Christ Church Sermon Series – Summer 2021
This week’s sermon focuses on an often-quoted verse: Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. What are these things? And what does it mean to seek first His kingdom? To grasp the context, we look back on a few verses where we find Jesus…
Can you imagine being invited to, ushered into the throne room of God? It’s difficult to grasp how ornate it must be. And certainly, we would burst forth in song: Holy, holy, holy! Lord God almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee. Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty! God in three…
In the summer series at church, our pastor (and staff) has been unpacking the meaning of God’s kingdom. The working definition has been from Jeremy Treat’s book, Seek First: How the Kingdom of God Changes Everything, and it says, “The kingdom is God’s reign through God’s people over God’s place.” We have spent most of the…
“Stories are often wrongly regarded as a poor person’s substitute for the ‘real thing’, which is to be found either in some abstract truth or in statements about ‘bare facts’. … Stories are a basic constituent of human life; they are, in fact, one key element within the total construction of a worldview…. Tell someone to…
The heart of the human problem is the problem of the human heart. Unknown We are innate storytellers, and we love stories about kings, kingdoms, and battles. Maybe that is why we are intrigued by the theme of the kingdom in scripture. It makes for a great story, and of course, it is so much…
Isaiah wrote more about the kingdom of God than any other prophet; his word pictures are beautiful. Here are ten facts about God’s Kingdom from Isaiah: One day all the nations will realize this majestic God is the one true God. (Isaiah 2:3) God will judge between the nations, and there will be peace. (Isaiah…