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Weekend Preview – Palm Sunday 2016

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This coming Sunday, March 20, will be Palm Sunday.  It’s a great day to kick off holy week and celebrating Jesus’ work.  We’ll have children singing in our AM service and take our annual children’s photograph after the AM service.  
In terms of sermon, I’m going to keep working through John’s Gospel, specifically John 1:35-51.  This passage unpacks some basics of what it means to be a follower of Christ, so the theme will work nicely with the emphasis of Palm Sunday.  I hope you’ll join us. 

Weekend Recap – John the Baptist’s Witness

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My 3/13/16AM sermon, John the Baptist’s Witness from John 1:19-34, is now online.  We also discussed this in our Small Groups.  It was a fun sermon to be a part of.  I was really affected noticing John the Baptist’s humility, his continued pointing to Jesus, and his clear verbal expression of who Jesus is and what He came to do.  I hoping this sermon brought fruit to your life.  If you didn’t get a chance, I hope you find encouragement in this free audio.

Weekend Preview – The Witness of John

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This coming Lord’s Day, we’ll be continuing our work in the Gospel of John looking at John 1:19-34 (we will also have Small Groups and I’ve written small group questions for this passage here).  The big idea will be what we learn from John the Baptist’s witness to Jesus.  Our witness is bigger than us and it’s about Him.  So, I’m hoping this coming Sunday helps encourage people with how they can bear witness to Jesus in more skillful ways.  I hope you’ll join us.

Weekend Recap – Into John and 33

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My 3/6/16AM sermon, The Word from John 1:1-18, is now online.  This sermon meant we are now actually digging in to the Gospel of John verse by verse.  This sermon, in particular, sought to answer the question, “How would you introduce Jesus?”  Many of us might go all kinds of routes in helping others understand Jesus, but John takes us to the preeminence of Jesus, carries us through creation, to the work that Jesus would come to do and how He took on flesh.  It’s much deeper than we would think someone would go.  But, that’s what made this sermon so fun.  I hope you’ll listen and find encouragement in it.

Our men continue to work through the 33 series on A Man and His Work.  I was encouraged last night seeing how Nehemiah was afraid, but that didn’t keep him from dreaming.  The work of prayer and planning, cultivating and creating, can prove monumental at times.  This series is helping me think in better ways about my work.  I hope others can join us.  The next lesson happens on April 3.

Weekend Preview – The Word

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This Sunday, Lord willing, we will start our study of the Gospel of John.  We will be looking at John 1:1-18.  I mentioned this past Sunday that I try to read the Gospel of John each week reading 3 chapters a day.  At the very least, open to John 1 and dig into this amazing opening.  How would you introduce Jesus?  John begins here…

Weekend Recap – Baptism and Introduction to John’s Gospel

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Enjoyed a full Sunday.  We opened our service with a baptism and I was privileged to baptize my oldest as well as another friend of his (you could check this out on our livestream page where video of this is archived if you’re interested…it’s after the opening hymn).  My sermon was a little different than normal in that I used it as a deeper meditation to prepare for the Lord’s Supper.  Also, the sermon itself was an Introduction to the Gospel of John using John 20:30-31 as my springboard.  Starting next Sunday, I will be preaching through John’s Gospel.

Weekend Preview – Ordinances and John

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This weekend we are anticipating a full day at Crestview on 2/28.  We will be opening our service with some baptisms.  We’ll also sing, hear some insight for our upcoming study of John’s Gospel and come to the Lord’s Supper table together.  I hope it’s a rich time of fellowship and worship for you.  Plan to join us as 10:15AM or by our live stream.

Weekend Recap – Waiting Expectantly

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My 2/21/16AM sermon, Waiting Expectantly from Luke 18:1-8, is now online.  This passage ends with a question, “When the Son of Man returns, will He find faith on the earth?”  And, what I teased out was what the parable was about – inspiring people to pray consistently and not lose heart.  I hope it encourages you.  It also helped launch our church’s Week of Prayer.  Here’s more info on this week in the life of our church.