Acts 2 Sermons

Family Matters, part 6: Health Matters

September 1st, 2024 | 37 mins 49 secs

If we want to have strong and healthy families and relationships, we have to become healthier ourselves by seeking God’s healing in our own lives. As our families become healthier together, our households can become places of joy, kindness, and hope for a weary world.

Family Matters, part 5: Repairing Broken Relationships Matters

August 25th, 2024 | 37 mins 1 sec

Broken relationships are painful, but repair is possible. Repair is a process that takes significant effort, but when we’re both willing to make that effort, with God’s help, we can experience the joy of reconciliation.

Family Matters, part 4: Brokenness Matters

August 18th, 2024 | 35 mins 5 secs

There are no perfect people. We are all broken in some way, but healing and forgiveness are possible. With God’s help, we can experience healing and even thriving in our relationships.

Family Matters, part 3: The Four Commitments Every Relationship Needs

August 12th, 2024 | 34 mins 7 secs

Every relationship is built on commitment, but not commitment in general. There are four specific commitments every relationship needs, and you can learn to make those commitments and have better relationships.

Family Matters, part 2: Character Matters

August 5th, 2024 | 34 mins 47 secs

Character matters in all of our relationships, from our family rooms to our bedrooms to our boardrooms. Your character matters and so does the character of the people you choose to trust.

Family Matters, part 1: A Matter of Trust

July 28th, 2024 | 37 mins 9 secs

Family matters, and no family works without trust. Trust is the fuel that drives every relationship. When trust is broken, repairing it is difficult. When we can learn to build, strengthen, and repair trust in our relationships, we can experience lasting joy.

Surviving the Wilderness, part 4: Campfire Conversations

July 21st, 2024 | 46 mins 2 secs

In a society that is growing lonelier by the day, we desperately need community. Jesus invites us to a community where everyone is welcome and where God is healing us toward wholeness.

Surviving the Wilderness, part 3: A Place to Stand

July 14th, 2024 | 40 mins 45 secs

Solitude was once our default state when other people weren’t around. Now it’s nearly extinct. With distraction always easily at hand, we are losing the ability to endure uncomfortable emotions. Jesus models for us a healthy rhythm of engaging with people and withdrawing for solitude. When we regularly engage the practice of solitude, we become spiritually healthier and better able to love and serve our neighbors.

Surviving the Wilderness, part 2: Simply Living

July 7th, 2024 | 36 mins 58 secs

Our lives are growing more and more complex, and we are growing more and more disconnected from the things that make us human. To simplify our lives, we have to reconnect with what it means to be part of God’s good creation.

Surviving the Wilderness, part 1: Leaving Comfort Behind

July 1st, 2024 | 37 mins 43 secs

We all face wilderness moments in our lives, but when we open ourselves to God in those moments, we can be transformed. In the wilderness, we learn to let go of the inessential so we can focus on the essential.

God Is With Us and God Provides

June 24th, 2024 | 40 mins 26 secs

Sometimes, as we try to live a new life of freedom, it’s harder than we thought. Our new life of liberation can feel like a barren wilderness. Even in the wilderness, though, we can trust that God is working for our good.

Eternity Is Now in Session, part 5: A New Life with God

June 17th, 2024 | 38 mins 8 secs

Jesus invites us into a new life with God not to make us into harsh rule-followers, but into people of love.

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