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Those who trust in the Lord are as secure as Mount Zion; They will not be defeated but will endure forever.
Psalm125:1 NLT
This Sunday we focus on Psalm 125: Trusting in God
The word is being brought to us by Violet Hayes
"Those who trust in the Lord are as secure as Mount Zion; They will not be defeated but will endure forever"
Psalm125:1 NLT
This Sunday we focus on Psalm 127, looking at the call of God to rely on Him and be active in our faith.
This Sunday we focus on Psalm 126. It is a psalm of remembering the good God has done, and also asking Him to restore joy even in the midst of suffering. Only in Christ can joy be produced out of suffering.
In our second week of our Songs for the Road series we look at Psalm 122. This Psalm highlights the importance of gathering to worship God together.
We start our summer series with Psalm 121, where we learn where our true help comes from. Psalm 121 helps us understand our anticipation AND assurance of help that God gives us.
Today is a stand alone sermon about the command of Jesus to experience a second spiritual birth after our physical birth. This second birth is from God and is the place from which we grow into mature Christ followers.
This Sunday we begin Advent. Today we look at Zechariah and Elizabeth story. Zechariah walked to the temple and back, and in the midst of his journey God broke his expectations and gave him hope.
Esther and Christ both stand in the gap to help rescue people. Both prayed for a rescue. Christ invites you and I to follow him in praying for those who have yet to embrace His amazing love.
Esther and Christ both stand in the gap to help rescue people. Both prayed for a rescue. Christ invites you and I to follow him in praying for those who have yet to embrace His amazing love.
This week we dive into the banquets Esther hosts with King Xerxes and Haman. And it was what sets Esther above other leaders is that she selflessly identifies with her people and asks for their rescue. Selfless love is what we remember people for.
We will be looking at the character Haman in the book of Esther, a man who could not find a way to be thankful. He magnified his problem, and minimizes his many privileges. God invites us to be thankful, which sometimes is a battle. When we magnify all the privileges we have in the love of Christ, it creates an openness to being thankful.
The book of Esther has a dramatic storyline, compelling character, and is one of the two books where God seems silent. And yet, through the faithfulness of a few people He causes a rescue for the Jewish people. God brings assurance continuously through the book that He does care and has not forgotten His people. He has not forgotten you either.
We all have potential and growth that God invites us into, and we also have limitations. Looking at the life and attitude of John the Baptist, Jesus, and Paul we will see ways we can embrace our different limitations to be seen as helpful in our journey with God.
A little bit of routine can go a long way in helping us stay focused as we live life in the middle of a world that is moving fast!
"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you'll be swept off to." -Bilbo Baggans.
Jesus modeled to His followers many moments of work and ministry, and moments of rest and separation from that work and ministry. He invites us into that type of pace of life.
In chapter 5 Paul gives a multitude of directives that are in alignment with what a follower of Jesus looks like and lives like. All of which are impossibly high standards. This leads us back to looking to the Holy Spirit as we walk with Him and learn to live by His strength.
In this weeks passage we hear how death is not the end, and that Christ's resurrection is the redemptive launch of God's kingdom in this world. We await Christ's return to renew all things and to be with Him forevermore.
Holiness and being sanctified often sound like pious and removed terms, but the invitation of Jesus and instructions from Paul are practical and down to earth in how we grow in holiness.
We cannot live out being encouraged and hope for our future. We were not designed to. God invites us to stay encouraged in part by our connection to Him and to other followers of Jesus.
Paul communicates his love to the Thessalonians and his deep longing to see them again.
Paul communicates that because he cares, he is not like other 1st century people who are looking to deceive and negatively influence. His spiritual influence comes from having a spiritual character that aligns with Christ.
What is God reliable for? People cling or walk away from faith based around this question.
Peter Sinclair joins us today from Loaves and Fishes ministry speaking on the feeding of the 5000 from Matthew 14:13-21
13 When Jesus heard what had happened, he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. Hearing of this, the crowds followed him on foot from the towns. 14 When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick.
15 As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.”
16 Jesus replied, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.”
17 “We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered.
18 “Bring them here to me,” he said. 19 And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. 20 They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. 21 The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.
Being asked for money can really grate on your nerves after a while, but to those who cultivate habits of generosity seem to have the largest gifts of compassion and joy. Today we will look at why that is.
Pastor Colin will be bringing us the word from Malachi 2:17-3:5
Sometimes it is hard to break the cycle of being cynical, but Malachi helps point us into patters that lead to a better outlook in life.
When we forget the reasons and the why behind our decisions and motivations, we lose touch with reality and the design for living. God invites us to remember that He made us and we belong with Him.
One of the most difficult characteristics is consistent integrity. Especially when it comes to being an example of God's love to others.
God desires us to be fully committed to Him, He values our honest devotion above our obligations.
There are things in life we can do on autopilot after a while, but relationships are not one of them.
How much service for God is enough? How effective are you in your love for Him? A posture of "life for God" gets trapped finding their value by doing enough or being successful in the mission to serve God.
What's in it for you to follow God? One way of relating to God is just to be blessed by His gifts... but not be in a deep relationship with Him. We will look at two ways that are better for relating to Him.
Have you had times where your tried and true methods suddenly didn't work? Today's posture of relating to God is one that is easy to fall prey to, but one that we can easily recognize ways of leaving behind.
Have you had moments where your faith felt dry? When your walk with God has felt like it has fallen off a cliff or gotten confusing? The next 4 weeks we will be talking through unhealthy ways of relating to God and how God designed us to relate to Him.
Judas judged Jesus to be worth very little, but it cost Judas more than he ever expected. In our own lives, from time to time it is great to ask what Jesus is worth to us.
How do we measure love? And can a person possibly offer true love to another without expecting a return? This is what one woman does towards Jesus with her extravagant acts of love.
Some conversations are more important than others. In Jesus' final week on earth, He speaks with the religious elites at the temple and redirects them to the conversation worth having.
This Sunday we will begin a new sermon series that will take the final week of Jesus' life, called Holy Week, and spread out the events of it over the next 7 Sundays leading up to Easter. We will be looking at different people that interacted with Jesus in His final days on earth, seeing what we can learn from their interactions for ourselves, and what we can learn about God through Jesus actions. This Sunday we launch with the false expectations on Jesus from the crowd in Matthew 21.
Many claim to hear God's voice speak to them. How do we discern if He is speaking to us?
The closest followers of Jesus asked him how to pray, and He gave some safeguards of what not to do, and what to do in the midst of communicating with God.
Essential part of any good relationship is communication. But what about when the communication gets confusing, or it is difficult to hear the other person? This month we begin a new series on the why and how of prayer.
How many problems do you got right now? What keeps you grounded? What do you build your life around to stay focused, encouraged, and motivated?
There are many rules or reasons we can create to decide how spiritual someone is. This was thinking that was happening 2500 years ago when Haggai the prophet spoke up. There is something more valuable than rules for our spiritual journey with God.
Even in the most unexpected events or circumstances God can reveal Himself in powerful ways. He did just that as the 2nd temple was being rebuilt and it didn't measure up to the 1st temple. He promised an amazing promise to make it's glory even better.
It's easy to get frozen in the unknowns in our world today. Making plans and dreams and goals is extra challenging. But that doesn't mean God is not active. We begin a series at looking what God may long to do next in you and the life of Hammond Bay Church.
The term love is so commonly used in our society. Biblical love is different, but when we practice biblical love we find our lives are filled with more hope, peace, and joy.
Joy is hard to define but easy to identify. In the midst of the Christmas story there are many unexpected turns that could easily cause fear and stress, but joy keeps rising up and proclaiming itself.
Hope is a fragile thing that we are often waiting for and longing for. How do we find hope in the midst of the waiting? We take comfort and hope in the fact that Christ waits for you and I, always longing for us to turn and connect with Him.
Even google maps can lead you down the wrong direction at times. When it comes to making life decisions about which direction to go, where do we find long-term wisdom to guide us?
This morning we will be hearing from two people from our church family about how God has impacted their lives!
The book of Proverbs offers many angles of wisdom in regards to wealth, and the Scriptures continually call us to recognize that wisdom is of greater value than wealth.
The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life,
but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
Proverbs 10:11 NIV
To get a good job you may have to prove how qualified and capable you are. But when anyone becomes a follower of Jesus, the wisdom of God is made available to them. God's wisdom is a gift to all who seek Him.
Each and every day you make hundreds of decisions. How do we aim to make better decisions and fewer regrets? How do we live with wisdom?
Today we welcome Colin Dyck! He will be sharing his testimony, his call to ministry, and his approach to ministering to young people and families.
The next conflict we look at is about two church leaders who differed in how they wanted to do ministry. One wanted to give an apprentice a second chance and the other did not. They reconciled... about 14-15 years later.
The conflict in Acts 5 is one of the most perplexing and challenging passages in the New Testament. The early Church is now facing down conflict not from the outside authorities, but from people who through deceit are trying to gain influence in the Church.
The way the enemy can most hurt the Church is by creating disunity from within. We will be spending the next 4 weeks in the book of Acts studying how the early Church walked through conflict.
James closes off his letter with tangible instructions of how to live while we wait for the return of Jesus to earth. The waiting can be the hardest part. James invites us to live with purpose while we wait.
There are a variety of things we could say are wrong with the world today: warfare, poverty, the next generation and so on and so on. But James writes to Christians with what is actually the core issue, and how to progress through dealing with it.
Words can tear us down or build us up. They are designed by God to be one of the most powerful tools in this life.
Ever experiencing feeling judged? It's a gross awful feeling. And judging others is an easy thing to do as well. The Kingdom of Jesus calls us to a different way of interacting.
Listen as Violet Heyes shares what Island Crisis Care Society is doing for our city's homeless population to help them find themselves and find hope.
To err is to be human right? Is that the only option for humanity? What do we do with our failings? In this final sermon on Ezra we see what to do in the face of failings and walk in greater freedom.
Rebuilding after things have fallen apart can feel quite defeating. There are unforeseen obstacles and unclear starting points. As Ezra aims to rebuild people back to trusting God and being faithful to Him, there are challenges that require Ezra to trust.
Whenever we return to a certain vacation spot, or to visit family and friends; there is joy! But there can also be disappointment, and even conflict. As we return to pre-pandemic Church life we will likely experience all three as we aim to be faithful to God.