Brutal Facts, Prevailing Hope

In this sermon, Pastor Mike Schumann expounds upon Psalm 91 which helps answer the question: How do we live as humans in a world loaded with threats to human life? This psalm is a psalm for finding refuge in a God who is powerful, personal, faithful, and just.

In this sermon, Pastor Jonathan Parnell expounds upon Psalm 90. This psalm helps us understand how we can make it through a life in this fallen world. There’s three brutal facts that we must face, and then that’s met with our prevailing hope. It gives us a strategy for how to thrive with joy and gladness all our days even amid the sorrows.

In this sermon, Joe Rigney returns as a guest preacher to expound upon Psalm 89. In the face of life’s circumstances, do we remember God’s character and his covenant? When confronted with the world’s darkness or your anxiety, anger, fear of man, confusion, and vanity – do you still sing of his steadfast love and faithfulness?

In this sermon, Pastor Jonathan Parnell expounds upon Psalm 88 which is known as the saddest psalm. It’s about spiritual depression, or soul trouble, which is a real experience in the Christian life. And God gives us this psalm so that we know what to do with it.

In this sermon, Pastor Mike Schumann expounds upon Psalm 87 which is a psalm about the City of God. The Lord loves this city, and he loves the citizens of this city – all Christians, from everywhere. The gates to this city are currently open, and everyday people from all nations are joining in saying ‘I want to be a citizen of God’s city.’

In this sermon, Pastor Marshall Segal begins our seventh Summer of Psalms as he expounds upon Psalm 86 – a desperate, in the valley, psalm. David’s trouble in this psalm teaches us how to pray in our own trouble. There are four simple prayers we can learn here from David’s example.

In this sermon, Pastor Jonathan Parnell expounds upon John 6:60-71 which is all about the human response to what Jesus has said. This is the question: Why do some people love Jesus and others don’t? There are two main lessons about this that we find in this passage, and they are very relevant for us.

In this sermon, Pastor Marshall Segal expounds upon John 6:22-59 which prompts the question: Why are you here? What do you really want from Jesus? There are three bad answers to that question in these verses. Jesus tells us to seek the only bread that truly satisfies. He is the bread of life for anyone who believes.

In this sermon, Pastor Jonathan Parnell expounds upon John 6:16-21. In this passage is one of the most definitive declarations of Jesus’ identity in all of his earthly ministry: Jesus walks on water and declares to the frightened disciples, “I AM.” And looking at this story as a whole, it becomes an illustration of conversion. For those who trust in Jesus, this story is actually our story...

In this sermon, Pastor Jonathan Parnell expounds upon John 6:1-15 in which the purposeful kindness of Jesus is on full display as he miraculously feeds the large crowd of over 5,000 people that was following him. In this story, Jesus patiently provides and generously hosts a feast for his guests.