Date: 03/24/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Royal Servant Suffers
Scripture: Isaiah 52:13-53:12
Description: God’s promised redeemer, both king and servant, triumphs through suffering. That’s the unexpected message of this famous passage, which explains for us both why he had to suffer and why his suffering is such good news for us. His suffering is substitutionary, voluntary, and obedient.
Date: 03/17/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Servant
Scripture: Isaiah 42:1-4
Description: To his emphasis on the coming King, Isaiah adds an unexpected description of the one who will come to save God’s people and bring justice to the nations. The conquering King is also the Servant; he is humble, gentle, and longsuffering.
Date: 03/10/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Perfect And Permanent King
Scripture: Isaiah 9:1-7
Description: Isaiah offers some of the Bible’s most beautiful descriptions of God’s plan to save sinners and heal the brokenness of the world. According to Isaiah 9, those plans center on the coming of a perfect and permanent King.
Date: 03/03/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: A Culture Of Misplaced Trust
Scripture: Isaiah 59:1-16
Description: This passage is a clear and merciless indictment of what happens to the cultures we create when we refuse to trust God to make us secure. Like Israel in Isaiah’s day, we turn each other into threats to be attacked, competitors to be deceived, and resources to be exploited. But this passage also points the way to healing. Honest confession of our own brokenness helps us empathize with the weakness of others, and confidence in God’s saving power frees us to give ourselves to others.
Date: 02/24/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Who's Carrying Whom?
Scripture: Isaiah 46:1-13
Description: Using an image of unmistakeable power, Isaiah shows that idols may draw you in with the promise of control, but in the end you’re left to carry their crushing weight. By contrast, the Holy One of Israel demands submissive trust in a God you can’t control, but he is powerful, wise, and loving enough to carry you.
Date: 02/17/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Uselessness of Idolatry
Scripture: Isaiah 44:9-23
Description: Isaiah presents idolatry, worshipping and trusting what isn’t God, as one of Israel’s most consistent and most significant problems. And though the symptoms have changed from culture to culture, idolatry is a heart disease we all carry. This chapter helps us understand what idolatry is, why it’s useless, how we’re guilty of it, and how we can be saved from it.
Date: 02/10/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Whom Will You Trust?
Scripture: Isaiah 7:1-17
Description: The story of Ahaz illustrates Isaiah’s perspective on what’s wrong with Israel and with us. Then and now, everything rides on a single question: whom will you trust?
Date: 02/03/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: True Love
Scripture: Isaiah 40:1-8
Description: The Bible claims that God is love, but in trying to understand what that means we’ve got to be careful to avoid imposing our confused views of what love is onto God. The fact is that God’s love isn’t like any love in our experience, which is to say it’s holy love. In light of Isaiah 40, God’s holy love is preemptive, pardoning, and permanent.
Date: 01/27/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: "Holy in Righteousness"
Scripture: Isaiah 5:8-25
Description: One of the ways in which God is holy, in which he is not like us, is his perfect moral righteousness. We redefine what’s right and justify doing wrong; God is perfectly committed to what’s right and unfailingly judges what’s wrong. This makes God’s holy perfection a severe threat. But his holy perfection also comes to us as a promise: God offers us Jesus’s record of perfect righteousness, and by his Spirit we come to love what’s right and hate what’s wrong as God does.
Date: 01/20/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: No Comparison
Scripture: Isaiah 40:12-31
Description: At the heart of Isaiah’s portrait of God is God’s holy transcendence—the fact that God is beyond us and anything we experience in this world, that he’s not limited by the powers of this world or our ability to understand him. This aspect of what God is like is unavoidably abstract and difficult to connect with, much less enjoy. And that’s why Isaiah 40 is in the Bible, to help us see and enjoy God’s holy transcendence more fully.
Date: 01/13/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Holy One of Israel
Scripture: Isaiah 6:1-7
Description: “Holy” is Isaiah’s favorite description of God, the one that stands behind everything else he says about him. But what does that mean, and how can we understand and love that God is holy?
Date: 01/06/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Introducing The Book Of Isaiah: The Gospel According To Isaiah
Scripture: Isaiah 1:1-2:5
Description: Using Isaiah 1 as an introduction to our new series, this sermon aims to clarify the four questions Isaiah helps us answer: Who is God? Who are we? What has God promised us? And how should we respond to his Word?
Date: 11/25/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Remember Hebrews
Scripture: Hebrews 13:20-25
Description: The letter to the Hebrews ends with a benediction, a reminder of what God has done and a prayer for what God will do for his children. By sacrificing the blood of his Son, God has made a covenant that promises peace and life that will last forever. By his covenant God gives to us what he requires of us, promising to transform us so we can live the lives of worship we were made to live.
Date: 11/18/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Follow Faithful Leaders
Scripture: Hebrews 13:7-19
Description: Wrapping up this letter to his friends, the author of Hebrews urges them to view their leaders as God gift to their community. This passage explains how we’re to follow faithful leaders, and where those leaders should be leading us.
Date: 11/11/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Grateful Life
Scripture: Hebrews 13:1-6
Description: Because of Jesus, worship looks different. There are no more temples, sacrifices, or ceremonial cleansings; now worship is a way of life, a life defined by gratitude for what God has done and will do for us through Jesus. This passage gives examples of what should mark a grateful life.
Date: 11/04/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: God's Accessible, Unshakeable Kingdom
Scripture: Hebrews 12:18-29
Description: This passage, the rhetorical climax of the letter, summarizes the major themes of Hebrews. It reminds us where we’ve come through Jesus, where we’re going, and how we get there.
Date: 10/21/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Heal What Is Lame
Scripture: Hebrews 12:12-17
Description: If the Christian life amounts to a long, difficult, and painful race, we’ve got to work as a team to strengthen each other and bind what is broken—to create a community of healing. We must work hard at what God is working out in us; this looks like peace with each other and a fuller dependence on God. And we must take responsibility for each other’s faith, pushing each other beyond apathy, hard-heartedness, and fleeting pleasure.
Date: 10/14/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Endure Pain
Scripture: Hebrews 12:1-11
Description: The witness of Israel’s heroes and especially of Jesus is this: God’s promises are more precious than the comforts of this world. But this text reveals another dimension to how we should view our pain as people of faith. Our pain is used by our Father to discipline us; it shows God loves us, it aims at our holiness, and it always bears fruit.
Date: 10/07/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Faith In A Better Resurrection
Scripture: Hebrews 11:32-40
Description: This conclusion to Hebrews’s list of faith’s exemplars offers a striking contrast. Sometimes faith brings back the dead, and sometimes faith costs everything. But the key point is this: if Jesus is alive, the difference between gaining or losing everything in this life doesn’t ultimately matter.
Date: 09/30/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Moses, Faith, And Our Identity
Scripture: Hebrews 11:23-31
Description: Moses’s life shows how faith is a matter of identity. Faith says that Jesus is more satisfying than the fleeting pleasure of sin. He’s more rewarding than the greatest treasures of this world. He’s more secure than the powers we admire and crave. And that’s because Jesus alone overcomes our inadequacy and makes us children of God.
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