Relationships: Can't Difficult People Just Get Along?
This is the ninth episode of our winter 2024 series focused on Biblical wisdom for forming and keeping quality relationships. In this sermon, given on March 10th, 2024, pastor Adam Schalter explores why we experience some people as particularly difficult, through the lens of 2 Samuel 16:5-14, and how we can have the grace to welcome those people into our midst. This becomes possible when we tell the truth about ourselves - that we are actually all difficult people - and we see that Jesus has welcomed us.
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Relationships: Can't My Marriage Just Get Along?
This is the eighth episode of our winter 2024 series, focused on Biblical wisdom for forming and keeping quality relationships. In this sermon, given on March 3rd, 2024, pastor Adam Schalter explores why our view of marriage is significant, what makes marriage valuable and why there is hope for our marriages, through the lens of Ephesians 5:22-30. When we believe that God is working in our marriages, then that faith can become strength in us to continue to sacrifice and work on them ourselves.
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Relationships: So You Want To Be Married
This is the seventh episode of our winter 2024 series on relationships. In this sermon, given on February 25th, 2024, guest pastor Phil Chorlian of North Jersey Vineyard discusses the question of what to do if you are single and desire marriage, through the lens of 1 Corinthians 7:7-8. Neither is marriage the be-all end-all, nor is it God’s biggest dream for your life. So pursue Jesus wholeheartedly and in doing so you will become the person that the person you’re looking for is looking for.
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Relationships: Can't My Coworkers Just Get Along?
This is the sixth episode of our winter 2024 series on relationships. In this sermon, given on February 18th, 2024, pastor Adam Schalter explores the complexity of work relationships. We can have hope that when we believe Jesus is our Advocate at work, it will be power for us to not only have healthy and flourishing coworker relationships in the specificity of our different workplaces, but to do better and more fruitful work as well.
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Relationships: Can't My Friends Just Get Along?
This is the fifth episode of our winter 2024 series on relationships. In this sermon, given on February 11th, 2024, pastor Adam Schalter explores why friendship can be so wonderful, yet so painful, and how we can have hope for lasting friendships when they are faithful, forthright and few.
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Relationships: Can't The Dating World Just Get Along?
This is the fourth episode of our winter 2024 series on relationships. In this sermon, given on February 4th, 2024, pastor Adam Schalter explores our longing to find meaningful long-term relationships, the challenges of dating in our current context, and how we can have hope as we allow God to form us into the people we want to find.
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Relationships: Can't My Family Just Get Along?
This is the third episode of our winter 2024 series on relationships. In this sermon, given on January 28th, 2024, pastor Adam Schalter explores our longing for family, why we value family so highly, and how by God’s grace we can have healthier relationships with our families.
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Relationships: Can't My Community Just Get Along?
This is the second episode of a new 2024 series on relationships. In this sermon, given on January 21st, 2024, pastor Adam Schalter explores how we can have healthy, meaningful relationships in the specificity of community.
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Relationships: Can't We All Just Get Along?
This is the first episode of a new 2024 series on relationships. In this sermon, given on January 14th, 2024, pastor Adam Schalter explores relationships, why we long for them, why they are so painful, and how a relationship with God (the beginning of all relationships), the true answer to loneliness, can become the power in us to flourish in human relationship.
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Special Episode: How To Be Free From Needing To Be First
In this first sermon of the new year given on January 7th, 2024, pastor Adam Schalter explores our need to be first and how we can be freed from this desire when we put God first in our lives.
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Special Episode: What Will You Be Doing On The World's Last Day?
This is a special New Years 2024 episode. In this sermon, given on December 31st, 2023, pastor Adam Schalter asks the question “What will you be doing on the world’s last day?”
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The Bright Valley: The Light of Joy
This is the third episode of our Advent 2023 sermon series called The Bright Valley, following the four lights of the Advent season: Hope, Peace, Joy and Love. In this sermon on the Light of Joy, given on December 17th, 2023, pastor Adam Schalter explores the ubiquitous feeling of failure in our lives - yet in Isaiah 35, we are given a picture of God’s gift of joy, fullness blooming even in the desert, the antidote to failure.
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The Bright Valley: The Light Of Peace
This is the second episode of our Advent 2023 sermon series called The Bright Valley, following the four lights of the Advent season: Hope, Peace, Joy and Love. In this sermon on the Light of Peace, given on December 10th, 2023, pastor Adam Schalter explores our universal desire for peace and how difficult it is to achieve. In Isaiah 11:6-9, we are given a picture of God’s peace; we must take on the nature of Jesus (the Lamb of God) in order to become people of real Peace.
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The Bright Valley: The Light Of Hope
This is the first episode of our Advent 2023 sermon series called The Bright Valley, following the four lights of the Advent season: Hope, Peace, Joy and Love. In this first sermon on the Light of Hope, given on December 3rd, 2023, pastor Adam Schalter speaks on Isaiah 2:1-5. Through Jesus, we have the ability to be hopeful people, experiencing the power of Hope in our lives, even in a world where specific hopes may not come to pass.
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Jonah: I Don't Want To Explain Myself
This is the twelfth and final episode of our Fall series on the book of Jonah (I Don’t Want To Grow Up), entitled “I Don't Want To Explain Myself”. In this sermon on Matthew 12:38-41 , given on November 26th, 2023, pastor Adam Schalter explores the concept of judgement in our world - who has the right to judge? Ultimately, we need God as judge over our lives, and we need to stop judging Him in our hearts and allow him to judge us.
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Jonah: I Don't Want To Gain A New Perspective
This is the eleventh episode of our Fall series on the book of Jonah (I Don’t Want To Grow Up), entitled “I Don't Want To Gain A New Perspective”. In this sermon on Jonah 4:5-11, given on November 19th, 2023, pastor Adam Schalter explores the power and importance of perspective - it can unite, it can isolate, it can allow us to see or obscure our view. As we adopt God’s perspective, we invite his light to shine on every area of our lives - and we begin to grow up.
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Jonah: I Don't Want To Check My Feelings
This is the tenth episode of our Fall series on the book of Jonah (I Don’t Want To Grow Up), entitled “I Don't Want To Check My Feelings”. In this sermon on Jonah 4:1-4, given on November 12th, 2023, pastor Adam Schalter explores the power of emotion, why it is so difficult to control and to feel the right things when we experience the world around us.
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Jonah: I Don't Want To Change
This is the ninth episode of our Fall series on the book of Jonah (I Don’t Want To Grow Up), entitled “I Don’t Want To Change”. In this sermon on Jonah 3:6-10, given on November 5th, 2023, pastor Adam Schalter explores the ubiquity of change in our lives - why it is so difficult, why we need to change, and how we can see change in our lives.
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Jonah: God Uses Second Chances To Grow Us Up
This is the eighth episode of our Fall series on the book of Jonah (I Don’t Want To Grow Up), entitled “God Uses Second Chances To Grow Us Up”. In this sermon, given on October 29nd, 2023, pastor Clint Morgan explores God’s second call to Jonah in chapter 3:1-5, and through that God’s use of second chances to call us into maturity.
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Jonah: God Saves Us Despite Our Immaturity
This is the seventh episode of our Fall series on the book of Jonah (I Don’t Want To Grow Up), entitled “God Saves Us Despite Our Immaturity”. In this sermon, given on October 22nd, 2023, pastor Clint Morgan explores God’s faithfulness to deliver us and save us despite our immaturity, through Jonah’s prayer in chapter 2:6b-10.
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