Entries by Cam
Surprise
Message by Pastor Mark. Have you ever really stopped and pondered what it would be like to actually be in the Christmas Story? You know, actually, step into the shoes of the very characters we’ve come to know and love who make up the story of Christmas. If you really take a moment, close your […]
Send Me!
Message by Pastor Mark. We have asked God to search us, shape us, and break us. This sermon shows the importance of asking God to send us. Being available to what God has for you is so important. Isaiah 6:1-8
Break Me: Radical Denial
Message by Pastor Cam. The Christian life is radically self-refusing and radically Christ-exalting. This is the hardest and most rewarding part of the Christian life. “God, Break me,” is a prayer that many will not want to pray, but when prayed, God will answer it in a way that you cannot deny. Matthew 16:24-27
Shape Me: Holy Discontentment
Message by Pastor Cam. When we pray, “Search me,” we are asking God to take a deep look into our hearts and reveal any dirt. But after we see the sin in our lives what do we do? Where do we turn when our deepest sins are umasked in front of us? To be a […]
Playing it Safe
Message by Pastor Mark. Is the goal of the Christian life safety? Well, eternal safety, for sure. But what about our life here on earth. Is God’s goal for us as Christians to keep us safe from all danger? If you listened to our prayers you might think that’s the only goal. Maybe we should […]
A Righteous Response
Sometime our anger is righteous anger. And sometimes our response to that righteous anger is also a righteous response. Moses had good reason to be angry with the Nation of Israel when they decided to worship a golden calf instead of their Holy God. He also responded to their sin with a consequence that fit […]
Waiting
J.P. Sundararajan (The RCA’s director for Global Mission) preaches from his least favorite passage of scripture in the whole Bible. Yet, this scripture is integral to his story. A story of how God brought a kid from India to the United States and into the Reformed Church in America family and now the Director of […]
Cover-Up Anger
Message by Pastor Mark. King David, “burned with anger” when the priest Nathan came to him and shared with him the details of a civil suit with which he was struggling. A rich man takes a poor man’s only lamb and serves it up as dinner for a traveler who stops by his home one […]