October 19, 2025 Matthew 5:27-32 “Hard Words, Holy Love” Service Overview: Jesus moves past surface-level sexual ethics to expose the deeper battle within hearts. Lust, objectification, and broken promises aren’t just cultural issues, they’re soul issues. In this passage, Jesus calls His followers to radical holiness, heart-deep purity, and covenantal integrity that...
October 12, 2025 Matthew 5:33-37 “Honest to God” Service Overview: In a culture of spin, exaggeration, and half-truths, Jesus calls for something simple and stunning: let your “yes” mean yes, and your “no” mean no. This teaching challenges us to live with such integrity that oaths become unnecessary; our character confirms our words, and our...
September 28, 2025 Matthew 5:21-26 “The Heart Beneath the Hurt” Service Overview: Jesus intensifies the command “Do not murder” by tracing its roots back to the heart. Anger, insults, and bitterness all fall under His microscope. In God’s kingdom, reconciliation matters more than self-righteousness. This passage challenges us to take inner conflict seriously and pursue...
September 21, 2025 Matthew 5:17-20 “Jesus and the Fine Print” Service Overview: Jesus didn’t come to cancel the Law but to complete its purpose. In this pivotal passage, He calls His followers to a deeper, more authentic righteousness, one that surpasses external religion and flows from the heart. What does it mean to live...
September 7, 2025 Matthew 5:1–12 “Backward” Blessings Service Overview: Jesus opens the Sermon on the Mount with a radical list of blessings that flip the world’s values upside down. In these “beatitudes,” we discover who is truly blessed in God’s kingdom, and it’s not who we’d expect. These words challenge our assumptions and invite us...
August 24, 2025 Deuteronomy 15:7-11 & Acts 4:32–37 “Open-Handed: Stewarding well what God Gives” “The Generous Life: Open Hands, Full Hearts” Service Overview: Acts 4 gives a glimpse of a community marked by radical generosity. The early church lived with open hands, meeting needs and strengthening unity. Their generosity wasn’t forced, it flowed from...
August 17, 2025 Exodus 35:20–29 & 2 Corinthians 8:1-7 “Open-Handed: Stewarding well what God Gives” Week 2 – “Don’t Hold Back: What’s in Your Hand?” Service Overview: Exodus 35 and 2 Corinthians 8 paint a picture of a people offering their time, talents, and treasure to build something holy. As God’s people, we are invited...
August 3, 2025 1 Chronicles 29:10-14 “Open-Handed: Stewarding well what God Gives” Week 1 – “It’s Not Yours (And That’s Good News)” Service Overview: In 1 Chronicles 29, David declares that everything in heaven and earth belongs to the Lord. When we begin with this truth, it reorients how we view our possessions, time, and...
This Sunday is church at the park. Be sure to join us at 10 AM at Owen Memorial Park at Baw Beese Lake for worship, baptism, and potluck. While there are no extensive notes for this service, below are the service elements and song lyrics as they may be handy to have on your phone....
July 20, 2025 Exodus 40 “God in the Camp” Service Overview: Exodus ends not with rules or rebellion, but with glory. As the tabernacle is set up and anointed, the Lord Himself descends to dwell among His people. Exodus 40 reminds us that God’s desire has always been to dwell with His people and guide...
