That Night the King Could Not Sleep :: November 23, 2025
Timing is everything. In so many areas of life, so much comes down to timing. What happened when. How fast something unfolded. What came first. What came last. What happened at just the right time…or at just the wrong time!…
Continue to Message...What Is Your Request? :: November 16, 2025
Queen Esther is about to do the bravest thing she has ever done. Queen Esther is about to embark on what might be, for her, a suicide mission. She is going to take her life into her own hands and…
Continue to Message...Who Knows? :: November 9, 2025
What was troubling Mordecai? By verse 5 of chapter 4, Queen Esther wants to know. But we already know what is troubling Mordecai: The genocide of the Jews has been placed on the calendar. Pastor Matt Mitchell preaching on Esther 4:1-17. Full…
Continue to Message...Bewildered :: November 2, 2025
I’ll be right up front with you. This chapter ends on a cliffhanger. You know, one of those moments where the hero of the story and their friends are in danger, hanging from a cliff, and you don’t know what’s…
Continue to Message...Hadassah :: October 26, 2025
“Where Is God?” That’s the title of our new series on this unique book of the Bible called, “Esther.” “Where is God?” That’s a question that we have all asked from time to time, and we have all felt in…
Continue to Message...The King Gave a Banquet :: October 19, 2025
You might be wondering why we are tackling the tale of Esther today. That’s a good question, and there are a lot of reasons why I thought this was the right next book for us as a church. Pastor…
Continue to Message...In the weeks leading up to Christmas, we pause from our study of Romans to focus on the coming of our Messiah. Our advent readings have been focusing on Immanuel – God with us. Jesus is found all through the…
Read MoreAllegheny District Superintended Jeff Powell joined us Sunday and urged us to be prepared to share Christ this Christmas. As our culture is ever changing and people are actively trying to remove Christ from Christmas, we have the unique opportunity…
Read MoreLast week, we studied the first half of Romans 5 and learned about the incredible blessings of justification: peace, grace, hope, love, salvation, God Himself. In the second half of chapter 5, the apostle Paul tells the story of how…
Read MorePastor Matt continues to walk us through the book of Romans, and shows us that Chapter 5 is the next step in Paul’s argument. He hasn’t left his explanation of the gospel of grace. He’s taking it to the next…
Read MoreKim Cone, Missionary to Central Africa Republic, joined us this week to share with us how things are going in his missions work with the Fulani people. He shared with us his thoughts on what it means to be present.…
Read MoreFaith. That is the foundation for this next section of Romans as we continue our series “All Roads Lead to Romans.” But what is Faith? Faith focuses on God. Faith faces facts. Faith takes God at His word. Faith gives…
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- “Queen Esther’s Banquet” [Matt's Messages] November 30, 2025
- Advent Candle #1: “From Our Fears and Sins Release Us” November 30, 2025
- “That Night the King Could Not Sleep” [Matt's Messages] November 23, 2025