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Lighthouse Church of the Nazarene
These weekly sermons are from the pastoral team at Lighthouse Church of the Nazarene in Beaverton, Oregon. To find out more about our ministries visit us on the web @ mylighthousechurch.org
Going deeper with God requires deep waters. Ezekiel 47 gives an illustration of the Lord instructing Ezekiel to wade into the deep waters of the river of life that will flow from God's throne in the New Jerusalem.
Jesus took 3 disciples up a mountain for the greatest mountain-top experience of all time: The Transfiguration. Jesus transformed from Jesus in Human form into Jesus as Divine God on the Mountain, foreshadowing what was to come and give hope for all eternity.
Moses ascended Mount Sinai 8 times according to scriptures. Each trip was an encounter with God and a time to receive instruction for leadership, finishing with an encounter that left Moses' face glowing. Our lives should be a reflection of God's radiance, just like Moses.
Abraham was instructed by God to climb a mountain and sacrifice his son, Isaac, on an alter. Before the sacrifice occurred, God spared Isaac and provided a ram in His place. Abraham's obedience teaches us to say, "Here I am, Lord."
Jesus called us to be the "salt of the earth" and the "light of the world..." May this message both remind us why living for Jesus is so needed in this world around us and may it be an an encouragement to the church in the days ahead.
What if we became people who didn’t fear endured hardships for Christ, but embraced it as a normal thing that happens to us when we live on mission for Jesus?
Is there anything good that can come from a desert season of our life? Even though God doesn't necessarily lead us into the desert seasons, he is able to transformative work in our lives during this time, when all hope seems lost.
In order to follow Jesus to the fullest, he is going to lead us to a place where we declare him Lord over everything in our lives. Though it seems scary, it'll be the best decision you ever made.
Pastor Jeremy Page, of Eden Community Church, shares an insightful message on how we are to live together on mission through our work.
Pastor Robb Gossen, who is now serving as the youth pastor to our teens at Lighthouse Church, shares a powerful message on what it means to be "Together on Mission" as a Family
During our multicultural service, Pastor Chris & Pastor Luis shared the importance in living on mission in our neighborhood.
Pastor Chris shares about how church is a group of people called together to live on mission.
When we are able to see that we need to surrender things in our lives so we can follow Christ fully, God replaces that void with something far greater.
In this sermon, we looked at two miracles of Jesus that radically transformed the lives of two daughters. In following his example, we could spark life transformation in the world, through getting our hands dirty and though trusting Him.
Through a simple miracle at a wedding, Jesus has much to say to us of the life he offers to us that is the best!
This sermon reminds us that a little, in the hands of Jesus, is more than enough. So what do you got?
What do you when you feel overwhelmed and you feel that you have had enough? May this sermon give you encouragement and strength to face the road ahead.
Why is it that our successes in life are quickly met feelings of dissatisfaction and emptiness? Why are we always left wanting more? If you can identify with this struggle, then this message is for you.
When pride springs up in our lives it leaves us frustrated and bitter. This message gives to us important steps that will help us to fight off pride and live a life of humility that leads to joy and satisfaction.
The path to irrelevance comes when we love our methods over our mission. This sermon is an encouragement to us of how we can stay relevant in an ever-changing world.
This sermon addresses how can we live a life not compromised to sin, and come to experience the new life Jesus offers to us all.
Cynicism happens to the best of us and can ro us of both our joy for living and out hope. But we can choose to walk away from it! Listen to this sermon to hear how we can combat cynicism in our lives and in turn, experience something far greater.
We are being unleashed into the world to share a message of good news. Are we sharing it, or holding it for ourselves?
What implications come for Christians when Jesus asks us to carry our cross? This sermon explores why Christians historically have embrace rejection and suffering for Jesus, and how it made the Church, unstoppable.
When Jesus gave to us an example of what it means to truly serve one another. What if we came together in our gatherings together as a Church, with the desire to serve one another, in mind?
The definable quality for any Church should be that they love one another well. This sermon addresses how we put "loving one another" into action.
When we devote ourselves to God's instructions for Church, there is the fruitfulness of excitement, joy and gladness that accompanies it. But this requires us to let go of our preferences, and lean into God's instructions.
When we see that the things of God are "Sacred," it changes our perspective and helps us to recapture the "awe" of who God is and what he has done for us.
We began a study based off of Francis Chan's book, "Letters to the Church." This message addresses how prosperity and pride have impacted the modern Church and encourages us to invite Jesus' ways into the Church over our own ways in order to capture what the Church has lost.
In Jesus words, being great means humbling yourself and serving others. This message will both encourage you to serve, while conveying to you the importance for Christ's followers to live as servants in the world.
If you love God, then you are to love people...without exception. May this message encourage you to be a bright spot in the lives of those you come across today!
The Church is at our best when we commit ourselves to Love God with our heart, being, mind & strength. May this message be an encouragement to you, to love God fully.
Jesus' arrival on Earth changed everything, by giving hope & joy to all who choose to follow him. Merry Christmas!
During our "One Church" Sunday, we were encouraged by the preaching of John the Baptist, who preached about how people of faith should treat other people. This is an important message to be heard during this Christmas Season.
"How we live our life matters to God..." Jesus tells us in today's passage to "stay alert" and "not let our hearts be dulled by the worries of the world." This sermon reminds us to stop saying, "Someday Lord..." and start saying "Today!"
We need to do stop just "hearing and knowing" and "start hearing and doing!" Jesus gives us a series of short parables in today's passage that outline for us what it means to follow him.
One of Jesus' most well-known teaching's is "Do not Judge..." But Jesus' message today goes further, by laying the groundwork for his disciples about how we can be "Salt & Light" in the world pointing people to Jesus, without being "judgmental."
"In what do you serve?" This week's thought-provoking teaching from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, calls us to look inwardly and ask this question of ourselves.
How is it possible to love your enemies, when they make it so easy for us to be dislike them? This sermon gives to us some Jesus-breathed instructions on how to make an enemy a friend, and reconcile a relationship that seemed beyond repair.
Jesus' radical teaching in the Sermon on the Mount, instructs us to live out a greater righteousness. Today's text has a word to say to us about our stubborn hearts (listen) and our anger (forgive).
The Beatitudes of Jesus are a reversal of the world's patterns as we know it. The challenge for us is: will we choose the ways of the upside Kingdom of God or will we choose the ways of a me-first culture, country & world?
The Kingdom of God that Jesus came here to establish on earth, flipped the world as we knew it upside down. For to live into the new kingdom culture that he created, Jesus calls us to be the "Salt of the Earth" & the "Light of the World."
What if we began to ask the Lord how he could use us for his purposes? How would that change you? How would that change the people surrounding you in your life? We look to this dangerous prayer of Isaiah's..."Here I am Lord, Send Me!"
What if we dared asked God to search our hearts and reveal to us what shouldn't be there? How would that change us? It's a dangerous prayer that we cannot afford to avoid praying.
The Ten Commandments were given for many reasons and in this message we'll see one of the main reasons was to form a people who would be difference-makers in the world.
Jethro saw his son-in-law Moses, breaking down in the desert. In this message we look to the advice he gives to Moses, which is great advice for any of us as we navigate the difficult seasons of life. .
Our response to trying times could either open our eyes or blind us to the provisions of God. Pastor Chris shares an important principle we should cling to during the desert season.
On Sunday we talked about three lessons we can learn from the desert seasons in our lives by looking to the exchanges between Moses & Pharaoh.
Doubting happens during the desert seasons of our lives. However, when doubts run amuck they turn into excuses as to why we shouldn't live a particular way. As we look to God's words to Moses in this message, may it encourage you live faithfully at all times.
In this series in Exodus, we will be able to see time and time again that life can be found in the desert seasons of our life. In this message, we look to two biblical stories that give us glimpses of hope that are pertinent to us when we face hardships. Thank you to Medford First Church of the Nazarene, for opening the door for us to utilize this sermon series in our Church.
This past Sunday we looked at the danger of criticism, the reality of change, and the need for being a people of testimony
A lot of Christ-followers seriously doubt they make a difference for the Jesus' Kingdom. May this message be a reminder to us that we are uniquely created by God with purpose and if we're faithful with what we've been given, we'll make a difference in his Kingdom.
In this week's message, we talked about the need for our Church to be a Good Neighbor to our community.
The Church draws its roots back to Jesus placing a high priority upon welcoming sinners. Pastor Chris talks about 3 ways that we can model Christ's example in our world today.
Our words matter...In a world that is so good at tearing each other down with our words, this week's sermon calls out destructive patterns of our words, while reminding us that our words were intended to be life-giving .
In the message, Pastor Chris shares how forgiveness is a decision we make that leads to freedom in our hearts & minds.
In the message, Pastor Chris shares how we can live as a people who are unintimidated by fear, when there are a lot of fearful things we face in life.
It's important for people to be involved in Church...but in this series we will look at why a broken and self-absorbed world needs the Church and needs it to be the body of Christ.
In this message, we look to a story of one disciple who wasn't present to see the resurrected Jesus, and subsequently he struggled with doubt. However this disciple's mistake came even before doubt set in.
This Easter we looked at a word of Jesus which let others know that the world would never be the same. For He is Risen!
Jesus teaches to us a a surprising lesson on humility, when he shows to his disciples that true greatness involves serving one another, no matter who the person or what the task.
In the story of Lazarus, we see that God has the power to overcome sin & death and the power to give life & liberty. It is through this message we can see that God wants us to lose the remnants of sin in our lives that lead to death.
A conversation with a confused scholar, leads Jesus to give us the most iconic scripture in the entire Bible. From this passage we learn that Belief in Jesus require these components, the head (knowing) + the heart (trusting) + the hand & feet (action).
When culture around us is changing constantly, what does it mean for us to be missional in the community around us?
To those who may feel that this may be a challenging time to raise up a new generation of kids and teens to be followers of Christ, may this sermon be an encouragement to you.
God has entrusted us to be his co-laborers and workers in the world. That responsibility is very important for God's people to live out during times of exile. May this message encourage you to be a blessing to others in the place where God has placed you.
What does it mean to live out our own unique Christian story amid so many competing stories that vie for our hearts? May this message stir you to focus yourself on the one story that matters most.
We kicked off 2018 looking to a story from Ezekiel that is one of hope when all hope seemed lost. During a season where we focus on resolutions, goals, dreams and simply trying something new, may this message remind us that God is resolute on making all things new in our world today.
Our English-speaking & Spanish-speaking services came together as one whole Church for our worship service on Sunday, December 17th.
This is the second part to our four-week Advent series entitled, "Long-Expected Jesus."
We wrapped up our journey through "Mark" this past Sunday, by looking at the story of the blind, beggar Bartimaeus.
The way Jesus calls us to live is a matter that almost Christ-followers agree with in theory, but a lot of fail in the execution of living out this new way of life. This sermon explains why the call for us to love God with all that we are and love our neighbor as we love ourselves is so crucial.
Politics have become increasingly more-and-more divisive. This message examines how followers of Jesus should engage both politics & political discourse, and discusses what it means to live like Christ in our nation today.
On this Sunday, we held a Freedom Sunday, which raised awareness to the global injustice of human trafficking. Melinda West, the founder of "Freedom Calling," which is organization that exists to help overcome sex-trafficking in the state Oregon, joined us to share about their organization and the what they are doing fight against the injustice of trafficking.
With "Christian Skepticism" on the rise in the Church today, we looked at two parables of Jesus that address a couple doubts with which Christian Skeptics have wrestled.
During the course of the message we showed a video entitled "Grace" by The Skit Guys, that you can find on Youtube, to accompany your hearing of this sermon.