Glorious Things :: January 11, 2026
I picked Psalm 87 for this morning because it’s so glorious and so…weird. I picked it because I really have never understood it. No matter how many times I’ve read it. What is this psalm, this song, all about? So,…
Continue to Message...One Thing I Ask :: January 4, 2026
What are you asking the Lord for in 2026? What are you praying for as we set out into a new year? What do you want? Many of us start the year by making some goals. We’re going to lose…
Continue to Message...Come, Lord Jesus :: December 28, 2025
“Come, Lord Jesus!” That’s the very last prayer in the Bible. It’s in the last book of the Bible. It’s on the last page, in the last paragraph, in the second-to-last verse. And we’re studying it on the last Sunday…
Continue to Message...The Son of the Most High :: December 21, 2025
This story is the announcement by an angel to that humble young Jewish woman named Mary that the first Christmas was coming, that the Christ was coming, not just someday but now, and not just to her house, but to…
Continue to Message...Days of Feasting and Joy :: December 14, 2025
There once was a wicked man named Haman, and he hated the Jews. He was their enemy. This Haman was a leader in the kingdom of Persia in the fifth century before Christ, and he was very very proud. Narcissistic…
Continue to Message...Another Decree :: December 7, 2025
Our story is not over yet. The Tale of Queen Esther did not end with the death of the wicked Haman at the tail end of chapter 7. Pastor Matt Mitchell preaching on Esther 8:1-17. Full manuscript available on Pastor…
Continue to Message...Have you ever walked through an unfamiliar house at night with the lights off? You can make it from one side of the house to the other in the dark. You follow the walls. You can kind of sense where…
Read MoreThe word ‘know’ becomes very important to John as he brings this epistle to a close. He emphasizes what we, as believers in Jesus Christ, can bank our lives upon. Pastor Matt boils it down to three points of application:…
Read MoreWe are in the home stretch of our study of 1 John, “Essential Christianity”. “God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the…
Read MoreWe continue this week with our sermon series “Essential Christianity.” Pastor Matt walks us through the first 5 verses of this last chapter of 1 John and shows us the bottom line: Those who believe in Christ are “Overcoming the…
Read MoreOur sermon series is called “Essential Christianity,” because we are getting to the bottom of what we must be and believe to truly be followers of Christ. This is the second sermon with the same title, “God Is Love.” We’ve…
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- “Glorious Things” [Matt's Messages] January 11, 2026
- “One Thing I Ask” [Matt's Messages] January 4, 2026
- Highlights from Reading in 2025 January 1, 2026