“Living Today”Text: Joshua 24:14-28This week, we continue our series on the past, the present, and the future by focusing on the present. “Choose this day whom you will serve.” These are the words Joshua spoke to the Israelites as they renewed their covenant with God. We are also faced with this same choice today. How…

“An Encounter with Jesus” Text: John 4:1-26, 39-42 Today, Pastor Tim examines the Samaritan woman’s encounter with Jesus at the well. This story is also our story, as God is always before us seeking to reveal Jesus to us in a personal way. The call is simple; that we would worship Him in Spirit and…

Text: John 20:1-18On Easter Sunday, Pastor Tim explores the Gospel of John’s account of the Resurrection, and explains how the imagery of the angels at the empty tomb parallel the Old Testament’s Ark of the Covenant. When Jesus came to Earth as of one of us and died faithfully to God as a representation of…

Text: Luke 23:35-43We continue our look at the words of Jesus on the cross. While one of the criminals being crucified attempted to use Jesus for personal gain, the other criminal asked to be remembered. In response, Jesus replied “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.” Paradise is the place…

Text: John 19:28-29We continue our Lenten series focusing on the words that Jesus speaks while He is on the cross with “I thirst.” They not only remind us Jesus is human with our needs like us but also show his willingness and desire to participate in God’s plan for salvation. He’s the one by whom…

Text: Hebrews 12:1-14This week, we welcome Pastor Amanda Lawton, the youth and family pastor of the South Portland Church of the Nazarene, as our guest preacher. The goal of divine discipline is to bring God’s children into spiritual maturity. God calls us to lives of discipline to prepare us so that we can share in…

Text: Luke 7:36-50Today is the last Sunday of Alabaster Month, the time where we go beyond our regular tithes and offerings to give sacrificially to the Church of the Nazarene’s missions projects all around the world. Pastor Tim revisits the story of the original offering made to Jesus from the woman with the alabaster jar…

“Church: People Who Share the Gospel”Text: 1 Corinthians 15:1-11In the third week of our series going through what Paul has to say about being the Church in 1 Corinthians, we look at chapter 15 which contains the message of the Church: sharing the news of Christ’s death and resurrection. This message was first received by…

“Church: A People of Purpose”Text: 1 Corinthians 12:12-31This week, we begin a new series about what the church is and how the Apostle Paul encourages the church in Corinth to discover who they are as the church so they can live out and be the people to God has called them to be. In 1…

Text: Matthew 2:1-12On Epiphany Sunday, Pastor Tim reads the story of the three Magi. Coming from the east, their cultures would have most likely taught them to look to the stars for signs. Even though they were Gentiles, God used their understanding of the world to point them to where Jesus was. The Epiphany story…