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...
Message for the Hillsdale Free Methodist Church August 31st, 2025 Message Text: Matthew 22:34-40 “The Law and Christians” Service Orientation: The Law does not save us but still has important functions in the life of a Christian. Today this point is seldom considered and is hardly ever observed to the great detriment to the name...
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...
