Sermons

This week, Carrie Buckner continues our Advent series. The crowds are coming to John at the Jordan asking to be baptized. He warns the crowds to bear fruit in keeping with repentance, and when asked what they must do John replies by instructing them to do the work of justice. He tells them to set… Read...

This week, Nick Ventresca, pastor of The Barn Community Church in Doylestown, PA visited to talk through the hope we can find and revel in through the Advent season. We talked through one of Jeremiah’s prophecies to God’s people – that one day hope would break-in to their world and deliver them from oppression. It’s… Read...

We don’t lament enough. When people hurt us, when we experience distress, when we feel insecure or vulnerable, when we’ve been hurt, wounded, or discarded, when we experience abandonment, when we feel like we’re surrounded by evil and see or experience oppression or exploitation, we’re invited to turn to God and trust Him to do… Read...

The Presidential election was this past Tuesday. It’s true the election of Donald Trump as President for the second time will shape the context in which individual Christians and the church are to live out Jesus’ mission in meaningful, tangible ways. Yet, the church’s mission remains the same. The person who wields Presidential power doesn’t… Read...

This week, Dennis Allan talks through the ways Jesus’ “city on a hill” language has been co-opted by American political leaders, both Democrats and Republicans, to ascribe to America a divinely mandated role in the world similar to Old Testament Israel. But, Jesus wasn’t talking about Israel, and he certainly wasn’t talking about any modern… Read...

This week Julia Allan walks us through why, as citizens of the Kingdom, we are to develop and hold a consistent ethic of life. This means we’re invited by Jesus to value life at every moment and in every context. And it’s a reminder that the value we place on every human life is too… Read...