Date: 10/22/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Gathered In
Scripture: Psalm 107
Description: This psalm uses four different examples to make one powerful point: when the hopeless cry out to God, he hears them and delivers.
Bless the Lord - Psalm 103
Date: 10/15/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Bless the Lord
Scripture: Psalm 103
Description: Due to technical difficulties, there is no audio available for this week's sermon.
Steadfast Love - Psalm 90
Date: 10/08/17
Speaker: Will Acuff
Title: Steadfast Love
Scripture: Psalm 90
Description: When you recognize the truth about human life, that all of us flourish then wither like grass, the psalmist's response is the only one that makes sense. "Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days."
Buried Alive - Psalm 88
Date: 10/01/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Buried Alive
Scripture: Psalm 88
Description: Psalm 88 has been called the saddest prayer in the book. It begins with unanswered cries to God. It ends in deep darkness. And in between it offers a profound look at what despair feels like.
Relationship History - Psalm 78
Date: 09/24/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Relationship History
Scripture: Psalm 78
Description: How can Israel's history help our relationship with God today?
My Portion Forever - Psalm 73
Date: 09/17/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: My Portion Forever
Scripture: Psalm 73
Description: Everyone experiences envy. No one enjoys what that feels like. But how do we overcome our tendency to envy the good things other people enjoy? This psalm helps us see that envy always comes from overvaluing what other people have, and from undervaluing what it is to have God's presence in your life.
Better Than Life - Psalm 63
Date: 09/10/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Better Than Life
Scripture: Psalm 63
Description: This praise psalm celebrates the irreplaceable goodness of knowing God from personal experience. But how can we experience God as the psalmist did?
Rejoicing in Vengeance? - Psalm 58
Date: 09/03/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Rejoicing in Vengeance?
Scripture: Psalm 58
Description: This psalm is one of many that pray for the destruction of Israel's enemies. If you don't live with enemies close at hand, psalms like these can be hard to connect with. And given the brutal language, psalms like these can seem totally out of step with Jesus's call to love your enemies and pray for your persecutors. How should we respond to prayers like these? Should we rejoice in vengeance?
Wealth and Wisdom - Psalm 49
Date: 08/27/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Wealth and Wisdom
Scripture: Psalm 49
Description: How can we learn to worship God with our wealth rather than worshipping wealth as our god? We need to see what death does to wealth, so that we can see what Jesus does to death. Then we can see more clearly what Jesus means for our wealth.
Where is Your God? - Psalms 42-43
Date: 08/20/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Where is Your God?
Scripture: Psalms 42-43
Description: What should we do when God feels absent? This psalm models three crucial steps.
Have Mercy - Psalm 51
Date: 08/13/17
Speaker: Jonathan Worsley
Title: Have Mercy
Scripture: Psalm 51
Description: What does it look like to be honest with God about our sin? David offers a powerful model. He shows us what it looks like to genuinely recognize our sin, to repent of our sin, and to experience renewal after our sin.
Who Has You Covered? - Psalm 32
Date: 08/06/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Who Has You Covered?
Scripture: Psalm 32
Description: You can try to cover your own sin, or you can let God cover it for you.
The God Who Speaks - Psalm 19
Date: 07/30/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The God Who Speaks
Scripture: Psalm 19
Description: All relationships depend on communication. If God exists, our only hope for knowing anything about him, much less knowing and loving him, depends on his willingness to speak to us. So where can we hear from God?
The God Who Saves - Psalm 18
Date: 07/23/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The God Who Saves
Scripture: Psalm 18
Description: This psalm belongs with a group known as thanksgiving psalms. It celebrates God as the one who hears and answers, the God who saves. But whom does God save?
Lasting Joy - Psalm 16
Date: 07/16/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Lasting Joy
Scripture: Psalm 16
Description: The only way to experience true, lasting joy is to love most what you can’t lose.
The Pursuit of Happiness - Psalm 1
Date: 07/09/17
Speaker: Matt Givens
Title: The Pursuit of Happiness
Scripture: Psalm 1
Description: This first psalm serves as an introduction and an invitation to the whole collection of psalms. It lays out the path to true and lasting happiness. What it says about happiness, and where to find it, may surprise you.
Where Authentic Christianity Shows Up - 2 Corinthians 13:11-14
Date: 06/25/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Where Authentic Christianity Shows up
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 13:11-14
Description: With his final encouragement for his friends, Paul ties together the main themes of his letter, and points to where authentic Christianity shows up: in community.
Test Yourself - 2 Corinthians 13:1-10
Date: 06/18/17
Speaker: Seth Jones
Title: Test Yourself
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 13:1-10
Description: Throughout this letter Paul has been under examination, but now at the end he tells the Corinthians that they should examine themselves. What sort of test does Paul have in mind? And how will this test be graded?
Living Together In Christian Unity - 2 Corinthians 12:11-21
Date: 06/11/17
Speaker: Bill Heerman
Title: Living Together In Christian Unity
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 12:11-21
Description: Paul's goal in writing to his friends is to deepen their faith. As he defends himself and his ministry against specific accusations, he puts forward an example of relating to the Corinthian church, where we find an encouragement to live a self-denying, unified life with brothers and sisters in Christ. The power to live like that comes from our identity in Christ since all of us sinners need a savior. Our purpose is to bring all glory of God.
God's Sufficient Grace - 2 Corinthians 12:1-10
Date: 06/04/17
Speaker: Shaka Mitchell
Title: God's Sufficient Grace
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 12:1-10
Description: The Christian life inevitably involves hardship. We want God's victory to look like our success over those hardships, but Paul tells us a different story. God's strength is made perfect in our weakness, whether we win in this life or not.