“Be Perfect As Your Heavenly Father is Perfect” Text: Matthew 5:38-48 Today we finish our series on the Sermon on the Mount, looking at the life and blessing that Jesus calls us to – to be perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect.
“Salt and Light and Righteousness, Oh My!” Text: Matthew 5:13-20 Salt and Light and Righteousness…oh my! This we continue to look at the Sermon on the Mount as we see the calling Christ gives us – to be salt and light to the world. Add flavor to the world and illuminate it. That’s our calling…
“Kingdom or Empire” Text: Matthew 4:12-17 We live in competing narratives, Empire or Kingdom. As Christians we are called to live a Kingdom life, but the Empire is always trying to entice us to come to it. It’s for that reason that Jesus calls us to be constantly repenting, or turning towards, the Kingdom.
“Wisdom is Born of Wonder” Text: Matthew 2:1-12 This week we will look at how the Magi and the Priests had two very different responses to the Epiphany of the Christ-Child. Sometimes the outsiders seem to have a better understanding of things than the insiders.
“And They Will Call Him Immanuel?” Text: Isaiah 7:10-16, Matthew 1:18-25 This week we take a look at Isaiah’s and Matthew’s understanding of Emmanuel – God with us. Using both the Old and New Testament lections (passages) we will see how Emmanuel is more than just a name, but instead is the identity of the…
“The Peaceable Kingdom” Text: Isaiah 11:1-10, Psalm 72 In the second week of our Advent series “A Different Kind of Kingdom,” we look at the peace that is to be found in the Kingdom of God using Isaiah 11:1-10. We look at how God is restoring creation to what it was originally meant to be…
“The Salvation of Jesus” Text: Luke 1:67-80 On this Christ the King Sunday, South Portland Church of the Nazarene’s Excutive Pastor Tim George joins us. We often identify John the Baptist as one who helps us understand that the Christ who comes is the one who is King and brings salvation for us. However, John’s…
“Being the People of God in a Foreign Land” Text: Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7 The book of Jeremiah documents the time before and during the Babylonian Exile when the lives of the Judeans changed dramatically. Their situation has often been compared to ours in the present day. Pastor Shane Ross from the South Portland Church of…
“All Are Welcome: Acts 10” Text: Acts 10 This week we welcome Pastor Amanda Lawton from the South Portland Church of the Nazarene to the pulpit. In Acts 10, Peter has a vision that he initially doesn’t understand. However, after visiting Cornelius, the God-fearing Gentile centurion, he realized that God “does not show favoritism but…
October 9, 2016 Text: 2 Kings 5:1-3,7-27 Luke 17:11-19 Congregation member Fred Yosua shares lessons from the cleansing of Naaman in 2 Kings and the ten lepers in the Gospel of Luke. Both stories show the importance of being faithful to the things God asks, and grateful for what He has done.