This is the sixth episode of our Fall series on the book of Jonah (I Don’t Want To Grow Up), entitled “God Answers Us In Our Immaturity”. In this sermon, given on October 15th, 2023, pastor Clint Morgan explores both the pain that we experience as a result of our immaturity as well as God’s faithfulness to answer us when we cry out to Him in our pain. This is discussed through the lens of Jonah 2:1-6a .
Read MoreThis is the fifth episode of our Fall series on the book of Jonah (I Don’t Want To Grow Up), entitled “God Is Sovereign Over Our Immaturity”. In this sermon, given on October 8th, 2023, pastor Clint Morgan explores God’s merciful response to our immaturity, through Jonah 1:17. There is no place to which we can run from God in our immaturity that He will not find us!
Read MoreThis is the fourth episode of our Fall series on the book of Jonah (I Don’t Want To Grow Up), entitled “I Don’t Want to Care About Other People”. In this sermon, given on October 1st, 2023, guest pastor Clint Morgan explores the topic of immaturity through the lens of Jonah 1:11-16: how running away and hiding from God’s call on our lives can hurt both other people and ourselves.
Read MoreThis is the third episode of our Fall series on the book of Jonah (I Don’t Want To Grow Up), entitled “I Don’t Want to Tell The Truth”. In this sermon, given on September 24th, 2023, pastor Adam Schalter explores the topic of lying, why we hide after we behave badly, and how a major step toward spiritual maturity is becoming truth-tellers about ourselves toward God and others.
Read MoreThis is the second episode of our Fall series on the book of Jonah (I Don’t Want To Grow Up) entitled “I Don’t Want to Do The Right Thing”. In this sermon, given on September 17th, 2023, pastor Adam Schalter explores the costs we incur societally when adults behave like children, and the tension between the cultural currents that say, on one hand, that our lives are about doing and getting what we want, while on the other hand calling us to grow up and be mature. God can use the storms of life to grow us, helping us in faith to live in the reality of a situation, take costly action to do the right thing, and give up control over external outcomes.
Read MoreThis is the first episode of a new Fall series on the book of Jonah. In this sermon, given on September 10th, 2023, pastor Adam Schalter explores the concept of “growing up”, our culture’s view of maturity, and what it means to grow up into spiritual maturity in our lives.
Read MoreThis is the eleventh and final episode of Wisdom For Life, our summer 2023 expository sermon series on the book of James. In this sermon, preached on September 3rd, 2023, Pastor Adam Schalter explores the significance of how we handle pain and suffering in this life. In the final chapter of James, Wisdom exhorts us to tell the truth about our pain before God and others (prayer and confession). When we do this, we allow God to turn our wounds from signs of death to signs of spiritual life and growth!
Read MoreThis is the tenth episode of Wisdom For Life, our summer 2023 expository sermon series on the book of James. In this sermon, preached on August 27th, 2023, Pastor Adam Schalter explores the experience of waiting in life. Although we admire those with great patience in waiting, we don’t want to wait ourselves. Yet Wisdom tells us that waiting means living, and growing, and so we can stand up, alive, in times of painful waiting, and in doing so witness to the reality of life with God.
Read MoreThis is the ninth episode of Wisdom For Life, our summer 2023 expository sermon series on the book of James. In this sermon, preached on August 20th, 2023, Pastor Adam Schalter explores our relationship to money. Wisdom tells us that although money corrupts and only increases our desire for profit, we can have a right relationship to money that views it as a physical sign of the spiritual cost God paid on our behalf, one that allows us to grow spiritually in our generosity.
Read MoreThis is a special Summer 2023 Episode. In this sermon, preached on August 13th, 2023, Guest Pastor Clint Morgan explores our common experience of comparing ourselves to others, and what wisdom has to say about comparison. Harmful comparisons focus on others, and helpful comparisons shift that focus from others to ourselves, but Wisdom calls us to faithfully shift our gaze from others (and ourselves) to Jesus - the most healthy comparison that will draw us closer to Him as our primary role model.
Read MoreThis is the eighth episode of Wisdom For Life, our summer 2023 expository sermon series on the book of James. In this sermon, preached on August 6th, 2023, Pastor Adam Schalter explores the experience of ubiquitous conflict in our lives, and how wisdom gives us the humility and faith to trust God as the ultimate just judge, tell the truth about the reality of our hearts through life with Jesus, and stand firmly and faithfully even in the contingencies and conflict of our lives.
Read MoreThis is a special Summer 2023 episode. In this sermon, preached on July 30, 2023, guest speaker George Boateng explores the human experience of hardship, giving up, and God’s loving faithfulness toward us even in our failure. This is discussed through the lens of Isaiah 40:28-31 and the story of God’s people Israel.
Read MoreThis is the seventh episode of Wisdom For Life, our summer 2023 expository sermon series on the book of James. In this sermon, preached at a rooftop service on July 23, 2023, Pastor Adam Schalter explores the concept of ambition, why we have it, and what “good” ambition looks like, in a world and a city full of driven, ambitious people. James 3:13-18 tells us that good, wise ambition is selfless, gentle, fair, impartial and sincere...mercifully channeling its energies toward others rather than ourselves - this is the type of ambition that our city needs. Note that audio may be lacking in quality at various moments due to the outdoor recording.
Read MoreThis is the sixth episode of Wisdom For Life, our summer 2023 expository sermon series on the book of James. In this sermon, preached on July 16, 2023, Pastor Adam Schalter explores the power of speech, why words matter and why it’s so hard for us to say good words to others. In James 3:1-12, wisdom tells us that only when we receive God’s good words over us will we be so filled that we can pour out sweet words of life and merciful welcome over others.
Read MoreThis is the fifth episode of Wisdom For Life, our summer 2023 expository sermon series on the book of James. In this sermon, preached on July 9, 2023, Pastor Adam Schalter explores the concept of belief, why it matters, and how it ultimately has the power in our lives to enable us to change, through the lens of James 2:14-26. Wisdom is exchanging a dead, intellectual belief in God for a living, believing faith in God for the good things he has for us in the present circumstances of our lives.
Read MoreThis is the fourth episode of Wisdom For Life, our summer 2023 expository sermon series on the book of James. In this sermon, preached on July 2nd, 2023, Pastor Adam Schalter explores the elusiveness of fairness, why we long for it and if there is true hope for it in our lives. James 2:1-13 tells us that to live wisely is to live not under the law of condemnation but under the law of liberty, seasoned with mercy that triumphs over judgement.
Read MoreThis is the third episode of Wisdom For Life, our summer 2023 expository sermon series on the book of James. In this sermon, preached on June 25, 2023, Pastor Adam Schalter explores how we can live a life that works, a life that “goes right”, even when we often fail in our pursuit of meaningful things. Wisdom graciously urges us to evaluate our lives by a new standard, built on the fact that God can (and will) get our lives right within us, even when we fail. These concepts are explored through James 1:19-27.
Read MoreThis is the second episode of Wisdom For Life, our summer 2023 expository sermon series on the book of James. In this sermon, preached on June 18, 2023, Pastor Adam Schalter explores the distinction between living life as though we are living, or living life as though we are dying. In a world where we can often live our lives as objects that are acted upon (dead), Wisdom discerns and believes, through faith, that in salvation God is moving our lives from death to life, and therefore we can let our lives live, in Christ, without trying to manipulate them to achieve some external outcome. These concepts are explored through James 1:9-18.
Read MoreThis is the first episode of Wisdom For Life, a new expository sermon series on the book of James. In this sermon, preached on June 11, 2023, Pastor Adam Schalter explores how to live a life that can’t be ruined. In a world where we often feel like our lives are ruined when trials and troubles prevent us from getting the things we think we need or want, James exhorts us to be concerned not with what are achieving externally, but with who we are becoming on the inside. These concepts are explored through James 1:1-8.
Read MoreThis is a special episode on Baptism, entitled “What Kind Of Death Will You Die?”. In this sermon, given on May 28th, 2023, Lead Pastor Adam Schalter explores this question on death: what if we could turn death back on itself by dying to the things that control us and make us look like we are dead? This death-ending death is symbolized in baptism as we identify with Jesus, and enables us to walk in newness of life. These ideas are discussed through the lens of Romans 6:1-4
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