are you. In Luke 2 we receive the good news of great joy that the Good Shepherd became the Lamb who takes away our sin and shame by taking them on Himself.
Jimmy Davis - Does having God’s favor in my life mean that everything’s going to go my way? Not exactly. Ask Mary and Joseph! Everything will go God’s way, but that’s the way we need things to go so that Christ is formed in us for God’s glory, the world’s good, and our ultimate gladness.
Jimmy Davis - If your story, like Zechariah and Elizabeth's, is full of wounds, waiting, and weariness, then you are welcomed into the Story of Jesus, who will hold you in His wounded hands.
Jim Suddath - We all need to be forgiven; we all need to offer forgiveness. Out of understanding and embracing that we have been forgiven by Jesus, we ought to overflow with thanksgiving for who He is and what He has done for us.
Jim Suddath - We all need to be forgiven; we all need to offer forgiveness. Out of understanding and embracing that we have been forgiven by Jesus, we ought to overflow with thanksgiving for who He is and what He has done for us.
Jim Suddath - We all need to be forgiven; we all need to offer forgiveness. Out of understanding and embracing that we have been forgiven by Jesus, we ought to overflow with thanksgiving for who He is and what He has done for us.
Jimmy Davis - As we contemplate John’s vision of the new heaven and new earth in Revelation 21 and 22, our longing for the Perfected Kingdom is stirred. Romans 8 then helps us to consider what it might look like to long for the ’not yet’ as we live in the ‘already’ of what Jesus has done for His people.
Jimmy Davis - Who are we as a church? Why are we here? In Acts 17 and 1 Thessalonians 1 we learn that Jesus gave the Holy Spirit to the church so that we might Proclaim and Practice Jesus as King until He comes again.
Jimmy Davis - All of the pictures, promises, and prophecies of the Kingdom of God in the Old Testament finally come to full flower with the presence of Jesus the King. He is the chosen and beloved Christ of God . . . listen to Him!
Jimmy Davis - In Ezekiel 36:16-28 we hear the good news of God’s New Covenant promise to make us a New People who have a New Purity, with a New Passion and New Power for a New Partnership with God, all through the blood of Jesus.
Jimmy Davis - Ever wonder why we’re so connected to places we love and so concerned about the people who lead us? It’s because we were made to live in God’s Place following the lead of God’s King. This week we look at 2 Samuel 7 to see how God promises to fulfill our longings for both.
Jimmy Davis - Why did God give His people the Law? In this message we consider how God’s Law is a guardrail, guardian, and guide. We also consider how Jesus makes it possible for law-breaking sinners to live in community and on mission with a holy God!
Jimmy Davis - Exodus tells the story of how God will move heaven and earth to be with His people. He rescues and redeems His people by providing Jesus as our substitute sacrifice and by subduing the enemy. But He not only saves us from sin, He saves us for service to our neighbors, the nations, and the next generation.
Jimmy Davis - In this "chapter" of the Story of Jesus, God has not given up on His plan to establish His Kingdom. Although Adam and Eve have rebelled, and sin has corrupted everyone and everything, God promises Abraham that He will redeem a people for Himself who will dwell in His place, live under His rule, and enjoy His blessing. We are called to live by faith in that promise even today.
Jimmy Davis - As we continue to trace the theme of God’s Kingdom through the Bible, we learn about the Perished Kingdom in Genesis 3. In their rebellion Adam and Eve have ruined their relationships with God, people, and creation. They are no longer God’s People, have been banished from God’s Place, and live in disobedience to God’s Rule and under His curse. But, there are glimmers of hope in this dark part of the Story.
Jimmy Davis - In Genesis 1 and 2 we discover that the Pattern of the Kingdom is “God’s people in God’s place under God’s rule and enjoying His blessing." We will follow this pattern of the Kingdom of God through the rest of the Bible in the weeks to come!
Jimmy Davis - If we're going to live as disciples of Jesus, we must invest our lives in loving, learning, and living in the Story of Jesus that God is telling in His Word.
Jim Suddath - Sometimes a Bible verse will strike you like lightning, electrifying a familiar truth so that it jolts your heart to beat with renewed faith, hope, and love. 2 Corinthians 1:9 struck Jim Suddath this way a few months ago. Find out how as you listen to this encouraging sermon.
Jimmy Davis - In Psalm 19 we discover that prayer is not merely “talking to God” but responding to the God who has been and is talking to us. God is there and He is not silent. He speaks through the skies, the Scriptures, and most clearly through His Son, the Savior.
Jimmy Davis - We live in a world of chaos, and there’s a world of chaos in us. But Jesus faithfully lived Psalm 16, so that we who are “in Christ” can now pray Psalm 16 with a confidence in Christ that gives us contentment in chaos.
Jimmy Davis - How do you respond when the Lord convicts you of your sin? In Psalm 51 we learn that repentant prayer pleads for reconciliation with God and then for transformation by God.
Jimmy Davis - Psalms 42 and 43 help us learn how to pour out our hearts to our Savior and then preach His hope to our souls. Sometimes prayer is simply a cry for Jesus to carry you and your cravings to the cross.
Jimmy Davis - In the second half of Psalm 34, King David's sermon encourages us to practice the goodness of God as we depend on the Savior who proves and provides the goodness of God for us.
Jimmy Davis - God is good . . . all the time! Is He? The first half of Psalm 34 shows us how to sing praise to God for His all-the-time goodness even when life doesn’t seem so good.
Jimmy Davis - Where does David get his rock-solid confidence in God when all around him seems like sinking sand? David begins Psalm 27 with an exclamation of confidence in God and ends the psalm with an exhortation to continue that confident trust. The verses in-between tell us something about what encouraged David’s confidence in the God of his salvation, and how it might do the same for us
Nathaniel Thompson - This past Sunday we were reminded what it means to be made in the image of God: we were created for relationship with God, relationship with others, and relationship with the land.
Jimmy Davis - At the heart of Psalm 23 we find David’s confident and comforting words “for You are with me.” Through His incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection, Jesus is Immanuel (“God with us”). Those who know Jesus as their Shepherd (vv. 1-4) and Gracious Host (vv.5-6) can be sure they have the Provision, Protection, and Promise of His presence through every dark valley, including death itself.
Jimmy Davis - In this follow up sermon from Psalm 2, we learn that Jesus is the Anointed Ruler: He is a good king and a just judge. And while He has the right to rule and the right to judge us all, He was judged for our rebellion! Our appropriate response to the amazing grace of this good king is complete submission to Him. As Derek Kidner says "There is no refuge from Him, only refuge in Him."
Jimmy Davis - When we put Psalms 1 and 2 together, we see that the BLESSED LIFE is enjoyed by those who give the STORY of JESUS their ATTENTION and AFFECTIONS (Psalm 1), because they have given JESUS their ALLEGIANCE (Psalm 2).
Chris Powell - In the fifth chapter of his letter to the church in Ephesus, Paul teaches that we are made alive in Christ. Because we are alive in Christ we are a people called to be filled with the Spirit — not to fill ourselves with things that cause us to waste our lives and actually leave us empty.
Jimmy Davis - As we come to the end of our journey in this series on prayer, we discover that one of Paul's prayer priorities is "gospel growth." In many of his letters, Paul pleads with and encourages the church to pray for God to GROW the gospel, to pray for those who SOW the gospel to do so in clear, bold, and protected ways, and to pray that many would KNOW the gospel.
Jimmy Davis - This week we continue in our survey of Paul’s Prayer Priorities, learning from Philippians 1:1-11 how Paul prays FROM a heart of love FOR God’s people while he prays FOR a heart of love to grow IN God’s people.
Jimmy Davis - Last Sunday we learned from Ephesians 1 and 3 that we can follow Paul’s example and pray that God’s people will have hearts that SEE their hope in Jesus and hearts that are STRENGTHENED through faith in Jesus.
Jimmy Davis - WHY, WHEN, WITH WHOM, and WHAT should we pray for the people in our local church and the church around the world? Listen in on Paul's prayer for the church in Colossae for answers to these questions.
Jimmy Davis - Ever wonder what Jesus is doing on earth while He is in heaven? According to Jesus and the Apostles, Psalm 110 describes the ongoing ministry of Jesus, our ascended King and Priest.
Jimmy Davis - The Apostles teach us that as our Great High Priest Jesus is seated at the right hand of God, always praying for His people. Learn 4 things Jesus prays for His church, then hear 4 of our elders pray those things for Mountain Fellowship!
Jimmy Davis - Contrary to popular belief, pain doesn't have to be a waste of our time. Psalm 43 shows us how to allow our painful circumstances to drive us to honestly admit where we are, then humbly ask God to bring us to Himself. When God reminds us that He alone is our "exceeding joy," then we can remind ourselves to "hope in God."
Nathan Carico - What does it look like to live now in light of the hope of the resurrection? Paul called the Thessalonian church to be holy (set apart), because they had already been set apart by the most extraordinary being in the universe who defeated death.
Jimmy Davis - The resurrection of Jesus meets our broken stories and gives us a new story to live. It is a story of life, hope, and transformation. This new story calls us to repent of our unbelief, to believe Jesus is the risen savior, and to follow Him.
Jimmy Davis - First century people had certain expectations of Jesus, but through his life and death he shook up the place, power, and prestige of both the poor and the powerful. He does the same today. What do you do when your Palm Sunday prayers and expectations are confronted by the cross of Good Friday?
Jimmy Davis - We discovered this week that Habakkuk 3 brings us to the ultimate question: Who is God when bad things happen, and what are we to do with Him? As we seek the answers to these questions we find that we should tremble because our God is majestic, mighty, merciful, and mysterious. In addition, we should trust because He is good.
Jimmy Davis - What happens when we go to our God with our real prayers? What happens when we genuinely complain about all the sin and injustice around us? What happens when we see ourselves and our sinfulness towards God, other people, and God's creation?
Jimmy Davis - What does it looks like to pray real life prayers from a heart of faith? We can go to our loving Father praying with expectation and hope. We have this hope because we remember God has a plan and He is in His place. While these two things may sound like platitudes, they are truths that we need to get down into our hearts as we cry out to God in the midst of difficult circumstances.
Jimmy Davis - In our sermon series, "A Praying Church," we have moved to the book of Habakkuk, which teaches us how to pray "Real Life Prayers" during difficult days. Habakkuk invites us to be honest to God, and when we are honest with him, we discover things about our mysterious, loving Creator that might be new or magnified to us. Click below to listen...
Jimmy Davis - This past Sunday we resumed our sermon series, "A Praying Church," taking a close look at how Jesus taught his disciples to pray. It is important to note that there is a context to this prayer -- Jesus was sending his first followers on a mission to advance his kingdom on Earth as it is in Heaven. It is the same for us today. Through this prayer, Jesus tells us that we are a part of a relationship that is engaged in a revolution, and we are partnering with the community of the Trinity to carry out our Father's family business.
Brian Cosby - We had another morning of celebration as this past Sunday Jimmy Davis was installed as our new pastor! Representatives from our sister church, Wayside Presbyterian Church, and our mother church, North Shore Fellowship, joined with us to worship Jesus. Robby Holt gave the charge to Jimmy and to our congregation after Brian Cosby preached a beautiful, convicting sermon from 1 Timothy 4:6-16 titled, "The Calling and Marks of a Faithful Pastor."
Jimmy Davis - What is the starting place for a praying church? We learned that Jesus has much to teach us about how to declare our dependence on His Father as we participate in the mission He's given us to be "beggars who show and tell other beggars where we've found bread."