Mega Mystery
Sermon Series

“This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one.” (Ephesians 5:32)

We live in a confusing time. A time in which marriage has been in steady decline, assaulted by redefinition, wariness, and pessimism. A time in which the radical consequences of the sexual revolution are being felt. A time in which the very essence of what it means to be a man, a woman – a human being – is subjected to preference and whim. Yes, these are confusing times, but they need not be.

The right perspective on all these issues can be found in God’s word. The Creator of the universe is also the Creator of the body and sex. He alone defines and determines what makes us human; he alone is who ultimately defines our identity and gives meaning to all our relationships. Marriage was his idea, not ours, established with particular ends in mind that involve much greater realities than the happiness of the espoused.

Referring to God’s design for marriage, the Apostle Paul calls it a “mega mystery” – an extraordinarily great, wonderful, and profound truth that can only be understood with the help of God’s Spirit. Who we are as human beings and how we relate to one another all point to the nature of God and what his desires are for human history, and marriage only “works” to the degree that it approximates the pattern of God’s self-giving love in Christ.

Join us in our journey to unlock the mystery, to uncover its truths, and to discover the Gospel-shaped meaning of it all.

Series Playlist

Mega Mystery
Mega Mystery
Divine Design
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  • Divine Design

    Divine Design

    Sep 2, 2018 • 35:05

    What does God’s word reveal about the mysteries of God’s intentions for marriage, sex, and identity? How is the church to think and live and relate to the world in response? Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Mega Mystery Scripture: Matthew 19:4

  • The Sanctuary of Trust

    The Sanctuary of Trust

    Sep 9, 2018 • 33:30

    The covenant of marriage is not how you find your identity and self-fulfillment. Rather, it’s how husbands and wives together point the world to the One who alone fulfills. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Mega Mystery Scripture: Matthew 19:5a

  • Covenant Renewal

    Covenant Renewal

    Sep 23, 2018 • 44:21

    What is the meaning and purpose of sex? Hint: It’s not all about you. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Mega Mystery Scripture: Matthew 19:5

  • A Deeper Conviction

    A Deeper Conviction

    Sep 30, 2018 • 46:16

    God hates sexual sin and is clear about its consequences. The Gospel, however, offers a message of hope for forgiveness, cleansing, and power to be all God created you to be in Christ Jesus. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Mega Mystery Scripture: Matthew 19:6

Fitting In
Sermon Series

“He makes everything work out according to his plan.” (Ephesians 1:11)

Under house arrest and handcuffed to a Roman soldier, the apostle Paul disclosed to the Ephesian Christians his broad, Spirit-led perspective on history, the future, and God’s plan for his people. Though his wrist was chained and his body was confined, his heart and mind inhabited eternity. He peered back before the foundation of the world and on to the fullness of time, and laid hold of what we ought to be here and now in the light of those two eternities.

How puny our vision is compared with his! How small our mind; how narrow our horizons! If only we could discover our present purpose in the light of God’s eternal past and future, we would see that – far more than fitting our shattered lives back together – God is fitting our lives into his great Master Plan.

Fitting In is a 6 week season for discovering our place in it all. He has a plan for all of creation and YOU are an important part of it.

If only we shared the apostle’s perspective, we would also share his praise. Life would become worship, and we would bless God constantly for having blessed us so richly in Christ.

Series Playlist

Fitting In
Fitting In
Summing Up the Whole
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  • Summing Up the Whole

    Summing Up the Whole

    Jul 22, 2018 • 38:33

    The church is central to God’s purposes for all of history. Discover your own present purpose in the light of God’s eternal past and future. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Fitting In Scripture: Ephesians 1:9-11

  • Receiving an Unchanging Identity

    Receiving an Unchanging Identity

    Jul 29, 2018 • 26:05

    Discover who you are in light of Whose you are in Christ. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Fitting In Scripture: Romans 10:9-10

  • Make Everlasting Investments

    Make Everlasting Investments

    Aug 5, 2018 • 39:21

    The Christian life is to be marked by growth in grace to prevent investing in trivial things or worse. Hear how Peter calls people to continued growth. Speaker: Aaron Meservey Series: Fitting In Scripture: 2 Peter 3:18

  • Join God's Enduring Work

    Join God's Enduring Work

    Aug 12, 2018 • 41:33

    Join God in his work in the world that stands the test of time and endures. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Fitting In Scripture: I Corinthians 3:9-17

  • Reap An Eternal Harvest

    Reap An Eternal Harvest

    Aug 19, 2018 • 47:10

    To be a faithful disciple means to be a disciple-maker. Through evangelism and teaching, we continue the work that Jesus began through his life and ministry. Speaker: Aron Meservey Series: Fitting In Scripture: Matt 28:18-20

  • The Ordering of His Puzzle

    The Ordering of His Puzzle

    Aug 26, 2018 • 40:29

    God’s providence is his order and care over all his creation. He is particularly at work in the lives of those who love, trust, and obey him. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Fitting In Scripture: Genesis 50:20

The Holy One
Sermon Series

“For I am the Lord, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.” (Isaiah 43:3)

Who is this Holy One of Israel? This is a question that has been discussed and debated for millennia, answered with doctrines and formulas and confessions. While helpful – and even necessary – the truth is you can know doctrines and formulas and confessions and not actually know him!

Our focus for these weeks ahead will be to look into what the Holy One has revealed about himself with an eye toward knowing him personally. He wants to be known and he desires for us to become like him – holy as he is holy. This can never be achieved by sheer force of will, but only as a result of him forming his own life in us. He is calling you and me into an exclusive relationship, one that changes who we are and issues in changed behavior.

The way to him is grace. The walk with him is obedience. Let’s meet the Holy One.

Series Playlist

The Holy One
The Holy One
How He Still Speaks
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  • How He Still Speaks

    How He Still Speaks

    May 20, 2018 • 44:34

    When the all-sufficient word of God meets the Spirit of God in the midst of the people of God we have the essential ingredients of awakening. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Holy One Scripture: Hebrews 1:1-4

  • Knowing the Holy One

    Knowing the Holy One

    May 27, 2018 • 33:38

    The Sabbath principle is not “go to church on Sunday,” but set aside a day for rest, perspective, and intimacy. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Holy One Scripture: Genesis 2:1-3

  • Living With the Holy One

    Living With the Holy One

    Jun 3, 2018 • 40:57

    The way to God is grace, but the walk with God is obedience. Holy living is the intended consequence of gracious salvation. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Holy One Scripture: Leviticus 11:45

  • Renewed by the Holy One

    Renewed by the Holy One

    Jun 10, 2018 • 34:22

    Christianity isn’t offering a veneer of morality glued onto the exterior of our otherwise unchanged lives, but rather a radical transformation of heart, mind, and will – a movement from darkness to light, captivity to freedom, sinfulness to holiness, death to life. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Holy One Scripture: Ezekiel…

  • Seeking the Holy One

    Seeking the Holy One

    Jun 17, 2018 • 29:45

    The pursuit of the Holy One begins with a broken-hearted awareness of our own unholiness. Speaker: Aaron Meservey Series: The Holy One Scripture: 2 Chronicles 7:14

  • Abiding in the Holy One

    Abiding in the Holy One

    Jun 24, 2018 • 47:01

    Christian holiness can never be understood or experienced unless it is defined by the inner life of the Triune God, a life of Persons who are eternally in and for the other. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Holy One Scripture: John 14:15-21

  • Beholding the Holy One

    Beholding the Holy One

    Jul 1, 2018 • 28:00

    The suffering of those whose gaze is fixed upon the Holy One has limitless redemptive potential for the sake of the world. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Holy One Scripture: Acts 7:54-8:1

  • Filled by the Holy One

    Filled by the Holy One

    Jul 8, 2018 • 45:13

    By his Holy Spirit, God wants to affirm that we are loved by him, belong to him, and can be filled with his holy love. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Holy One Scripture: Romans 5:5

  • Life in the Holy One

    Life in the Holy One

    Jul 15, 2018 • 46:23

    How is the life of the Holy Spirit that makes us new creations in Christ sustained? Listen to learn about “spiritual respiration.” Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Holy One Scripture: 1 John 3:4-10

Revival 2018 – Costly Grace
Sermon Series

In this unique time in history, when we have access to more information faster than ever before, knowledge and information are not necessarily making things better. While our world is in turmoil, Christianity has been marginalized and seems to have an ever decreasing impact on society. Why is this?

One reason is, in the words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, we have cheapened God’s grace. Cheap grace is the enjoyment of all the benefits of God’s grace without the price of repentance, forgiveness, or submission to God. Bonhoeffer’s response would be “costly grace,” which is the grace that Jesus Christ offered in the Gospels – grace that demands a response.

Series Playlist

Revival 2018 - Costly Grace
Revival 2018 - Costly Grace
Top 5 List: Children's Responses to Parents When Confronted
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  • Top 5 List: Children's Responses to Parents When Confronted

    Top 5 List: Children's Responses to Parents When Confronted

    Apr 29, 2018 • 39:07

    Sermon #1 of the 2018 Spring Revival series, “Costly Grace.” Speaker: Ron Adkins Series: Revival 2018 – Costly Grace Scripture: Ephesians 4:12-16

  • Right Words, but Wrong Definition

    Right Words, but Wrong Definition

    Apr 29, 2018 • 51:28

    Sermon #2 of the 2018 Spring Revival series, “Costly Grace.” Speaker: Ron Adkins Series: Revival 2018 – Costly Grace Scripture: Mark 8:27-9:1

  • Societal Slaves

    Societal Slaves

    Apr 30, 2018 • 50:42

    Sermon #3 of the 2018 Spring Revival series, “Costly Grace.” Speaker: Ron Adkins Series: Revival 2018 – Costly Grace Scripture: Gal 5:1, 13-25

  • Seeing Jesus Through the Eyes of Bartimaeus

    Seeing Jesus Through the Eyes of Bartimaeus

    May 1, 2018 • 37:45

    Sermon #4 of the 2018 Spring Revival series, “Costly Grace.” Speaker: Ron Adkins Series: Revival 2018 – Costly Grace Scripture: Mark 10:46-52

  • A New Reality Hindered by Old Practices

    A New Reality Hindered by Old Practices

    May 2, 2018 • 50:30

    Sermon #5 of the 2018 Spring Revival series, “Costly Grace.” Speaker: Ron Adkins Series: Revival 2018 – Costly Grace Scripture: John 21:1-19

The Touchable Savior
Sermon Series

War. Disease. Destruction.

Heartache. Misery. Suffering.

Our world is broken. Anyone who has ever lived has suffered. Those who suffer inevitably ask the question: “Does God care?”

To answer this question, Jesus came. Forget the depictions of him as stoic or indifferent. He stepped fully into this world and he touched it, but he was also touched by it.

In “The Touchable Savior” we will follow Jesus throughout the second half of the Gospel of Mark on his journey to the cross. We’ll discover just how far he was willing to go – just how much he was willing to be touched – in order to bring healing and salvation to our broken world.

Series Playlist

The Touchable Savior
The Touchable Savior
The Two Touches
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  • The Two Touches

    The Two Touches

    Feb 18, 2018 • 31:19

    Two touches. Two rebukes. Two crosses. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Touchable Savior Scripture: Mark 8:22-26

  • Who's in the Club?

    Who's in the Club?

    Feb 24, 2018 • 32:30

    It’s not who you think, nor is it how you think. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Touchable Savior Scripture: Mark 10:13-16

  • So Close, Yet So Far Away

    So Close, Yet So Far Away

    Mar 4, 2018 • 36:40

    Is there anything you are unwilling to leave behind to follow Jesus? That thing has to go. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Touchable Savior Scripture: Mark 10:17-27

  • My Cup, Your Cup

    My Cup, Your Cup

    Mar 11, 2018 • 40:42

    The journey to the cross is designed to locate us through disorienting us. We are only ever able to find who we really are as we allow ourselves to get lost in him. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Touchable Savior Scripture: Mark 10:32-45

  • Touched by Extravagant Love

    Touched by Extravagant Love

    Mar 18, 2018 • 34:50

    A life of consequence is not one that is defined by mistakes, but by the grace of God in Christ. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Touchable Savior Scripture: Mark 14:1-9

  • The Kiss of Betrayal

    The Kiss of Betrayal

    Mar 25, 2018 • 35:32

    Jesus Christ – the Light of the world and revelation of God – the one in whom heaven and earth have forever come together – was pressed that you and I might have joy. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Touchable Savior Scripture: Mark 14:43-52

  • Touching Life

    Touching Life

    Apr 1, 2018 • 34:49

    What compels someone to leave family and home and travel to a foreign land to faithfully preach a message that gets you killed…unless it was true? Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Touchable Savior Scripture: John 20:24-29

  • The Last Word

    The Last Word

    Apr 1, 2018 • 21:51

    2018 Easter Sunrise service. Speaker: Aaron Meservey Series: The Touchable Savior Scripture: I Corinthians 15:53-58

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