Sermons

This week, Dennis Allan starts our new series on Spiritual Formation by discussing the ways each and every one of us is being shaped and formed every day. We tend not to notice, or maybe even convince ourselves that we can listen to whatever we want, read whatever we want, follow whomever we want, and… Read...

In the final week of our series, Faithful Exiles, Dennis Allan walks through Jesus’ words to His closest followers to go and make disciples of all nations by baptizing and teaching every person who places their faith, hope, and trust in Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Jesus is able to send His followers (and… Read...

This week, Julia Allan walks through Daniel 12 focusing on the promised inheritance Daniel, and each of us will receive, through our faithful perseverance. In the midst of darkness, struggle, suffering, and injustice we can look ahead to the promise we each have in Jesus—one day we will enter into an eternal rest, where we… Read...

This week, Carrie Bucker walks through Daniel 9, where we see a picture of what faithful repentance can look like for exiles living in a broken world. Daniel confesses not just his own sins, but the sins of his people — acknowledging the communal and systemic nature of sin. In a culture obsessed with personal… Read...

This week, Dennis Allan talked through Daniel 7, the beginning of the apocalyptic section of the book. There, Daniel tells about a vision that included four beasts, ten horns, the Ancient of Days, and the Son of Man. It’s a story that provided hope to the Israelites in exile under the Babylonian and then Persian… Read...

What should followers of Jesus do when the government enacts laws that are unjust? In this sermon on Daniel 6, Dennis Allan explores how civil disobedience—like Daniel’s refusal to obey the king’s edict—is not rebellion for rebellion’s sake, but courageous loyalty to God and love for neighbor. Drawing insight from the Civil Rights legacy of… Read...