Messages

Message: “The Sadness of Wealth” from Shawn Merithew

A message from the series “Sermons.” The parable of the rich young ruler is most often preached as a story about the danger of loving money or making wealth an idol in one’s life, and those truths are certainly center stage here. But what is actually happening here is that Jesus is using the issue of idolizing wealth to teach us about true goodness, to teach us about our need for an imputed goodness – more specifically, an imputed righteousness. Are you a good person? Let’s see. . .

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Message: “Let the Little Children Come” from Shawn Merithew

A message from the series “Sermons.” Most pastors, when preaching this text about parents bringing their infants to Jesus, go right to the subject of how to lead your children to Christ. Our hearts and minds are rightly drawn to consider something so very important, but this text really isn’t about showing our children the right way to Christ’s Kingdom. It’s more about how our children show us the right way to Christ’s Kingdom.

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Message: “The True Sinner’s Prayer” from Shawn Merithew

A message from the series “Sermons.” As we continue through chapter 18 of the Gospel of Luke, we are exploring another parable given by Jesus – the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector who went up to the temple to pray. I have entitled this sermon “The TRUE Sinner’s Prayer” because what we are taught here is that a true prayer for salvation is God-centered and is characterized by humility, brokenness over sin, and absolute dependence upon the mercy of God.

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