Prayer is in right now. In fact, prayer and meditation are on the rise even as the American church is in decline. While most of us pray, we need a refresher course on what prayer is. In Psalm 27, God is out to redefine, reclaim, and rekindle our...
Feb 25, 2024
We do not pray for the sake of praying. It is ordered to an even greater end. It is part of a good life. While Psalm 1 begins the prayerbook of Israel it is the only utterance that is not a prayer. But as it describes the fact, the character, and the...
Feb 18, 2024
The first recorded address of God by humanity--the first “prayer”--comes in the context of humanity’s tragic choice–what we know as the fall from grace. And while that moment offers no explicit or intended teaching on the warrant, substance, or...
Feb 11, 2024
What was it all for? Why devote close to a year learning from and about the Holy Spirit? So much of what we considered focused on his purposes for us personally and communally. We want to conclude our particular attention to the Spirit with a focus on...
Feb 4, 2024
Humans have always been ritual-making creatures. We establish patterns, habits, and traditions which form our sense of identity and offer us meaning. The Lord’s Supper is one more example of our inclination to meaning-filled ritual. But its power lies...
Jan 28, 2024
The sacraments of baptism and Lord’s Supper are neither magic nor are they mere moments that invoke a memory meant to move us. If not like those, what are they? What are they for? And if they involve something inward–something spiritual–then how, if...
Jan 21, 2024
We round out our study of the Holy Spirit with a final stretch of sermons on the activity of the Holy Spirit in our private and public acts of worship. This week we consider what the Spirit is “up to” in the human act of preaching.
Jan 14, 2024
Spiritual renewal and revival are buzzwords both inside and, in recent times, outside of evangelicalism. What is spiritual renewal and what is it for? We’ll turn to one of Paul’s final letters as we seek spiritual renewal for ourselves and for the...
Jan 7, 2024
This time of year the impulse to make changes for the good is high. And like the morning frost that impulse disappears in the sunlight. We are not saved by change, but we are saved for it. What kind of change and what motive must be behind the change?...
Dec 31, 2023
**Please note: There will be no regular Sunday morning worship service on Christmas Eve. We invite your family to join us for our Christmas Eve service at 4:30pm on Sunday, December 24. We look forward to celebrating the Incarnation with our GMR...
Dec 24, 2023
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