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Advent | Love | December 17

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Sermon by Ant Frederick on December 17, 2023.

Advent is Latin for "adventus," meaning "arrival," where we celebrate the arrival of Jesus over 2,000 years ago with the global, historic Church. For each week of the Advent season, we look at one thing Jesus has made possible for us through His birth. This week, we look at Love.

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Embodied | Incarnation | November 5

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Sermon by Ant Frederick on November 5, 2023.

Last week, we unpacked 1 Corinthians 15 and how the reality of bodily resurrection gives us hope for tomorrow while empowering us today. This week, we look at the embodiment of God in the incarnation of Jesus and how it helps us answer the question: “How do we faithfully navigate our particular cultural moment?”

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Embodied | Resurrection | October 29

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Sermon by Ant Frederick on October 29, 2023.

The bible teaches us that the brokenness that we experience in our bodies won't last forever. Though our bodies will die, in Christ, our hope will not. In 1 Corinthians 15, we flash forward to look at the end of the story for our bodies, connecting how knowing the end of the story for our bodies shapes how we live here and now.

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Embodied | Epithumia | October 22

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Sermon by Ant Frederick on October 22, 2023.

For the last few weeks, we’ve camped in Genesis 1-2 and painted this beautiful picture of God’s design, His intent for humanity, and what reality should look like. And yet, these ideals are not the reality of our lived existence. Genesis 3 goes on to tell us why that is.

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Embodied | Eros | October 15

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Sermon by Ant Frederick on October 15, 2023.

This week, we look at Genesis 2 and discuss the origin story of marriage. What’s marriage for? That word, or idea, has been around since the dawn of time. And based on your cultural context, you will get different answers about what that word means. So what’s marriage for? Who or what gets to define marriage? Is it me, my feelings, or is it based on biology or something else?

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Embodied | Union | October 8

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Sermon by Ant Frederick on October 8, 2023.

This week, we look at Genesis 2 and discuss the origin story of marriage. What’s marriage for? That word, or idea, has been around since the dawn of time. And based on your cultural context, you will get different answers about what that word means. So what’s marriage for? Who or what gets to define marriage? Is it me, my feelings, or is it based on biology or something else?

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Embodied | Ish and Ishah | October 1

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Sermon by Ant Frederick on October 1, 2023.

Last week, we began our new series discussing what it means to be an embodied person. This week, we continue that discussion as we talk about gender. Where does gender come from? Why did God create male and female? What is the ideal relationship between men and women supposed to be? How should men and women treat and think about each other?

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Embodied | Telos | September 24

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Sermon by Ant Frederick on September 24, 2023.

Oversimplified narratives about our bodies surround us. Through conversations and airwaves, we are constantly told what we should pursue with our bodies, how we should think about them, and what dangers follow disagreement with the cultural ethos of desire, gender, sexuality, and marriage.

But these messages skip over some very essential questions–questions like: what is your body, exactly? What is your body for? Who created it, and with what purpose? What is the eternal destiny of our bodies, and how does that inform what we do on a normal week? 

Join us for an eight-week series unpacking God’s plan for the human body–a majestic story from beginning to end.

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10 Years of Faithfulness | A People Who Teach Them Diligently | September 17

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Sermon by Ant Frederick on September 17, 2023.

Over these 10 years, God has continued to grow the number of children and students in our church.  It is important that, as a church, we diligently teach our children about the Lord.  Today, we are inviting our children to worship in the room with us as our special guests.  We'll tell them about Christ, sing the songs they sing in Kidtown with them, and celebrate how God is developing them.

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10 Years of Faithfulness | A People of Generosity | September 10

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Sermon by Ant Frederick on September 10, 2023.

Over these 10 years, God has continued to grow the number of children and students in our church.  It is important that, as a church, we diligently teach our children about the Lord.  Today, we are inviting our children to worship in the room with us as our special guests.  We'll tell them about Christ, sing the songs they sing in Kidtown with them, and celebrate how God is developing them.

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10 Years of Faithfulness | A People Who Honor | September 3

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Sermon by Ant Frederick on September 3, 2023.

The bible tells us to give honor to those that are worthy of it.  It is a beautiful and rewarding thing to be a part of a family where brothers and sisters are committed to honoring each other.  Let's make the next 10 years a time where we don't hesitate to faithfully honor each other.

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10 Years of Faithfulness | A People Of God's Mission | August 27

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Sermon by Ant Frederick on August 27, 2023.

We have sacrificed a lot to join God in His mission to seek and save the lost.  He calls us to take up our cross and follow Him along the difficult path of being on His Mission with Him.  One of the things that reminds us that it is always worth it is when we witness Him bring lost people from death to life, in Him.  What a blessing it is to celebrate His salvation through the baptism of new believers!

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10 Years of Faithfulness | A People Of God's Love | August 20

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Sermon by Ant Frederick on August 20, 2023.

We are a people that have been transformed by God's love and devoted to sharing that love to each other as a family.  Being a family is often difficult.  There are often misunderstandings, awkward moments, and hurt that we experience, but there is also encouragement, growth, transformation, and healing to be found in God's family of love.  God has blessed us with these and much more as we live as the people of love that He's made us to be.

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10 Years of Faithfulness | People of the Pages | August 13

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Sermon by Ant Frederick on August 13, 2023.

From the beginning we have simply asked the questions, "What does the bible say?" and "How do we live that out?"  Being Jesus-Centered means we need to be a people of the pages - a people that are doers of His Word and not just hearers of His Word.  We've sought to apply that to every ministry in our church, and will continue do so for years to come.

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Jesus & the Bully | August 6

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Sermon by Ant Frederick on August 6, 2023.

This week we look at Luke 19:1-10 where we meet Zacchaeus, a man who made himself rich by taking advantage of others. So what happens when he encounters King Jesus? And what does Jesus have to say to us through a story like this?

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Jesus & the Jealous | July 30

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Sermon by Brandon Clements on July 30, 2023.

This week we look at Matthew 19:27-20:16, where Peter essentially asks Jesus, “Is following you truly worth it?” This is a question we may have asked at some point in our journey of faith. We can easily play the comparison game, or we go through a season of suffering, or life doesn’t turn out how we thought it would. So what does Jesus have to say to us?

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Jesus & the Desperate | July 23

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Sermon by Ant Frederick on July 23, 2023.

This week we look at Luke 5:17-24 where Jesus meets a paralyzed man, who was lowered down through a ceiling so he can come face to face with Jesus. So how does Jesus interact with him, and how does Jesus meet us in our desperation?

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