| Series | Title | Subject | Verse | Description | Date | Sermon PDF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acts | Becoming Real | Becoming Real | Acts 25:23-26:32 | Ache of being stretched thin | 4/17/2005 | |
| Acts | Being Too Easily Pleased | Embrace Gospel Message | Acts 24:1-27 | Temptation to put Christ off (and danger) | 3/13/2005 | |
| Acts | Called to Witness | God Works in Hearts | Acts 21:37-22:22 | Not sure what witnessing really means | 2/20/2005 | |
| Acts | God’s Provision into and through Hard Times | Entrusting Ourselves to Him | Acts 21:1-16 | Man-centered expectations of God’s ways of providing | 11/9/2004 | |
| Acts | His Control and Our Courage | Jesus In Control | Acts 22:23-23:11 | Anxious for what’s to come because of what we’ve seen thus far | 2/27/2005 | |
| Acts | Life in the Pasture: The Sheep | Follow His Lead | Acts 20:17-38 | Slow to see His care | 11/16/2004 | |
| Acts | Life in the Pasture: The Wolves | Wolves in the Flock | Acts 20:13-38 | Unawareness of the danger of wolves | 11/30/2004 | |
| Acts | No God But God | God Alone Our Help | Acts 25:1-22 | Trusting too much in others to help | 4/10/2005 | |
| Acts | Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector | Into His Presence | Luke 18:9-14 | In coming before God, we trust in our righteousness | 11/23/2004 | |
| Acts | Persevering | Distressing Circumstances | Acts 21:27-22:21 | Confusion and dismay in the storm | 2/6/2005 | |
| Acts | Providence of God | God's Care in All Things | Acts 28:1-16 | Our failure to appreciate God’s providential ordering | 5/8/2005 | |
| Acts | Purposes of God | Rest We Seek | Acts 23:12-35 | Fear for lack of control of circumstances | 4/22/2005 | |
| Acts | Relections on a Stormy Voyage | God's Sovereign Control | Acts 27 | Pride and presumption with knowledge | 10/7/2004 | |
| Acts | Source of Persuasion | Complexities in becoming a Christian | Acts 28:17-31 | Lack of clarity in understanding why we are where we are | 5/15/2005 | |
| Acts | When the Difficulties Are People | Difficult People | Acts 21:17-26 | Confusion as to how to deal with interpersonal difficulty | 1/30/2005 | |
| Amos | A Spiritual Plague – Pride | Pride | Amos 6:1-14 | Reality of the struggle with pridev | 11/13/2005 | |
| Amos | Far as the Curse Is Found | Struggle of Our Days | Amos 9:11-15 | Loss of strength, need for hope | 2/26/2006 | |
| Amos | God Has Spoken. Now What? | Word Reveald | Amos 3:3-8 | A casual estimation of the Scriptures > indifference to the Scriptures | 9/25/2005 | |
| Amos | God’s Demand for What Is Real | Must Be Real | Amos 7:7-9 | The problem of hypocrisy | 1/8/2006 | |
| Amos | Going to Church and Going to Hell | Not Complacent | Amos 9:1-10 | Damning complacency | 2/19/2006 | |
| Amos | It Matters Not | Lord Calls Us to What Matters | Amos 1:1 | Need to undo our ideas of strength/weakness | 7/31/2005 | |
| Amos | Lessons from a Funeral | Seek Him | Amos 5:1-17 | The need to be shaken out of our complacency | 10/16/2005 | |
| Amos | Lion's Roar Against His People | God's Very Deep Love for Us | Amost 2:4-3:2 | Failure to appreciate how very deep God’s love is for us | 8/28/2005 | |
| Amos | Lion's Roar Against the Nation | Sins of Our Age | Amos 1:2-2:3 | Failure to see how God regards the sins of those around us | 8/7/2005 | |
| Amos | Repentance: God's Call to Our Need | Repentance | Amos 4:1-13 | Our assumption that everything’s fine | 10/9/2005 | |
| Amos | Troublesome Signs | Object of Worship | Amos 8:1-10 | Question as to spiritual diagnostics | 1/29/2006 | |
| Amos | What It Is to Pray | Relationship Initiated by the Lord | Amos 7:1-6 | Lost and untaken opportunity | 11/30/2005 | |
| Amos | Worship That Is Pleasing to God | God is Focus of Worship | Amos 5:18-27 | Irreverence > presumption | 10/23/2005 | |
| Amos | Yielding to the World | Word | Amos 7:10-17 | Our struggle with authority – even God’s Word over our lives | 1/15/2006 | |
| Biography | John Calvin on the Spiritual Life | John Calvin | Assumption we have nothing to learn from John Calvin | 10/30/2005 | ||
| Biography | What Does It Mean To Have a Hero? | Heroes in our Life | Philippians 3:17 | Confusion as to the place of heroes in our lives | 1/14/2007 | |
| Call to Community | Consider One Another | What We Have in Christ | Hebrews 10:19-25 | Aimlessness to our days | 9/2/2007 | |
| Call to Community | Pattern of Jesus | Vibrant Community | Psalm 133 | Skepticism regarding our need for community | 8/12/2007 | |
| Call to Community | Resistance We Face | Resistance | Matthew 5:13-16 | Naiveté in the pursuit of community – it won’t come naturally | 8/19/2007 | |
| Christmas | Descendant of Eve | Discouragement, Christmas | Genesis 3:15 | Discouragement at Christmas | 12/9/2007 | |
| Christmas | Everlasting Father | Everlasting Father | Isaiah 9:6 | Longing for something more lasting than the celebration | 12/19/2004 | |
| Christmas | Jesus: A Prophet Like Moses | Will of God | Deuteronomy 18:15 | Longing to know the will of God | 12/16/2007 | |
| Christmas | King Like David | Christmas, Helplessness | Isaiah 9:6-7 | Our weakness and helplessness > need of One to rule and unite | 10/21/2007 | |
| Christmas | Mighty God | Mighty God | Isaiah 9:6 | Troubles and problems > overwhelmed | 12/5/2004 | |
| Christmas | Peace He Brings | Peace of Christ | Luke 2:14 | Little appreciation for the peace Jesus brings | 12/17/2006 | |
| Christmas | Peace with God | Jesus Brought Peace | Romans 5:1-2 | Longing for peace with God | 12/24/2006 | |
| Christmas | Perfect Place | Incarnation | Matthew 2:1-12 | Confusion over “the perfect gift” | 12/4/2005 | |
| Christmas | Perfect Time | Not Slaves But Sons | Galatians 4:1-7 | Need to consider (examine) this salvation carefully | 12/11/2005 | |
| Christmas | Priest Like Melchizedek | Christmas, Guilt | Hebrews 7:11-28 | Problem of Guilt | 12/23/2007 | |
| Christmas | Prince of Peace | Prince of Peace | Isaiah 9:6 | Longing for the restoration of “shalom” | 12/26/2004 | |
| Christmas | Wonderful Counselor | Wonderful Counselor | Isaiah 9:6 | Stressed because we don’t really see who this Child is | 12/12/2004 | |
| CPC Vision | For Such A Time As This | God's Purpose for Us | Esther 4:14 | Not pursuing the purpose God has for us | 9/17/2006 | |
| CPC Vision | Grounded in God's Word | Nature of the Scripture | 2 Timothy 3:16-17 | Misunderstanding re. inspiration > low view of Scripture | 10/15/2006 | |
| CPC Vision | Growing in Community | God's Work of Renewal | Ephesians 4:1-16 | Lack of connection one to another | 10/29/2006 | |
| CPC Vision | Increasingly Gripped by His Grace | Lives Expression of Gratitude | Ephesians 2:1-10 | Mistaken motivesv | 10/22/2006 | |
| CPC Vision | Our Chief End and All Lesser Choices | Enjoying God | Psalm 23 | Directionless living | 10/1/2006 | |
| CPC Vision | Worshipping Body of Believers | Worship | Malachi 1:6-14 | Confusion as to who worship is for | 10/8/2006 | |
| Deacons | Calling | Gospel Ministry | Acts 6:1-7 | The tendency to downplay the necessity of the ministry of deeds | 7/16/2006 | |
| Deacons | Qualification | Deacons | 1 Timothy 3:8-13 | Lowering standards | 7/23/2006 | |
| Easter | Blessed Is the King | His Rule | Luke 19:28-48 | Not knowing our King | 4/9/2006 | |
| Easter | Death Abolished | Understand Death | 2 Timothy 1:10 | Universal need to rightly understand death | 4/15/2007 | |
| Easter | Death of the King | Jesus' Death | Luke 22:19-20 | Confusion about the meaning of Jesus’ death | 4/1/2007 | |
| Easter | Easter Prayer | Significance of What God has Done | Ephesians 1:15-23 | We don’t know whose and who we are > tentativeness | 3/27/2005 | |
| Easter | Great Expectations | Flawed Expectations | Matthew 21:1-11 | Misplaced expectations as to what Christ will do | 3/20/2005 | |
| Easter | Living for the King | Need for Meaning | Romans 11:36 | Need for meaning, direction, and purpose | 3/16/2008 | |
| Easter | Living Out the Gospel | What We Have | Hebrews 10:19-25 | Not realizing what we have. | 4/29/2007 | |
| Easter | Mary Magdalene: The True Story | DaVinci Code | John 20:1-18 | Trading in the solid hope of the gospel for cheap allurements | 4/30/2006 | |
| Easter | Real Living Presence of Christ | Relevance of the Resurrection | John 20:10-18 | Confusion regarding the relevance of the resurrection | 4/8/2007 | |
| Easter | Seeing Ourselves as Pardoned – Reflections on Barabbas | Great Exchange | Mark 15:1-15 | Little appreciation of the freedom we have in Christ | 4/3/2005 | |
| Easter | Truest Story Ever Told | Reality of Resurrection | 1 Corinthians 15:1-28 | Shaken view of resurrection > shaken hope | 4/16/2006 | |
| Finances | Giving of the Rich | Rich by God's Grace | 2 Corinthians 8:1-9 | Not recognizing and living out the riches we have in Christ | 9/10/2006 | |
| Finances | Honoring the LORD, Believing His Promises | Stewardship | Proverbs 3:9-10 | The difficulty we have in really trusting the God we serve | 5/7/2006 | |
| Fruits of Spirit | Faithfulness | Faithfulness | Galatians 5:22-23 | Absence of and hunger for “faithfulness” in this world and in our lives | 11/11/2007 | |
| Fruits of Spirit | Gentleness | Gentleness | Galatians 5:22-23 | Confusion about and longing for genuine gentleness | 11/18/2007 | |
| Fruits of Spirit | Goodness | Goodness | Galatians 5:22-23 | The longing for and struggle to be “good.” | 10/21/2007 | |
| Fruits of Spirit | Joy | Joy | Galatians 5:22-23 | Confusion as to what joy is and how it is possible | 9/16/2007 | |
| Fruits of Spirit | Kindness | Kindess | Galatians 5:22-23 | Kindess, Fruit, Spirit | 10/14/2007 | |
| Fruits of Spirit | Love | Love | Galatians 5:22-23 | Confusion about love – what it is and how it could be | 9/9/2007 | |
| Fruits of Spirit | Patience | Patience | Galatians 5:22-23 | Misunderstanding and lack of patience | 10/7/2007 | |
| Fruits of Spirit | Self-Control | Self-Control | Galatians 5:22-23 | Lack of yet longing for self control | 10/21/2007 | |
| Galatians | A Stark Choice | Justification | Galatians 2:15-16 | The flattery of believing we can make ourselves right with God. | 3/4/2007 | |
| Galatians | Considering Their Consensus | God is Good | Galatians 2:1-10 | The struggle to believe God’s love could be as good as He says | 2/18/2007 | |
| Galatians | Don’t You Know Who You Are | In Christ | Galatians 3:26-29 | Not knowing who we are “in Christ” | 6/10/2007 | |
| Galatians | Freedom | Freedom | Galatians 5:13-15 | Misuse of our freedom in Christ | 7/29/2007 | |
| Galatians | From Slavery to Sonship | Adoption | Galatians 4:1-7 | Prodigal suspicion; Because we have been adopted into God’s family | 6/24/2007 | |
| Galatians | Going Separate Ways | Law and Gospel | Galatians 4:21-31 | Failure to distinguish between living by the law and the gospel | 7/15/2007 | |
| Galatians | Gospel-made Community | Longing for Community | Galatians 2:11-14 | Longing for community. But real threats to it. | 2/24/2007 | |
| Galatians | Is This Really Such a Big Deal? | Gospel is Big Deal | Galatians 1:11-24 | Downplaying the need to get the gospel straight | 2/4/2007 | |
| Galatians | Letter Worth Reading | Life of Study | Galatians 1:1-5 | Our casual attitude towards the Scripture | 1/21/2007 | |
| Galatians | Letting the Law Do Its Job | Need for Gospel | Galatians 3:19-25 | Not seeing our need for the gospel | 6/3/2007 | |
| Galatians | Life of Grace | Losing our Way | Galatians 3:1-5 | Losing our way | 3/18/2007 | |
| Galatians | Life of Grace All Along | Rest in Christ | Galatians 3:6-9 | Waywardness regarding obvious things | 3/25/2007 | |
| Galatians | One True Gospel | One Gospel | Galatians 1:6-10 | Unclear as to what really matters | 1/28/2007 | |
| Galatians | Rule of the Gospel | Losing sight of Gospel | Galatians 6:11-18 | Ever present danger of losing sight of the gospel (the most vital thing) | 1/17/2008 | |
| Galatians | Sowing and Reaping | Sowing and Reaping | Galatians 6:6-10 | Possibility of being deceived re. “sowing and reaping | 1/20/2008 | |
| Galatians | Standing Firm | Works Righteousness | Galatians 5:1-12 | The danger of lapsing back into a works-righteousness | 7/22/2007 | |
| Galatians | Striving to Remember | Who we Are | Galatians 4:8-20 | Prone to forget, to lose sight of who/what we are | 7/8/2007 | |
| Galatians | This Is No Contract | God's Love | Galatians 3:15-18 | Fear that God’s love is like ours | 5/27/2007 | |
| Galatians | Truly Spiritual Life | Spiritual Life in Community | Galatians 6:1-5 | The folly of privatized faith | 1/13/2008 | |
| Galatians | Two Ways | Choice Before Us | Galatians 3:10-14 | The need to see clearly the starkness of the choice before us. | 5/13/2007 | |
| Galatians | Walking by the Spirit | Freedom | Galatians 5:16-26 | Feelings of futility in Christian life | 8/5/2007 | |
| Galatians | Why We Can't Go Back | Not Living by the Law | Galatians 2:17-21 | Tendency to drift from “the solas” | 3/11/2007 | |
| Jonah | God Unchanging | Solid Certainty | Jonah 3:10 | Does God Change? | 7/20/2005 | |
| Jonah | He Hears | He Hears | Jonah 1:17-2:10 | Does He hear me? | 6/26/2005 | |
| Jonah | Lessons of Nineveh’s Repentance | Examine Our Hearts | Jonah 3:1-9 | Blindness to our need to repent | 7/17/2005 | |
| Jonah | LORD’s Pursuit of His Own | God's Commitment to Us | Jonah 1:4-17 | Failure to appreciate the lengths God will go to for us | 6/5/2005 | |
| Jonah | Reasonableness of the Miraculous: Why Not a Great | Active in Creation | Jonah 1:17 | Resistance to the possibility of the miraculous | 6/12/2005 | |
| Jonah | Runaway Prophet | Blessing to the World | Jonah 1:1-3 | Blindness to purpose | 5/29/2005 | |
| Jonah | Serving the Incomprehensible God | Turn to Him | Jonah 4:1-11 | Our fretting, taking things into our hands | 7/24/2005 | |
| Letters of John | Doctrine: Why Bother? | Dangers of False Doctrine | 2 John | The effect of the lie: “Doctrine doesn’t matter” | 3/19/2006 | |
| Letters of John | Why of Hospitality | Pursuing Hospitality | 2 John | Not knowing who we are > not knowing what to do | 3/12/2006 | |
| Life in Church | How God Sees the Church | God Values the Church | Ephesians | Failure to appreciate who we are as the Church | 1/13/2005 | |
| Life in Church | Life in the Church – Being with One Another | God Works Through the Church | Failure to realize the necessity of “being with one another” | 10/1/2004 | ||
| Life in Church | Life in the Church: Living with One Another | Lives a Living Response | Ephesians | Failure to see the necessity of a change of life with an acceptance of the gospel | 1/27/2005 | |
| Marriage | Hunting the Foxes | Precious Gift of Marriage | Song of Solomon 2:15 | Failure to guard our marriages | 2/12/2006 | |
| Marriage | Love Song | Marriage Relationship | Psalm 45 | Am I loved? | 2/13/2005 | |
| Marriage | Marriage: Back to Basics | Marriage | Genesis 2:18-25 | Troubled marriages neeeding guidance from the Counselor | 2/10/2008 | |
| Miracles of Jesus | A Heart Moved to Help | Needs of Those Around Us | Luke 7:11-17 | Inability to be moved by the suffering of others | 9/4/2005 | |
| Miracles of Jesus | Calming of the Storm | Trusting Jesus | Luke 8:22-25 | Loss of security with loss of control (b/c of a loss of trust) | 8/14/2005 | |
| Misc | Glorious City | Love of the Church | Psalm 87 | Low view of the Church > low expectations | 5/22/2005 | |
| Misc | Life and the Weightier Matters | Pro-Life, Work for Life | Matthew 23:23 | Confusion as to what to do when faced with complicated ethical questions | 1/22/2006 | |
| Misc | Reflections on Work | Work, Value it in all Its Forms | Genesis 1:26-31; 3:17-19 | Our failure to appreciate the significance of our work | 11/7/2004 | |
| Misc | Spiritual Depression | Spiritual Depression | Psalm 42-43 | Struggle with spiritual depression – the felt absence of God | 2/3/2008 | |
| Mother's Day | His Last Words, Our New Site | New Day Is Coming | John 19:24b-27 | Nagging sense there should be more Nagging sense there should be more |
5/14/2006 | |
| New Years | God's Plans for Our Places | God's Plan | Jeremiah 29:1-14 | Inability to engage in life where we are | 1/6/2008 | |
| New Years | Humble Resolutions | Spirit of Humility | James 4:13-17 | Struggle with making resolutions in accord with reality | 1/1/2006 | |
| Ruth | An Introduction | God Working | Ruth 1:1-15 | Longing but unable to see God at work in our circumstances | 2/17/2008 | |
| Ruth | Jesus Christ, Our Kinsman Redeemer | God Being Distant | Ruth 3:1-18 | Feeling God to be at a distance | 3/9/2008 | |
| Ruth | Seeing His Providential Care | Providential Care | Ruth 2:1-23 | Confusion/uncertainty as to God’s providential care | 3/2/2008 | |
| Ruth | Two Responses to Tragedy | Inevitability of hardship | Ruth 1:6-22 | Inevitability of hardship and heartache. But how do we deal with it? | 2/24/2008 | |
| Suffering | Eyes Opened to See | Hope in Suffereing | Romans 8:18-23 | Failure to see the “unnatural state” of this world > simple answers | 9/11/2005 | |
| Suffering | Sorrowful But Not Surprised | Virginia Tech, Suffering | Romans 8:19-21 | Naïve understanding of the world in which we live | 4/22/2007 | |
| Ten Commandments | Adultery of the Heart | Intent for Marriage | Exodus 20:14 | Casual view of lust | 7/9/2006 | |
| Ten Commandments | Call to Rest | Rest | Exodus 20:8-11 | Exhaustion (not resting in God) | 6/18/2006 | |
| Ten Commandments | Honoring Those in Authority | Authorities in Our Lives | Exodus 20:12 | Confusion how we relate to authority | 6/25/2006 | |
| Ten Commandments | I Am A Liar | Speaking Truth | Exodus 20:16 | Smug assumption we are not liars. | 8/6/2006 | |
| Ten Commandments | Jesus Our Mediator | Inability to Obey | Exodus 20:18-21 | Inability to obey the Law | 9/3/2006 | |
| Ten Commandments | Lacking Nothing | Redeemed | Exodus 20:17 | The struggle with the desire for more | 8/20/2006 | |
| Ten Commandments | Murder of the Heart | Must Not Murder | Exodus 20:13 | Smug assumption we are not murderers | 6/2/2006 | |
| Ten Commandments | No Other Gods | Idolatry | Exodus 20:3 | The very real danger of “idolatry” | 5/28/2006 | |
| Ten Commandments | Thieves Like Us | Must Not Steal | Exodus 20:15 | Smug assumption we are not thieves | 7/26/2006 | |
| Ten Commandments | Weight of the Name | God's Name | Exodus 20:7 | Taking God lightly | 6/11/2006 | |
| Ten Commandments | Words Worth Heeding | Pay Heed to Words | Exodus 20:1-2 | Low place of law in our lives | 5/21/2006 | |
| Ten Commandments | Worship: Basic Principles | Worship Governed by His Word | Exodus 20:4-6 | Presumption in worshipping the true and living God | 6/4/2006 | |
| Thanksgiving | Testimony of Thanks | Respond to God | Psalm 116 | Not knowing how to respond to the work of a gracious God | 11/24/2006 |
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