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The season of Lent is a forty-day period of fasting and prayer that begins on Ash Wednesday and prepares for the feast of Easter. Originally lasting only a week, it became a forty-day season during the 7th century to coincide with the forty days Christ spent in the wilderness. While fasting and penitential works do not save a person, they find their value in drawing believers closer to God.
For the Lenten season of 2025, our weekly sermon series, “The Way of Sorrows,” will follow Jesus on his journey to the cross. Beginning with his trial before Pilate, we will walk the Via Dolorosa with him, making several stops along the way. Together we will explore the implications of this journey and learn more of what it means to deny ourselves, take up our own cross, and follow him (Matthew 16:24).
The sacrifices of discipleship do not atone for sin, but they are essential to a life of faithful following. Let us travel this road through sorrow to glory with Christ, together.
Series Playlist
Mar 9, 2025 • 44:09
Jesus told the truth, not just about himself, but about everyone else, so much that they wanted to kill him for it. Your eternal destiny hinges entirely upon your attitude toward him. He is the light of the world. In his presence, you will either fall down to worship him…
Mar 16, 2025 • 47:32
As Jesus takes up his cross to head to his execution, he does so as the new Isaac, giving himself over to the Father’s will. He is truly God, but also truly, fully, perfectly, and substitutionally man. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Way of Sorrows Scripture: John 19:17
Mar 23, 2025 • 42:10
God is orchestrating the circumstances of your life to bring you to a face to face encounter with Christ and his cross. His call is to follow him on his way, surrendered to the Father’s will for the sake of the world. He will provide everything needed for you to…
Mar 30, 2025 • 42:03
Speaker: Courtney White Series: The Way of Sorrows Scripture: Luke 23:28-31
Apr 6, 2025 • 33:55
Speaker: Richard Meservey Series: The Way of Sorrows Scripture: John 19:23-24
Apr 13, 2025 • 44:38
The one who hung on the middle cross on Good Friday hung there in the place of everyone around him. By his blood, he offers both forgiveness and life to all who look to him in faith. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Way of Sorrows Scripture: Luke 23:32-43
Oftentimes, the commands of God come to us as a complete mystery. The book of Hosea details one such time in the history of Israel as God commands his prophet to marry a prostitute. What on earth could he have in mind with such a command? What could he be up to?
As it turns out, God’s message to (spiritually) adulterous Israel—on the threshold of invasion from the growing superpower of Assyria—was one that Hosea would not only have to proclaim with his words, but also with his life. Through his experience of loving the unlovable and being faithful to the unfaithful, the love and faithfulness of Yahweh would be enfleshed and put on full display. He is the faithful husband who pursues his faithless bride, a powerful truth that reveals the heart of the Holy One and prepares the way for the gospel of Jesus Christ.
“Unrequited Love.” is a sermon series devoted to the examination of the message of Hosea with the goal of provoking the church today to be faithful amidst a wicked and adulterous generation.
Series Playlist
Jan 26, 2025 • 42:43
The story of Hosea is not just Israel’s story, it is humanity’s story. All of us have sinned and turned our backs on God. Yet to every one of us is given a message of warning and of wooing, that we might turn back to God in faith and experience…
Feb 2, 2025 • 37:29
Through Hosea, God not only reveals his willingness to do whatever it takes to buy back his errant bride, but also whatever it takes to break the pattern of sin that keeps leading her astray. He heals his beloved’s past and makes possible new beginnings that the marriage might last…
Feb 9, 2025 • 42:18
God wants to be known by you; to give life that lasts forever to you; to forgive your every sin; to heal everything that is broken; and to reconcile you to himself. The desperate times of our sinfulness called for the desperate measures of the cross. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Unrequited…
Feb 16, 2025 • 41:53
What is the hope for a people who are like a half-baked cake, an old man past his prime, a silly, witless dove, or a crooked bow? A shepherd who can lead them out of their faithlessness, giving them a heart undivided. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Unrequited Love. Scripture: Hosea 7:8-16
Feb 23, 2025 • 47:14
Hosea reminds us that the God who is a “betrayed spouse” is ultimately a loving Father who refuses to give up on or abandon the son he loves. He will do whatever it takes to bring him home again. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Unrequited Love. Scripture: Hosea 11:1-11
Mar 2, 2025 • 49:50
The central exhortation of the book of Hosea is the call in 14:1 for Israel to “return” to the Lord. What follows is the substance, the content, of returning. It is more than mere sentiment. It is a decisive action of the will to confess sin, seek forgiveness, render the…
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